akaJaneAce | Quiltsby.me

This was an original design for a veteran's quilt donation. I had an extra odd-sized square from another quilt and built this one around scraps from the first. The quilting was inspired by the placement of the appliqued stars. Lots of fun. Though not a large quilt, it was a challenging and fun project.

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Homeland Stars

Our group was making small quilts for a local veteran's hospital and I decided to try making the Godey Star block and used up some 1990's fabric from my personal stash. The combination worked, and I still do like the Godey star made from 14 HSTs in three colors and four solid squares.

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The Lattice Quilt

This one was for my first granddaughter. I used precuts for the color pieces except for a very few which were from scraps of my own little girl's dresses I had made. My cell phone camera helped in identifying tones with a tonal photo.

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Jane's Star

With this fun, large blocked quilt I found a way to use my animal prints. Had fun adding a design tweak by putting shapes (circle, rectangle, triangle, and square), in contrast.. with half encompassing the critter in their corner. Also, what fun to finally use my remnant bin leopard print purchase for the binding. The monkey print for the backing is flannel.

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With the Light from Above

This quilt was designed by using a photo and transforming it into square pixels at a rather large setting in GIMP (photo manipulator). I graphed the resulting image and matched the colors from my bag of scraps. Most people have trouble seeing the dove flying in front of the flag, unless they are across the room from the quilt. Smaller squares would have made the image more evident, but I doubt I would have ever completed the project with smaller squares!

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Midnight in the Garden

This project's fabric composition was inspired by some donation butterfly prints The pattern of the quilt top was from an old quilting magazine, and the back was pieced using sheeting and some of my favorite leftover blocks of one of the butterfly prints.

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Tweet Street

This quilt's bluebirds came to be when I miscalculated the border length and needed an extension plan. Not confident with my bird drawing skills, I looked on the net until I noticed some modern art birds were not much more than big commas with eyes, beaks, and a feather or two on the tail. Problem solved. Completed it becomes my Project Linus 2017 donation quilt.

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