Here's a bunch of my quilts. My friend is having a significant birthday next month, so I am "gifting" a stack of quilts to her party for people to take and give to police officers in their area. She is the mom of Tom, so this is in support of her, as well as Tom. This one is called "Child's Play", from mystery quilts anonymous (MQA) 
Since it's child's play, I chose a quilting design that kids could look for things. This is the Rainforest set, so all kinds of animals and birds. Black backing and gold thread so that it would show, doesn't photograph accurately.
Since it's child's play, I chose a quilting design that kids could look for things. This is the Rainforest set, so all kinds of animals and birds. Black backing and gold thread so that it would show, doesn't photograph accurately.
Parrot
Gecko and leaves
Comodo dragon? and a gecko
Japanese Mystery from Heart to Hand. This is a really old quilt top that I've been waiting to quilt "until I'm good enough." Well pooh on that, just finish it! All computerized, and designs placed in the squares and triangles. I would much prefer edge to edge on computer, I don't like having to reposition all the time. Good learning for me though.
Sadly, this is called "Forgotten mystery" from MQA because I don't recall the name of the pattern. Then when I had it totally quilted and bound, I found the huge mistake in the left corner. Oops. Someone will hopefully not care too much. Quilted with City of Light panto
Eye Spy. We all have that stack of 5" squares. Well I finally put them to use. A bunch of leftover small orange squares too, so there was my sashing and cornerstones.
"To Celebrate this Day" a wedding gift for my friend's daughter. The pattern is really "Attic Stars" from MQA, but I've called mine something more fitting for the recipient. All hand dyed fabrics, and so much fun! The dark purple is Imperial purple, Bubble gum for the pink and Parakeet for the background. All hand quided heirloom quilting.
The backing is Mist Grey dye. I'm loving hand dying fabrics!
Michael says that this pattern is from Eleanor Burns. Really sweet quilt, but some of those pieces are tiny! Not sure that I want to deal with things that small, or the applique. To each their own
Anna is another "new to me quilter" who sadly is moving to Texas. I've really enjoyed the brief interactions I've had with her. 
These two quilts are both "I spy" quilts. Meaning that there are lots of little fun things for kids to find in the fabrics. Anna made one, and her daughter made the other, and they will go to Anna's grandkids. 
Since they are "I Spy", it's always fun to include a design on the back for the kids to find still more things. These two are both the same royal blue backing fabric, but reads as grey or black with the camera. Hopefully, you can identify some of the critters. On top, a skunk, being chased by a dog, and of screen is a little girl either calling the dog back, or holding her nose against the skunk.
Marlene is a new to me customer, but I have a feeling we're going to be become long term friends. She brought me 3 quilts, and I missed getting a photo of one! Trust me, it was adorable.
This is made up of farm scenes, and then the tractor in the center. I quilted leaves in the background, then added some details to the tractor Too cute!
Another person who does amazing wool applique by hand. Wow. The patience. SID around all the flowers, and then a loopy meander in the background to hold everything together. I can hardly wait to see what comes next.
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.
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