2017 Wall Hanging "Statue of Liberty" Portal to America

The theme for this year's challenge quilt for the Museum of Moab was "Portals"  I was thinking of doing an interesting door, but started thinking of the Statue of Liberty definitely a portal to America.  Of course, Ellis Island was the definitive portal to America in the later 1800's, but the Statue is prettier.I was going to try and drape the material of the robe, but couldn't figure out how to do it, so I just appliques it flat, and painted the details on.  New York skyline in the back.

2017 One lap size for KIC, and 1 Baby size for church

I had made this top last year, but finally finished it to give to charity.  Jeremy Miller, a friend from NJ  posted of FB the need for quilts at a foster care home near his house in SLC I decided to finish it off and send it to him.  The pattern is just "+".  Plus.

This small baby quilt I will give for a newborn at church. I had cut out the strips for a class at quilt guild to show how to put together a quilt using the "strip piecing" method.  

March 2017, Two crib size quilts, both white, black and gray.

Vere's sister, Darlene has a daughter-in-law with a new baby boy.  She wanted her quilt all in black, white and grays.  I think she picked out the material herself.  Someone said it was brave to have so much white in a baby quilts, but I think she is planning to use it to drape around the nursery rather than wrap the baby in.

This second quilt is for Darlene's granddaughter's baby.  It's also mostly white, gray and black but one of the fabrics has a touch of blue in it.  I think she is also going to use it in the nursery as  part of the decor.  This pattern is mainly single Irish chain, but since the connecting square was so big and white, I added a small square in the middle.  It makes the Irish chain design not so obvious.

2017, March, Throw sized Red and White embroidery.

5 or 6  years ago, Sonya gave me a book of embroidery patterns, "Nature's Beauty in Redwork.  I've slowly been doing the embroidery, 30 squares of hand embroidery.  I wanted to have it finished to show in the quilt show our guild is having this weekend.  I just finished the hand sewing on the binding and the hanging sleeve on the back.  It isn't true to the traditional idea of a red and white quilt as I had this vision of putting the black/white patterned material on the back.  That's okay, makes it unique.

                   

2016 - 2017, Full Size and Twin size "Twirling Triangles"

 I've wanted to make this quilt for over 5  years and finally finished this month.  It's called "Twirling Triangles" from a magazine by Fons and Porter.  It's made from 1930's retro fabric, which I really love.  I had it professionally quilted.  A long arm machine would cost about as much as paying for 100 quilts done by a quilter.  And then I would have to practice, practice, practice until I could do it this well.

The back was made from some large pieces of the retro fabric and some plain blues.

 When I had finished cutting and sewing the "Twirling Triangles" quilt, I had a stack of long triangles left over.  I was not about to throw all that wonderful material away.  I sewed white to colored triangles, squared them up, which took a long tedious time, and was able to make this cute, smaller quilt.  I quilted it myself, just straight lines with invisible nylon thread.  The back was some I had on hand which goes perfectly with the front.

2016 One last page for Quiet Book

I had thought of making a page for potatoes because I had this burlap material.  I had forgotten to do it, until I saw on Tina's blog a picture of her little guy in the grocery shopping cart, hanging onto a huge potato.  So I made this bag, spelled potatoes wrong, but oh well, and the potatoes.  I showed a potato to Jill on Skype this morning.  She said it looked like a chocolate chip cookie.  But they're plump little potatoes to load into and out of the bag.

2016, two more pages of the Quiet Book

Next, the lion with huge floppy mane to play with.  Last page is a (sorta) mirror to look into and telling him to be happy.