This quilt reminds me of my garden, lots of flowers.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Chicken Quilt
My daughter picked out the fabrics for these chickens. I used Wonder Under to iron the chickens to the background and used machine blanket stitches around the edges. My daughter finished quilting by using meandering stitches on her sewing machine (her first attempt at machine quilting.)
First Quilt
When my daughter was a teenager she bought tickets for my husband and I to see the Everly Brothers in concert. I had already signed up for a quilt class and my daughter offered to take the class for me. (I was so hoping she would enjoy quilting as much as I did.)
She pieced the quilt and I did the hand quilting for her. This was the beginning of her love of quilting.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Pansies
This quilt is called Pansies and since I love my gardens, I was immediately attracted to the name and colorful fabrics. The background fabric is a French toile. This is a guest bedroom that the grandchildren love to stay in when they come to visit.
Patriotic Quilts
These two quilts were made for my first two grandchildren, twin girls. They were even hand quilted (now I machine quilt).
These quilts were made 13 years ago. The second one on the right does not have yellow fabric, it is a cream fabric but for some reason does not show up very well in this picture. The twins hang these on their inside balcony during the July holiday.
Berry Sweet Bag
I have always loved everything about strawberries, flavor, color, etc. I found this cute strawberry bag pattern by Fig Tree Quilts and had to make it for one of my little granddaughters.
The fabric is delicious – I have a red strawberry fabric to try on the next bag. The inside is a yellow print fabric and I put decorations on the leaves of my first bag with buttons and scrapbooking brads. The outside fabric was first quilted with a meandering stitch. Now to make one for each of the other nine granddaughters.