Gift for my Nephew and his new Bride

I've had this tree skirt pattern for a few years, its from Butterfly Crossing.

A bit hard to understand the directions and I cut too much here and there and not enough of something else...so I have almost enough oops strips probably make anouther one!



I quilted from the underside backing and used the poinsettas as the quilt pattern.

It was fun to quilt it that way and looks great on the front.

 

Framing Day

  

 

  Pineapple in lovely rustic colours. I love using Moda Fabrics.

 

   The above quilt pattern shown is called Flying Geese
   and the blocks are only 1 inch square. This little quilt has
   208 little pieces of fabric all sewn back together.
  

   How pretty is this pattern which is called New York Beauty.

  I love using bright batik fabrics for this little quilt, the blocks

  are only 2.50 square.       

   The Red School House, this is always a popular

   quilt given as a gift for teachers.

   Snail's Trail. Interesting pattern reminds me of

  an Escher tessellation.

Peaceful Piecing.

  

Here is a peak at a Flying Geese pattern.
Let's see...120 blocks at 1.5 inches each...

13 pieces of fabric per block making it a total of 1560 little teeny tiny pieces of fabric. Completed the quilt is about 19 3/4 by 16 3/4. 
I love scappy quilts.  

 

 

 Lou is always a willing work surface.

 

 

 

I think this is an Edyta Sitar pattern from Laundry Basket Quilts but I'm not certain, one of those quilts that stuck in my head and I knew it would make a great miniature quilt.



More Miniatures in the works

Here are 3 miniature quilts in the works.

Two are Pineapple and one is Snail's Trail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maple Leaf miniature quilt being worked on.

Projects in the Works

Working from an organized pile of fabric...not.

Working from a messy pile of fabric.

I carefully select tones and colours of batik fabric to make a New York Beauty Quilt.

 

 

 

Once the blocks are made. They are arranged to compliment side by side to each other and as a whole piece. The blocks are 2.5 inches square, the points are paper pieced. I top stitch the large and small curves with invisible thread.

 

 

 

Here is a peek of the top assembled.

Pretty eh!

 

 

 

If the box fits...well, lay in it.

New Miniatures



This pattern is called Sickle.



 

This one is Courthouse Steps