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I love to knit, read, and quilt. I enjoy spending time with my sons every day.

Monday, November 30, 2015

Lone Dresden Hexie

This quilt was designed and made for the QuiltCon Michael Miller Fabric Challenge. It measures 19 by 22. I have dreams of making a much larger quilt using this same Dresden Hexie design (I may or may not already have 2 others started).

Monday, November 23, 2015

Army Jacob's Ladder

This mini quilt was actually supposed to be a block in a large quilt with random Jacob's Ladder blocks, but when I plan quilts that don't have a purpose I try to make the sizes that Primary Children's Hospital needs. Then after I had my blocks together, I realized I couldn't donate it if it had army trucks on it. So it became a doll quilt that one of the boys might like playing with in our Church Nursery Class (ages 18 months to 3 years) that I help with on Sundays. It is approximately 18 inches square.

Monday, November 16, 2015

Lozenge Quilt

This is my Lozenge quilt that was started as a Leader/Ender Challenge. It is completely made out of scraps. It didn't remain a Leader/Ender project. It became my main project until I had a top, then it got put away to await my quilting attempts. I started wanting to do an I-spy with the quilting with small quilting spaces that would be repeated later to be matched. I quickly lost interest in the quilting (and had other things that needed my basting pins :P), so I continued to just do a large stipple and put in words that I thought either described me, or I wanted to describe me. I am quite pleased with how this turned out. I plan to use it for anything and everything. It measures (or did before quilting) at 90 inches by 108 inches. I wanted to make it a large queen size, for my bed. I think I'm now up to 6 different quilts for my bed...I might need to start planning to make them for other people.

Monday, November 09, 2015

Grand Illusion

 I managed to get my Grand Illusion quilt finished. It measures 88 inches by 88 inches. This one I decided to stray from my usual stipple by adding in Daisies. It's such a busy quilt that it was great for hiding mistakes. Now I feel really confident with quilting them on another quilt.

I even managed to get it on my bed (which of course required actually making my bed. It makes the room feel different from my Celtic Solstice quilt. It's interesting that \ the pattern or colors of the quilt on the bed can change the feel of of a room.

Monday, November 02, 2015

Lighthouse

Once again, I forgot to get a finished picture of a quilt. This is a quilt I made in just a couple of days, as a Swap Angel for the Beach Bound Mini Quilt Swap. When the call went out for angels, I signed up. I had never been and Angel before. An Angel makes a mini quilt for someone who sent one off, but hadn't received one (do to a flaky partner). This one went off to Australia. I hid a few things in the quilting, like clouds, a bird, a dolphin, and an octopus. It was a lot of fun to do.