Sunday, August 28, 2011
TUMBLER (handquilted)
TUMBLER: I pieced this one in 1995 while living in Montana. It was hand quilted during 1998 and 1999 by MM, HD, CB, JN, KD, and myself over several quilting bees. MG machine quilted the outside border in mid 1999. Each tumbler is hand quilted in whatever design the person doing the quilting wanted to do. It is made of green, gray, black and purple tumblers of cotton fabric. It won a blue ribbon at the local fair in 2000. Finished size was 86" x 98". In Oct. 2003 I donated it to a local quilt guild to a needy family.
VETERANS QUILTS
VETERANS QUILTS: We made these 6 quilts out of donated supplies and time. They were donated thru the local quilt guild to be given out at Andrews AFB by the Quilts for Wounded Soldiers. Pictures were taken 3/4/2009. If a person really wants to help the vets, there are many ways to be a help and encouragement.
ONE PATCH
ONE PATCH: I was drowning is scraps and made this quilt to help with the situation.I pieced it in 2002.
Twin size and machine quilted by RLM in Jan. of 2003. Later it was donated to a local charity. (#333)
Twin size and machine quilted by RLM in Jan. of 2003. Later it was donated to a local charity. (#333)
SCRAP TRIANGLES
SCRAP TRIANGLES: I pieced this one from 1988 - July 1990, and tied it in 1992. The pattern was from Quilter's Newsletter Magazine. This quilt is a landmark for me because while I was finishing the piecing of it I purchased a rotary cutter - wow, the fast cutting was addictive. The finished size was 70" square. My quilts are in constant use, however, they are used and washed gently, so the quilt still looked very good in 2002 when I gave it to a local family that had a need.(#106)
NEON ROMAN STRIPE
NEON ROMAN STRIPE: I pieced and tied this twin size quilt for a close family member in 1991 as a Christmas gift. He likes to ski and wanted a quilt so bright he would need sunglasses to look at it. Twin size. (#96)
TEN REASONS TO QUILT
This was given to me years ago as a joke and I still think it is cute. I have no idea where it orginally came from.
FAN QUILT (or a blue and white scrap quilt)
FAN QUILT:
I wanted to make a fancy quilt for my sister when she married in the fall of 1988. I love the way fan quilts look, but was not sure about the curved parts. So I just decided to push myself and do the quilt.
After all, I was still reasonably new at making bed size quilts at that point, and part of me said this pattern was way over my skill level and part of me said I needed to push myself. I knew if I wanted to get better at quilting I needed to challenge myself.
So I sorted my scraps to make the fan blades. My scrap bin wasn't very big at this point so I ended up adding purchased blues to the pile of cut pieces. The white was bleached muslin.
The pattern probably came from "Quilt" Magazine as that was the only quilting magazine I could get while living in Germany. I would have made many cardboard templates to cut all these pieces (they wear out fast and have to be constantly replaced to have accurate pieces).
My notes do not say the fan block size, but it would have finished at about 8" in order for the quilt to be double size. There was no outside border.
I wasn't doing hand quilting on bed size quilts at this point, so I tied it with white yarn. The backing was a white flat sheet.
While the fan blades were fun to piece, I sure did not enjoy doing the curved edges of the fan.
My fourth finished quilt !!!
I wanted to make a fancy quilt for my sister when she married in the fall of 1988. I love the way fan quilts look, but was not sure about the curved parts. So I just decided to push myself and do the quilt.
After all, I was still reasonably new at making bed size quilts at that point, and part of me said this pattern was way over my skill level and part of me said I needed to push myself. I knew if I wanted to get better at quilting I needed to challenge myself.
So I sorted my scraps to make the fan blades. My scrap bin wasn't very big at this point so I ended up adding purchased blues to the pile of cut pieces. The white was bleached muslin.
The pattern probably came from "Quilt" Magazine as that was the only quilting magazine I could get while living in Germany. I would have made many cardboard templates to cut all these pieces (they wear out fast and have to be constantly replaced to have accurate pieces).
My notes do not say the fan block size, but it would have finished at about 8" in order for the quilt to be double size. There was no outside border.
