Quilting like a madwoman since somewhere around 1984!
This is another project from Quilt Camp in the Pines (1999). It’s the result of a class with Gail Garber, who taught us how to draft and make this pattern. It’s machine pieced and hand quilted, and I left it small in order to hang it in a small spot in my kitchen.
This quilt is also the result of a class at Quilt Camp in the Pines, but it was from July of 2002. The class was Jan Krentz’s Summer Salsa, though I’ve renamed my version since my husband thinks this one is “colorful”. 😉 Jan teaches wonderful classes; she’s very organized and gives lots of information and help. I finished most of the inner star points and one rocket block during the two-day class, then brought everything home and finished the rest in the course of the next few weeks, substituting simpler corners for Jan’s original ones in order to spotlight the focus fabric I’d chosen. Then I was at an impasse trying to decide how I wanted to quilt it! I finally bit the bullet and machine quilted it in January, 2003. I used a variegated rayon thread for all of the quilting except for some angular lines in four black corner sections; those were done with a bright yellow rayon. All of the quilting was done free-motion style. The quilt measures 46″ square.
In the photo below, you can see a detail of the quilting in one of the corners.
This quilt also went into our local show in April, 2003, and it also won a ribbon! It took third place in its category, so here it is proudly wearing its award:
I saw this quilt at the Houston show in 2017 and fell in love with it. I finished adding the crystals (the final step) in June, 2018. The quilt was designed by Jacqueline DeJonge and is paper pieced.
I quilted it with free-motion feathers and fillers, as well as some ruler work around the New York Beauty blocks and for the feather spines. The quilt measures 60″ x 60″.
In April, 2019, our local guild hosted its annual quilt show, and La Vie Est Belle earned an Honorable Mention!
Here we go again. 😉 I went to Quilt Camp in the Pines in July, 2005, and took classes, as usual. One of them was Jan Krentz’s Hunter’s Star. I chose a slightly different layout than the one featured in the class, with the border that “finished” the stars at the edges of the main portion. The quilt was made from Jan’s strip piecing method. Her book and sample showed 8″ blocks, but I chose to make 4″ blocks and a 3″ border, so my project, finished in August, 2005, measures approximately 30″ x 38″. I laid this quilt out in Quilt Pro software.
I used oriental-style prints in indigos, blues and purples; some of the fabrics had been in my stash for years. <G> The quilt is machine pieced and machine quilted, using navy silk thread in the body of the quilt and a blue/purple variegated thread in the outer border. There is a corded piping between the outer border and the binding; it is in the same fabric as the inner border. Here is a detail where you may be able to see the quilting a bit better:
Update: In March, 2006, this quilt won third place in its category at our local quilt show! Here it is at the show with its white ribbon:
This was a design begun during a quilters’ cruise onboard Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas in April-May, 2014. Carol Doak was one of the instructors for the cruise, and she designed the quilt, but I shrank the blocks from 6″ to 2″. It was, of course, paper pieced.
The quilting is mostly curved crosshatching, done by machine.
The quilt measures 16″ x 16″, and I finished it in May, 2014.
I really like Philippa Naylor’s classes! I took another one in November, 2011, this time on techniques of curved piecing. As so often happens, though, I only finished the center portion in class and let it languish in my pile of “to-dos” until April, 2012. At that point, I decided to add the borders, quilt it and finish it up. So I did! 🙂
This one is about 21″ square, though “square” is obviously not a consideration here. 😉 This was only the second time I’d done double corded piping next to the binding, and I think it turned out rather well. It’s entirely machine pieced and quilted. Below is a detail of the piping. Because of the curved edges, all of the piping and the binding were done with bias cuts.
Update! This quilt won third place in the quilt show sponsored by our local guild in April, 2013. Ummm … it’s hanging sideways here. 😉
I took a class on precision piecing from Philippa Naylor at the Houston Quilt Festival in 2008, but the top of this little piece sat in my pile of “things to finish” for about a year. I finally machine quilted it, finishing it in November, 2009. It measures approximately 20 1/2″ x 21″ (so much for precision piecing. 🙁 Actually, I think I messed up when I sandwiched it for quilting.) and was entirely machine pieced and quilted.
And here are a couple of close-ups of the feathers I so love to do. The color in these is a bit “off”, since I had to avoid using flash in order to see the quilting in the photos. The first is the center on-point block:
And here is part of the border:
Jennie Rayment came to the Las Vegas area in February, 2010, so of course I had to take a class from her! This one was just as much fun as the ones I’d done previously. My version of Cosmic Happenings has four 14″ blocks and measures 38″ square. The only hand stitching on it was to secure the back of the binding and to attach the label; all of the piecing and fabric manipulation was done by machine.
I finished the quilt in March, 2010, and it went to some very special people.
In July, 2001, I took some classes at Quilt Camp in the Pines. This was my fourth year there, and it gets better every time! I had two days of classes with Sharyn Craig, one of which taught us a technique to make LeMoyne Stars and their set-in seams all but painless. I also had a two-day class with Judy Mathieson. In that one, we learned to draft any size and shape of Mariner’s Compass, as well as curved flying geese to surround the compasses. I wanted to make an oval compass, and I also wanted to use some of those wonderful LeMoyne Stars with it. This quilt is the result of that idea. The quilt is entirely machine pieced and hand quilted.
You can see the quilting better in the close-up below; I did partial compasses in each of the large triangular areas between the narrow navy border and the stars, some simple shapes to accent the compass and the stars, plumes between the flying geese and the narrow border, small feathered sprays between each star, and a large feathered vine in the outer border. I finished it in May of 2002, and it measures 51″ x 57″.
In April, 2003, I entered this quilt in our local quilt show, where it took second place in its category! Here it is all dressed up with its ribbon:
After seeing Eleanor Burns’ technique on PBS, I figured that this was worth a try. It was finally completed in 1994, two and a half years after I started it! It really wasn’t because I didn’t want to finish, though. First, I had to take a break of several months’ duration when I hurt my back and the doctor wouldn’t let me hunch over my hoop. I had just recovered from that when I literally took flight on a wet floor and broke my tailbone. I’ve never mastered the art of quilting while standing up! This one was also machine pieced and hand quilted, and it’s 60″ square.
