Spring 2013 Quilt Festival - Post Two

This is the second quilt that I am entering into the Spring 2013 Quilt Festival at Amy's Creative side. Go HERE to see lots of great quilts. Just click on the different categories.

I am entering my "Winter Quilt" in the Throw Quilt Category.

This quilt was made as part of the Bloggers Block of the Month Quilt Along.  I used winter fabrics and ended up with a Winter/Christmas quilt in a throw size.

I enjoyed having it laying on the back of the couch all winter!

This fabric with the Holly and Cardinals was perfect for the back.

Spring Quilt Festival 2013 - Post One

Its time for the Spring Quilt Festival for 2013 at Amy's Creative Side. Go HERE to read about the festival.  Just click on the different category links to see all kinds of wonderful quilts.

This year the festival is divided into categories and each post will need to be entered into a particular category.  I'd like to enter my "Just Another Day in Paradise" quilt in the photography category.  I'm certainly no professional photographer, but I do enjoy "trying" to get a few good shots...

The name of this quilt is "JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE".

The quilt was made using a Disappearing Nine Patch pattern as part of a DP9 Patch quilt along that I participated in earlier this year.

When I photograph a quilt in front of this field behind my house, you never know what will be in the field.  This time, it was freshly plowed and prepared for planting.

Here are more pictures taken in other spots:

The back of the quilt.
 

Be sure to visit the quilt festival HERE to see all kinds of wonderful quilts!

Spring Quilt Festival 2012 - Jacob's Dream

Its time for the Spring Bloggers' Quilt Festival at Amy's Creative Side. The festival starts today and lasts for a couple of weeks, so there's plenty of time to enter and look at all the beautiful quilts!

The quilt I am entering is "Jacob's Dream", which is the quilt I made for my son, Jacob, earlier this year. I made this quilt in masculine fabrics of all kinds using the Jacob's Ladder quilt block.

"JACOB'S DREAM"






Love the blue skies:



On a chair in the kitchen in the sunshine:









On a bench:






My son, Jacob:





Sweet Dreams!

Gentleman's Quarters

The Spring Blogger's Quilt Festival is here and this is my entry for Spring 2011.
Click HERE to see all the quilts on display at Amy's Creative Side.





This is a quilt I made for my son, Jacob, from his old blue jeans and flannel. He loves this quilt. Its kind of heavy and he can't hurt it because all of the fabric has been washed and dryed countless times before it ever evolved into a quilt. I just throw it into the washer and dryer or like the picture, hang it on the line. Its handquilted, which was kind of hard since the jean material is so thick!

Blogger's Quilt Festival Fall 2010 - My First Real Quilt

Be sure to visit AMY'S CREATIVE SIDE for literally hundreds of quilts and their stories, in the Blogger's Quilt Festival for the Fall of 2010.

The quilt I am showcaseing is very special to me!

In 1998 I made my first "real" quilt for my daughter. She had just left home for college and I wanted to make something special for her.



I had always dreamed of making quilts and quilt making was a part of my soul, even before I actually made one.

My first memories of this quilt obsession was when I was about 10. I collected squares of fabric in a box, but never made the quilt. I Don't know what ever happened to that box of squares.

In the early 1980s I ordered Georgia Bonesteel's Lap Quilting book through the mail. I would sit and study this book for hours. I didn't have a quilt frame, so lap quilting was the answer!

So my first real quilt was a Sampler Quilt made from the patterns in this book. The anchor fabric was a "cat" print in blues, browns, and beiges. My daughter liked cats and the color blue a lot when she was young.

Here are close ups of a few of the blocks:

GRANDMOTHER'S FAN



MONKEY WRENCH



PINWHEEL AND CARD TRICKS



CRAZY PATCH



LITTLE DUTCH GIRL/SUNBONNET SUE



SAILS IN THE SUNSET



HOUSE ON THE HILL



THE BACK OF THE QUILT



Not shown is the top right hand block which is a friendship block. In the center is a square that I cross stitched my daughter's name, the date and my name, with love, of course.