End of 2014

 

Here are two photos of the finished wool quilt- I quilted.  Since I had trouble quilting straight lines in the quilt due to using wool batting I resorted to quilting rocks.  I kept thinking about rocks in my brain. This quilt took a long time to sew since there are so many tiny pieces.

 Here is the back of the quilt. 

Here is the current work in progress. Monkey wrench blocks.  So far I have 40 finished and maybe another 60 in the works.  I have no idea yet what I am going to do with them or how big of a quilt I want- or if it is going to be two quilts. I don't even know if I am keeping this one or donating it away...It is fun to sew these.  The cutting of each individual piece took quite a long time since it is all scraps. 

Here is the Scrappy Trips Around the World I made for a young teen just diagnosed with cancer.

I made a bunch of Parker's Corner blocks - enough for two quilts as well as the backing on one of them.

I still need to quilt these but the binding is sewn on already for both.

Here is what I was able to sew together on Thanksgiving.  I made the crumb blocks this summer and had them waiting to be laid out.  I wanted to do something fun for the layout so I had a bunch of math to work out to get it all together.  I will have a red border and red binding around the edges.

Quilts and Cats

I basted the rainbow colored Scrappy Bargello.  A client of dh has a granddaughter just dx with cancer so I thought this would be a good quilt to send her way to cheer her up.

Chloe Grey, what a good cat.

Current project-

 

Bonnie Hunter's Scrappy Bargello. I just have one more panel to sew.

Here is the latest baby quilt that I am working on.

Girl and Boy Quilts Ready to Go.

 

I finished this pink quilt for the new grand daughter of my dog's groomer.  I asked her three times for confirmation of the spelling of the name, so hopefully it is correct.  I used the embroidery function to do the name.  I think it adds a lot to the quilt. The squares are Block Party.  It is  a good square for scraps.

This blue one is made with 4.5 cut squares and then surrounded at the edges with 2.5 x 4.5 cut rectangles.  I have many scraps already cut this size so it is useful to sew up a quick quilt. 

This yellow is a DNP made with 3.5" cut original squares.  I used the same red in the center of the nine patches.  I would not make a DNP out of 3.5 again. They are just too small.

 

These two quilts will go to a summer camp program for foster children.  They needed boy quilts so I am glad I had specific boy quilts on hand.

This is How She Marks

I had this quilt all basted and bound but not quilted.  I was not enthralled with the quilt so it just hung around waiting for inspiration.  So, I finally heard it talking to me and it told me that since the theme of the quilt is travel I needed to have arrows quilted upon it.  This is one method that I use when marking quilts. 

Doll quilts made for Stitchin for kids charity- they supply a box of doll clothes and quilts along with a doll to girls facing long stays in the hospital.

Sweaters made for Stitchin' for kids.

Pink quilt for Charlie's stylist's new granddaughter. I just finished basting it and now need to quilt it.

 Disappearing Nine Patch.  This was made with 3.5" cut squares using  the same red print in all of the centers of the nine patches. I like using 4.5" or bigger better.

Hailey Quilt

Here is the latest quilt that I am working on...and of course a cat. I wanted to achieve a modern quilt look so I went with the checkerboard grid again, besides the fact that it is fun to make so many four patch units.  For this one the patches were cut 2.25" each since that worked with the pieces I had already cut.  The embroidery took me a few hours to create, but I like it.