Babies, babies and more babies!

I have several friends welcoming new babies into their hearts soon.  Above, is a Rose Star for a future baby girl who's first name will be Rose.  The star point fabrics were my jumping off point, and then pulled fabrics that worked with it.  Thank you Kathy Y for the pattern inspiration.

This is "Myrtle the Turtle" for a future grandbaby of a friend.  I asked "grandma to be" what animals she might like and she chose the Turtle.  From the "Patch Pals Collection."
 

A bar quilt from Mary Beth

Mary Beth made this quilt for her friend, and they both looked for quilting designs, but quickly became overwhelmed.   I suggested this one "Lotus Peel" that was a combo of their two top choices.  It was a hit!

 

"Kitty Katz" by Leigh

How adorable!  All the little kitties just waiting to be petted!

As usual, Leigh gives me free rein in her quilting design, so I pebbled behind each cat, then thought about my own silly cat Rumples and how he plays.  So, a meander in the background of the quilt to represent his silly running in circles or in random directions.  And feathers in the outer border because his favorite toy has/had a feather for a tail.  (I think the feather has since been eaten.)

 

Whitney's T-shirts

Whitney is a yoga teacher, and these are several of her shirts made into a quilt  (She said that she is already pulling additional shirts to make another)

This is my favorite of her shirts.  I have a bumper sticker that says "Not All Who Wander Are Lost.... But I Am!

 

"Hugs and Kisses" by Lorri

These are two "twin quilts" by Lorri.  I don't think that there even plans for future grandchildren at this point, but she's got the quilts ready for them!  

Each quilt is the same size, but the applique patterns are different for each.   Same quilting design on both, but with different thread colors.

Lorri has also already reached out about entering them into the Sister's Outdoor Quilt Show for 2025.

 

"Sweet Sixteen" by Carol for her sister.

 This is one of two of the same patterns made by Carol.  This one is more focused on the green tones, and will go to her sister.  There is a future one coming for her mom. 

The fabrics are from the "Anne of Green Gables" fabric line.

"For Alma Violet" by Susan

The future Miss Alma Violet is named after family members.  I think that's a lovely tradition, having been named after my grandparents.

The colors up top are much more accurate of the quilt pattern, and I recognize the fabrics from previous quilts by Susan.  I love the little hats the crocodiles are all wearing.  So cute!

 

"Christmas Houses" by Michael

What a sweet and darling quilt for the holidays!  All done is reds and whites, lots and lots of piecing to get all those houses and trees made

 Quilted with a shiny white thread in a design of snowflakes and houses.

T-shirt quilt for Meabon's husband

This gentleman is quite impressive in his athletic abilities, having tried out for the recent 2024 summer Olympics in Hammer throw.  Also, lots of  Physics t-shirts too.

 This one is my favorite, reminds me of my ancestors (Vikings), not that they ever did anything this athletic.

Hexie's by Sue

Sue's daughter in law is expecting the first grandchild on Sue's side of the family.  How exciting! She hand pieced all of these little hexagons together.  They measure just 1.5" across the straight edge.  Quilted with an edge to edge design called "Chantilly Lace", and the bias edges were all left intact.  Hence the "wiggles" on the outside edges.

 

Ombre Stars by Kathy Y

This is the first of four quilt that Kathy dropped off.  All the prints are an Ombre fabric that fades from dark to light, and all the same fabric line with the gold "drops" across it.  Quilted with a stars panto, and a thread that matches the gold in the fabric.  Perfect!

 

Dresden Fans by Laurel

This quilt is made from clothing scraps from Laurel's relatives.  I believe niece and nephew.  She made it for her sister (I think that's correct), and had initially intended to quilt it by hand.  However, the top and backing are made from a lovely heavy cotton, and then garment fabrics made it really hard to get a needle through by hand, and she brought it to me.

SID down each fan blade, and then daisy and leaf meander in the background.  So pretty!
 

"Quackers" by me

A coworker who has become a dear friend is getting ready to return to her "normal life" in Georgia.  This quilt is for her 4yo granddaughter, a small token of our time together.

I got to meet Ashleigh a few times, and once asked her what her favorite animal was.  After a brief moment, she stated "A duck".  

Gonna miss these two!

