Water Color Quilt

This was a very time consumming quilt to make with lots of different types of flower fabric, so it took awhile to just get enough flower fabric to make this,there are 1,638  2" squares ,the overall size of the quilt after the boarder is 86" X 92".

I was thinking it was a queen size but it is just the correct size for my twin bed and still have enough to allow for the pillows .

I got the idea from when Jane gave me a book called Watercolor Impressions by Pat Maixner Margaret & Donna Ingram Slusser.

I did not want to make one just like the others so I come up with this design ,I just started putting the pieces up and this is how it came out  . My plans of quilting it was to quilt it in art form however ,my hands cannot handle hand quilting for very long, I had then atemped to machine quilt it on my Phaff at the time ,it was very difficult to do and then the machine messed up, so I put it away 2 years ago and got it back out of the closet just last month, then I did not realise I had done as much as I did ,so I took it with me to Mom's and finished it there with my new Janome machine .

  The quilting design is in heart shapes with the feather loops around the hearts and strippling around each of those .I plan to enter it in the quilt show also.

The top photo is of the quilt finished,I asked my sister and a friend to hold it up for me, I wanted it to be up right ,but they said they were not tall enough !

More Finished Table tops

I have always wanted to do red ,black & white !

The Pot holders are for christmas gifts, we never have too many of those !

Lunch & Quilting Day With Mom & Zelda

The first Wed.after I got to Mom's she had a very good friend Zelda come over for lunch ,to talk and quilt ,showing off our work at the same time, we enjoyed it very much.
Mom & Zelda usually get together every week to do this ,that day was no exception.
The Quilt shown is one of Zelda's latest ones ,I just love the flower fabric and the colors are so bright, the tote bag she made with YoYo's ,it is one of her latest creations .She loves to make tote bags and pocket books,her and her sister Shirley use them alot .
We was going to get together agian the following week but Zelda ended up ill, so it had to be put off .
I will be looking forward to when we can get together agian .
This was the same week that I finished to Basket weave and was working on the volcano quilt that day .

Feed Sack Quilts -New !

Ok these were on Mom's design wall last week, we made 3 using the same fabric but different boarder, one for each of us girls and one for Mom, I don't have a picture of the light color boarder, I thought I took a picture, I will get it late , anyway the Feed Sacks are the ones Debbie gave us while we were in PA back in 2008.

I had brought some pink  fabric and blue fabric to go with these and in the mean time Mom found some that were similar to feed sack material .

 The pattern we picked was among 2 others and we liked this one the best, I received it in the mail from a quilting newsletter.

We still have quite a bit of feed sack fabric left we may make more but with a different pattern.

The Volcano Quilt

   This quilt was inspired by Mom & myself a few years ago when I had some really bright red orange flower fabric , I had cut some 2" sq.'s and some of them looked like the flow of lava by turning the fabric. , I tried to make it  from the 2"squares for the whole quilt but I did not have enough of the fabric at the time ,so later on I found alot of landscaping fabric's, some left over from other wall hangings,and then I found the bright red & orange flame looking fabric at HeartFelt Quilt Shop in Winter Haven, so I decided to just make it an applicade wall hanging.
 Some of the the background fabric for the land (ground) came from the Needle Quilt Shop in Wellsboro, PA.and some of the darker batic colors came  from Suwannee Valley Quilt Shop in Trenton, FL
 Also some of the odd colors came from Walmart when they sold out ,like the black for the boarder,the sky I painted with Jacquard Textile Fabric paint ,I brought that at Michel's Crafts.
When Aunt kathy came down in Feb. she posted it part way done on her web site and then she told me she liked the loose threads, I had taken from some blue jeans , I wanted the gold color for texture ,I loved it just laying on top, but to sew it down made it messy and then I used some Fabric Solvy from Sulky and that made it too stiff and did not look good ,so I left it off .
 I plan to enter this in the Suwannee River Quilt Show in Oct. I want to give it a name ,at one time I thought to call it "Fire & Brimstone!!"

Back Home - 1st pictures of Basket Weave Quilt

  Ok I am Home safe and sound ! I had a wonderful 2 weeks with Mom, we got alot done,I will start with the first quilt we finished , I had alot of pic's of this quilt but for some reason my page will not let me up-load all of them.
I had the Basket Weave Qulit stored at Mom's for several months, I had it rolled up and when we un-rolled it,we discovered it needed to be pressed, so that is the first thing we had to to ,we took turns pressing and moving the quilt around as it is a queen size quilt.
Then it was so big I had to roll it up lenghtwise and used Mom's clamps to hold it in place to machine quilt it, I did not want to spend too much time on it,so I did the straight sewing through each block to look like an X , then I did my own hearts and swirls on the boarder,I left the deep red plain so it would puff out.
Then we put the same deep red on for the binding, Mom did the hand work.
Yesterday while my sister and her family was there I asked them to help hold it up for a full size picture . I will try to post a close up of the boarder,another time.

Update on Visit to Mom's

Well Mom & I have gotten a lot done this time around. I have finish the volcano quilt, 2 Queen size quilts, and 4 lap quilts. All the big ones and the volcano quilt are ones that were started last winter, I just finished the free motion sewing on them, added the binding and we made the 4 lap quilts while I was here .

I will be heading back home this weekend, hopefully on sunday morning.... but Mom is trying to talk me into staying an extra day, I told her I will see.

After I get home I will be posting the photos of all the quilts we finished and made .

The 2 quilts you see on this post are ones Mom made last winter, she gave the small one to me for a table top and the flannel one was for Sarah, my youngest grand daughter.