QuiltsBy.me

Mom, who walked 5 miles with friends most week days for years, has a grandfather who pulled a handcart from Iowa to Utah in 1856 and descendants who participated as a team in the 2015 Ragnar run. Silhouettes including ones from photographs of her and her descendants are topstitched over "Trip Around the World," "Granny's Garden," and "Jacob's Ladder." Details are embroidered at the bottom.

By RuthLynne

9 LIKES | 856 VIEWS

Celebration!

Years ago our Batts and Pieces quilt group decided to do strip-challenge quilts, each member starting the first strip(s) and then handing it around to other members. We enjoy celebrating each birthday and holiday, so my strips used fabrics suggesting many of those. We used this kind of like a table runner until recently when I decided to add borders of various bright colors. It's fun to remember the friends who added the strips when we use this table cloth (under heavy clear plastic).

By RuthLynne

5 LIKES | 721 VIEWS

Magical Colorado Family Times quilt

Each year at the Colorado State Fair the Pueblo Sewing Center sponsors a contest with generous cash prizes. With the theme for 2016 of "The Magic of Colorado" I made a quilt capturing favorite family activities and places in our 47 years in the state. It was a trip through memory lane finding and/or taking pictures to use. 3 photos of our family, each in a different decade, were transferred to muslin and included. Others were interpreted in fabrics and edge-stitched onto royal blue over batting squares. Details of each activity and place were back-stitched on red or yellow cross-stitch fabric; 125 novelty buttons were sewn onto the outer borders. This quilt is based on the Colorado Log Cabin Star pattern, with the stars in white around each square. The colors of Colorado's state flag are red, white, blue, and yellow. The quilt didn't win any prizes but is a winner to me because of wonderful memories. [The photo would not load upright, even in the simplified method.]

By RuthLynne

3 LIKES | 804 VIEWS

Karen's Memory Quilt

My mother in law passed a couple of years ago after Christmas (she was 104!). I made this quilt from her clothing and gave to my sister in law the following Christmas. The middle pocket held a hair roller that I found in one of her pockets.

By Carmen

5 LIKES | 906 VIEWS

Family Tree Quilted Wall Hanging

I wanted to create a quilted family tree wall hanging that had my parents & my husband's parents(the roots), our kids and their spouses (the branches) and our grandkids (the leaves). Then I added some buttons and metallic threads to highlight it. All my wall hangings thus far have the backdrop of our upstate NY farm with the hills, the pond, and the rolling the fields.

By ReturningTX

6 LIKES | 844 VIEWS

Falling Charms

My daughter-in-law chose the fabric and had it sent directly to me, and I chose the pattern and made the quilt for my granddaughter's bed. Neither one of them saw it until it was finished!

By kkrug

11 LIKES | 1045 VIEWS

Kaley's Memory Wall Hanging 12-25-16

My daughter in law has been missing her grandmother so much so I asked my son to send me pictures of them. I printed on photo paper and sashed with vintage fabric given to me by a friend who's mom had passed. I used some newer fabric to match a Quilt I made Kaley for her B'day last year. She was stunned on Christmas. There were tears but at least for now they were happy tears.

By Carmen

23 LIKES | 1170 VIEWS

50th Anniversary Family Tree

I made this quilt for my Mom & Dad's 50th Anniversary. I appliquéd the leaves and then hand embroidered around each and embroidered all the children and grandchildren's names on the leaves. There are five children, so each branch is a family with their spouse and children. There are lots of extra leaves around each branch as well for the families to grow and great-grandchildren to be added. The trunk of the tree has my parents names in two hearts. My parents loved it!

By AngeleeMarie

37 LIKES | 1809 VIEWS

Disney Princesses

I saw a tutorial which intrigued me. I decided the pattern would be a good pattern to make a quilt for my 17 month old granddaughter Savannah; while at the same site I saw the daily deal of Disney Princess fabric and so the project formed in my head. The sashing was a challenge especially due to the angled sides but the quilt finally came to fruition. I did have a bad incident while making the quilt; I stumbled in my room while the quilt was laid out on the floor and I broke my right foot, this set me back by about 2 weeks in working on the project which was the 2nd of 4 I planned to have done by Christmas, but I managed to have the quilt done in time but without the label and under the tree.

By T-Bird59

15 LIKES | 1273 VIEWS

Mickey and Friends

My daughter loves Disney World- saw this fabric at MSQC and wanted to make her a quilt. I used the pattern Framed in the book Simply Retro by Camille Roskelly

By IAPanther

14 LIKES | 801 VIEWS

Dad's Ties

I made nine of these for family members for Christmas this year. Each one was a little different. They are made from the leftovers from a quilt I made for my mother earlier this year which was made from sixty years of my father's ties.

By KathleenB

7 LIKES | 1072 VIEWS

Wedding Ring Quilt

This quilt was started by LaGay Horton's grandmother. LaGay came to me to see if I could finish it for her for Christmas. I did the quilting, added a border and binding. Gave it back to LaGay for Christmas present to her.

By butterbelle

7 LIKES | 783 VIEWS

Angie's Ribbons

My niece had a stash of ribbons from showing horses so I made this quilt for her. It is one of the first quilts I pieced. It was before I heard about MSQC so it was without a pattern or direction. It is hand tied itstead of machine quilted as I didn't want to damage the ribbons. The gold satin was from the runner she used in her wedding.

By Gracie15

6 LIKES | 643 VIEWS

My first quilt

A friend's mother wanted her to try quilting. She wanted to please her Mom but did not want to go on her own. I went with for the fun and are still enjoying quilting. I do not have a lot of time to quilt; I love every minute of it, even though I am still a novice with much to learn

By soetkoekie

3 LIKES | 700 VIEWS

Boundless Beauty

Boundless Beauty is a quilt pattern I designed that will look great in any fabric collection or all scrappy! The pattern includes traditional piecing for jelly roll strips, as well as strip piecing for scraps or yardage. There are instructions for 5 sizes from Baby to King. This quilt is a twin size and is made from Flower Sugar fabrics and Kona White with a backing of super soft solid white and a binding of Riley Blake red/white gingham. You can purchase this pattern in my Craftsy shop: http://go-2.it/BusyHandsPatterns I offer discount on multiple pattern purchases through my Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BusyHandsPatterns Thank you!

By BusyHandsQuilts

45 LIKES | 1639 VIEWS

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