 

Churn Dash dog quilt by Pam

I love it so much when I get an email from Pam that she's got a new quilt to send to me.  She always does gorgeous work, and they are so much fun to work on.

Clearly, someone in her life is a dog lover, as the entire quilt is made up of several dog prints asthe focal fabric.  Then black and white dog paw prints for the cornerstones.  Quilted with the "Paw Prints" panto and white thread to complete the look.  So sweet!

Churn

 

Flag wall hanging by Pat

 This is a small wall hanging made by Pat for a friend who served in our military, specifically in Afghanistan.  Thank you sir for your service.

Quilted with "Victory Salute" panto

"Make it do" by me

 While piecing this and 2 other larger quilt tops from these fabrics, I had a really creative name for the series.  That's since been forgotten however.  So, this shall be known as "Make it do."  Not much of a fan of flannel, but when you make jammies and robes for your family members, you end up with scraps.  Too "thrifty" to just throw them away, so I keep them for years first.  Finally cut them into 2 different sizes of squares and just started to stitch them together.  The blue strip on the right side is because I had made the top, then the next morning found several more squares of blue.  As stated above, too thrifty to throw them away so I just added another strip to the side.  It's for a police officer to give away.  

And since I am so thrifty, the backing and batting are leftovers from a previous quilt of mine, and the binding are all scraps in shades of brown from the "binding bag".

So far, it's taking me longer to find an officer to give it to than it did to make all 3 quilt tops in the collection.  Oh well, I"ll find them!

"Pigs Can Fly" by Xande

I hope you were fortunate enough to grow up listening the the band "The Irish Rovers" and their song "Pigs can Swim and Pigs can Fly

Just in case, here's a link.

 https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=song+%22Pigs+can+swim+and+pigs+can+fly%22

This is a baby quilt that Xande's friend drew the artwork, then she ran it through her computer program to make the paper piecing pattern. 

Amazing detail in her piecing, although a little difficult to quilt at times because of the bulky seams.  I think worth the effort though.  Can't believer she's gibing this to an infant!

 

Enough extra blocks to make a runner and a throw

Carla made that enormous quilt out of Kaffee Fassett fabrics, and then had enough left to make this throw and a table runner.

Quilted with the same purple thread as the quilt, but a different quilting design.

 

 

Batik baby quilt by Pat

This is for a future baby who's mother is a friend of Pat's daughter.  Gotta love Pat, every wedding, every new baby, whatever the occasion, she makes a quilt for them.

I love the little hedgehogs on the backing!

 

Appliqued flowers for Judith, Pat's hairdresser

I didn't realize how large these flowers are until I had it finished to hang up for photos.  Wow.  That's a lot of petals to stitch down.  Each one was cut out of two pieces of fabric, stitched wrong sides together, then turned inside out to get nice points.  Then machine stitched onto the background

This is for Pat's hairdresser, and each of the background fabrics have some meaning for her.  Sewing patterns, a dictionary, music notes and scissors.  Quilted with a background fill of meandering spiral waves and veins in the petals of the flowers.

 

"Swept Away" by Carol

Carol started this quilt right before her father passed away, so it's quite meaningful to her.  She chose threads to match the fabrics, and then let me do what I wanted in terms of quilting.  I believe the only directions where "I like feathers."  So we quilted LOTS of feathers in this quilt.

Background fill of meandering feathers, a feathered wreath in the center and pretty much anyplace I could find a place to fit them.  Such fun to play with this quilt!

 

Two of mine

This is a quilt that I made out of leftover half square triangles that I don't even recall what project they were made for.  Quilted with a chevron design that I wanted to try out, and leftover wool batting.  This will go to a police officer as soon as I find one.

This is a Dresden Plate quilt that was started by my darling mother in law, Delores Stearns Durand.  Based on the fabrics, 1970's or 1980's?  After she passed away, I inherited the blocks, all but one were complete 3except for the inner circle.  I finally pulled them from the closet and started in appliqueing them to background fabric.  I chose the brown because it seemed to work with the original fabrics.

Heirloom quilted with wool batting, SID around each blade and a feathered wreath in the setting blocks.  Then a background fill to keep it from looking "Like a comforter" per my friend Pat.  It was sent to a great niece of my husband so we kept it in the family.