ckg246 | Quiltsby.me

In 2018 one of my resolutions was to sew all my quilts that year from fabric in my stash. I was more successful than I expected and it really wasn't that hard to do. "Ella" was the last quilt pieced in 2018 and came from my stash of batiks. I had a large number of cream batik 4" squares that I had cut for another quilt and the other batiks had been collected over the past 6-8 years. The pattern called for using charm squares but I changed all the squares to 4".

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Spooky Cats

I was looking for a simple block that I could use with my stash of Halloween themed fabric and found the cat block in Block magazine, Spring issue of Vol.4. I created enough blocks for both this quilt and a table runner. I made one small change in the "Pins and Paws" quilt pattern in that I didn't use 2 different colors for backgrounds. Instead, the backgrounds in my blocks were different patterns in grey - one with storm clouds and the other with spider webs. To give the quilt a more modern feel, I used closely spaced vertical channel machine quilting.

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A Quilt for Maddy

Maddy received a Cabbage Patch Kid for Christmas and she likes to put her new friend down for an afternoon nap each day. This quilt will keep her warm and cozy especially since it is made of flannel, her favorite fabric. The design is basically a nine patch using five coordinating fabrics. Quilting was done on a domestic machine using a grid pattern.

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Ahoy, the Whale

This quilt was inspired by a Pinterest photo and a need to reduce my stash of ocean and nautical themed fabric. I used a red ticking for the center squares, alternating the direction of the stripes, to add visual interest. The whale is a large applique which is fused and then outlined with a machine buttonhole stitch.

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A Christmas Cardinal inspired by Charley Harper

I enjoy the art work of Charley Harper, especially his birds, giraffes, and other animals. His cardinals have always appealed to me because of their bright color and modern lines. This small wall hanging is used on my front door during the holiday season. The applique pieces are sewn to the background with a buttonhole stitch in black thread.

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Panel Play

When I need a quilt for a donation or to try out a new thread or design for quilting or just as a last minute gift, panels make a great way to start. This quilt used a panel with 15 preprinted blocks and added 5 fabrics in colors and prints that coordinated with those blocks. 2 strip sets - one with the red and the white fabric and one with the blue, green and yellow - were used to make 2 x 2 blocks and the remaining filler blocks.

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Holiday Images

Usually I am working on holiday projects up to the last minute but I seem to be ahead of schedule this year. This quilt is comprised of blocks that were part of a quilt along presented on sewfreshquilts.com from January to August 2017. There was a total of 15 blocks presented, each using a construction method that was new to me. "Holiday Images" has versions 6 of the blocks laid out in a row quilt arrangement. The background is a light blue batik embossed with silver snowflakes. Longarm quilting was done by Shirley at Olde City Quilts, Burlington, NJ.

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A Witch and Her Hat

The four machine embroidered blocks with a witch theme were created while I was learning to use various features of an embroidery sewing machine. I experimented with glow in the dark thread on the witch stirring her cauldron (it really does glow in the dark). The quilting in the blocks is hand quilting. The piece can be used as a wall hanging, door decoration, or a table accent.

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Flag in a Flag

When July 4th is in the near future I know it's time to pull out and hang my favorite patriotic quilt. Among the reasons I like it is the simplicity of the design and the wide variety of fabrics used. Because of the very narrow strips, the blocks were paper pieced and then assembled into a 3 x 3 square. Borders were added and then it was hand quilted.

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Puppy Paws 1

The flannel fabric with cats and dogs was too cute to pass up when I saw it in a store in the Lancaster PA area a few months ago. I built the design around the dog theme and included the paw print applique blocks. I also included other fabrics with dog related prints - the words on a teal background for the paw prints and a dog bone print used for the binding. In addition to the dog and cat fabric, flannels are also used for the background of the applique blocks and the border.

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Keep the Home Fires Burning

The quilt was made as a gift for a friend that was moving away. She told me that her favorite colors were blue and yellow so I put together a log cabin quilt and used orange for the center block to represent the "home fire."

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Friendship Star

Designed for Pennsbury Manor historic site as a prize in a fund raising raffle. Friendship stars seemed appropriate for the home of William Penn, the quaker founder of Pennsylvania. The quilt is handquilted.

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