Another QOV

Liberty Bell

Thank You

These two quilts came from South Dakota.  It is always a privilege to be a part of the Quilts of Valor.

Baby Boy Quilt

Love the border on this quilt

Sorry it has been so long.  My computer broke and is still out of commission.  So here I am on a borrowed one for the day.  I am still busy quilting even though most of my patterns on on the broken computer.  Nothing is going to keep me down.  This is a baby boy quilt that I made recently.  The nursery theme was tans and blues but the Mom wanted the minky with the brown and green dots.  It reflects the circles and dots of the baby's room.  The top has a lot of blues, browns, and the greens to tie in the back.  It is quilted with the bubbles everywhere pattern to soften the straight lines of the top and to mimic the dots of the backs. 

Scrap Quilt

This is a scrap quilt that I made the top 17 years ago.  It was made from scraps of clothes, curtains, and other quilts that I had made.  When I pick through this I can find fabric from both Kylee and Erin's dresses from those early years.  There is even fabric from a doll's dress that I have given to Lyla, my grand daughter.  It is fun to pick through and find these fabrics.  My brothers could also pick through and find scraps from their Wedding quilts that we made many years ago. 

I also uses the Page Turner method of custom quilting on this quilt.  I like how the little octopus shaped flowers showed up in the little squares.  This will be a fun quilt for our spare bed.

At the time that this top was made the only fabric that I had bought was the navy blue with lines through it.  I really don't like unorganized scrap quilts.  They are not restful to my eyes.  The borders were purchased later.  It was really hard to find a mauve 10 years ago.  These fabrics worked well.  I have taken this quilt top to many school classes to show more about the patchwork and how not to waste anything.  I would show all of the underside and explain how these ladies of the 18th and 19th century would sew all of these seams together and not waste a single piece of fabric.  They also would create these works of art by hand stitching each piece.  I am so thankful for our wonderful machines that we have.

QOV Flowers

This is a colorful batik quilt that came to me as a QOV.  This quilt will make a female Soldier very happy.  I did a semi-custom job on this quilt.  This technique is called a Page Turner.  Page Johnson is a quilter and teacher that I recently took a class from. 

. This next quilt looks like a flower garden through a lattice work.  With all of the hard lines in it I thought that a simple flower and leaf design for the quilting would soften the lines.I am pleased with how this looks.  This is also a QOV.  These two quilts came from South Dakota. They were well sewn and a pleasure to  work with.

Church Camp

Bob and I just got back from cooking at a Church camp for a week.  So much fun, So much work.  Over 300 people, over 230 of them were teenage girls.  We had a great team in the kitchen.  Such a pleasure to have happy hard workers with us in the kitchen.  When small disasters, like a bag of eggs breaking open and pouring down my clothes, the others laughed as much as I was. 
Now back to quilting and other house hold projects like putting trim around the doors in the house.  Remodeling a house is a never ending process.  I will post pics on this site in a day or two of new quilts and even a headboard that I am working on. 

Squares within Squares

Saw a picture on an advertisement and I loved the combination of plain squares with interesting squares inside.  I made my own interpretation of this quilt and this is what I have.  I feel that is visually restful without being boring. 

 I treated each set of squares as a separate mini quilt with piano key borders. 

 These are the back view of the center of the squares.

The color combination is the key to this quilt.  The mixing of patterns and scale of each fabric allows this quilt to be warm and inviting.  It was fun creating this quilt from the design process, piecing and through to the quilting itself.

Beautiful Quilts of Valor

    When I first saw this quilt saw blocks with blocks behind them.  I put stars in the forward blocks and completed the illusion of the flag blocks being behind with a sunrise pattern.  This quilt and the other two will be a blessing to a Soldier and their family.  I am privileged to be part of it. 

I did a feathered star in each star block and a star and flame block in each of the other blocks.  The quilt below was quilted with a simple star and loop edge to edge pattern.  These quilts were well made and a pleasure to work with.