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.

 

Mer-Man and Quilt Soup by Michael

Here is Michael's "Mer-Man", and I think he's adorable.  Quilted with Shells and Bubbles panto and a blue variegated thread.  All made from batiks. 

Well done Michael!

Michael calls this one "quilt soup:".  Another of his scrappy quilts with leftover blocks, like the whale, or sometimes just random pieces of fabric, like the one one the right.  The red is a prequilted fabric that he used for tote bags, and then the amazing NY Beauty portion next to it.

 

Michael's Folk Art Sampler quilt along

This is so cute!  All these different animals and objects done in two colors.  And some of those pieces are tiny!

Quilted with Ginger Flower panto