Flying Monkeys - My quilt guild had a challenge where you were given a color, a feeling, and an embellishment to use on a quilt. My color was purple, my feeling was anger, and my embellishment was beads. The monkeys jackets have beading on them. I won second prize with this quilt.
Stars and Checks - This was one of the first quilts I ever made by machine. I made two of them. This one was for my daughter and the other was given to a girl from Belarus that we hosted for two summers. It is a fun quilt and I still love bright colored quilts
Carpe Dicem - My friend Jackie taught me Stack and Whack on a weekend Quilt Show trip. Thank God she is a great long arm quilter and could quilt out the problems. All my blocks looked like Size D Bra Cups.
Red and White and Violet - I have a very dear friend Violet who has been a quilt mentor to me. She is 89 years old. I saw a quilt she had done with this block and loved it. I had the same fabric she used but I was a little short so she gave me her leftover fabric. This quilt has been completely pieced by hand and is in the process of being hand quilted. I may be 89 by the time I get it finished. (I am 45). I set my blocks a little different from hers. I staggered mine because I thought it looked like picture frames on a wall.
Name of Maker: Deborah Timby and the Friday Quilters
Little Diamond Island - A pieced design made by 8 people, using an enlarged photograph for patterns. The pinwheel border uses the technique from the book "Square Dance" by Martha Thompson.
Feathered Stars - Made as a vehicle for hand quilting, this scrap red and green feathered star has been published three times in magazines and once in a book.
Hearts for Tori - Fat quarters are stacked and then sliced into the pattern pieces. The "deck" is then schuffled and sewn back together. No matching of seams is required.
Celebration of Stars - This is a Block of the Month program that lasted 8 months. It used the Honeymoon in Paris fabrics. Upon their wedding, I gave it to my son Andrew and his bride Jeannie.
Northern Sparkler - Original pattern calls for only 3 colors, I added a 4th color and extended the pattern into the borders to complete a secondary pattern. I won a 2nd place ribbon at our local county fair, in the wall hanging category.
Autumn Winds - The original pattern places leaves inside each square in horizontal and vertical rows--a bit too predictable for me. Driving down the roads of Kentucky in Autumn, leaves swirl behind and follow us home. This is my attempt to remember the memorable days we lived there.
Rosy Stars - This quilt was made for a raffle at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah. It is made of of rose patterned cotton in a 60 degree six pointed star with a diamond inner border.
An Island of Hope in a Sea of Purple - Made for Alzheimer's Quilt Initiative to be auctioned or sold to benefit Alzheimer's Disease research. Randomly pieced with purple batiks, one white daisy, Tintzl, covered with tulle.
Beginners Luck - This is my first quilt - corner stones seams don't match at points - seams aren't straight. I was going to make something for my husband, but I fell in love with Aunt Gracie fabrics. So it matches my sewing room - yellow and purple.
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