teaching

I taught two of my friends the basics of quilting. And they started out with hand piecing. I did! and it was a great learning tool. The larger quilt was made by Pam, the smaller one by Joanne. The borders and sashing is by rotary cutter and sewing machine. I'm not that heartless!

Alley Cat Angels

My backdoor neighbor is Alley Cat Angels. They capture feral cats, take them to Angels of Assisi in Roanoke where they are spayed/neutered and rabies shot. They survive on donations. The first quilt I gave them they said it helped many many cats! Their second one is at my LAQ in Oklahoma, so here is their third one. I won these cats from a Block of the Month drawing on my yahoo group justquilting.

The Delicacy and Strength of Blue

I finished this quilt last night also. It just needed the final border. It is for my son's girlfriend Lena. She is such a sweetheart. We really like her. And thank goodness she is didn't mind the state of my house the first visit since I was elbow deep in quilting. LOL I showed it to her today, her bday is in June, but I might not have it back in time since I have 2 rush jobs ahead of that. So we are shooting for August

Boy Scouts of America

Here is a quilt that my friend help me finish last night. Thank you Joanne! It measures 80" square. I designed the layout. Her husband Ron helped with the final placement of the framed boyscouts.

and more

I started the blue one about 10 years ago. Can you believe that!? And I didn't misplace the pattern or the fabrics is what impresses me. I had the applique finished, just needed to make those HST (half square triangles)

The other quilt believe it or not, a tablerunner. The star block and the framed flying geese go the two ends of a tablerunner. When I was working on it, I thought, this would be a great quilt. So I drafted away and was pleased with the results.

eye candy keeps on coming

Well! The photos still don't post in order. So I will persavere.

The vibrant one is blocks I won from a Challenge Fabric contest. I made the Maple Star-left side, 3rd block down if I remember correctly. I call this "When Pigs Dance" (I will win! LOL, and Salliejean made the dancing pig)

The other quilt is my Hotair Balloon. My friend PatL send me 3 fat quarters of fabric, a yellow, a tealish, zigzag balloon. I found the hotair balloon fabric at Walmart, took all the fabrics and a graft paper (grid paper) to my friend Trink who was in the hospital and said "Please design something for me." and she did! The pattern is called Disappearing Nine Patch. Very easy to make, very easy to misrotate the cut blocks. LOL.

more quilts

These two were pieced before I left for my retreat. One is I Spy a Farm. I won 38 blocks ranging from 3" to 16" square. It was planning the layout. It went together really easy believe it or not. I measured all blocks, drew the size on graft paper with size and name, then transferred them to a large sheet of graft paper-taped together.

The second photo is "My Daddy's Maple Leaves". When my dad died October 2005 my Justquilting friends sent me 6.5" Maple Leaves in memory of him, I received 16 leaves. The center leaf I made March 2004-it was with Challenge Fabric contest we do on JQ, but I never sent it in. I designed this a few weekends ago and put it together.