"Cars" by Sharyle

Sharyle had a special request from her grand-daughter for a Cars quilt for her birthday.  Thankfully, Sharyle still had a panel in her stash. 
I love the pinwheels on the "tires" in the border.

"Cowboy Way"

A new pantograph, purchased for and used for the Rodeo quilt for Feather Your Nest.

"Hexagons" by Carol

Carol came to me through our mutual friend Xande.    The quilt is Carol's design. and is made up of lots and lots of little triangles.   Carol further told me that it was Xande's idea to cut the hexagons and add the gold bars because the quilt was "so brown" without them.  I love how it turned out, and I really love the gold thread on the black background.  Way cool!

Carol came

"Rodeo" by Feather Your Nest

I think that I found Feather Your Nest, when we were on a bike ride.  As I recall, it was a century ride, so no time to stop and shop, but we of course returned!

This quilt will be auctioned off on the Facebook page of Feather Your Nest as a fund raiser for a young woman who competes in rodeos.  Best of luck to her and be sure and visit the shop in downtown Gresham, and on FB.

"Stars" by Leight

Leigh and her amazing hand applique work. 

"Roosters" by Leigh

The picture on the right above is a much better representation of the colors than on the right, but that's how it turned out.  Sorry Leigh.

Leigh called this one "Roosters", but I have decided that the name of the quilt is "Cluckers".  Feathers behind the birds to represent tail feathers.  Too fun!

Kid's messages from Lisa

Here is the second of two quilts that Lisa helped to work on.  The kids were asked to write their hope for the future in the center of the stars, and also got to choose their fabrics from a selection that Lisa had.  What a wonderful idea.

"Chief Sherpa" by me

When we get to ride Cycle Oregon, we camp with a group called "Team Soaras", and our friend Ted is the "Chief Sherpa" for us.  That means that he organizes

the Sherpas who set up camp or us, and make the coffee in the morning, and provide the adult beverage of your choice at the end of the ride.  Team Soaras is the only way to do Cycle Oregon.  As a small thank you to Ted for his hard work, I made him this quilt. 

Ted teaches firefighting at Chemeketa Community College, and so when I found this firefighter fabric in Waldport, I knew that I had to have it for Ted's quilt. I had decided by that time that the quilt would be red, black and white, and I was pretty sure that this was the correct pattern.  It's paper pieced, something I don't usually do, but I'm glad I took a chance and really worked at that technique.  Quilted with freehand f'lames, to keep the firefighter theme going.

"Hello Puppies!" by me

In Sept. of 2017, we were supposed to ride Cycle Oregon, but it was cancelled due to forest fires.  Our friend Ted organized a week's worth of rides based out of Newport, OR. (The only part of the state not on fire at that time).  One of our rides was through Siltez, OR, and a tiny little town.  As we stood on the corner, eating our corn dogs, (It's a ride food), I had a feeling that there was a quilt shop nearby.  Sure enough!  Across the street was "Sew Hound" quilt shop.  With much calling from friends "No Beth!  Don't go!" I went anyway.  Didn't stop then, but we came back in the car after the ride was over that day.  I found these fun prints there and knew that they had to go home with me.  

This quilt will go to the Humane Society of SW Washington as a fundraiser.  Our little "Sam" came from there in May 2017, and he's such a sweetie boy.  Lucky us!

"Pansies" by Marni

Start with a favorite print of pansies, and a background, and start piecing.

Quilted with the "Persia" panto, and here's what the backing looks like.

2nd t-shirt quilt for Nancy's family

 I love these shirts to remember various family gatherings in various parts of the country.  I hope that they evoke fond memories for everyone.  The appliqued circle is from the top of a child's hat, so we put that in as well.  The lower block lists the names of all the family members who attended.

6" block bar quilt by Torgi

 Wow.  These blocks all finish at 6", and they are absolutely perfectly pieced.  Amazing.  So, these little squares below are finished at 1".  Quilted with the Baptist Fan board to give the amazing piecing a chance to shine.

Appliqued birds and cirlcles by Dolores

Dolores contacted me from California, and then shipped her quilt up here.  Such fun!  All this lovely applique to play with.  I ended up doing a tight background fill of figure 8's in the blocs, and then stitched in the ditch around the circles in the border, and added loops and bubbles to the border background.  I hope that Dolores and I will get to work again soon, her quilt was such fun!

Baby quilt for new arrival Blake

Jessica contacted me about making a quilt for her first baby about 2 years ago.  She chose the fabric and then I made solid blocks and sashed them.  When she was expecting her 2nd child, we did the same thing.  Even use the same pantograph, and similar fabric.

And since math is not my strong suit, I messed up and made extra blocks.  So, Baby Blake can have a dolly quilt just like her big sister has.