About 35 years ago I made this crazy quilt for Bruce.  It was made from scraps from all kinds of projects, mostly my nightgowns.  You can see them in the pictures.  I basted the large pieces on an old sheet, then put backing and batting together with the top and tied it with yarn.  It was made to be used, a Lot and it was.  A few weeks ago Bruce brought it to me to mend it.  I pulled out my tub of flannel pieces and started sewing big pieces over some places.  I realized the batting was impossible to smooth out - in the top two pictures  you can see, it is clumped together in places and the rest was just swiss cheese.  The flannel was in rags, and the pieces that still looked whole were so thin, they'd be rags soon.  So I bagged it, and started cutting squares of new flannel and made a new quilt.  It 's not quite as big as the first one, but it is bright and warm and Bruce can wrap up in it for years to come  and know that I love him.

 

August 2022, Baby Quilt for a Girl

My friend, Betty, has been a good friend over the years.  The best I can do for her is make quilts for her family.  Her daughter's daughter is expecting a baby girl any day now, so I made this quilt for the newest member of Betty's family.  It's one of my favorite patterns, a Half Square Triangle (HST's)  I  usually make wildly colorful quilts but wanted to do something different, pastel colors, low contrast.  I quilted it on my home machine, also my favorite - meander quilting.

 

 

July, 2022, Full size "Double Triangle"

A friend from New Jersey posts on my FB a lot.  She posted she is getting married.  I told her I love to make quilts and would like to make one for her.  She seemed very enthusiastic.,  I asked her for her favorite color and she said purple.  That is a very unusual favorite color and I was  surprised I had so much in my stash.  I had one huge piece of very deep purple, and I used all of it.  The other pieces are mostly for contrast, notice the two triangles of yellow and several pieces of the fabric with purple and pink lilacs.  I made the back, which has become my habit, of 12" squares of extra front fabric and/or matching fabric.  This back has some extra blocks, from the front.  Whew, this quilt is big and time consuming.

 

June 2022, Lap size and baby quilt

I found a small piece of fabric with cute little cartoon animals.  There was not enough fabric for a whole quilt to I fussy cut it and added complimentary color square to fill out the quilt.  Always love to make baby size quilts. 

This is the back of the quilt showing the separate squares I used to sew the batting and strips onto.

This quilt was made with strips of mostly blue fabric in the method of "string quilt" but without using foundation of paper or muslin fabric.  I cut a back fabric 8 1/2" and a batting square the same, then sewed the strips onto the batting, sew and flip method.   Then I had to join the squares with the white fabric.  It's nice to have the quilting done as t he rows go together, but still, lots of time spent.

June

 

May 2022, Double Wedding Ring repair/ Double 9 Patch, crib size

My friend at quilt guild had this double wedding ring quilt she said needed some repair.  I said I'd look at it, expecting it to be shredded.  Amazingly, the fabric was in pretty good shape.  Some of the seams had popped open and the batting was peeking out.  I blind stitched all that I could find closed.  The main problem was that the quilt had been tied and the ties were rubbed off, or worn away.  I spent most of my sewing time for 3 weeks retying the quilt.  I added ties to the white centers that had not been tied and the batting was bunching and shifting.  It is a huge quilt.

This quilt I made from my boxes of 1 1/2" squares.  I  used mainly blue/white and some yellow, for a boys quilt.  It will go to the charity "Project Linus" which gives quilts to sick children.  The backing was made specifically for Project Linus.  If you look closely, you will see Snoopy in uniform.  Cute!

 

March 2022, full size quilt "Double 9 patch"

 This quilt was made from the huge bag of fabrics that Tommy gave me a few weeks ago.  The last quilt I posted was made from the same bag.  Tommye had made several blocks for the "courthouse steps" quilt, and also several blocks for this one, "Double 9 patch".  Each piece measures 1 inch finished.  I usually don't do quilts with pieces this small but Tommye started it, I had to finish it.  Also, when I cut  up my scraps, I always end up with stacks of 1 1/2" squares, which means I have quite a few ready to use.  This quilt is big, used a lot of thread and time.  It is fun to sew up a quilt that requires no real thinking or planning.  I quilted it with simple straight lines, horizontal and vertical  - no fancy swirls and circles in this one.