Julie's Psalms Sampler

My Blue and Yellow Flower Garden - This is my favorite quilt, made from florals and bordered in lace. My first long arm project.

watercolor magic - Took an online class and this was the first assignment. Never did the rest of the assignments but have great plans.

Jodie's quilt - This quilt was made for my friend Jodie-who had recently been diagnosed with melanoma.

My very first quilt - Although this is a very simple first quilt, I am so proud of it. It still hangs in my bedroom as a reminder of the beginning. This quilt pattern was from an Alex Anderson book that I used in my first beginning quilting class!

Tropical Welcome

Nine tilted teapot blocks "dancing" about the quilt.

Summer Quilt - Four patch blocks mixed with plain blocks, King size quilt with cotton batting. Nice and light for spring and summer. First large size bed quilt made.

Many years ago I took a class from ??? who was selling this pattern and teaching her way of constructing it through a sample block, which I finally completed today. I took ugly fabrics to the class, thinking it would be yet another UFO and not really knowing what I'd need. It doesn't look bad, though, proving yet again that there is really no such thing as a truly ugly fabric! I practiced quilting on it with my new long-arm quilting machine.

Kate's quilt - Kate's quilt was made by her when she was 10 years old. She pieced and quilted it all by herself, with my guidance on an old hand Singer sewing machine. Unfortunately, her tastes have changed since, she is now 21, but it is my pride and joy!

Yet another attempt to use up scraps. I really enjoyed playing with the value of the fabrics.

After spending a month traveling in Ghana I found these great fabrics from Julia Cairns, which perfectly expressed my own memories of this wonderful country and it's beautiful people. The outer border is made from fabric purchased in Africa. I have it pin basted and started the quilting. It's next on the pile of UFO's to FINISH!!

It took several years for me to finish this elaborate quilt for my mother, who is interested in different quilt blocks. I pinned paper labels to each of the block patterns so she can pick out a "churn dash" block from a "54/40 or fight" block, etc. I mostly worked on it while we were on vacation, remodeling an old farmhouse without electricity (thus the hand applique).

I made this for my daughter because, when I went to visit her in Chicago, I was SO COLD!!! So she said "Make me a quilt and you can use it when you visit". I like the way it appears the fabrics are woven over and under each other.

Diego's Wall Quilt - T shirts were from Linda's collection of Marathon and race t-shirts earned before she had her son. Cross Hatch quilting with walking foot done very quickly because she gave birth a month early!

Invitation - Hoffman challenge fabrics. Appliqué, hand and machine quilted, free machine embroidery. Painted decoration on fan.

Into the West - Background painted. Appliqué and hand embellishment.

Winging! - This quilt is a paper pieced patter from The Quilter's Cache/Marcia Hohn that I made for my brother for his winging in the Marine Corp. He loved it, and hung it on his wall.