November 2020, Twin Size, "Two Triangles"

This is a pattern I'm so glad I found, I love putting random fabrics together, though this pattern would also work well with coordinated fabrics in a pattern.  I put closeups of some of the fabric pieces to show off some of the really fun materials.  I used mostly blues but there is also lavender, light green and yellow to add interest.  Each block is made with two triangles joined by a strip of white - thus "Two Triangles.  This quilt is for my little grandson who is getting bigger.

 

October 2020, Full Size "String quilt"

I've made several quilts using the strips.,  It takes awhile to accumulate enough strips of fabric left from other projects.  Sometimes I try to match colors a bit, making a quilt for a boy with blues or a girl with mostly pinkish strips.   This one is just random.,  The back I put together with squares of plaid.  I've decided I like to make the back with even squares, usually 11 inches instead of putting  pieces together like a jigsaw puzzle. Looking back, I saw another string quilt made from the same batch of strips - this is definitely a different one.   I showed this to Jill and she showed me her quilt I sent a while ago.  They've been using it to wrap up in on a cold winter night, for watching TV.  It's getting a little ragged.  So this one is for the Baldassanos.  

 

2020 Museum Challenge Wall Hanging - "Hexies"

I've talked about this before.  The guild members are challenged to make a smaller quilt for the town Museum.  The display for the quilts is up usually all of May and June.  It is always a popular display with residents and tourists.  This year the museum was closed because of the (dreaded) Corona Virus.  We'll hopefully use these quilts next year when it's open.  This year's challenge was to make anything you wanted with the size 12" x 48".  I used the opportunity to make a "hexie" quilt.  You form a small piece of fabric around a hexagon paper pattern, basting it on and then hand stitching to the next hexie.  It's called "English Paper Piecing" and it's lots of fun but very time consuming.  I appliqued the edge to a strip of black fabric and hand quilted it.

 

2020 Full Size String quilt

I had a box full of strips of plaid fabric.  To make String quilts, you sew onto a foundation of either light weight fabric or paper.  I sewed these strips to 6 1/'2" fabric, then squared them up to 6 1/2".  When the foundation is fabric I usually don't add batting in the middle.  It makes a light weight quilt handy for storing in the car for picnics, or emergencies.  The back is more of my plaid fabric in plain squares.

 

2020, Small Twin Size - My Colorful Quilt and Lap Size HST

My friend, Leslie, gave me a box of quilt books, and a box full of fabric she was given by her guild friends.  In the box was lots of wonderful fabric, including 10 blocks for this quilt.  It must have been a monthly challenge, there were printed patterns for the blocks.  I made two more blocks - the one on the left, a red and blue basket, and the one on the bottom in the middle.  I couldn't see how I could machine quilt it with all the different patterns, so I hand quilted it.  I use all my sitting and watching tv time for 3 weeks to get the quilting done.  I love hand quilting, but it's too time consuming to do it often.

When I was finished with the top quilt I had all this wonderful fabric left.  No way could I put it away so I made this quilt.  I love making HST's (half square triangles)  I made squares until I used up the fabric.  Rather than put the squares together randomly, I grouped like squares together.  I Really love this quilt.

 

2020, Baby Size

At the quilt guild Christmas party, someone gave me a packet of 5"squares.  I added some of my fabric and made this quilt for a baby.  I really like it for some reason, it's unusual.  The bottom picture is the back I made for it from my stash.  I think it matches so well.

 

2020 Log cabin and pillows

My friend, Georgia, gave me a bunch of fabric with the UFO's (unfinished objects) that were started by her mother.  This orange quilt, lap sized, had 4 blocks made and I made 12 more to make the quilt.  I drafted the sizes of the pieces to make the blocks and so I could make the block again.  I decided I really enjoy making this block.  I made up the back from the left over fabric.

I also found these parts of pillows, started but not finished.  I machine quilted the blue one, fun.  The other two tops were already quilted, I'm making pillow forms for them and finishing the pillows to give back to Georgia.

 

July 2020 Full size "Pastel Tumblers"

Many years ago I couldn't resist and  picked up this fabric that had been at an estate sale, and then given to the Senior Center where we have our quilt guild meeting.  The material is so pretty, and I waited for just the right pattern to show if off.  This Tumbler pattern seemed just right.  I really like the way the straight line quilting shows it off.  A quilt like this is too big for lots of free motion fancy stuff on my small machine.  

Also, at

 another estate sale, I found this wonderful pale pink toile to use for the back.  There is enough left to use on several more quilts.  Sometimes it's worth going to estate sales even though I tell myself to stay away, and don't buy any more fabric.  If you think I have a lot of fabric you would have been amazed at the fabric this woman had.  And it had been offered for sale 4 days before I got there.

May 2020 4 "Wrap-a-Smile quilts and 1 Pink Flannel

Many, many years ago I had in mind a quilt from 4 square block, cut into circles, then the circles folded over to create a smaller 4 square on the back with oval shapes in front around a white center.  I hope you can get the picture.  It works out to be like a "Cathedral Window".  Anyway, I had stacks of these squares thinking I'd make this quilt.  I got an email from this charity "Wrap-A-Smile suggesting quilts to honor their founder whose first name starts with T.  I had enough squares to make these 4 quilts.  Can you see the big yellow "T" in two of them.  The other two I made some special squares with "T" in them.  They are about 40" by 60" made to wrap around patients who have had facial repair surgery in 3rd world countries.  

This is another pink flannel quilt like one I did earlier, from fabric my friend Leslie gave me.  It's crib size and I don't know who will end up with it.  the backing is this darling  pink flowers.

April 2020 Blue Lap Size, and Pink Crib size

This blue sampler I started about 8 y ears ago.  Each block was going to be different but I decided to make each Row different using different fabric in each block - except the middle row which has 5 different blocks.  You can't see it closely, thankfully, but most of the points are clipped off.  Instead of struggling to make the points perfect, I decided to leave it as is and name the quilt "Beside the Point".

 The pink one is crib size, the front made from flannel squares.  The back is this cute pink fabric I found.  Yummy quilt.

March 2020, Two Crib size quilts for charity

A couple weeks ago, my friend who lives up north came to visit and gave me some fabric and quilt books.  This was a bunch of pink flannel, so pretty.  There was enough of this to make the two crib size quilts.  I haven't quilted them yet obviously.  I love quilts like this, easy and very pretty, such yummy fabric. The bottom fabric is some I found in the sewing room at the Senior Center that I can use for the back.

January 2020, one quilt for charity, one for a friend.

 This quilt is a lap sized, another one made by our guild member who lives half the year here, and the other half in Alaska.  I have another one, very similar to quilt and finish, both for charity.

This quilt, a Dresden Plate, is full sized, I made for my friend.  It's totally scrappy, every pretty fabric in my cupboard.   I did the quilting, as shown on the back.  Not the most beautiful quilting, but I'm still learning.  It was time consuming, but fun.  

January 2020 Two wildly colorful quilts

These two quilts look almost the same, but one is a bit bigger then the other.  They were stitched by the guilt member who lives half her time here and half in Alaska.  I quilted them and they are ready for charities.

2020, January, one lap size, and two baby quilts

 This is one of the tops made by the quilt guild member who divides her time between Alaska and Moab.  She made the top with zig zag material.  I had the brown material that has all the colors in it from the top so that was my choice for the back.  I'm not sure, but it's done now.

The accumulation of 2 1/'2" squares just takes over the box, and I just have to make the 9 patch squares in to the single Irish chains baby quilts.  This is the last of this years baby quilts.  I made a pieced back for both quilts which I think is really very pretty.  I did the quilting on my machine using the "meander", which I really like.