"Quilt for husband-Jim" by Pat

As with most quilts, this one has a story.  Pat made a quilt for a couple, but it seems that the wife decided that that quilt was "hers", and asked Pat to make another for the husband, Jim.  This is his quilt.  Love the bold and graphic design.

That's a lot of flying geese for Pat to piece.  Quilted with a computerized design called "Vanilla Cream"

 

There's a new baby in our neighborhood!

One of our many delightful neighbors has just welcomed a new baby girl to their family, so a quilt was needed.  I've had a urge to work with my 1930's prints, so pulled these from the stash.  Just something simple for the baby.

2 from Mary Beth

This one is called "Farm"., and it's not complete.  Mary Beth plans to applique a barn to the quilt that will be dimensional and can be played with.  Hence I've only quilted the background.  That is done with a panto of farm animals including a horse, cow, pig, chicken and a squirrel?  I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have squirrels.  Why not a dog?  Questions for the designer.

Also "Unicorns and Owls" for her grand-daughter Olivia.  She reportedly refers to herself as ""Owlivia." So this is too perfect.

Quilted with a digital design of unicorns, but difficult to see on the busy print.

 

Mystery quilt by Jan

I recently Jan, and it turns out the she lives 2 blocks from me. She and her husband have recently moved her from Michigan to be near family and this is a quilt that she completed there.

She requested a swirl design in the white background and that was echoed into the white setting triangles.

A ruler was used for the wave in the blue border, after I tried it freehand, and really didn't like it.

The orange border got a freehand ribbon design all the way around.

Very nicely pieced, and I hope we'll get to work together again.

 

Two of my quilts for different occasions

This one is the last of the quilts for the family of the fallen police officer.  This is a bar quilt, and sadly, I've done something with the magazine where I got the pattern.  All of the fabrics were leftovers from the first 2 quilts, so they all have a common theme together.

This one was quilted with a computerized design called "Wiggos"

This is an "Eye Spy" quilt for the newest big sister in our neighborhood.  The new baby was just born this week, and I'm still stitching the binding of her quilt.  But since bib sister's need quilts too, this one is just for her.  All pulled from my collection of 5" squares.  The background is made up of various pieces of cream fabrics, some with the "wrong side" showing so that the color was a better match.  The prints are all ones that have definite designs on them so that she can point things out.  I.e. the French fries below.

And doesn't everyone have a piece of fabric with a surfing cat? 

Although the quilting is impossible to see, when you see the quilt in person, you can find that the quilting design creates a scene from the woods.  A girl camping, moose, a bear, the dog chasing a skunk.

 

"Mickey and Minnie go to Paris" by Michael

Feathered stars are such a stunning quilt, and then to have something fun like this for the focus fabric makes it even more fun!

Mickey and Minnie Mouse are the focus fabrics,  and Michael had the rest of the fabrics  (except the background) in his stash.  Well done!

 

"No Glass Celiings" by Carol

This is the 3rd quilt I have quilted for Carol, all for fundraisers.  How cool is that?    This one will benefit ARTemis Arts.

Carol calls her quilts "Crumb quilts" because they are made up of small pieces of fabric with a common theme.  This one's theme is strong women. So each fabric represents strong women, both real and fictitious across our cultures.

I love the variety, and the message that you can be anything you want.  First responder, activist, artist,

Scientist, evil Disney villaness

Of course we can all wear our tiaras!

And even some "traditional women's roles", like sewing. 

If you are interested, here is a link to Carol's 2 previous quilts that are being used as fund raisers for Friendly House.

Food and beverage: https://fhi2024.ggo.bid/bidding/package/14488294

 

Animals: https://fhi2024.ggo.bid/bidding/package/14488361

 

"Frankenlogs" by Michael

Another fun scrappy quilt from Michael, titled "Frankenlogs" because they are leftover strips from various projects, but all laid out in a coordinating theme to make a lovely quilt!

 Quilted with "Cats in the Window" panto, so please look closely to see the cats are actually looking out windows.  Very fun!

"NY leftovers" by me

I so admire people who make scrappy quilts that are pleasing to the eye.  This one is more of "Well, my eyes aren't bleeding looking at it, so it must be okay"  This is made from fabrics leftover from a previous project with the fabrics that we bought in NY state on our 2023 bike ride.  Mostly made up of whatever pieces or blocks of fabric were already made from that quilt.  Then quilted with Simply Sunflowers panto since we often saw huge fields of sunflowers while there.

This will go to a police officer for donation. 

 I love how this was made up solely of leftovers or donation.  The backing came from my friend Darci who gifted me with several large pieces of fabric, and the wool batting is a leftover from Xande's most recent quilts

2 quilts for the family of a fallen officer

These quilts are hard to make, but oh so necessary.  This is the first 2 of 3 total.  Still binding the last one.

This pattern is from the book "101 Fabulous Quick Cut Quilts".  Called "Mocha Madness", but I left off the border of flying geese blocks that went all around the outside.  I just started pulling fabrics from my stash for this quilt, leaning towards browns, and adding other colors or prints that I felt worked with the theme of the quilt.

Heirloom quilted with wool batt, feathers, continue curves.

This pattern is from Quiltmaker magazine, and is called "Scrappy Starburst".  For this and the last quilt, I used fabrics that had been in the previous quilt(s), and added more fabrics as needed.  This way they will all compliment one another.

More wool batting, heirloom quilting, feathers and continuous curves