chickens...

Thanks to Barb at the Quilters Corner Blog, I found these HILARIOUS chicken patterns. Available on the FatCat Pattern website... for free! (donations accepted) I love her style and there are some great things here. I plan to make 12, there are only 11 available on the site now but I'm hoping a 12th is in the works. Red sashing and a funky - yet to be found - red/yellow/black border. or series of borders.

flappin'

eggbert

Wouldn't this be great in a red/yellow kitchen?

I heart Buggy Barn.

Since love is in the air, I thought you might like to see my LOVE child.
This was a fun buggy barn that I made last year with stacks of black, white and red.
My favorite thing about this quilt was that I saw someone's quilt online, and I copied it WITHOUT the buggy barn pattern. When I was done cutting it out, one of my sisters showed up with the pattern she found at her mother-in-law's house. Oh well. Love it.

Love is in the air!

Out with the Christmas quilts and up with the Valentines!

I designed this quilt last year - Grey did the heart applique.

"strings" are small ric rac

The background is a variety of pastel pink/cream

5 blocks across by 7 down (8.5 x 8.5)

Each block is four 2.5" x 8.5" strips

The blocks alternate horizontal and vertical

Display idea:

Wooden letters from Hobby Lobby

Quilt is secured using straight pins into drywall

letters have large paperclips glued to back

then hooked on nails above quilt

Hand Warmers

A fun winter quilt! "Hand Warmers" is found in the book Holiday Wrappings: Quilts to Welcome the Season. As you can probably tell, the quilt needs to be quilted and bound -- and have decorative buttons added. But, I needed something on my wall for January, so it will remain there throughout the month! It will be so cute when done! It's a great pattern to pull from your black and white stash and the brightly colored applique mittens don't take much fabric at all. Now, the buttons may be another matter -- 96 white buttons (5/8") for around the snowflakes and 120 bright buttons (1/2" to 7/8") for on the mittens (3 buttons on each mitten). So, start collecting those buttons!

Sampler Quilt - Homespuns

This is the first sampler quilt class I ever took (again at the Bernina store). The 12 different pieced blocks used both homespuns and regular cotton fabrics. Probably not the best to begin piecing using homespuns as they tend to stretch. I finished the top shortly after the class, but finally had Cathy quilt it and then I bound it in 2008. Pam also took the class and made quilt.

Sampler Quilt - Bright

Here is another sampler quilt that I made from a class that Pam and I took at the Bernina store. She finished her quilt that same year; I just finished binding mine today! And again, Cathy did an excellent job in quilting it. This quilt was made with 12 different blocks and bright-colored fabrics. When we first began the class, I wasn't too thrilled with the bright colors -- but now I like working with brights and black and whites. I like the various widths on the strips I used in the border -- and the corners were especially fun to do.

Sampler Quilt

Both Julie and I took a 6-month sampler class at our local Bernina store a couple of years ago -- and I finally finished the quilt this past year (2008), with Cathy quilting it for me. We were to make three blocks from the same pattern, but I only made two -- and I used fabric from the Thimbleberries line instead of the fabric that was provided. I thought it was interesting to see how different blocks from the same pattern can look when colors or pieces are switched around. My mother liked this quilt, so I gave it to her when she visited in December.