Play with Misti for me. - I have been making quilts for Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative and took some time out to make one for my sister Kay. I took a picture of her dog, corrected the eyes, darkened and simplified the background. I printed it out on 100 percent cotton fabric with my Epson 1900 printer using the Ultra Premium Matte setting. I then added four layers of batting to the nose and three to the body. I quilted the dog in the first layer. I used gold and copper thread for her dog tags. I did overall quilting in the fourth layer which was behind the dog and the background. Misti's coat is so luminescent that it showed up in the fabric print. I tried to follow the curliness of her cockapoo hair when I quilted it. I mounted the quilt on an art canvas and it improved the picture greatly.
African Dream - My mother spent 4 weeks on Safari and this is a remembrance quilt I made for her. I have yet to put her pictures of the trip on fabric for the large empty yellow squars you see there as she has miss placed them...I was going to just print some off the internet but I want them to be what SHE saw and not what others have seen...So whenever she digs them up, I will add them...
Love you MOM, Necie
Scrappy Stars Alaska - This quilt pattern was designed by Carol Doak. The entire quilt measures 12 inches x 12 inches and was paper pieced. Don't ever let anyone tell you a small quilt can be made more quickly than a large one! ; )
Kids Quilt - The children in my wed. night class wanted to learn to make a quilt. Ea. child selected a picture they liked and either colored it in with fabric markers or ironed on fabric pieces. Several of the blocks are orig. designs by the children (ages 5 to 12). The children also hand dyed their fabrics. They had to tie the quilt vs machine quilt it, so that all children could tie a knot and say a prayer. The quilt was a gift for our pastor...for Pastor Appreciation month.
Tropical Paradise - Hidden Wells pattern by Mary Ellen Hopkins. Border contains original designed appliqued flowers and leaves and a tropical drink with handpainted fabric covered with sheer overlay for the glass. The glass has metallic satin stitching.
The Palette - This was made with what was left over from the Woven Ribbon quilit - using 150 6" X 6" charm pack. I just put the pieces in to number order. Jinny Beyer may have a similiar pattern but I did my before I saw it.
life just gets better B - wanted to make as much use of the wonderful batiks as i could
there are two - colours reversed
made these for my parents' 70th birthdays
each quilt has the names and birthdays of all direct family members quilted on the reverse
(my parents, my siblings, their wives and their kids)
sorry - bad quality picture - will try to take another when i visit my parents next spring :o)
Wood Sprite - Was the ad for IQF in 2006 - Angelina fiber, prismacolor pencil, ink, batiks - Part of my Journal Quilts, in the book A Page from my Journal
life just gets better A - wanted to make as much use of the wonderful batiks as i could
there are two - colours reversed
made these for my parents' 70th birthdays
each quilt has the names and birthdays of all direct family members quilted on the reverse
(my parents, my siblings, their wives and their kids)
Happy Birthday Miniature - This miniature is app 12 x 10. The idea came from quilted post cards but needed to be signed by several people so I added a muslin border. I used by embroidery machine for the message.
Hippie Birdie - This is a pattern designed by Woolin Rouge Designs (Sylvia Gauthier and Traci Suzanne Marvel) for Bigfork Bay Cotton Company.
Traci had done a painting of the bird called Hippie BirdDay. It was a birthday present for a friend. I took her painting and recreated it into a wool applique. With some color changes and fabric from Art Gallery Quilts we ended up with a table setcalled Hippie Birdie. The pattern has place mats, napkins, and napking ring directions too.
Star Light Snow Bright - Traci Suzanne Marvel and I have the Design Company Woolin Rouge. Or patterns are produced by Bigfork Bay Cotton Company.
This was the first design that Traci and I did as a design team. She had this adorable design in her portfolio and I took it and created this adorable wool quilt from it.
Star Light Snow Bright is made 100% out of wool. I used Aurifil Lana wool thread in the enitre quilt including the quilting. It was so exciting to see Traci's scetch turn into a wool quilt. I am grateful for Traci and Bigfork Bay Cotton Company every day.
Snow in Love - Woolin Rouge is a pattern design company of myself and Traci Suzanne Marvel. Traci had the most adorable line drawing of this design so I took it and made it into a wool applique wall hanging. Bigfork Bay Cotton Company produces our patterns.
The background is Maywood flannel and Batik Textile batiks. The Wool is from Mary Flannagan. The thread is Aurifil Cotton 50 wt for the quilting and Aurifil Lana Wool 12 wt for the applique and embroidery.
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