Friday, October 16, 2009

Autumn and Americana Row Quilts

I think my favorite quilts are my row quilts that I designed several years ago. Here is the autumn one...

I have since designed a barn in place of the building. The barn is definitely favored among my quilt classes. I have also designed a row of corn and a picket fence combined with pumpkins for those who struggle making the apple tree blocks. They were really a crazy design anyway that should have been paper pieced. Perhaps someday I will redesign them.

and here is the Americana one. This Americana one "really" needs some more quilting put in the striped borders so that it will hang better. I was in a hurry to get it ready for a quilt class and just never went back and finished it -- naughty me.


I taught both of these quilts, each in a different year, at Annual Meeting for the Utah Quilt Guild. I have felt honored, also, that a local guild chapter has resurrected my patterns this year as they have been making a row a month.

There is also a spring row quilt in the collection; I'll look for a digital photo to post. I intended to someday make a winter one, but it is pretty much on the back burner.