SNOWMAN 4 PATCH (quilt top)

Piano key border

NEW !!!!! SNOWMAN 4 PATCH quilt top! Fabric: quality cottons that include prints, and solids.

Size is 58" x 74".

The scraps are 4" blocks sewn into a block and alternated with the snowman fabric.

Can be quilted as is, or add a border to make it larger. It has a narrow snowman fabric border, and then a scrap "piano key" border, but another border might make it the right size for your needs.

Once quilted can be machine washed gentle. I am an expert seamstress - the piecing of this top is quality, and I use a scant over 1/4" seams. I made this top in 2000 because I just thought the snowman fabric was too cute and I wanted to make a fun Christmas quilt just to do it .

 It has been stored hanging on a hanger in closet of kid/pet/smoke free home. I am downsizing and would like all the extra projects to find new homes for themselves to go to.

For sale on Etsy - see here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/IndianaQuilter40

Reverse side of quilt top

4 PATCH & BUTTONS (quilt top)

Four Patch Quilts are so much fun to make.  The fabric can be all thought out and coordinated, or scraps with alternate blocks of a solid fabric.....there is no end to what creativity can do with this pattern.

4 PATCH & BUTTONS quilt top!

Fabric: quality cottons that include prints, and solids.

 Size is 64" x 80". Can be quilted as is, or add a border(s) to make it larger. It has been stored hanging on a hanger in closet of kid/pet/smoke free home.

I am an expert seamstress - the piecing of this top is quality, and I use a scant over 1/4" seams. I made this top in 1996 because I just thought the blue and pink button fabric was too cute and I wanted to try making a simple 4 patch quilt.

Since this one, I have made several other 4 patch of quilts and find it a simple, fun, and quick quilt to make. 

This top is for sale on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/626065285/4-patch-buttons-quilt-top?ref=shop_home_active_4&frs=1

FLAGS & TEDDY BEARS QUILT TOP

FLAGS & TEDDY BEARS quilt top!

 Fabric: quality cottons that include prints, and solids.

 Size is 108" x 80". Can be quilted as is, or add a border to make it larger.

I am an expert seamstress - the piecing of this top is quality, and I use a scant over 1/4" seams. I made this top because I just thought the patriotic teddy bear fabric was too cute and I wanted to try out an idea I had for a "flag" quilt.

I machine pieced it in 2000.

FARMALL QUILT (started life as a fabric panel)

The center of this lap quilt is a farm panel that I saw and just knew I had to make a quilt for my brother-in-law.  I brought it home and it sat for a couple years as I collected fabrics that would appeal to a Farmall collector.  Had to be careful not to get John Deere fabric (he would use words that cannot be posted here).

Pieced it in spring of 2018 by adding coordinating fabrics around the center panel in various widths - looks complicated, but is really easy to do.

Size: lap

My brother-in-law collects anything and everything Farmall. Maybe it comes from growing up on a dairy farm. Anyway, he turns 40+ next month and I made him this quilt with a farm and Farmall theme. It was actually fun. The brown border is a toile fabric that is Farmall tractors (who knew that toile came in that subject??) that I bought in Paducah while at the national quilt show. It is cotton fabric and poly batting. The back is red (like Farmall tractors)pieced with a fishing fabric I had (he likes to fish too) and the quilting thread is also red - sticking with the red theme. Machine quilted by RLM. Self bound (in other words the front is folded over on the front to make the binding).

HARVEST TIME TABLE RUNNER

NEW !!!!! HARVEST TIME table runner. I made this during 2016-17 just because I wanted to see how these fabrics looked together. Log cabin blocks. The fabrics in log cabin blocks include homespuns, batiks, and prints. The backing is a candy corn fabric. Lightly machine quilted. Binding is hand finished. Size is 16" x 48". Materials: Cotton fabric and batting. Machine wash gentle. Has a tag on back with title, dates of project, and my initials.

LOG CABIN QUILT TOP

LOG CABIN QUILT TOP. Fabric: quality cottons that include prints, solids, and batik. "Logs" are purple and green with light yellow centers. Size is 84" square, could be quilted as is, or a border added first. Pieced 2013-14 in Maine and Indiana. I made this top for my adult daughter who did not like it due to the color tones, so this one needed to go to a new home. Sold.

MINNIE MOUSE

Update in Oct. 2018: The quilt was finally machine quilted and self bound (a fabric folded over the front and stitched down).  The grand-daughter is very happy with the completed project and it went home that day and is currently on her bed.  It is not intended to be a keep sake, just a nice snuggle quilt to be used and enjoyed.  When she is bigger, we will make a quilt to keep and not use as hard.

May 18, 2018:

My 3 year old grand-daughter was all excited about the Minnie Mouse fabric we saw at a store while actually looking for some other fabric (I guess we are easily distracted). The main colors were bright pink and black. So I bought enough fabric for a jumper and a snuggle quilt. Once we got back, she helped me wash and dry the fabric. Her mom made the jumper, which excited the grand-daughter and she of course wanted to wear right now. The snuggle quilt took a little longer to get together. It is 64" x 70" and was machine quilted by RLM over the summer of 2018.

She was playing with her doll as I finished sewing her snuggle top together. We laid it out on the floor and looked at it. She laid her doll on it and started to wrap it up. So needless to say, we used the scraps to make her baby a quilt too. I simply cut strips 2" wide and sewed them directly down to pink fleece. The finished doll quilt is 24" x 29, very soft, and very washable.