I call this one my coat of many colors. This quilt is made from scraps of fabric from the same color spectrum. This was a great stash Buster and it put a small dent in the scrap pile. I sent this quilt to Nashville to a friend of mine who I've known for the last 32 years. It was just a token to let them know that I still care about them.

I started this quilt about 4 years ago.  I had pieced it, pinned it, and put it away.  I was in transition for a few years and it was in storage for 3 yrs before I actually decided to take it out and do something with it.  All fabrics are from my stash (scrappy).  Quilted on a HSM (as I normally do).  Enjoy!

This is a baby quilt made out of charms.  The letters were raw edged appliqued by hand.

This quilt was made for a co-worker who lost her mom not long ago.  The middle is a panel called "Footprints" and the borders are made up of 9 patch squares set on point. It was easy and fun to make.  I strip pieced the squares and everything came together rather quickly.

I just love this quilt.  It is called "Town Square" from the Midnight Quilter series that you can catch for free on www.craftsy.com or www.youtube.com. I used batik charm packs and black back ground fabric.  I came together rather easily and I love the way the colors of the batiks pop off of the black fabric. It was easy to make, now I just need to figure out how to quilt it.

I really like the way this quilt turned out.  It was meant to be a bed quilt, however, the curved piecing really tired me out and it was made into a wall hanging.  The quilting is a circular design about 1/2 inch apart.  I am happy and I am really enjoying the color pallet as well.

Cherokee Culture Quilt

This is called the Cherokee Culture Quilt.  My 2nd grade social studies class helped me make this.  The idea was to assign each student a different aspect of the Cherokee Indian life style.  They were given a 10 X 10 piece of muslin to decorate and express their ideas.  I then took the squares and sewed them together in a quilt.  This quilt will be displayed in my classroom this fall for all to enjoy.

Beautiful one

This is a quilt using text.  This is my first time doing something like this.  The letters were improvisational.  I used purple and white scraps, and white yardage.  There is a little tan thrown in for contrast and interest.  At first, I thought that this would be hard, but it was not.  Once you get the basic form of the letters down, you can make any letter, small or capital.  The dove is appliqued but everything else is improvisational pieced without any templates.

2016 BOM

This is a quilt from a free online class from www.craftsy.com.  This is the 2016 BOM.  Those piano keys and the pinwheels were quite challenging, but I loved every minute of it.  This quilt took me outside of my comfort zone and made me do techniques that I do not like.....i.e. applique.  It was fun.

Serenity

This is a favorite one of mine and it also carries a very special meaning.

One day I was sitting down and thinking about my aunt who had been sick lately and she had been in and out of the hospital.  So, I came up with the idea to make all four (4) of my aunts a personalized quilt.  This quilt has a panel in the center which is the Lord's Prayer and stars that make up one of the borders.  My aunt lives in TN and at the time, I was living in GA so I made the drive to TN to hand deliver all of the quilts.  When my aunt received this quilt, she was pleased and excited.  My heart was full and I was happy that I had done something special for them because they had always been there for me.

Unfortunately, about two months later, my aunt suddenly passed away.  The quilt was passed to her son, my first cousin.  But he later got a divorce and left the quilt with his ex.  The quilt is now lost and I have no idea if the ex still has it or not (probably not!) I would love to get it back because it carries a deep and special meaning for me. I am just happy that she got to enjoy it for a short time and that she felt the love of every stitch.

Strip Tease

Okay, you all already know that I love to scrap quilt.  So, here is another one from days gone by.  This is a strip quilt.  The strips are foundation pieced onto a muslin square.  It has no batting because it was meant to be a summer quilt.  The blocks are 10 inch squares.  Instead of doing a traditional binding, I cut the backing larger and folded it to the front and sewed it down.

The Wild One

Yes! The Wild One.  This is a totally scrappy quilt.  I had some left over animal prints from two different quilts and a tub full of scraps.  So, I decided to alternate the scrappy blocks with the animal prints.  I made little pin wheels and square in a square blocks.  This is probably one of my favorites.  I love to piece the blocks without a pattern.  I just improvise the arrangement and cut them down to size.  A great way to use up your scraps.

Scrappy Court House

This is a scrappy court house steps quilt.  The blocks are 12 inches finished.  The center is a 5 inch charm and the strips are about 1.5 inches.  The fabric came from my scrap basket because it was getting too big and I needed to make a dent in it.  The back is pieced from the left over scraps from the front of this quilt.

The quilting was done on a home sewing machine.  I used a walking foot.  I started from the center of the quilt and quilted a spiraling square until I reached the outside of the quilt.  The lines are quilted at 1 inch apart.

Hexie

This is my hexagon quilt....purple and pink.  I made this for my sister.  I haven't quilted it yet, but you can get the gist of it.

Slice & Dice

This quilt starts off with a simple 9 patch block and each square inside the block is 5 inches.  This quilt was made with about 20 charm packs.  I sliced and diced the 9 patch block twice.  The first slice was 1 3/4 inches from the center on both sides of the middle line.  Sew those back together.  Then slice again at 2 inches from the center line and sew those back together.  I separated the charms into lights and darks and alternated the blocks within the quilt.  This quilt is made out of flannel and should be quite warm.

In the Mix

This quilt is called "In the mix".  The reason I named it this is because all of these blocks were orphan blocks.  They were made up just because or left over from other quilts.  They have absolutely nothing to do with each other, however, I think they go together nicely with the sashing and border.  I think this is a great way to use up scraps and old blocks that you would never put in a quilt.  Try it!  I guarantee that you will be pleased with the results.  I am!

