PeggyStuart | Quiltsby.me

The "aka" came from my husband. The design was inspired by “Sumptuous” from Connecting Threads, which was only available as a kit. http://www.connectingthreads.com/Kits/Sumptuous_Quilt_Kit__D8302.HTML Most of the fabrics came from my stash. I eliminated a lot of the seams by making a star block and an alternate block, described in my blog post from September 2014. http://quiltwithus.connectingthreads.com/profiles/blogs/high-fiber-blocks-boxes-and-boxtrolls My friend Julie took nearly a year to quilt it. Her quilting was worth the wait.

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Peggy's Pine Burr

I found this pattern in McCall's Quilting May/June 2012 and decided I wanted to make a version of it. It involved paper piecing, and I wasn't really ready for it yet, so I practiced the technique on some other quilts first. I like scrappy, even for backgrounds, and so my quilt turned out very different from the original version in the magazine.

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Soren's Dragon Quilt

Both of our first two grandsons were born during the "Year of the Dragon." I thought it would be fun for Soren to have a dragon on his quilt. I found dragon images online and picked one I thought was cute, then simplified it to design an appliqué image. The blocks were from Pam and Nicky Lintott's book, "Jelly Roll Quilts." It's the Hunter's star design. I used mostly batiks. 2012

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Johan's Horsie

Our youngest grandson was born during the "Year of the Horse." Since his brother received a dragon quilt for "Year of the Dragon," I looked for an image for a quilt for his brother, simplified it and made the appliqué. The blocks were from Pam and Nicky Lintott's book, "Jelly Roll Quilts," the "Twin Stars" pattern. Fabrics were scraps given me by friends and background fabric was left over from another quilt. 2014

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Zachary's Train

This quilt was for Zachary, our first grandson. I found the pattern here: http://www.hobby-tronics.com/Chiloquilters/index_files/Block1_of_the_Month.htm I used fabrics from my stash. I think I got Zachary started on a train obsession, not necessarily a bad thing for a little boy. 2012

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Pine Forest

When we lived in England in 1988, my parents and I made an excursion to visit the place where my father's family lived after 1066 AD. We went to a service at the local church, and some people we met in church invited us to come visit them. I made this quilt as a gift to thank them after we moved back to the U.S. 1990.

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La Cucaracha

This was a small wall quilt I made a few years ago for a quilt challenge my guild had. The inner border was the challenge fabric. We had to use five fabrics, including the challenge fabric. Size was specified. Embroidery and embellishments were allowed. I appliquéd the (pardon me) cockroach, sombrero and letters and added googly eyes, and spangles for castanets.

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Rocky's Quilt

This quilt was made for Rocky, our male miniature poodle. (He's the one in my avatar.) The label is in the shape of a bone.

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Baby Bunny Quilt

Bunny block from Edyta Sitar's book, "Hop to It!" The carrots are my own design. (How artistic do you have to be to draw a carrot?). Cornerstones and plain blocks are two of the Beatrix Potter "Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny" line of fabrics. All others are either from my "local quilt shop" or Connecting Threads. This was our second granddaughter's baby quilt, finished in time for her birth in 2010.

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Hexagon Quilt

This was another quilt inspired by a quilt brought to my mini group by one of the members. She was finishing it for a friend. I snapped a photo, printed it in B&W, bought a hexagon ruler to aid in cutting the triangles to make the hexagons, and before I knew it, it was done. Rather than sew the hexagons together completely, I made half hexagons and joined them as I put the rows together. I use it as a tablecloth on a small table in our living room. March 2013.

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Janet's Quilt

I think this is the Devil's Claw block. A friend found an almost identical quilt in a thrift store and bought it. When she showed it to our quilt guild, I got chills. I asked permission to copy it, and she agreed. I was able to match the orange fabric. I took a photo of her quilt and measured the blocks. My quilting is different from hers, and there were some mistakes (maybe on purpose?) in her quilt, which I didn't copy. She didn't want me to copy the quilt exactly, and I figured I didn't need to put in mistakes on purpose, as there are bound to be some anyway. 2004

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Cranes

This was a Ricky Tims Convergence Quilt. I made it for our daughter in 2008, when she received her PhD.

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