Quilt Gallery  (21,106 Quilts)

christmas runner
Name of Maker: Sherri
christmas runner - I have not put the red border on it yet
Twisted Log Cabin
Name of Maker: Kim Bruny
Twisted Log Cabin - This quilt was started at Road to California in a class by Bonnie Browning. It is all paper pieced(even the black) I started out making a small wall hanging and ended up making it 65" X76". I dont think I have ever ripped out so much on one quilt. It took me over a year to make.
snake eyes
Name of Maker: Kim Bruny
snake eyes - My first and last attemp of a bargello quilt. (It only took me 2 years for finish I kept putting it away! Can you see the eyes in the middle?
Bandana
Name of Maker: Ellen Gambrell
Bandana - My cousin, Cheri Saffro, www.saffro.com, has given me permission to use her original paintings for quilt inspiration. This was truly the most fun I've ever had making a quilt. It is a loose snippets technique (no glue), covered with black tulle and quilted. Swarovsky crystals were added on top of the tulle.
3-D Illusions
Name of Maker: JackieOL
3-D Illusions - When I first saw this quilt I knew at once that I had to make one!
Bargello Cross
Name of Maker: leeannq
Bargello Cross - I think this is the only quilt I have gone and purchased all the fabrics for it in one go. I usually start from the stash, and purchase if there isn't anything I like in the stash.It went together very quickly and I'm happy with it.
Crazy Baby
Name of Maker: Kim Bruny
Crazy Baby - This quilt is made using all flannel fabric.
Turtle Bay
Name of Maker: Kim Frisk
Turtle Bay - I designed this quilt in an abstract landscape workshop with Gloria Loughman called "Layer by Layer".
Party on Duval Street
Name of Maker: Kim Frisk
Party on Duval Street - This quilt was started in a Carol Taylor Workshop called "Sensuous Lins and Curves". Fancy yarns are couched onto the center of the quilt. The outer blocks have skinny strips pieced into the background fabric.
Megan's Window
Name of Maker: Kim Frisk
Megan's Window - This quilt was started in a workshop with Susan Cleveland called "Piping Hot Curves". We learned to make perfect piping and how to apply the piping to the edges of curved pieces. These pieces could then be sewn down on the background squares, avoiding any curved piecing!
Things that go bump in the night
Name of Maker: Michelle Curtis
Things that go bump in the night - When I started making quilts, my oldest son asked for one. Since he's 12 he didn't want cute-sy fabric. I asked what he'd like and he said "skulls". Hmm...ok if you say so. It was actually more fun to make that I expected. This is just the top. The backing fabric has already been purchased (I actually like the backing fabric better but we found it after the top was mostly done). I'm hesitant on quilting it because I don't know what quilting design to use yet and I'm still very new to free motion quilting so can't get too complicated. I'll have to give it some thought....
Lesson Learned
Name of Maker: Michelle Curtis
Lesson Learned - This quilt is pretty embarrassing to post, but I learned from it. This was my first attempt at triangles (which I failed miserably). I didn't read instructions well and didn't line the triangle edges up the way they were supposed to. Hardly any points match and the ones that did were by total accident. I almost didn't finish it, but decided to use it as my first attempt at free-motion-quilting (which that part I'm pretty proud of). I didn't make the full pattern since the blocks turned so aweful. The pattern was "Windy by the Lake" by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr published in American Patchwork and Quilting.
Great Grandma's Garden
Name of Maker: Beverly Alderman
Great Grandma's Garden - This quilt was given to me when my grandmother passed away. It was made by her mother. It was hand stitched from start to finish. I remember the quilt laying on the guest bed when I visted my grandmother's house and slept under it many-a-night. I didn't appreciate it as much until I became a quilter myself (after both grandma and great-grandma had passed away). I never knew my great-grandmother but wish I had known her and was able to learn from her quilting experiences. My grandmother never learned to quilt from her and I feel like there is knowlege lost over the generations. This quilt is very worn and loved, but I like it that way! It's imperfect and beautiful!
Gondola rider
Name of Maker: Debbie MacDonald
Gondola rider - Layering on of fabric using Malinda Bula's method, of using Steam a seam and lots of thread play
Geometric 3
Name of Maker: Sue Bleiweiss
Geometric 3
Teeny Tiny Star Medallion
Name of Maker: Colleen
Teeny Tiny Star Medallion - 16 inch miniature quilt. I added the red sashing to the pattern - only because my 1/4 inch seams were not accurate!
Flying Home
Name of Maker: Anne Mette Hansen
Flying Home - Resized from a beadspread to a wall quilt. Unfortunately one of the dark brown fabrics at the bottom part of the quilt have faded quite a bit. In 2005 I made a smaller version of the quilt for my brother in law. It's 37"x49½" and made from all the cut off triangles and left over fabric from the first. Because of the very small pieces and unprecise cut fabric, I foundation pieced it.
Row Houses
Name of Maker: Anne Mette Hansen
Row Houses - This is my first quilt ever! I made it the first time we lived in The States. I bought a book with a complete guide to quilting. I resized this pattern to fit in front of our drafty fireplace, and started sewing. In an attempt to make it heavier it has two layers of cotton batting.
Tampa Sunset
Name of Maker: Anne Mette Hansen
Tampa Sunset - My first attempt at making a landscape quilt. We lived in Tampa for a few years and at some point I promised my husbond to make him a quilt of the view and sunset as seen from our deck. As I had no clue how to do this, I made a few mistakes and learned along the way. In the end I think it came out OK and I am happy with it.
Linda's Medieval Quilt
Name of Maker: Gail Surrena, nurses, midwives and obstetricians
Linda's Medieval Quilt - The basic pattern is Attic Window. These blocks were made on muslin, which was pressed onto freezer paper. Designs were transfered to each of the 80 blocks, using a light-box (homemade) and a Sharpie marker. All but one of the blocks was then colored using Crayola Crayons, then the freezer paper was removed from the back of each block, turned over and used to heat set the crayons into the muslin. I hadn't actually tried to wash a block made this way, so did one after I got about 64 of the blocks back and it worked...the crayons don't wash out after being heatset. The blocks are of dragons, princesses, castles, knights in armor, weapons and a few others. The quilt is queen-sized and is being made for a midwife friend of ours who was recently diagnosed with Acute Myelogenic Leukemia. This has truly been a labor of love.