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Progress on Lovebirds (Circle gets the Square):

I finished piecing the entire top last night.  I had to stay up until 12:30 am to do it, but sometimes you just can’t quit when you’re on a roll!

I used a variety of fabrics that contained red, black and white.  Funny, I liked the boldness [...]

Not my idea :)

Here’s the story about the quilt that I finished but can’t take credit for:

It was May and I was finishing the Boy with a Coin quilt for a customer.  Let me take you back even more… whenever I design a quilt, the first thing I do after I have the design is calculate how [...]

A nod to mod

I’m more excited about my modern quilt design now that my sister likes it.  So, here it is:

 

Doesn’t look like me, huh?  Simplistic, retro, high style, funky.  I’m digging the bird silhouettes – they will be appliquéd onto a white background.  I’ve been seeing birds pop up in art & decor recently: at [...]

Quilting only

I thought I’d post a picture of a quilt that was pieced by my friend Rozetta Fiscus – I did only the quilting on it.  She did such a good job with it.  At our Quilt Circle of Friends meeting, held at Adel Quilting and Dry Goods, Co., all who wanted to participate in a [...]

The Sky is a Harpsichord Canvas

I just finished another baby quilt for a neighbor family who welcomed a new baby girl several weeks ago. 

I had bought a lot of cute “girl” fabric lately and I wanted to incorporate it into this quilt.  I also didn’t want to cut the fabric up too much, so I just started slicing [...]

Oh, Sister

Here is the quilt I made for my friend Anna’s baby girl, who is due a week from tomorrow, although my baby shower prediction was that she’d deliver on the 12th of May.  Prove me wrong, Anna.  Prove me wrong.

The quilt has 4 appliquéd  tulips surrounded by 9-patches, all set on-point.  I thought the [...]

My excellent polyester adventure

I recently finished a customer quilt repair.  A gentleman contacted me about repairing a quilt belonging to his fiancée.  The quilt contained pieces of her grandmother’s clothing.  Her grandmother died when this woman was a very young girl, so these scraps of her clothing are very sentimental to her.

This quilt had been well-loved.  In [...]

Spring Succeeds

Yes, we have a title.  Spring Succeeds is a song by Olivia Tremor Control, and yes, it’s on our ipod.  I have to admit it’s not a familiar song to me, but I love the title and it’s very fitting for this quilt.  Thanks, Josh.  What a long winter and a slow start to spring [...]

It was a good weekend

Welp, the weekend was good… no, great.  Mom took the kids on Friday afternoon.  Need I say more?

Friday we had a friend over for dinner; he and Josh stayed home and hung out while my friend Barb and I went out for coffee and talked.  It was fun a lot of fun.

Saturday we [...]

It's finally quilted!

Sorry for the late posting, everyone.  I hope I didn’t worry anyone (besides Mom).  I had a rare opportunity this morning to quilt.  So instead of writing about it, I got busy!

This is what happened when I tried to photograph the quilt while the kids were still awake.

Yeah, it [...]