Photos and histories of quilts I made in 2020
I started the year by making a Christmas quilt, but I can't find any
pictures of it. I made the same quilt again later, so hopefully I have
pictures of it then.
This quilt sold at EMQS 2022.
"Swoon" is a pattern by Thimbleberries that I LOVE. I
made one in 2018,
made this one
in February 2020, and another in March 2020. This pattern is like a
gift that keeps on
giving. In this one, I made the contrast between the two light
fabrics minimal on purpose
in order to make the dark blue stars "pop". It
worked!
I used vintage sheets I found at an estate sale for the light fabrics
and a cuddle blanket
as the backing. I tell you what, this quilt had a wonderful
feel. I came about hair's breadth
from keeping it for myself. It felt like an heirloom from the first
day I made it.
However, someone from Opelika, AL bought it from my Etsy shop and now I'm very glad.
This is the beautiful message he sent to me,
"For many years I used a blue patchwork quilt my
great-grandmother made me but sadly
it is now falling apart. I have retired it and now I am using the quilt
you made and it makes
me very happy that you made it with care and love just like my Mamaw made
her quilts."
This is the first bed-sized quilt that I've used a quilting innovation
that I've never seen
anyone else doing. I quilt it without the back, then add the backing
on at the end,
tacking it down with some stitch-in-the-ditch quilting. It worked
great here.
This cuddly fur backing was the bomb!
Lots of pictures because I worked hard on this.
Sold via Etsy to a man from Wausau, WI.
I made two versions of that quilt in shades of teal on a white background. Here I decided to try my hand at
a dark and dramatic version.
used for the quilt I finished last month, and this is the third quilt I've made using Angela Waters'
"Modern X" pattern.
See - Modern X Squared, January 2019 and Modern X Squared Again in July 2019.
That was small for my taste, so I pieced two of them, then split the second one
into fourths. I set the original design on point, then stuck one quarter of the second
one onto each corner. It makes a large queen sized quilt and a lovely design.
I also did these little starburst things in the 16-patch blocks.
I did an innovative (I think) binding on this
quilt. At least, I've never seen anyone else
do a binding this way. I usually bring the
backing around to the front as binding.
However, on this quilt I did not want the
pattern from the backing to interfere with
the design of the quilt. So I took the front
of the quilt and brought it around to the
back for the binding. It worked great!
This is one you just have to see to truly appreciate. The white
fabric is a beautiful,
metallic, shiny style and absolutely sparkles in the light. It is
wonderful fabric but
it doesn't photograph worth a hoot.
and it is also the shiniest fabric I've worked with. I love it.
wanted to make and the quilting part takes me forever, so I bit the bullet. She did a great job.
The thread is silver and makes the back almost as pretty as the front.
Sold via Etsy to my sweet friend and high school classmate who then lived in Fort Gibson, OK.
I've made the Swoon pattern SO many times, but I think this was my favorite color combo.
Sold at EMQS 2020 to my MIL Rose for niece Hanna. She loved the snuggly Sherpa fabric.
Playing around with a double-star design I saw in a magazine, and decided
to turn my test block
into a small quilt. I backed it with super plush Sherpa and brought a bunch of
it around to the front.
Sold via the Senior Center.
I found this gold print fabric at an Estate sale in OKC and decided to
blend it with purple and gold.
To me, it looked really regal, like a quilt for royalty. I backed it
with a blanket and it came out HEAVY.
53. Yankee Doodle #2
Donated to Quilts for Heroes at EMQS 2020.
The first time I made this pattern I gifted that quilt to our dear
neighbor, Dick Cain.
I decided to make it again to donate to our worthy QFH program in
Eureka.
Purchased by my MIL Rose for my uncle Tim.
You can't buy it anymore, or else all my quilts would have metallic sparkle in them!
The pattern was called, "On a Whim" and for some reason, it wasn't as easy as it looks.
If I remember correctly, I quilted it by quilting it "upside down" and following the lines on the backing fabric.
This sold at EMQS 2020. It doesn't get a number because I didn't piece it, I just quilted it.
I found several old quilt tops at an Estate sale in OKC and finished them. That was HARD!
None of them were square or particularly well-made. I was happy to give them a chance
to be used instead of growing old as abandoned quilt tops in a cabinet somewhere.
This creative quilting method was a decorative stitch on my domestic
machine, necessary because it wouldn't lay flat
enough to quilt it any other way.
Sold via Etsy to the same lady who had bought the pink version of this pattern I made earlier!
Yes, here I am again with the sparkly fabric. That stuff was magic.
I'm never able to capture the sparkle it had in real life.
You can almost see the sheen of the sparkle here, especially at the far right.
They just happened to both come out at busy times when I was rushing to
get ready for a show.
56. Rivers of Roses
Sold via Etsy to a customer from Mentor, OH.
I was SO in love with her "Rivers of Roses" fabric line that I bought nearly a whole bolt of it.
I made table toppers which turned out lovely. Then I wanted to make a
quilt, but I didn't want to cut up that
beautiful fabric. This was my idea for doing that.
This was a donation quilt I made for the Flathead Quilt Guild, but I didn't get any pictures of it.
58 & 59. Native Twin Quilts
quilts for the twins she was expecting at the time. She gave me the
color pallet and pattern and I got to choose the color placement.
Sold at the Senior Center.
so it was fun to try it out on a small scale.
Once I added the fleece backing, I thought it was a wonderful little girl's quilt.
Sold via Etsy to a lady in Dilworth, MN.
kind of quilting, paper-piecing.
There is a famous pattern designer in Kalispell named Judy Niemeyer who
makes
beautiful patterns that are well-known for being difficult. Some
people call them
"Judy Nightmare" patterns, but that's a quilter joke!
However, I do believe this, my first of hers, will also be my last.
