Grandmother's Flower Garden

Isn’t she a beaut?  This is a Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt that I’m finishing for a customer.  It was hand pieced – and beautifully, I might add – by a family member of my customer way back when.  And when I say way back when, I mean – I have no idea when this [...]

Inspired

 

I wanted to share my recently inherited pillowcases with you.  Ok, the photos only show one, but the other pillowcase is identical.  I don’t know what I’ll do with these besides quilt the living snot out of them! :)  I can just see all the empty space being filled with an intricate quilted [...]

Mod prog

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 [...]

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 [...]

Anniversary photo quilt

I was hired to design and make an anniversary quilt for a couple marking their 50th wedding anniversary, which was in April, but they are celebrating it with a reception next month.

Can you tell I love stars?  It was strategic, there are 50 stars on this quilt, one for every year of wedded [...]

Preview

I thought I’d share a current project with you.  I’m not sure about it.  I like it, but I don’t know if I love it.  I’m leaving what I have on the design wall now so I can look at it with fresh eyes later.

I’m using a fall palette… out of step with the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Quilt update

Here’s a picture of the quilting I have done so far on this yet unnamed quilt.  I decided to quilt some freehand curlicues in the background of the appliqué blocks, it seemed fitting to the whimsical style of the quilt.  I will probably go back and quilt in the actual appliqué shapes, too.

I think [...]