Italy Through Window Blinds

This is my ALQS3 quilt swap and my first attempt at an art quilt. My little quilt is done and I'm thrilled enough with it that I'll have to make myself one.

Title: Italy through window blinds

This little quilt is 16" x 16" and made almost entirely out of batiks and my own hand dyed and hand painted fabrics. It is my interpretation of a photograph I found and Ricky Tims "Convergence" ideas. I sampled drawings with both vertical and horizontal strips but fell in love with the horizontal ones because it adds so much height to the tall building. It gives me the feeling of being in a basement looking out a window through blinds. This quilt is almost entirely paper-pieced with strips sewn between the horizontal strips. I quilted stone shapes in the left building and a sun in the upper left corner -- its rays fill the sky across the quilt. A quilt sleeve is sewn onto the back for hanging.



Here are some close ups.

Hexagon Table Topper - Christmas

I completed this little table runner last week. It is the center of my Hexagon's in Rotation creation. I was supposed to teach this class at quilt guild about four years ago, but I got sick and my friends had to cover for me. They did bring me home a kit, though (I had cut all the kits for the class previously). Anyway, I just rediscovered the kit, sewed it up, quilted it, and WA-LA.

Curvy Flowers Add a Border RR

This is a fun one that a couple of you will recognize because you put one of the borders on it. This was an ADD-A-BORDER round robin that went around in 2005. I designed the center curvy flowers, Julie turned it on point, Deb and Loretta made the little pieced border out of leftover blocks, Mom made it UNSQUARE by adding the green vine to the top and bottom, I believe Marie or Becky Evans(set me straight) added the thin green border, Lorna (my wonderful mother-in-law)did the yo-yo leafy vine on pink border, the next green border was either Marie or Becky (the other one), Linda and Thereasa did the four patch squares on point border, Mariella did the purple border, and Pat and Karen made the final pieced border out of leftover blocks.


This is the back. I've been telling Marie that I piece all the leftover fabrics together for the back of my quilts to use them up. This one was overdone, but I didn't have to buy any fabric for the backing. I also generally put any leftover blocks on the back as you can see here.

This is a close up of the quilting.



This just shows the center up closer.

Both of my girls asked if they could have this one -- I guess it's popular in my house. I told them no because it was too special to me because all my quilt friends made it.

When I originally made the center, I made 3 or 4 of them intending to put them all into one quilt. I gave 1 or 2 (can't remember) to Mom. She made baby quilts out of them and hand quilted them. The other is on the back of my quilt.

Persian Star Magic

I am so excited to move things off the "UFO" list and onto the "Completed" list.






This is a Persian Star block from Cheryl Phillips pattern. We made these last year at Mom's (Easter). I did my own thing with the blocks by overlapping them in the middle and sewing half blocks to the bottom edge. I was trying to use up some fabric and some stack-n-wack blocks rather than buy fabric. It is irregular shaped because it will hang on the wall. I think it is fun!

Miniatures

I hate to show this quilt because it still needs the pieced flying geese border and quilted, but Marie wanted to see how I was putting my miniature quilts together.

I designed this as a mystery quilt for our family retreat every year. I had taken Kaye Evans "Cracker Jacks" class TWICE because I loved it so much and decided that the minis in a bag were so much fun. All of the pieces are cut by stacking fat quarters on top of each other and cutting through the layers. The pieces are then placed into carefully labeled sandwich baggies. When we got together at Mom's I wouldn't tell them what we were making, just to open up the bag labeled "braid" or whatever.

I got the border idea from a lovely quilt I viewed from the quilt show at Road to California, although it looks nothing like that quilt. The curves were easy and fun. If you double click you can see closer the border. It is little bitty flying geese. I've only got one side in the photo but another almost done. It takes awhile to paper piece those little geese.

Hexagons and Daisies

I call this one "Hexagons in Rotation". This is also a stack-n-wack but it is my design. It is all done with the Super60 ruler by Sara Nephew. This project was our first ever "Annual retreat at Mom's" in 2004. Deb Butler, Loretta Nielsen, Mom, Becky, and I were all there and all completed our tops except borders in a three day block. I finally put borders on and quilted mine in November of 2007. Mom's, Loretta's, and Becky's have been done for a few years now. Deb just bordered hers two weeks ago and left it at my house to quilt.

This is the second quilt I have made of this pattern. The first one isn't all the way quilted yet. Deb has made four of them that I recall and Loretta two. It is fun, easy, and fast.





Lacy Daisies is the name I gave this quilt. I designed and taught it at annual meeting in Ogden, Utah several years ago. I just got it back in November from a lady who displayed it in her store in Tremonton. The border displays one of my first trapunto pieces. There is quite a bit of hand embroidery work on this one. Mom made one too.

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