2012-OK-Quilter | Quiltsby.me

My husband wanted me to make him a quilt. He's rather tall, so I had to measure to make sure I got it long enough! He especially uses it while reclining on these cold winter days. The first one I made him was not quite long enough, so I specifically looked for botanical print fabric (purchased from Hancock's of Paducah) since he is a botanist/scientist. I wanted it to be special, just for him. He's a plant guy. It was hard to keep it from him while working on it, but it was worth it, once it was quilted in a lovely leaf pattern, it was strikingly beautiful. I saw the pattern on youtube at a quilting workshop. So I just had to make my own sizes, but followed the basic design, and chose to do large blocks of complementary fabrics on the back.

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Baby Kisses for Emma

When I saw Jenny's video of this pattern, I knew I wanted to do this for my friend who was expecting a little girl, I had already purchased the charm packs from MSQ, and just needed to find matching yardage for the borders. The butterfly yardage just matched perfectly. My friend had a very difficult delivery, so we were thrilled and thankful when she finally arrived safe and well. Happy Birthday Emma!

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X's and O's For a Friend at work

A friend at work ask me to make a quilt for her nieces baby boy, she loved baseball, so we found some fabrics on MSQ, decided to use charm packs for this project. She was so pleased how it turned out. I also have a friend who does personalized labels for me so that adds a special touch to each quilt.

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Flutterby Quilt

I thought using the textured colors in the burlap fabrics plus a nice realistic fabric with fish in it, ( for the fisherman) I would surely make an amazing colorful quilt for my older brother. He has been one of my greatest supports, especially after our mother died. We were so blessed to have her fine example of giving, devotion to family and a strong work ethic. I know she would be so happy to see some of these quilts, I only wish that she had been here to help me and show me how to do it! That is why I have been so thankful for Jenny's video's. I pick up things all the time that help me along the way.

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Friendship Braid

This quilt was specifically and specially made for a dear friend in my church. She was the life and logic of everything good. I had started this quilt for her, and was afraid I may not get it finished before she died. She had cancer and was getting better it seemed, but then it had spread and the doctors did not have any more they could do for her. I did complete it and was able to give it to her, so happy she enjoyed it for a while. She loved the fall season and the fall colors. I see it every week in the church where we meet and am reminded of her, her love, her sense and her hope for a better world.

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Serendipity 1 & 2

Baby quilts for boys. Found an older video of Jenny making these and thought this was such a good idea to use up the fabrics, really not wasting anything! Another fun project. Wouldn't this be fun for identical or fraternal twins? You get two in one.

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4-Patch Frenzy

Made for my nieces 10 yr. old daughter, hoping it was not too "little girlish" for her, but she loved it! We visited recently and it was on her bed, so she is still using it and knows that it was specially made for her. I know Jenny made this pattern using a Halloween theme, but I wanted to use a more youthful fun fabric for my great niece. I think it worked well.

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Quilt for Silas

It became time to make quilts for the nieces and nephews. The next was for my nieces little boy, Silas. He loved monkeys and dinosaurs so the fabric was perfect for him. Simple half square triangles. He is three now and is still using the quilt.

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Zoe's Quilt

Next was a younger, brighter baby quilt made with batik fabrics. I began to provide baby quilts in my church family. This was so much fun, and the colors were so bright and reminded me of watercolor (which I love to do as well) I believe I just sewed a 9 patch with the 5" precut squares, then cut in half and reassembled where they looked best. Pretty simple.

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Robert's baby Quilt

After the baby quilt for Annina, I just decided to use up the fabrics and incorporated other solid colors for a baby boy. So the pattern was the same, I just turned the squares a different way, making rows of diagonals, like a weave.

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Annina's Baby Quilt

My next challenge was making my first baby quilt for one of our new bosses at work, Of course I just thought it would be fun and I really wanted to give her something "original and creative." I just had to figure out what scraps, what pattern and how to incorporate yellow, a color she loved. The results turned out very well and mother and daughter loved it too.

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Transitions Quilt

With the left over fabric from Jacobs Ladder, the green fabrics seemed to be very suited for this shadow box look, called transitions. It also seemed like the time to make my nephew a bed quilt. He had been looking after our mother and he wanted a quilt from his "aunt Julie" as I recall. It was fun seeing it come together with those contrasting squares, even if they were all the same. Jenny helped out with those "sewing two squares together" short cuts. I was learning to sew patterns together from Jenny's videos.

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