Our land II - Originally this was made as part of a guild challenge. I have since gone on to make another one and would still like to make another. I painted the scene from a photograph I took.
siapo of fabric - I have always liked orange as a colour and had just purchased a new sewing machine and was eager to try out the blanket stitching on it. This is the result, I think this quilt has a special glow to it.
Oriental Talking Blocks - This quilt is made just as "Lilly's First Birthday Quilt" using a pattern called "Talking Blocks" by Bethany Reynolds of Stack 'n Whack fame. You can purchase the pattern on her web site. This quilt has a stack 'n whack square on the top of each block and again there are no "Y" seams.
My first quilt - This is my first quilt and I still love it. It is also the only quilt I have quilted that I have not given away. The butterflies flying sideways make me laugh.
Name of Maker: round robin group Morningstar Guild
Quilting Friends I - This was pieced by a round robin group in the Morningstar Quilt Guild. The group was called the Simple Squares. I choose my favorite fabrics and the block. The fabrics then circulated monthly with each member piecing a block.
April Showers - This quilt was made for a Morningstar Quilt Guild challenge. The challenge was to illustrate a saying without using words. The saying I chose is "April showers bring May flowers."
Name of Maker: Round Robin group Morningstar Guild
Quilting Friends II - This is a round robin quilt done by 6 members of the Morningstar Quilt Guild. I designed my own center block and then passed off to the next person. Each person had the quilt for 2 months to design and sew their border. I received the finished top a year after making my center block.
Home - This quilt was made for a Morningstar Quilt Guild Challenge. The challenge was to use the color red, the word "home", and the log cabin block. I made 4 log cabin blocks and appliqued a block over them. The applique block was embroidered with the word "home" and some flowers.
How to Mend a Heart - The paper pieced hearts used only scraps, then were inset into squares, machine embroidered, with a flannel border and back. Machine quilted.
Pop! - The center of the quilt is a medallion of French knots in a traditional quilting pattern. Then other fabrics from my stash just blended together to frame this.
piano keys - I had a lot of 4inch batik squares. I cut them in half and machine pieced them for the keys. The strips came from my black and white fabric stash. It is still a quilt top and will become a completed quilt when I need a gift.......where almost all of my quilts go.
Mythical horses- Laurel Burch fabric - I love Laurel Burch fabrics. I bought the mythical horse fabric for my nephew's daughter who loves horses. It's still just a quilt top but will be finished this summer.
Circles - I wanted to practice making circles using the freezer paper method from a Simply Quilts episode. However, I wanted to fracture the circles to make it more interesting so I used the freezer paper method to make large circle blocks and then cut them and rearranged them many times until I chose this very traditional arrangment. This is one of the first quilts I made that wasn't a planned gift. I took it out of the quilt basket in the familyroom to take a picture of it. My granddaughter and I curl up with it on the couch when watching Noggin.
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