This is another quilt from the group "Mystery Quilts Anonymous" Since most of my quilts are for donation, I usually make them scrappy. Sometimes they turn out great, others I king of think "What was I thinking?" This one probably falls some where in between. I sill like it though.
Quilted in gold thread with a piece of black backing the magically appeared. The panto is called "Jim's Stars and Stripes". The quilt is currently in the car waiting a chance to find a police officer to give it to.
Carol is a new to me customer. This is a quilt that Carol's mother pieced and then tied. Since tied quilts don't usually last as long as quilted ones, the top was in great shape, not staying together anymore. Carol asked me to finish it so that she can give it to her 1 yo grandson.
It's fun for me to see the process people go through as they are choosing how to finish their quilt. Carol was looking through my book of designs, and she came up the "Woof" panto. Her face lit up, and she commented that this is the one since the family that will receive the quilt has at least one, if not more dogs.
Yep, Leigh is at it again with her amazing hand embroidery and applique. True confession. Whenever Leigh brings me a quilt my thought process goes something like "Well heck. What to do with this one?" Then I get going on them, and pretty soon I'm having a blast finding just what it needs in each spot.
I was on a bike ride, thinking about Leigh's quilt, and what to do with all the different buildings. Looking around downtown Vancouver was great inspiration! We have "bricks" on the addition of the church, and horizontal siding in the school to name a few.
This is the "Ninja Trailing" pattern from the website Mystery Quilts Anonymous. It was made to honor a police officer who was injured some time ago, and now has passed away. It will go to his family to offer support to them. There is a thin blue border, hence the name of the quilt. Thank you for your service, and the service and sacrifice of your family.
These are the remaining 4 of 6 memory quilts commissioned by Carrie. Since the fronts are all pretty much the same (the borders are all different fabrics), I've taken photos of the backs which is how I ended up remembering and referring to them. Above "Footballs". Clearly, I am not a sports fan. I tried to mentally put the team name with the city, but I think I may have had many that I didn't even now, some assigned to the wrong city, and some that were probably the entirely wrong sport. Oh well, something to think about while playing with fabric.
"Snow Bears. Almost makes me want to go skiing. Almost.
Noah's ark
Isn't this pretty! I love medallion quilts. Okay, I guess I love quilts, period Doana is new to me customer, but I hope that we'll get to work together again soon. Her piecing was lovely, the quilt rolled up like a dream with perfectly straight edges. 
This is another pattern from the Quilter's World magazine. As always, I had fun playing in my stash and pulling fabrics. Sometimes though, I get little carried away.
I thought it would be fun to have sunflowers in the windows. But, viewed from a distance, it appears to be large eyes looking out at you. 
Carrie, and her darling daughter Karen, had reached out to me about making 6 quilts for their family members. Carrie is a long time seamstress who is moving to a smaller home, and just doesn't have room for all of her sewing anymore. The two of them brought me 2 large totes of fabrics, one with just wovens and the other flannels. All of these had been used to make various garments for family members throughout the years. I decided to just take the woven fabrics for the tops, and then saved the flannels for the backings. 
This one has a border of soccer fabric, and then I found the same fabric in flannel for the backing. All will be bound with the same green Christmas print to keep them consistent. I'm having so much fun working on these! All are quilted with the Highfield design and thin white thread.
I am calling this one 5" squares because that is what it started as. Quilted with the "Ginger Flower" design. I've been using this design a lot.
Bless Sue, she had brought me these quilts before Christmas, and then the "Christmas Rush" began. I asked her if these were gifts, or if she was okay with a delay, and she kindly agreed to a delay. The above is called "Cork Stars" because the fabric in the star blocks and backing resembles cork.
A panel of chickens by Loralie Designs. Quilted with what else, but Chicken Wire
And a panel of dogs by Loralie. Quilted with the "woof" design. Dog bones and hearts
This represents what our sweet boy Sam looks like when I come home
And when his "dad" Randall comes home. 
Gotta love Rail Fence blocks, there is something rhythmic about them.
None of these are anything special. This one "Animals", is what happens when you go scrappy for a mystery quilt and then decide that you've got a bit overboard on the scrappy, and these just look silly. So, cut some more settings squares and poof! Donation quilt!
I was on my way to get my Covid vaccine and decided to treat myself to a stop at a quilt shop on the way. Came home with a panel of these blocks. Plan A was to quilt each line in red thread. Then that was too much, so I'll only do some of the lines. Well, what if I'm not exactly on the line? Finally ended up doing some of the lines in white on each basket and some flowers. Then a wreath in the settings blocks. Used leftover wool batt, so a nice loft to it.
