Quilts.

I was on a roll for a while.  I managed to get a lot of tops finished, and then quilted.  What a feeling of accomplishment. Some had been in the works for a while.  I went to the Morton Arboretum to take some of the pictures of my accomplishments.

This is a Charley Harper quilt I started at a quilt retreat.  The pattern was one I found on the Fabricworm website using these fabrics. I even used their idea for the quilting.  It is just straight lines.  I love how it turned out.

Fatcat patterns is where this one came from.

Have gotten into Gnomes.  This one is made using Hawaiian fabric that was all in my 

stash.  Did not make much of a dent in it.  It is all applique, raw edge.

A block of the month. Finished this one in 2019.

Another Fatcat pattern.

This one is the Gnomes at Christmas.  Another block of the month, and

doing it by raw edge.  This was my first attempt at doing this method.

Sure did learn a lot trying this method.

The girls were liking being on this quilt.

There is something about quilts and cats.

Have finally started working on this project from

Hummingbird Highway.  This is also a quilt block of the month.

I have been collecting these blocks for almost three years now.

They all come as a laser cut pattern with instructions of what gets put together to 

complete segments, then how to put the whole pattern together.  They are fun.

They take some time, but once you get working on them they seem to go by fast.

Another Jen Kingwell pattern done.

This one is called "Broken Glass".

When I started this quilt I had been following the size of the blocks

carefully.  Then it got put away for a while.   Then it came out again and I started making

blocks, I found out they were not the same size as the first batch.

I made the decision to find the smaller block, and make all blocks the same size.

That put a different spin on the quilt.  It is a scrap quilt.  I used a lot of different fabrics.

There were circles that were to be appliqued on it, but decided it would accent the fact

that the blocks were not the correct size.

I love how this one came out as well.

I had packets of the tumbler block that were precut.

Time to get this one done as well.  I used what I had to create 

this quilt. This one because a wedding quilt for one of my son

Andy's friends.  They were thrilled with this quilt.

Quilt Seminars at Sea hosted Gyleen Fitzgerald. She had a new

and different way to put this quilt together. Way out of my comfort zone.

I had a pack of 10 inch squares to start.  On my way to Florida to take the cruise,

I stopped at Hancock's in Paducah and picked up addition fabrics to go 

along with the fabrics I had.  Not a color pallet I have used before.

It was time to get some more projects that were in progress done!

Jen Kingwell quilt. I named it 1 2 3 Testing.

When I saw the pattern, I like it. It reminded me of the old test pattern

we used to see on the television when they signed off at night.

Again another scrappy quilt.

Saw this pattern on the internet.  Someone was having a quilt along.

As usual I was a day late and a dollar short.

It is just a nine patch using bright colors and black on white, or white on black

for the background blocks.

My bid on a Halloween quilt.  It is small, a table topper.

Just made a lot of hexies, hand sewed them together and

appliqued them to a block background. It was just fun to 

play around with this one.  No rhyme or reason to it.

This was a finish up quilt.  It is hand applique tulips done in 30's 

fabric.  It was so nice to get another top put together and done.

I had to make a couple blocks to finish it up.

Yellow-brick Road.  My friend had asked that I make her a quilt.

She wanted me to use a combination of black, gray and white.

Some pieces of fabric are in it only once or maybe twice, others more.

It was fun to use this type of pallet. 

Another Quilt Seminars at Sea project.

Was on this cruise in January 2019 to Hawaii.

Jess Finn of  "Paper Pieces" in Paducah was the teacher.

The pattern is Tula Nova and is all hand pieced over different shapes.

This is not the whole pattern.  It goes out as far as the background fabric

would allow.  The background I found in Honolulu to compliment the colors and fabrics. 

I had decided to use.

Closeup of some of the gorgeous quilting that was

done on this quilt.

Another closeup.

Bought this pattern in Florida a couple years ago. Thought

it was a great quilt to use pieces of primary colors.  You just never know 

when you might need a child's quilt.

Here is what I put on the back of the crayon quilt.

I have had this Tony the Tiger panel for years, and a coordination

Kellogg fabric.  I did had to add some blue for the back.

Thought Tony had sat around long enough.

Temecula Quilts, in California had posted this pattern several years

ago. They did it in Reproduction fabrics. I thought it would be fun to do it in

just two colors, green and blue.  There are different shades in both colors, and

all done randomly. Pleased with how this one turned out, too.

Mini quilt from Kathleen Tracy.  

You know how sometimes things just jump out at you, 

and you feel compelled to make it.

It is machine sewn together, and hand quilted using the

"big stitch" style.

A small quilt from the "Quilt Merchant" in Winfield, Il.

This was one of the projects that it was about time to do.

Another picture of the Gnomes at Christmas laying on

one of the Trolls at the Morton Arboretum.

That is it on the quilt front for the time being.

I have a few more that are done for this year, but no photos

yet.  Since we have been subject to staying at home and

only going out of essential things I just have not done it yet.

The Arboretum and Botanic Gardens have been closed. 

Some of the Forest Preserves have been too.  We are

all social-distancing.