New Grandchild Quilt
July 2008
Pattern: Designer Log Cabins, June Ryker
Quilters Newsletter Magazine Dec 1992
Machine Pieced, Hand Tied
This is the fifth quilt for a new grandchild made using this pattern. I use FAT batting for the filling so it can be used under the child. I rarely use blanket binding on a quilt, but the Finding Nemo binding just called out to be used with the border fabric. The design on the binding complimented the backing fabric with a rubber duckie design. The quilt is hand tied using 3 strands of embroidery floss.
The star of the show!
Four Seasons
1980’s
Wall Hanging: machine pieced, hand quilted
Pattern: Star’s over the Smokies
Adopted from: More Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel
Using the Flexi-curve technique, explained in the book, I made blocks for each season, with topical quilting motifs; (examples) pumpkin-fall, mittens-winter, ice cream cone-summer, tulip-spring, in the four corners of each block. The four squares have the same block pattern motif so when they were joined they create the diamonds and triangles. This makes it look like four suns that flow from one season into the next. The quilting on the light blue border is a continuous weave which ties the four blocks into one whole world as it were. The two oldest boys enjoyed this in their room for years, and it is now part of the kitchen wall rotation.
Stars and Scopes
2008
Bed Quilt: Machine pieced, hand quilted
Pattern: 6 triangle hexagon on a paper pieced hexagon back
Milky Way from Quilters Newsletter Magazine jan/feb 1998
This is the second quilt I have made using this block combo. I fussy cut the 6 kaleidoscope triangles and then sewed them into hexagon blocks. The Milky-way blocks were paper pieced. (When I first read about paper piecing I got the impression this was a good way to use up scrap material – not so!) The blocks were then machine joined together into a rough center piece rectangle. The rectangle was then hand appliqued to the border frame. The gold lame bias tape was then hand sewn around each block. Spider web hexagons were hand quilted onto the border frame. Each of the star blocks is outline quilted and the kaleidoscope blocks are quilted following the design on each block. It makes for a very spectacular bed display. My husband uses the first one of these as his bed quilt when he goes to run the kitchen at summer camp for the Girl Scouts on Cape Cod each year.
