Sophia's Baby Quilt - Stacked Coins

Made this stacked coin baby quilt using Minky for the background (my first time sewing with Minky)...so I tried something new. I quilted the quilt top and batting first, then attached the minke around the border, and used a tacking stich at periodic intervals to attach the minky. (Note: Make sure you shrink wash the cotton top first before attaching the Minky)

Next time I might be brave and quilt with the Minky, still using the walking foot.

Montana-Modern Quilt

This is a quilt I made for my Father-in-law from a "proprietor-made" kit I bought at a quilt show - unfortunately the kit she made had crooked cuts and some erroneous directions, so it took a little "finagling" to make it come out at least fairly straight to the eye, and the panel was a little skewed...all in all, though, it worked out fine (absolutely beautiful color scheme and fabric patterns!) and was a perfect Christmas gift for a weary family traveler visiting from Colorado!

This is a great Benartex pattern and panel by Janet Page Kessler.
I added the black border to make it a larger quilt.
I used free motion along with some straight line cris-cross stitching up the lines.

Allotment Quilt

I love the colors of this lap quilt I made for my loving sister (I love you Lin!) - using mostly Kaffe Fassett and Martha Negley fabrics. The idea came from Kaffe Fassett's "Country Garden Quilts" book and is called an Allotment quilt by Jane Brocket, after the European leased garden plots. This one is a flower allotment garden since my sister grows absolutely beautiful flower gardens!!


My dear kitty "pouting" after I had chased her off this quilt top about 3 times, and she was determined this was her place! ...so Lin, you're quilt has been blessed by the kitty!

I used free motion quilting on most of the quilt w/variegated thread.

Some of the different quilt patterns - I tried a dragonfly among the flowers in free motion.

The so-called "permanent-washable" (I think I used too much heat or for too long) iron-on didn't hold, so I hand-stitched roughly around edges to work with the adhesive. Permanent washable markers were used to color the pattern I got from a book of iron-on labels.

Quilt back pieced with a strip of various fabrics in garden colors.

I thought the Benartex Flower Show 3 Dahlias Gold was appropriate for her flower shows that she has had over the years!

A little computer graphics fun with colors

Cottage Quilt (Queen)

I made this cottage quilt (VERY fun project) for my mother-in-law with a queen-size kit (it comes in several sizes) I got from JoAnn's Fabrics using one of my coupons. :) It was my first attempt at free motion quilting, and it actually turned out pretty good. I love my new Husqvarna Saphire with extra quilting space! What a difference, and great for the free motion. It took me a few tries to get tension just right, but after that, went great...I tried to use some of the embroidery designs on the corners, but had a little trouble going through all the layers of fabric and keeping the design flowing (probably just need more practice and maybe should have lifted the foot more). For the label I used a piece of matching fabric, iron on label from a book, and went over the design with permanent fabric markers to darken it. I used Heat n Bond iron on adhesive (washable) to attach to quilt.