Zen

This is a black and white lap quilt with a splash of red in the border.  The entire quilt was pieced and quilted by me.  I used a 60 degree diamond template for the border quilting.  There is stitching in the ditch, free motion, and echo quilting.

This is the back.  It is pieced from left over fabric from the front.

Charity Quilt 2

This is a what I call a utility quilt or a charity quilt.  This quilt was made from donated fabrics.  The fabrics were polyester (orange), poly/cotton (black), and knits (blue/white).  It was a bit of a challenge working with something other than 100% cotton, but once I committed to it, I had to make it happen.  It just proves that you can work with other fabrics and still make a beautiful quilt.  This quilt was donated to an elderly neighbor friend.

Sampler 2012

This is a lap sized sampler.  This is a smaller version of the original sampler which has 20 blocks.  Since this quilt was for a little girl, I decided to use only 12 of them.  This pattern originally came about from an online class I took at www.craftsy.com in 2012 and it was FREE!!  There is also a great class by Leah Day that shows you how to quilt this sampler but that will cost ya'...not much though.  This is my version and my little cuz loved it!  I gave it to her on yesterday for her birthday.

Blue Jean Quilt

This is a blue jean lap sized quilt.  I bought about 15 pairs of blue jeans from the Salvation army.  On Wednesday's you get them at half price so I paid about $2.00 for a pair.  I washed them and cut them up into 4inch x 8 inch blocks.  I staggered them like bricks to prevent sewing through four bulky seams and this really worked out great for me.  I then quilted it in straight lines going in one direction with three different color types of thread about one inch apart. I did use a cotton batting but it still quilted well and has the right amount of weight.  It is also very warm.  I love it.

Bargello

This is my bargello quilt top.  I have not quilted it yet.  I really love the color pallet and I tried to be really accurate with the piecing.  It is a big quilt.  It will fit a king size bed approximately 90X100. I used the strip piecing technique by creating all of these strip sets and sewing them together.  It was a long process but well worth it.

I delivered this quilt to my baby sister on Thanksgiving 2015.  She loved it!

Prince

This is my first attempt at an art quilt.  I traced the picture and free motion quilted all the lines and chest/head hair.  I then colored it with colored pencils and sealed it with a textile medium and then added a border.  I had fun and will probably try this technique again.

Improvisational piecing

This quilt is an improvisational pieced quilt which means that there is no set pattern that was followed, instead pieces of fabric were randomly sewed together that were pleasing to the eye of the quilter.  This quilt top came to me through my aunt.  My aunt's friend is an older lady and she had been ill and had this quilt top that she had started to piece by hand.  The lady knew that I quilted, so she gave it to my aunt to give to me because she didn't think that she would ever finish it.  When I received it, the hand sewing was not secure and it would have come apart in the first wash.  So, I decided to rip out all of the hand stitching and sewed everything again by machine.  I quilted it, put on the backing and the binding.  I kept her original fabrics for the top and I pieced the back from my personal stash.  I decided that I would re-gift the quilt to the lady so I gave it back to my aunt and my aunt gave it back to the lady.  Ironically, the lady's birthday was the next day and she said that this was the best birthday gift that she had ever received.  I am happy that she is enjoying her quilt and that I was a part of this journey.

Scrappy Dresden

This is a picture of my latest creation called "Scrappy Dresden".  This quilt had a long journey to get to this point.  The large Dresden plates were created first about four years ago. They lay dormant until last year when I took two the five that I had made and made pillows from them.  Then I was left with three.  Then I decided that I really wanted to make a scrappy Dresden plate quilt.  My dilemma was that I only had three plates so I had to make more.  Another dilemma was that after I made the new plates, I realized that they were smaller than the original three.  I did not freak out and I had to make it work somehow. I forged on and completed the quilt.  Made the scrappy border and the two color binding.  The back is also pieced out of scraps.  This is a great quilt to make a dent in your stash and use up those fabrics that you just can not work into other quilts.  This would be the perfect quilt.

 As I was appliqueing the plates using the classic zigzag stitch, my machine began to act out and the tension was off and the zigzag started to pull and show the bobbin thread on top.  I got frustrated and did some hand applique then I did a straight stitch around three of them. Of course, I knew this was not going to work because I still had raw edges that were not covered.  In the end, I had to go back, once I had it sandwiched, and zigzagged around those three that I had straight stitched and the one that I had hand stitched.  Needless to say, I had a lot of technical issues with this quilt.

As you can see, the bobbin thread is a teal colored polyester thread which I loved.  The top is quilted with a transitional polyester thread that has four colors - red, green, blue, and yellow.  The white space around the plates is quilted with a white polyester thread.  (I will use cotton or polyester for quilting.  Polyester is stronger and has a great shine and cotton is matte.) You can see the straight line quilting which covers the entire quilt (my free motion sucks!) You can also see the zigzags too because I did that quilting after it was sandwiched.  I am not worried about that because I think that it gives the quilt personality.  I am not a "show quilter" so it is okay if I have some imperfections as long as my quilting techniques are sound and the quilt is well made.

This is a another shot of the back of the quilt showing the quilting and the pieced back.  The back has about five different fabrics that I pieced together.  Since this quilt is totally scrappy, I did not worry about coordinating fabrics.  I used scraps that I wanted to get rid of and they worked perfectly in this quilt. I am proud of ScrappyD and I hope that you have enjoyed it.

Allegiance

This is a lap throw. This was made and is dedicated to all of the men and women of the US Armed Forces who protect us and our way of life. Thank You!