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.