Breathing a sigh of relief because these are done!
So. Quilts that I can find relevant posts to link to have links. Those that don't have a blurb.
Grandma's Anvil - 7/23/2020
Autobiographical Sampler - 7/23/2020
Machine stippled on an Innova longarm, low-loft poly batting.
The Autobiographical Sampler has been, ahem, creatively quilted. If you look at the bottom of the picture on the left, you can see fullness in the border which I did not deal with, and I should have, before loading it onto a long arm, as there were some very interesting moments while it was on the machine. But it's done, finally.
July 2019
Pastures Green? Emerald Isle?
Green Menagerie - July 2019
Freehand machine quilted on an Innova longarm, 80/20 cotton-poly batting. A large full size?
Grandma's Anvil - 7/23/2020
Someone gave this top to me because they knew I had to knowhow and would be most likely person of their acquaintance to finish and appreciate it. I guess it's an anvil variation? Some of the seams are machine pieced, some hand-stitched. The fabrics from what I can guess are from the 1930s. I used an 80/20 cotton batting and quilted it on an Innova longarm using a Baptist Fan panto, some of the detail you can make out it the picture. The texture of the quilting and the fabrics look so much better in person.
Autobiographical Sampler - 7/23/2020
Machine stippled on an Innova longarm, low-loft poly batting.
The Autobiographical Sampler has been, ahem, creatively quilted. If you look at the bottom of the picture on the left, you can see fullness in the border which I did not deal with, and I should have, before loading it onto a long arm, as there were some very interesting moments while it was on the machine. But it's done, finally.
July 2019Pastures Green? Emerald Isle?
Did I name this one? IDK. Of the two fraternal twin green quilts, this one reminds me most of seeing Ireland from above on the approach to Heathrow Airport, so very, very green.
It was made from the leftovers of the Green Menagerie which is also finished. Or close to being finished, they need binding. Its size is somewhere between a twin and a full; I free-hand quilted it on an Innova longarm with a variety of stitches, 80/20 cotton-poly back.
It was made from the leftovers of the Green Menagerie which is also finished. Or close to being finished, they need binding. Its size is somewhere between a twin and a full; I free-hand quilted it on an Innova longarm with a variety of stitches, 80/20 cotton-poly back.
Green Menagerie - July 2019
Freehand machine quilted on an Innova longarm, 80/20 cotton-poly batting. A large full size?
Star of Bethlehem
A benefit for St. Mark's Episcopal, Millcreek, PA
So I didn't actually make this. One Sunday morning shortly after I moved back in with my parents, my mom and were headed to church together. Except that my mom got it in her head that we needed to be there at 11, and the service started at 10, so rather than be grossly late, we did a quick search of places with an 11AM service, and drove up to St. Mark's in East Millcreek. And they happened to be selling raffle tickets for a quilt. So I bought one [a raffle ticket, I mean].
My mother can't get over the fact that I won this sight-unseen with just one ticket because she made us late to church.
And I said, 'See, this is what we get for being late to church'.
The dear lady who made this was pretty happy another quilter was getting it.
And I said, 'See, this is what we get for being late to church'.
The dear lady who made this was pretty happy another quilter was getting it.
Grandma's Daisies
Hand quilted, high loft poly batting
British Invasion
4/2017
Pantone Chip 4/2017
This was made out of most of an upholstery sample book, but I have no idea what the fiber content of the samples are, probably synthetic? Its another project best viewed up close and in person, because each of the squares is quilted differently, which you can sort of see in the picture with the cat.
Freehand machine quilted on an Innova with an 80/20 cotton-poly batting.
Mini Single Irish Chain
7/20/2017
7/20/2017
The Kaleidoscope
Completed summer of 2014. Hand-quilted with 80/20 cotton-poly bat.
I saw a project with
this layout at the Westminster Quilt Show in Erie, PA, but alas, did not
have a picture of it to guide my layout process.
09/06/12 It is top priority currently to finish as a Christmas gift for some friends.
11/3/12 - was told by the Backroom Quilters that they'd string me up by my ankles if I gave this away. So I made "Ordinary Time" for these friends instead.
String Theory
Pandora's Box
This happy little friend was finished over the summer of 2014. Hand utility quilted with an 80/20 cotton poly batt, pieced back.
Sarah's Gypsy Throw
Attic Windows
finished 6/27/2013
Utility quilted with an 80/20 cotton-poly batting
Utility quilted with an 80/20 cotton-poly batting
This top was made by my uncle's mother, who died before she was able to quilt it. [I think this might be a chronic quilter problem - so many tops, so little time]. I'll be seeing him in a few weeks, so I'll be able to hand it to him in person rather than send it in the mail, which I feel is a little safer to do given the nature of this kind of item.
Ordinary Time
finished 12/24/12, 6:35 PM
This was a Christmas gift for friends. I was really cutting it close to the wire.
"Am I Blue?", 2008
For my friend, Lizza, meant as a "feel better after your second open heart surgery in two summers", ended as an early "Congratulations on graduating from Pharmacy School!!!" It lives with her now.
"Purple X 10 Charms = A Quilt", 2011
Triple Irish Chain, 2007 [?]
This one no longer lives at my grandmother's house; at the time she saw it and said, "If you don't like it, I'll take it!" She wasn't being serious; she said as much later when, at Christmas, she unwrapped it. I had no idea what I was doing when I quilted this, and it shows. She returned it to me when they moved. Baby Gifts
Lila, Finished 7/5/2013
Zac and Ian, 2008
I made these for my cousin's twin boys in 2008. They were living in Britain at the time, and I found, at a quilt shop in Kent, Ohio, the King Arthur and his Knights fabric. Which was just too perfect. I was also interning, and had no internet access, and no time to blog.
Caleb
Still another cousin's baby blanket. They live in a colder climate, so I made sure to put batting in this one. It's a little bigger than a standard crib quilt. I hope they like it...
Adeline, 2010
This was for a different-than-the-two-above cousin's baby. I had run out of fabric for the first attempt, and by the time I figured that out, the baby had been born, we knew it was a girl... So I pulled something together fast, thanks to a charm pack and instructions over at Oh, Franson! for a super fast, super cute baby blanket. Alas, this is the only photo I have of it, but this is pretty well how it turned out. Everyone was happy.This one, I have come to find out, was lost/stolen in the mail. blinkity*#@> > >:[
This ended up being for Adeline. She calls it her Sunshine Checkers.
Owen
Owen's room had a Nile River theme, so I made a Nile River quilt for him, complete with a cartouche of his name. Lest anyone be confused about who it belongs to.
Owen's room had a Nile River theme, so I made a Nile River quilt for him, complete with a cartouche of his name. Lest anyone be confused about who it belongs to.
Amanda, 2012
Not for cousins! This was a gift for my friends, David and Megan, for their first baby, who is just about the cutest baby ever. Another slightly larger than crib, I wanted them to be able to use it after the baby grew out of infancy.This is a traditional Jewel Box square, rotated to form a chain pattern.
There are at least three other blankets I've made for babies, but I don't have pictures of them.
