Quilting like a madwoman since somewhere around 1984!
This was a quick project, chosen simply because I thought it was perfect for my sewing room. It is partially paper-pieced and partially traditionally pieced. I quilted it on my Bernina 790Pro, using feathers to contrast with the ruler work straight lines filled with large-ish pebbles.
The quilt measures approximately 31″ square and has multi-colored corded piping next to the binding. I finished it in February, 2024.
Blog posts: Sew Speedy, Texture, Got the Point?
This was something I made to practice a technique (Pieceliqué) I’d learned from Sharon Schamber many years ago and more or less forgotten about. It’s a very good way to piece smooth curves. The piece has corded piping next to the binding, and I also practiced ruler work quilting. I used curved rulers next to the edges of the circles and straight rulers in the large triangular sections. There are a few feathers in the circles and in the black triangles.
The quilt measures 30″ x 30″ and was finished in January, 2024.
Blog posts: Curves, curves and more curves, The curves are done
This quilt was inspired by one in a book by Susan Cleveland, where alternate blades are camouflaged by matching the background and quilting right over them as though they don’t exist. The lavender blades of of my Dresdens are machine embroidered with floral motifs, and there are alternating purple wedges with corded piping edging to connect the ring.
The quilting is mostly free-motion with lots of feathers, as well as some ruler work. Two corners have partial faux Dresdens quilted into them, and there are also two feathered wreaths. There is double corded piping next to the binding.
The quilt measures 48″ x 36.5″ and was finished in July, 2023.
Blog posts: Dresden Plates, Dresden Plates progress, Miles and Miles, Camouflaged Dresdens
I made this quilt as a gift for our third grandson, who is going to be a dentist. The design is called Ribbon Weave by Basic Grey. I didn’t pay close enough attention to the size of the design, and it turned out to be quite a bit larger than the lap-sized quilt I’d intended to make. It’s 85″ x 85″! I machine pieced and quilted it, putting feathered wreaths into each of the white blocks with purple center squares. There are feathered rows in the white strips between the colored strips, and those colored ones were quilted simply with straight lines done with ruler work.
I began the quilt in December, 2021, and finished it in March, 2022. Here are photos of the quilt and some details of the quilting, as well as one of the label. 
Here’s another photo, taken while it was hanging in our local quilt show.
Batting: Quilter’s Dream Blend (poly/cotton)
Blog posts: Ribbon Weave Quilt, Update, It’s Started, Slow Progress, Another finish
This quilt is the result of a drafting/piecing lesson in a series of online classes offered by Philippa Naylor. Since I love both feathered stars and LeMoyne stars, I jumped right in to make it. I fussy cut the Paula Nadelstern print and filled in the other pieces with solids. Rulerwork straight lines and free-motion feathered quilting motifs, as well as corded piping completed it.
The finished quill measures about 39″ square, and I finished it in October, 2021.
This is the center of the quilt, with lots of feathered quilting.
Feathered wreath in the setting squares and feathered spray in the border, along with straight lines.
This quilt has now traveled to the Road to California show (January, 2023) and also won an Honorable Mention ribbon at our local Desert Quilters of Nevada show in March.
Now this same quilt has returned from hanging in the Paducah AQS show!
Blog posts: Next project, A little progress, The top is finished, Adding quilting, Feathered LeMoyne Star, Our local quilt show, Home from Paducah
The background fabric here is a white-on-white fabric with happily flitting dragonflies, which is where I got the name for the quilt. I thought the colorful blocks gave the dragonflies a sort of garden to play in.
The quilt is made of curvy snail’s trail blocks with sashing and inner borders of diamonds in rectangles and square-in-a-square blocks. The outer border is more of the dragonfly fabric, followed by multicolored corded piping and the white binding.
I quilted free-motion swirly motifs and feathers (just because I love feathers) to mimic the dragonflies playing, and I used free-motion ruler work in the outer border to give the “garden” a fence. The sashing creates a star where it comes together. Look just left of lower center of the detail picture.
The backing fabric is mainly white, but it’s covered in tiny speckles of all of the colors used in the quilt.
The quilt measures approximately 60″ x 60″ and was finished in August, 2021.
Blog posts about this quilt: A New Project, Snail’s Trail Blocks, The top is finished, New Quilting Tool, Dragonfly Playground
Homecoming is a design from Lo & Behold Stitchery. I made the lap quilt size (approximately 53″ x 71″) in the two-color variation, beginning in February, 2021, and finishing in April, 2021. I quilted free-motion feathers in the white areas and did ruler work diagonal lines, spaced at 1/2″ intervals, in the red. I also put white piping between the quilt top and the binding. The quilt was a gift for our second-eldest grandson (age 20).
Here are a couple of details of the quilting:
Blog posts about this quilt: Homecoming — a quilt and Homecoming quilt
This little quilt is the result of a couple of online classes in a series from Philippa Naylor. The trapunto and the rouleau loops were in separate classes, but they seemed to work together. I really didn’t like the beige fabric I’d used in the trapunto, but it was what I had in the appropriate size. Beige — ugh. When it came time to practice the rouleau loops, I used a gradated fabric in shades of teal and a couple of other beige fabrics in hopes of brightening up the piece.
The feathered quilting between the trapunto and the edge is really too large; a better choice would have been some small, closely-spaced motifs. However, I was in a hurry to finish.
The finished quilt measures about 18″ square and was finished in July, 2020.
Blog posts about this quilt: Further steps, Finished class sample
This quilt was designed by Brittany at Lo & Behold Stitchery, and I loved the graphic two-color design. This is the throw size, which measures 57″ x 71″. I began making it in February, 2020, finishing the piecing fairly soon. However, I then took a break during most of March, April and May before quilting it in June and finishing the label in early July. The quilt will be a gift.
I machine pieced the quilt and did free-motion quilting and ruler work to quilt it, placing a different motif in each section.
Blog posts about this quilt: beginning, blocks, quilting, finished.
I designed this little quilt in EQ8, following instructions posted a long time ago on an EQ group and referring to an online class I’d taken from Renae Merrill. My first attempt was a disaster, as the entire top was assembled when the seams began fraying; it was irreparable. Just slightly daunted, I began again, remaking the entire quilt top. I’d planned to quilt swirling feathers in the colored portions, but the bulk of those tiny seams and the changing thickness of the seam allowances made that impractical. I ditch quilted those seams instead and moved the planned feathers to the outer areas that square up the corners. Piano key quilting in the border was the final touch before adding the corded piping and binding.
The quilt measures 19.5″ x 17.5″, and each triangular block has 3″ sides and 19 pieces. I finished it in December, 2019.
Below are photos to show the quilting more closely, as well as the label.
And here is Swirly Whirly with its very pretty blue ribbon from our local quilt show in 2021! 🙂
