Jean57 | Quiltsby.me

October 2019 my Mom, two friends and I made a quilt shop safari across two states to go to a Jenny Doan trunk show. This is made from the 5 inch squares that were in our swag bags. We “hit” four quilt shops on the way to my Mom’s house! 3 more on the way to the show! Next morning we headed back to my mom’s via another 5 quilt shops, a candy store, and an amazing yarn store. For good measure after leaving my moms we hit one more! It was an amazing trip, the trunk of the car was stuffed to the brim. I did a medium sized meander in all of the background squares the pinwheels would pop up. Likely will be a shroud but will let. Y Mom decide.

By Jean57

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It's s Mystery

My Mom really didn't' remember this project. It was with Apple Core lining stuff and many of them were already cut from paper for templates. When I got to looking through it and trying to figure it out I asked my Mom if it was okay to do something else since I really wasn't a fan of apple core, She said sure, she wasn't either. I added the deep burgundy and was able to get this nice lap sized throw. It will likely become a shroud.

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Funky Fat Quarters

Well, that's what I'm calling them. Very strange prints and colors that when put together like this really seemed to work out okay. This was another in my Mom's stash of things. Likely it will become a shroud.

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Lemon Star Stash Quilt 2

The center stars are actually from the first Lemon Star quilt. I bumped up the sizes and made a bunch more stars to go around the smaller stars. Thinking I would have to add a border around the smaller stars to get it all to work. But, it turned out it was easier to just put in spacers! Will give to my Darling Daughter to give away to one of her residents.

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Wake the Baby

My Mom had a pile of little block packets from her local fabric shop. She kept part and sent along these. (I quit making them when I had the number needed) With a little finagling of the fabrics I came up with these 12. Bordered with more of the fabric and bound with a purple from my stash it turned out pretty cute. Also from my Mom's stash was a lot of the Ultra Suede fabrics. Quilted using a large meander. They are making fabulous backs. Will go to a nephew and wife who are expecting their first in August.

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ACK! She Can't Be That Old! :(

My Glorious Granddaughter is graduating from High School this spring. When I asked her if she would like a quilt she said yes! Could it be a throw size in mint and greys? Okkkaay...she sent me to Hobby Lobby to look at the mint dish rags. Which I carried over to the fabric department to see what I could find. WOW! Didn't realize it is the color this year. Found some beautiful fabrics to use in a star pattern I had found sometime ago. I made up several different blocks using the colors and texted them to her. She picked her favorite arrangement and I got started. Yikes, a lot of HST. Friend said to do at the least part of it as flying geese and here is how you do them 4 at once. That was a great time saver. Once together I laid out several choices on borders and texted her again. Going with what turned out to be both of our favorite layout! I used a large flower meander and leave things. (Technical term) The binding is with the same fabric as the outside border; I really like the look of an infinity edge on quilts that I want your eye to go to the center, not the edge.

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Fish Print

When my daughter was in 5th grade she went to camp. One of the projects was fish paintings. It has languished in a box for YEARS! But now, with my quilting skills improving I came across it again. I asked my daughter if it would be okay to quilt it, and then she could frame it. She was excited that I even still had it. I am after all my Mother's daughter and do have a bit of a stash myself so of course I still had it! The fish is quilted with variegated thread and the "water" is cream to blend with the background.

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Stash Using Dignity Quilt

It is amazing what you can create from a bunch of leftovers in the kitchen and in the sewing room! This Dignity quilt was created using up the last of the Water Fowl quilt pieces and a myriad of other projects using outdoorsy colors and fabrics. Oh! and I used a variegated thread for the quilting; each time it came to the green I would create leaves! Was a bit tough to really watch for that green coming and to guess the leaves right.

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Water Fowl Block Dignity Quilt

Hmm, I think these came once again from my Mom. They languished for a couple of years in my "decommissioned" fabrics stash until it too was almost empty and I had collected a variety of outdoorsy colors to create this quilt. It will go to my Daughter as a shroud.

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Mom's Gems

My Mom has decided that it is time to start cleaning and clearing out her house. 60 years! A long time to gather all sorts of treasures. Her collections included all sorts of clothing and fabrics left from projects clear back to the the 50's! These were really hard for her to part with and she just couldn't bring herself to cut them up. I brought home an Explorer full of fabrics and clothing she had been storing for years. We know this is hard for her so I decided to create a wall hanging using some of the most precious of these gems. Donna Jordan of Jordan fabrics has a pattern she calls Beads. I think they look more like Gems and thought these gems of fabrics would be perfect way of displaying my Mom's treasures. I used point to point quilting in the gems to give them a faceted look.

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Another Wonky Stars

I made this one first out of the peach fabrics in my stash and put the pretty dark border on it. I scrambled the pieces all around to really give it a scrappy look. This one I quilted stars in the center of the stars where the other I just shadowed the outline. Again playing with the roses quilting pattern in the background and a really large version of it in the border.

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Wonky Stars

This is another Dignity Quilt. Pieced from all sorts of scraps and bits and bobs of peach colored fabrics. I made all the main part of the stars from the same fabric. (Well, can you find the one I couldn't?) I have been having fun with the hook and feathers quilting pattern. A friend who saw it thought it looked like roses.

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