I made this quilt for my mother, Margaret Montague Geldart, in 2012.
Her parents were commercial carnation growers in Victoria and Penticton from 1930s through the 1960s. They also had a flower shop called Monty’s Flowers in Penticton from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Carnations were Mum’s favourite flower.
I hoarded the Turkish-style carnation border fabric for several years before I found the stylized carnation appliqué design in an issue of Quilts from Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks. I modified the pieced part of the design and made this wall hanging for Mum’s birthday.
Quilting was central to our mother/daughter bond, taking us from international quilt festivals to guild retreats together. Yet our tastes in fabrics and techniques were so different that we’d never collaborated on a quilt before.
When we saw this pattern (“And to All a Good Night” by Sue Garman), we knew we had to make it together, because Margaret loved hand appliqué and Anne loved machine piecing.
Margaret passed away with Anne by her side while the quilt was hanging in a show.
This is a sample quilt created for Quilt Market 2019 in Houston to feature Paula Nadelstern's new "Where in the World" fabric line from Benartex.
I created this quilt as a sample for a 60-30 Kaleidoscope class that I was teaching. It uses Paula Nadelstern mandala and other prints.
I really liked the pattern "Moon Over Mountain" by Jean Wells. Once I started making them, I decided to improvise. It would have been so much easier if I had made all the little mountain blocks, but no, I have to make 4 of the large ones. Making a double row of small block for the borders was also too easy. This sat for a couple of years while i pondered how to put it together. I tried a few new things, pulled out a few seams, and finally came up with an appropritate name for hthis quilt: Climb Every Mountain.
Cotton fabric and batting, machine pieced, machine quilted.
My granddaughter, Emersyn, loved horses as a young child. This quilt still hangs in her bedroom - she's 13 years old now.
This quilt is a combination of Sue Garman's Bed of Roses and my layout. After watching the 2020 BOM show, I realized I had never posted it at TQS. I wanted to do something a bit different, so I did the applique out of Kaffe Faucett fabrics and combined it with a Civil War Reproduction red background and some lime green. I enterd it in Houston and won an Honorable Mention. I was fortunate to communicate with Sue prior to her death. She and I had a nice conversation about how I chose to quilt it and why I chose the colors I did. How I wish I could have met her.
Growing up on a ranch, it always stirs emotions when I come across an image as this. Once a treasure now 'put to pasture' begins the thoughts of the stories this relic could tell. My heart ponders as I create my art piece and finally conclude that life has a way of moving on.
This was TQS BOM for 2014 designed by Janet Stone. I used an olive green polka dot fabric for the background instead of cream or some other light neutral. I machine quilted the quilt on my long arm quilting machine with blue, green, and black Bottom Line thread as well as accents in gold metallic thread all by Superior. Although barely visible, I quilted the entire alphabet in the outer black border. I added heat set crystals as accents to all the blocks. Each letter of the alphbet has a crystal, too. You can see more details on my blog at https://quiltsbyjoyce.blog/2016/08/31/a-to-z-for-ewe-and-me-completed/ .
Made by thread painting each flower from Frond Fabric and applique them onto the pieced quilt using the pattern Zen. from Blue Underground.
Tried a new technique and enjoyed the process
Tula Pink's Paper Hearts quilt design from the book 'Sew Red', made in purples as a wedding quilt for my purple-loving daughter-in-law. Free motion quilted, including fearhered hearts in each of the heart blocks.
Made for charity Ox Comfort Quilts for distribution to a child impacted by the Australian bushfires in summer of 2019/2020.
Uses a dinosaur panel, cut into its constituent pictures, each framed in bright plain homespun and sashed in black.
I started with Apple Blossom Fairy panel and added log cabin blocks in the main colours (green/yellows on one half and pink/red on the other half), plus a name panel.
Starts with a Batman panel, with added borders and modified to cover the 'Coloring Book' text on the moon with 'and Harry'.
Outline quilting on the panel.
Made for my great great nephew, Harry.
Based on a Spoonflower panel, with added border and name panel. Made for my step-son's step-grandson.
Pieced scrap quilt for charity Oz Comfort Quilts for distribution to someone impacted by the 2019/2020 summer bushfires in Eastern Australia.
Wedding quilt for step-son, Phillip, and his bride, Shannon.
Shannon had a red theme, and asked for family to wear red - any shade of red.
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