President's Quilt

This is the quilt that was made for my by Foothill Quilters Guild members when I was President. It was planned and coordinated by Shellie Fisher, who also re-made erroneous blocks and sewed all the blocks together. Since it was so big (94" square) it wouldn't fit on my frame and I was still trying to figure out how to get it quilted when Fran offered to quilt it for me for my birthday. She quilted it with roses, which turned out really nice.

Snow White and Rose Red

My job for the 2009 quilt show for Foothill Quilters Guild was the Challenge. The theme of the quilt show was "Once Upon a Time." I had people pick a Dove Dark Chocolate from a bag; inside each was a promise, and they were to use the promise to pick a fairy tale, then base their quilt on the fairy tale. I picked "Buy Yourself Flowers" and used the fairy tale "Snow White and Rose Red" because the girs were "as fair as flowers that grew outside their cottage." I based the girls on a couple of Flower Fairy patterns, but enlarged them and turned them both into rose-type flowers. I used both fusible and needle-turn applique for the picture, and thought the background turned out pretty good considering it was my 3rd start and was 4 fat quarters sewn together. There are hot-fix crystals on both dresses.

This quilt was judged, and the judges gave it a 2nd place ribbon.

Charms table topper

Pam Sealy taught a series of classes at Stitching Station using charm packs. I took this class and made a table topper. Unfortunately, the colors were too similar for the design to show. There is a row of small green squares on point that surround the whole inside. The outer setting triangles are a pale yellow.

Giant Charms

This was another charm class Pam taught at Stitching Station. However, it turns out that for some reason, I bought SIX charm packs, not just one or two. So my charms quilt turned out to be a giant. It has pink and yellow striped sashing with green stars in the corner stones and flying geese in the border. Pam re-designed the original pattern to not have partial stars in the edges. I quilted it with different flowers in each of the charm squares. Way too much work. The pictures below show both the sashing, corner stones, and quilting.

Pincushion Modas
This was from Pincushion's Block of the Month from probably 2006 or 2007. The only thing the fabrics had in common was that they were all Modas. I decided to use only things I had on hand to finish it - fortunately, I had a bunch of charm squares for the border, and stripes and green left over from the Giant Charms quilt. I used my new Clover yo-yo maker tool to make yo-yos for the bases of the arcs.

I quilted the blocks with plain meandering and the sashing with curls. I thought it turned out pretty good.

Hats wallhanging

I actually bought this quilt top from Sandy at Stitching Station when she clearanced things out. I have no idea why I bought it, maybe to practice quilting. Anyway, I donated it to Roseville Quilters Guild for A Bit of Me - I thought that would be a good way to raise money for the guild.

Beverley's Batiks

When Pam Sealy went to Beverley's as their fabric department manager (yay, Pam!) she started a Block of the Month. Several of us decided to do the Block of the Month to help support Pam. I originally bought a beautiful dark blue batik for the cornerstones and inner border but decided I needed to use it for another project. So I got the dark red instead (same as Shellie bought). I quilted it with an overall pattern.

Woodpile

This is the second Woodpile quilt I made, the second time I took the same class from Diane Leighton. The first was my "Beautiful Blues;" this one I made entirely from the fat quarters I get every month from Keepsake Quilting's Hoffman Medley of the Month. I looked just for darks and lights, with a wide variety of fabrics. I think the "barn raising" design is more apparent in the picture than it is in real life.

Patchwork Party

Patchwork Party was an internet block of the month (kind of) where you get one block from each of 12 different quilt stores. They also want you to buy their finishing kit, of course. I designed my own finishing kit in EQ6 and got all the fabrics for it plus the back for less than the finishing kits were selling for.

The blocks used Marti Michell's templates, which I hate using, although they made it really easy to match corners and make points.