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  • Airplanes and Hot Air Balloons
    Airplanes and Hot Air Balloons

    I made this for our younger son. He wanted airplanes and hot air balloons on his quilt. I was delighted to find blue material with clouds on it for the background! An added perk was that the border print on it made a great border for his quilt. (The border print is kids playing at the beach.) My original design, single bed size, hand stitched, tied, made in 2004. (The seams don't show up as much in real life; the sun behind the quilt makes them stand out more in the picture.)


    By Bendxap
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  • Deer and Bear Tracks
    Deer and Bear Tracks

    I made this quilt for our older son who was so interested in deer when he was ten, that I used the bear claw blocks and designed deer print blocks to tell a little story. Starting at the left side: the bear is wandering around, looking for something to eat but sees only beetles and dragonflies. (2nd column) The deer is walking around in the forest and startles rabbits. (3rd column) The bear is feeling more "bearish." (4th column) The bear startles some people and then finds the deer. (5th column) The deer runs in the forest and is camouflaged (the prints are visible in the photo because of the sun behind them; in real life the prints are hardly distinguishable from the background). (6th column) The bear gives up on the deer, goes to the river and eats fish! My original design, single bed size, hand stitched, tied, made in 2004.


    By Bendxap
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  • Empty Boxes
    Empty Boxes

    I finished Empty Boxes during covid, who knows when I started it. It was inspired by Hollow Cube on page 29 of Big Book of Building Block Quilts by Sara Nephew, pub by Clearview Triangle, 2001. The middle box on the bottom row is my own design as are the arrangement and the borders. (the corners are rather wonky but so am I.) 21.75” tall, 23.75” wide.


    By Bendxap
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  • Flower Boxes
    Flower Boxes

    I made Flower Boxes for our daughter-in-law’s birthday present. The design is taken from Four Patch Charm Quilt, with my original quilting design. There are "hidden" motifs in the quilting. Hand pieced, hand quilted, 66" x 70" (I made this during strict quarantine and everything came from what I already had, other than about a foot of bias tape for the binding.)


    By Bendxap
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  • Laura's Blouse
    Laura's Blouse

    I made Laura’s Blouse for the friend who gave me a blouse that would never fit me. But I loved the fabric. I fussy cut the stars; the border show what the fabric looked like. (No, this is not stack n whack nor one block wonder. All fussy cut. 16.5” x 25.5”, hand stitched, hand quilted.)


    By Bendxap
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  • Eagle in the Window
    Eagle in the Window

    It's only 9.75" square, only 11 pieces with five different fabrics. But it gave me more grief than any bigger and/or more complex quilt that I've ever made. I changed the window frame fabrics more times than I care to remember. I'm happy with it now but it's not as wonderful as it was in my mind. (Hand stitched and hand quilted)


    By Bendxap
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  • Chick-a-dee Windows
    Chick-a-dee Windows

    A friend gave me the chick-a-dee fabric and I just had to make it into windows for her. 16.5" square, hand pieced and hand quilted. (The pattern name is Attic Windows.) The second picture shows another one I made for another friend.


    By Bendxap
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  • Blue Lone Star
    Blue Lone Star

    I made this Lone Star quilt for friends in 1988. King size. Hand pieced and hand quilted. (I don't know what happened to it after they passed away.)


    By Bendxap
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  • Quarantined in a Garden of Jewels.
    Quarantined in a Garden of Jewels.

    Quarantined in a Garden of Jewels. A friend gave me Garden Path kit (by Red Button Quilts, that she bought at the quilt show in Puebla (Mexico) that we went to. It didn’t look very Garden Pathy to me so I added some blocks and rearranged it into the Jewel Box pattern. This was the first thing I finished during the covid-19 quarantine, hence the name. I lost some of the buttons and needed more anyway; I ended up buying some and coloring them with permanent markers. After I finished it, I gave it (back) to the friend who gave me the kit. (Hand stitched, hand quilted, about 13” square.)


    By Bendxap
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  • Playing with fabrics
    Playing with fabrics

    I was working on this little quilt (maybe 12” square?) just for fun, playing with the fabrics. A friend asked me what I was going to do with it. I said, I don’t know, maybe throw it away. (just kidding, of course) She said, “When you throw it away, throw it my way!” So i gave it to her when I finished it. (Probably made in the early 1990s.) Hand stitched and hand quilted.


    By Bendxap
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  • Flag quilts
    Flag quilts

    I made four flag quilts for family members who have been or are in the military. All four fronts are the same. It took me 11 months to the day, start to finish the first three. (I ran out of red fabric and had to wait for a trip to the US before making the fourth one.) Two of the quilts have blue backs, one has illegible old-fashioned handwriting, the fourth has airplanes. Hand stitched and hand quilted. 51" x 66" my original design; the circle of stars idea adapted from an internet photo by Ritola Artesanía.


    By Bendxap
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  • Menger's Sponge--not a quilt but it is patchwork
    Menger's Sponge--not a quilt but it is patchwork

    Menger’s Sponge made for our grandson's first Christmas. One photo shows him at 18 months IN the cube! The big cube has 72 different fabrics; the small cubes have the same six fabrics except for the black and white cube, which is the center block. So 79 different fabrics all together. (Hand stitched, big cube is 12" square, small cubes are 3.5".) From this tutorial: http://missgioia.com/2007/03/patchwork-cube-tutorial.html


    By Bendxap
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  • Texas Stars
    Texas Stars

    I made this Texas Stars for my mother-in-law. Pattern from Leisure Arts’ Encyclopedia of Classic Quilt Patterns. Hand stitched and hand quilted, backing is polar fleece. Yes, there is batting in it; she says it's very warm! Size 39” x 53”.


    By Bendxap
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  • Floating Blocks
    Floating Blocks

    I made Floating Blocks for my father-in-law when he was visibly disappointed that he didn’t get a quilt, too. There are 109 different fabrics (plus the muslin). Hand stitched and hand quilted, backing is polar fleece. (It has batting, too.) Size 38 x 52 inches.


    By Bendxap
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  • Misty Mountains
    Misty Mountains

    When I offered to make our grandson a quilt, his momma chose Misty Mountains (from Patchwork and Poodles) and the fabrics for R’s quilt. I suggested changing one of the fabrics and adding the blue water at the bottom. 58”x66” Hand stitched and hand quilted, my original design for the quilting. Miniature (20”x22”) “Linus blanket” for R to drag around is also hand stitched and hand quilted but with a simpler design.


    By Bendxap
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