Justin's First Year - This picture quilt was my first attempt using photographs. I used my embroidery machine to quilt this piece using butterfly outlines. The border fabric is royal blue with tiny lime green dots so I accented with lime green batik fabric.
Binary - Fractals often have two "centers" plus they're based on computer images, which ultimately derive from a binary number system. This image is put together from hand-dyed fabrics and is quilted with variegated rayon thread.
Supernova - This is smaller than some of the other fractals I've done. The quilting is more organic, using leaf shapes and flower shapes because I thought it suggested a tree in a Japanese garden. The quilting is with variegated rayon thread.
Lisa's Bento Box - I made this quilt for my daughter Lisa (Sazzy Puff) for her birthday in April. Lisa was born in Korea and I thought she would like these fabrics. Lisa likes black and red. With the scraps I made her a small 21" x 21" log cabin. This quilt is 52" x 67".
Kate's Graduation Quilt - I made this quilt for my daughter Kate's graduation from college. She picked out the pattern and I used some of the batiks from my collection (!). I added beads and specialty threads. The middle of the sunflowers are couched w/2 different yarns and beading added.
Wrapt Up in the Orient - I love oriental fabric as does my daughter and Sandy's pattern was perfect to adapt plus my own 9 patch swap blocks and borders.
Dizzy Swirls - This is a variation on Stack - n - Whack using an equilateral triangle as a base. I drew a random curved line from the center to one side, copied the line to the other two sides. Each triangle has a light, medium and dark shape. Six triangles form a swirl at the center. It was great fun! These were all oriental fabrics. I want to do more with this technique.
Autumn Buzz - This was a guild quilt challenge.
We had to use a two pieces of fabric and the paper pieced maple leaf that are in all 4 corners. My mom and I designed and made the quilt together.
Cowgirls of the old west - I had these cowgirl blocks for quite a while and decided to make a quilt center piecing the cowgils. A lot of the fabrics are western themed that I had been saving up for a while.
Lailah's Delight - I made this quilt top in 2006 for my first granddaughter-to-be, but learned two weeks prior to his birth that it was a grandSON. So, I decided to finish this quilt for my niece, Lailah, born in January 2007.
Primarily around the twist - This was a class given to our guild by Sandy Turner.
I was crazy and used 6 different colors for my twist while the class used two, but I had a lot of fun with it. I designed the border so it would be different from the rest.
Name of Maker: Dee Small, Wina, Sandy, Carol and Coline
1st Round Robin - This is our guilds first Round Robin. I had a lot of fun with this RR, I'm a Longarm Quilter and don't find a lot time for piecing but with this RR I knew I had to come up with a plan and follow through with getting it done for the following month, so that let me do some piecing. I loved the challenge that each quilt gave me and the knowledge that each quilt would have a little part of me in it.
Sudoku Challenge - I made this in response to the Bath Quilters Sudoku Quilt Challenge. The design was inspired by the Sudoku grid in The Times. In keeping with the oriental look of the design the borders are quilted with a bamboo pattern. All of the Sudoku squares are made from recycled mens' shirt fabrics. I meant to give it to Project Linus but my husband wanted it so he gave Project Linus a donation in its place and kept the quilt for himself.
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