I've been very busy. My quilts quilted on the Tin Lizzie now number sixty-one! 11 of those were included in my Christmas gifting!
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| 1st gift quilt is and ABC quilt for granddaughter Serenity. I quilted the letters of the alphabet in the blocks adjoining pictures depicting things that start with each letter. |
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| The backing is a pretty floral from the stash. |
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Next up is a quilt for my sister, Mary.
This is made from winning of the September 2011 block lotto. Batik Curvy Rail blocks. Quilted in an all-over freehand design I'm calling "Sun Swirl Meander " |
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| Back of Mary's quilt also from the stash. |
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Next a quillow for Mimi.
I used liberated astar block which I also won in the block lotto. These have been aging for over a year. Bright green sashings of different sizes horizontally and vertically and rectangular red cornerstones finished by a fun border fabric and red binding. |
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| The quilting shows really well on the dark green corduroy backing. I quilted a freehand ribbon-flower meander. the pillow panel is made fro a cotton velour. A very comfy-cozy quillow. Mimi loves it! |
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| A quillow for Katy. WHen she told me she wanted a new quillow I decided I could find blocks in the UFO stash that would work. First I found 15 Swapper's Star blocks that I swapped several years ago. Not enough for a quilt top, but if I made 2 more and did alternate blocks..hmmm...could work. Then I found a bag of forgotten swapped 9-patch blocks in the same size as the stars. Surely from the 100 or so 9-patches I could find 18 that would work with the stars. I think I did! Floral border (aqnd backing) from the extensive floral stash at the guest house. This quilt came together in just a few days. I quilted with a funky feather meander allover design. |
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| Here it is folded into a pillow. I used another 9 patch and border fabric to make the pillow panel. |
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| Next I quilted six quilt tops Mom had made to be donated to a veteran's center. I only took picture of 5 of them. This one is outline quilted on the appliqued picture, meandered in the background and a simply feather type border. |
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| This one has star centered fan quilting. |
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| Outlined the Eagles and ribbon candy in the border. |
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| Outlined the flag and the rest is allover paisley echo freehand. |
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| Back of the above. |
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| Back of the following. The quilting really shows up well on this. I did a fairly detailed outlining of the center panel, a swirl centered fan freehand, and a simple feather border. |
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Front of the above.
I also quilted one more for Mom, but failed to take a picture. |
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| Last quilt is Johnny's. I asked him his favorite color: green. Found a large piece of green I thought he would like in the stash and used it for backing, binding, and the main diagonal of Scrappy Trips Blocks from Bonnie Hunter's website. |
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| I quilted with a freehand swirl centered fan design. i love the texture fan quilting gives to a quilt. |
In addition to the quilts I made 4 scarves, 3 skirts, 2 aprons (cooking and woodworking) , a fabric journal cover, a pair of pajamas and an apple crumb pie...No pictures of any of those...
