Moosley Homespun

Lake Michigan Summer Dreams - Made for my husbands cousins. They have a house on Lake Michigan where we love to vacation each summer. It was made as a thank you for allowing us to stay with them. The colors match the walls and carpet in the bedroom.

Hugs for Joann - The red velvet in this quilt is fabric left over from the bride's maids dresses from 1958 when the owner was married. She gave it to me, told me to make some dresses for my granddaughters, but it was too heavy for that so I made it into a quilt and returned it to her for Christmas. There were a couple extra pieces so I also made matching pillows and gave one to each of her sons with a note about the origin of the fabric. I quilted poinsettas and holly leaves in gold metallic thread.

First Log Cabin - I purchased a kit from a shop while traveling and then a year later the shop held a retreat. So I pulled from the "I'll get to" pile and finally completed my very first log cabin quilt. Now the decision is "do I keep or does it go to Mom"....tough one!

Think Pink Charms - This came about while experimenting...for some reason half the charm squares vanished. If I would have known how much we like this I would have search harder so I could have made it a bigger quilt.

Room with a View - I was given the large scale fish fabrics by a friend and wanted to use them without cutting them too small. This was the result.

Accrington Brick - I designed this quilt to use one of Moda's jelly rolls. I've enough fabric left for another cot sized quilt.

Seaside Rose Buzzsaw - Made for my niece as a present for being my bridesmaid. She fell in love with Moda's Seaside Rose fabrics so I used as many as I could lay my hands on.

Sebastes ruberissimus - This is an original design based on photos of the Yelloweye Rockfish. I used Susan Carlson's Freestyle Quilts to learn how to construct a quilt like this.

Flower Power - Appliqued flowers on a square in a pieced block with a couple borders. Laura Burches Hummingbird fabric.

Hearts in Flower

Even Littler Brown Bird - Made for my mother's 50th birthday. Group effort. Friends made the individual blocks, then I set it together with sawtooth edgings, and appliqued the border (and developed carpel tunnel!)

Geese Among the Stars - Half blocks are paper pieced using my original technique with equal number of light/dark and dark/light units. Then star corners are added in 2 colors that contrast with the blocks. I chose the multi-color border first then chose batik type fabrics to coordinate.

Ribbons of Hope - This quilt was made for our quilt guild's Susan G. Komen Pink Challenge Miniature Silent Auction. I paper-pieced the ribbon blocks using my original technique and quick-pieced the inner ribbon border. I machine quilted ribbons in the corners of the outside border.

Rainbow of Love - This was a donation quilt for the Quilt of Dreams. I made it at the same time I was making my daughter's wedding quilt. The bride, picket fence border, and wedding ring corners were added to the quilt design after reading Briana dreamed for rainbows and getting married. Interlinking rings are embroidered in the center of the wedding ring blocks and the bride holds a yo-yo flower.

Brown Bear - I found a picture of this quilt in the Winter 1998 issue of Country Quilts but there were no instructions so I had to write my own. Later while cleaning out a storage building I found a book with the same pattern in it, Quick Rotary Cutter Quilts by Pam Bono Designs. Lynn Isenberg is listed as the designer in the book which used white polar bears. My quilt looks more like the one in the magazine which was made by Judith Youngman. I added trees to the setting triangles on the sides of the quilt that don't show in the photo. This is my son's wedding quilt.

Stew Bunny in the Garden - A few years ago, I found an abandoned adult rabbit in the park. My son named him Stew, my 2 cats quickly adopted him and he learned to use the litter box. Now he roams the back porch with the cats and does a little dance for his meals. My husband, Mike started a garden for us with lots of collard greens, kale and parsley for Stew.

Country Lanes - I bought the entire bolt of the giant tulips so I had to do something big to use it up!