I wasn't doing hand quilting on bed size quilts at this point, so I tied it with white yarn. The backing was a white flat sheet.
While the fan blades were fun to piece, I sure did not enjoy doing the curved edges of the fan.
My fourth finished quilt !!!
FIRST QUILT - ONE PATCH
ONE PATCH: This was the very first quilt I made by myself. It was a big twin size and the top was made in the summer of 1980 (using my mom's old White sewing machine) as a teenager living in Forsyth, MT. I used scissors and a pattern cut from cardboard (probably a cereal box). The pattern wore out fast and I had to use several to get enough cut squares to complete the top. Some of the blocks were not 4" square which taught me a lot about cutting accurately and how to piece carefully. The top is fabric that I purchased at garage sales as clothing that was still in good condition. There is a mix of cotton and poly/cotton. I tied it with white yarn that fall while living in Laurel, MT.
It never did get a binding - at first because I didn't know how, and later because I had moved on to other projects. The batting was some old blanket my mom allowed me to use. The backing was a purple floral flannel my mom had on hand.
It was in use until 1994 and by then was in such ratty condition I threw it away. Without a binding the edges were seriously frayed. Plus I washed it frequently and many of the fabrics had ripped and frayed (#1).
It never did get a binding - at first because I didn't know how, and later because I had moved on to other projects. The batting was some old blanket my mom allowed me to use. The backing was a purple floral flannel my mom had on hand.
It was in use until 1994 and by then was in such ratty condition I threw it away. Without a binding the edges were seriously frayed. Plus I washed it frequently and many of the fabrics had ripped and frayed (#1).
Friday, August 26, 2011
IRISH CHAIN (Handquilted)
IRISH CHAIN (Handquilted):
I pieced this quilt from various blue cotton scraps and a red linen in early 2008. The blue squares are 2.5". I really did use scraps so pieced all the 9 patch blocks and then added the alternate red (linen) blocks to make the "chain".
It had been years since I hand quilted a cotton batting so I wanted to try it again. A huge mistake in Indiana as the humidity makes the cotton stick to the needle and it just drags and is very hard to quilt. I don't want or need sore fingers.
Because of how hard it was to hand quilt, it was in and out of my frame many times. I was so unhappy with the batting and so got a customer quilt or some other of my own with wool batting to put in the frame instead for awhile.
Yes, I am spoiled by the ease of quilting with a wool batting. I finally put the last hand quilted stitch in during July 2011.
By the time I got to the outside border to quilt, I was just sick of the quilt so that was machine quilted by RLM in August 2011 - wow, the quilt was completely quilted !!!
I just got the binding done. I would love to be outside in my flower garden, but it is so humid that I can't breathe, so I put in an old movie and the binding is done - yippee !!!!!
The backing is a cotton in red, white, and blue.
The finished size is 80" x 80".
In my quilt scrapbook, this is #770.
I pieced this quilt from various blue cotton scraps and a red linen in early 2008. The blue squares are 2.5". I really did use scraps so pieced all the 9 patch blocks and then added the alternate red (linen) blocks to make the "chain".
It had been years since I hand quilted a cotton batting so I wanted to try it again. A huge mistake in Indiana as the humidity makes the cotton stick to the needle and it just drags and is very hard to quilt. I don't want or need sore fingers.
Because of how hard it was to hand quilt, it was in and out of my frame many times. I was so unhappy with the batting and so got a customer quilt or some other of my own with wool batting to put in the frame instead for awhile.
Yes, I am spoiled by the ease of quilting with a wool batting. I finally put the last hand quilted stitch in during July 2011.
By the time I got to the outside border to quilt, I was just sick of the quilt so that was machine quilted by RLM in August 2011 - wow, the quilt was completely quilted !!!
I just got the binding done. I would love to be outside in my flower garden, but it is so humid that I can't breathe, so I put in an old movie and the binding is done - yippee !!!!!
The backing is a cotton in red, white, and blue.
The finished size is 80" x 80".
Update 03/28/2020:
Here are some better photos. It is a beautiful quilt, even with the nasty cotton batting.
NINE PATCH VARIATION DOLL QUILT (Handquilted)
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