Merry Christmas Christa and Joe

"Beach in a Bag"

Been Collecting Pinks

I'm donating one of these for our guild’s silent auction next fall.

Just Because II

I don’t have the patience or eye hand coordination for hand work anymore, hence the cop out on appliquéing by machine with nylon see through thread. Hey, it works, it’s fast. Never mind that it really plays havoc with my machine’s tension.

Just Because

It Does Seem that I am

Joined at the hip to joinedatthehip designs, because here is another one.

Joined at the Hip

It Takes a Village

Which is why I voted for Obama over Hillary.

This was done with that handy dandy new technique I picked up at one of our guild meetings. Paper Piecing with freezer paper and an iron. Rather than sewing through the paper and distorting your stitches when you pull them out, just fold freezer paper back and sew near the fold. Works like a charm, but I still think all paper piecing is a pain the you know where.

The Diane Gaudynski Class that Never Was

I had signed up to take a class on machine quilting with Diane Gaudynski (See Quilters can be name droppers too!). She cancelled due to illness, so what to do with the little sample requirement that I made up to use in class? Throw some embroidery on it and make it into a pillow. (another cop out- notice the machine quilting is just boring meandering. Hey, it's not my fault. If I'd taken that class you would see near trapunto like feathers and curves.)

More scrap quilts

More Scarves

What To Do With the Triangles

What to do with the triangles removed from the snowball block of an oriental quilt

Preserving 64 Year Old Doilies

Learned to Rotary Cut in '03

Believe it or not this king size quilt is the result of learning how to rotary cut in 2003, and then being too afraid to do anything with all the strips I cut out. Then in the summer of 2007 in anticipation of company from Australia I pulled out all of the strips I had so carefully hung from hangers by safety pins and made this quilt to spruce up the guest room.

Sale on Brown an Beige Fat Quarters

I had collected neutral fat quarters to mount a doily remnant my grandmother had made for my mother's hope chest. Sixty four years later the doilies had to be mounted to be preserved. I over bought on the brown hence this twin size quilt was born.

Mystery Quilt #2

This monstrosity is again the result of adding on to a mystery quilt so I could use it as a table cloth or twin bedspread. I didn’t like it well enough to hang.

Log Cabin Variation

Twin size

First Mystery Quilt

This pattern I actually liked completed, but I used JoAnne fabric of lesser quality for most of it, and therefore, after all that work it seems a bit flimsy. Then again if one ever made the perfect quilt there would be no need to continue making them, and what fun would that be?

This one is also twin size

King Size of oriental prints

I saw this pattern in a magazine, and then as always used EQ to tweak the size of the blocks. I over bought on the Oriental fabric at a Peoria Quilt show. The vendors would only sell by the yard rather than the quarter yard hence the abundance of projects with oriental scraps in the other posts.

Spring 2008

Beware Posts Will never be in Chronological Order

Work mailbox stuffers (ipod holders filled with chocolate) and

another pattern from Joinedatthehip.com for door hangings

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Button Pumpkins with Placemats

I just finished 8 place mats and four fall door hangings. The pattern for the door quilts was adapted from one I purchased from Joinedatthehip.

Hand Quilting project turned Machine out of Frustration

Still using Oreintal leftovers 29.5" X 29.5"

It Would Have Been Easier to Paper Piece

20.5" X 21.5"

Okay so Appliqué is not my forte

Mark Twain's Boyhood Home

21.25" x 25.5"

Leftovers from Table Runner Run Amuck

29" x 55.5"

NYC Marathon 2006 Quilt

Using Printed Treasures for photo transfer, I scanned in memorabilia from the 2006 NYC Marathon and built a “log cabin” around them. I never did get a picture of it completed with all the quilting. I believe it is now in the trunk of my son's car somewhere in Connecticut.

Baby Shower Gifts

Why Not Pillows

Table Runner Run Amuck

My first attempt at machine quilting.

31.5" x 59"

Japanese Kimono Quilt

This shadow quilt was an attempt to use up more of my Orientals.

45"x 46"

Little Pitchers have Big Ears

52.5" x 15"

A way to frame my mom's milk pitcher collection with one of her favorite sayings.

Asparaqus and Pepto Bismol

This was my third “Inspector Clue-sew “quilt. So, in my defense I had no idea what it would look like when finished. Actually I take that back, if I would have known the outcome at the onset , I never would have made the quilt. Of course I always have to add extra borders so that it can be used on a bed or table because I don't like it well enough to use as a wall hanging. It looks better in the picture than in real life hence the full title:

Asparagus and Pepto Bismol Thrown up in Geometric Chunks.