My Garden

These quilts are so wonderful and whimsical.  This one has essentially three borders and 12 blocks.  As I usually do for this type of quilt, I let it "talk" to me.

Click on the pix to enlarge - if you look closely you can see some flowers among the pebbles in this background (above).

Above - bees stitched into the background.

Above - I love this fill.  I "invented" it to sort of go with the background fabric.  Going to be using it again!

Moxie! (Circle of Love)

Nicole recently had her first baby, Ben!  She made him this Tula Pink Moxie quilt.  She's calling hers "Circle of Love".  She put a lot of thought into this quilt.  Ben will cherish it forever.  At least he should.

T-Shirt Quilt #2

Chandy asked if I would be interested in making a quilt for her Mom, using Mom's running T-shirts from at least 20 years worth of running events.  We worked out the details, Chandy dropped off the T's and I got started.  I wish now that I had counted the T's - but I didn't and there were many.  Enough for a 110" square quilt!  It's a monster!

A few close-ups.  I used the remainder of the T's to make the "fill-in" blocks around the logo blocks, plus some of the backing/binding fabric so it all goes together in the end.

And here are a few pix Chandy sent me after she gifted the quilt to her Mom.

And here is Mom, Carol, with her quilt.  Apparently she really likes it!  Chandy reported that "The quilt is a hit! When I presented it to her the only word she kept saying over and over was "phenomenal"."  So that makes me happy, too!

Dandy Lions!

EDIT:  I'm told this is called Dandelion Dreams.

My customer tried out applique for the first time.  She chose this dandelion quilt - at least that's what I'm calling it - the stalks with the seeds on the top remind me of dandelion seeds.  They are appliqued on a solid grey piece of Kona cotton.  So it's really a whole-cloth quilt with some applique.  And she asked me to quilt it.  Do what I want, she said.  So this is what I did.....

These two came in rotated.... sorry - you'll have to turn your head.  Also, the days have been a bit overcast so the lighting hasn't been that great for taking pix.