Swirling Circles - What I learned from this quilt is that it would be better next time to have a plan first! I just started cutting and slowly made something come together.
Stephanie's Star - Stephanie my daughter made this quilt. What is amazing to me is that she never paper pieced or curve pieced before this. I also had to teach her how to do "Y" (inset) seams. It is a gorgeous quilt. We can't wait to get it back from the quilter.
Art Quilt - My daughter a few weeks ago has sent her kids off to college. This was the morning that Lindsey went off to Maine. We all waited, so I took pictures of us waiting for her. She finally came out (wet eyes) and they finally went to Maine. Justin to Bridgewater State. So I put together a art quilt for Renee's birthday in October.
Butterfly Garden - I put my own touches on what was supposed to be a 2 color quilt. I ended up using 3 colors and went wild hand appliqueing the butterflies!
Baby Wedding Ring - This is a Double Wedding Ring baby quilt made using a technique I have developed called Double Turn Applique. I have taught numerous classes on this technique and have a lot of people in our area using the technique. This quilt was made for a niece of mine's daughter. My pattern number for this quilt is DGD-2006-002.
Sam's Half Log Cabin - My pattern DGC 2007-001. This is a pattern that I teach to show people how to use my Double-Turn Applique technique. This is a technique I've developed to turn under the edges of the applique pieces 2-4 pieces at a time; then they are ready to be appliqued to the background by machine or by hand. This particular one is used to teach how to use Double-Turn Applique to applique blocks that are directional. Since most everyone wants to know how to make a log cabin, they have a choice of either making the traditional log cabin or just the half log cabin.
No Bull - This is a wall hanging I made from a photo (next to quilt) of my grandson climbing a fence to see some of his father's bulls. While tracing a photo of some of their bulls to put in the background, I had an interesting conversation with my grandson about bulls and decided I better not put a bull in the background because I might omit a part of its anatomy. This is why the title is No Bull. It was appliqued down with lots of thread play on it. I have since given it to my grandson to hang in his bedroom on their ranch in Winnie.
Name of Maker: Donna Gayle Coleman and church friends
Cody's Quilt - A young teen at our church got kicked in the head by his horse. I decided to design a cowboy quilt using fusibles so ladies at our church could work on the quilt together and present it to the family since they were practically living at the hospital. I think the family used it for quite a while. The young man died several years later so hope the quilt is a favorite memory for them. I made a pattern for the quilt and decided to place the quilt over my own horse for Cody's Quilt.
Hannah's Quilt - My cousin Dillie Tyus has cancer and is trying to make all her kids and grandkids a quilt. She had one more to make and just can't sit for that long anymore. She was concerned that this quilt might not be made and she wanted them each to have a quilt from her. I told her I would make it for her. It's just a typical string quilt. Dillie started teaching her granddaughter, Hannah, to make a block and she completed one. I embroidered on that block the fact that Hannah had made that block when she was 10 years old. They received the block on 9/9/09. Dillie is now trying to decide if she should show her granddaughter the quilt or have her mother give it to her on her wedding day. So glad I was able to help Dillie fulfill her dream.
Floral Swap Quilt - Quild members were always swapping floral fabrics, etc. so I came up with the design by placing floral squares together with a 1/4" folded fabric between each block; then added a border. I've taught classes on this. Works great for cowboy, leaf, children's etc swaps.
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