Delphia's Baskets - Copy of an antique quilt that is part of my personal collection. It took 5 years to complete from start to finish. The pattern is available at Common Threads Quilting.
Hieroglyphics for Marilyn - A guild Challenge: "What's in a name". This is my name: "Marilyn" written in heiroglyphics. The challenge colors are black and white and one color range of your choice. I choose the range of gold/orange into peach and rusts. The gold "fabric" is Pebo expandable paint. I put the paint on my pressing mat and after it dried, puffed it up, then painted with acrylic metalic paint. It created a sheet of gold almost vinyl material which I could cut and sew easily. I made CA poppies and pomegranates from our tree. What would you put in YOUR eternal basket?
Pretty Flaky - I embellished this feathered star with silk ribbon and beads to give the look of a snowflake. Snowflakes in surrounding blocks are bleached into fabric (not appliqued).
Kauai Chicken Star - ...one of my favorites! It includes precision piecing, piping in curves, thread embellishments, beads, prairie points, and piping in binding.
Bouncin' - Features all my favorites, hand-dyed fabric, piping in curves, thread and bead embellishment, prairie points and piping in binding. ...one of my favorites!
Hidden Tikis - My Piping Hot Curves technique inserts tiny piping into curves! ...not curved piecing. I added prairie points and Piping Hot Binding. Cherrywood fabrics plus black & white prints... machine in the ditch quilting, hand quilting with #8 pearl cotton.
Sweet Treats - A small Christmas themed wall quilt from a block of the month program based on Pat Sloan's book. I fuzed and hand appliqued on top of a pieced background.
Heroes and Victims - Panels painted on the backes of my old police shirts representing 911 from devastation to the start of recovery. Background quilted with a diverse selection of vitims' names.
My Learning Quilt - This was my FIRST quilt that I titled "My Learning Quilt". I started it in 1986 at a Mo. Homemakers Extension meeting and finished it finally on January 6, 2006!
Kevin's Random Ties - Made of a ties from a good friend, silk rescued from an old futon, and muslin to foundation piece. Piecing order for tie fabric was chosen using a deck of cards shuffled to test out a random approach to piecing.
Grandma's Family Hug - I made this quilt for my grandmother using the handprints of her immediate family (mine is in lower right corner) and centered them around a few words of love. I gave the quilt to her for Christmas the year before she died.
Through the Looking Glass - This is a queen-sized quilt. I learned a lot making this quilt. How to match points, since there are so many of them... And finally I got up enough nerve to do some "official" free-motion quilting. See my blog for additional photos of this quilt as a work in progress. This is my fifth quilt. Completed September 2007.
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