Lots of Dots was a quilt I finished up last fall. I really like it except the petals are too stiff. I wanted to use up some Heat'n Bond Lite that I had and I didn't cut the centers out of the petals before putting it on the fabric -- consequently, very stiff. And Cathy had a dilly of a time quilting it because of the stiffness. I am hoping it will not be quite so stiff after laundering. Guess I will go back to using Lite Steam-a-Seam2 for appliques in the future.
Remember when I told you about this quilt here? Well, Cathy quilted it with beautiful snowflakes and then last November (2011) -- after only a couple of years -- I finally finished sewing the buttons on the mittens -- forget the rest of the buttons the pattern called for! Now it is finished! Yippee!
McK chose the Taxi pattern and picked out the black, blue and teal fabrics for her quilt a while back. I secretly made it for her last year and surprised her this past Christmas (2011). She was very pleased and excited.
I made this quilt for Mariel and Dallin's wedding in December of 2010. Mariel also picked the taxi pattern and wanted it done in whites, creams and grays. I added an extra row and borders to make it fit a queen-sized bed. At first I wasn't sure how to use the colors effectively, but am pleased with how it turned out.
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| I've made this quilt before... and love how it uses up my stash. I had a vision board (work) party last week and gave this away. |
I made this quilt for oldest son, Kip, and his new wife, Samantha, who were married in August. They picked the pattern and the black and white fabrics (from my stash!). I added two rows to the side and two rows to the bottom of the original pattern to make the quilt large enough for their queen-sized bed. It went together very quickly after the cutting out of the pieces was done. Cathy did the beautiful quilting. I was pleased with the results and they loved it.
The happy couple after exiting the temple -- gotta love those pink shoes!
With the Young Women's camp about a month away, the Stake YW Camp Leader asked me if I would do a camp quilt. She gave me the names of the flowers each group of girls had chosen and asked me to incorporate these into the quilt. So, I put together a design, adding the theme, scripture, and value colors to pull it together and make it bigger -- it turned out about 50 x 69 inches. The center flower -- the artichoke -- was chosen by the priesthood and since there were no more virtue colors, I bordered it in black. I wasn't able to find the flower in fabric either, so I downloaded a color picture of it, then took it to the local fabric store where they printed it onto a piece of fabric for me. Cathy quilted it and added the virtues (in each virtues color) in the black border (hard to see in the picture). It was both fun and challenging. Hopefully, the young woman who wins it will like it too!
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| oops... I forgot to rinse off my marketings :) |
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| On my antique church pew. so pretty! |
