I saw this pattern from KwiltArt at the 2016 Houston Quilt Festival and couldn’t resist. It took me a while to get around to making it, but it’s finally done. I used this quilt as a “practice piece” to experiment with a variety of different ruler-quilting motifs, some of which were probably not the best choices. That’s life. 😉 I finished the quilt in June, 2017, and it measures roughly 60″ x 60″.
Update: I entered Convex Illusions into our local show in March, 2018, and it won an honorable-mention ribbon!
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Our local guild offered a class on making Convergence quilts, and this is the one I did. I probably should have used four fabrics instead of two to give more interest, but that’s life. I did 1/4″ ruler work on the central portion, echoing uneven triangular shapes. The border has 1/4″ matchstick quilting, and I added my usual corded piping, followed by bias binding. The quilt measures roughly 23″ square, and I finished it in August, 2019.
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I saw a pattern called Confetti Cake and really liked it, except for the size. The blocks were over 11″, and I’m on a “smaller-is-better” kick. <G> I decided to cut the strips necessary for making it at half the required size, and my blocks ended up being 3.75″ — much better! I only had enough of my fabrics to make ten blocks, so I set them on point into a table runner that measures 29.5″ x 15.75″. I used corded piping on either side of the border and machine quilted more of the feathers I like so much. It was finished in June, 2009.
Here you can see a bit of the quilting in the border and one of the setting triangles:
This was a project my local group decided to do together; we each made this in our own choice of colors. As for me, I raided my stash and was able to finish the runner without buying anything at all! 🙂 It measures 55″ x 22″, and I finished in in February, 2011.
And here is a detail of the feathered quilting I did on it:
This is a very small wallhanging (about 14″ square) that I made as a beginner. I liked the pattern of the saguaro cactus, since we had so many of them near where we lived at the time. I machine pieced and hand quilted this.
The thought of having to wash the large bed quilt I’d recently made was a bit daunting — having to do so frequently was even more so. Why would I have to do that? Why, because our adorable little Bisou loves to sleep at the foot of our bed, of course! 😉 The solution seemed pretty simple: make a bed runner for the foot of the bed. This could be washed much more easily than the entire quilt. I purchased a Moda layer cake grouping (about 40 10″ squares of coordinating fabrics) and found a simple pattern called “Slice of Cake” designed by Denise Sheehan. The leftover squares that weren’t needed for the quilt top became the backing. The bed runner was quick to make, and you can judge for yourself whether or not it’s serving its intended purpose:
The runner ended up being about 19.5″ x 91″, completely machine pieced and machine quilted, and I finished it in May, 2011. Below, you can see a detail of the feathered quilting I did.
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A friend of mine demonstrated how to make this small quilt at a meeting of our local quilt circle. I really liked the effect of the bargello, and I didn’t have a wall hanging in a patriotic theme, so I made this. It’s completely machine pieced and machine quilted and measures roughly 27″ x 21.5″. I finished it in April, 2013.
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My husband and I share our anniversary with his parents, who celebrated their fiftieth anniversary on July 7, 1990. For that occasion, I made them this Double Wedding Ring wall hanging in colors (blue and peach) to match their bedroom. It is machine pieced, following directions in a Georgia Bonesteel book, and hand quilted. It hung over their bed for a long time after we gave it to them. Sadly, my dear father-in-law passed away on July 29, 1996, after a long battle with emphysema. We all miss him, but we are comforted by the continued presence of my mother-in-law.
Update: My lovely mother-in-law passed away on April 4, 2015, at almost 95 years old. She is sorely missed by her children (and in-laws), her grandchildren, and her great-grandchildren. She lived a full and happy life to the end.
This quilt was the result of a project at the local quilt circle I attend. It uses lots of fabrics, so we had a strip swap first in order to get a huge variety for the quilt. I machine pieced and machine quilted it, finishing in January, 2006. It’s a small throw, measuring 36″ x 42″.
