DD3 - yet another quilter!

One more daughter, one more quilter.
DD3, Danielle just made her first pieced top. A crib size for her 7 month old daughter.
She started piecing it from my stash on Saturday Aug 11, and showed it at quilt guild on Aug. 13. Now she is trying to decide on the backing and finishing techniques she wants to use.
She has started her own quilting blog, there 's a link on this page.
Danni is a mother of 4, 3 boys and baby girl, so stays very busy.
I am glad she is finding time to quilt and hope she enjoys it as much as I do.

These two bordered panel quilts belong to grandson Randy.

The Indian panel was for his 16th birthday. It stays on his bed!

The wolves panel is his 18th birthday gift by request.

Randy is color-blind, but went shopping with me to pick out the co-ordinates for this quilt. It is a queen/king size and will

be a keepsake for him and his future family. (At least I hope)

More inspiration - another daughter takes up quilting

This quilt was made for DD1, Chrysta. It graces the back of her couch.

She helped pick out the fabrics and I made it at a class at Melear's, taught by Emma Troyer, using Eleanor Burns 'Log Cabin in a Day' book in 2006.

It was machine quilted with a leaf pattern that goes well with the 'forest' motif of the fabrics.

Chrysta works full time and home schools her 2 sons, so has limited spare time and just recently has taken up quilt making.

About a month ago she got a sewing machine and her 'starter' supplies for quiltmaking.

She and son Brett are working on a bargello pattern top.

Hand Piecing - practice in patience

Mother's star throw

It took most of the summer of 2006 to make 9 of these star blocks. I had decided to hand piece these blocks.

I took them with me on camping trips and stitched away while DH fished.

My hand sewing skills were pretty rusty when I started and some of the blocks were pretty skewed by the time I had redone them once or twice.

After some practice, however, the blocks began to look better. At first, it was frustrating, but after a while as I got more proficient, I began to relax and enjoy what I was doing.

I used the best 5 to make this throw for my mother. The lilac floral fabric made me think of her while I was working on the blocks.

It also has a folded bias border and is free hand machine quilted.

Inspiration - three generations of quilters

November 2006, during our DD2's annual family visit from San Diego, California, DD2 and I paid a visit to the local quilt shop for fabric.

Daughter picked out fabric she liked for a quilt, since I haad not yet made one for her and her husband. She liked both the log cabin and double Irish chain patterns, so it was decided that we would make lap size quilts for her home.

Both daughter and grand daughter got in on the planning, cutting and sewing of the log cabin blocks before their visit ended. The girls took back a list of beginning "I want to learn to quilt' supplies, purchased a sewing machine and have begun quilt making on their own!

The two of them have taken a class at Quilt in a Day as well. Both are currently working on finishing their quilt projects from that class. (see more information by clicking the TJ's quilting adventure link on this blog)

They have recently visited again, and I helped Granddaughter (age 15) with learning to quilt her project on the sewing machine.

Daughter used the embroidery machine to personalize the one she is now making for her husband.

Both attended quilt guild with me and Granddaughter showed her project at 'sew and tell'

It is a joy and pleasure to share this hob-ssession with them.

Grandson Brett - dinosaur fan and quilter in his own right

Brett loves dinosaurs, we found the big panel, a fabric book, and coordinating fabric that he really liked.

I used those to make the large quilt for him.

Brett has a mild form of autism and is home schooled. As a part of his home school program, Brett (then age 9) chose to make a small quilt.

He used the scraps left over from his quilt. I cut his blocks for him, but he did all the sewing, sandwiched the quilt and tied it.

We entered his quilt in our local county fair. He won a blue ribbon.

I also sent a picture of it in to my internet quilt group and Brett's quilt was chosen "quilt of the month".

Shortly after that, I took him to a local quilt show, he told the sponsors about his quilt and that he was "a world famous quilter". Who knows, maybe Ricky Timms is going to have some serious competietion in the future?

Since then Brett has made a rail fence baby quilt and is now working with his mom on a bargello pattern.

Musing on the quilt guild meeting

Is it Autumn or Christmas??????

Monday was quilt guild meeting. Our family was well represented, me, 2 daughters, granddaughter and a nephew in attendance. Also have another daughter and a grandson who quilt, but were not there.

I am proud of my 'quilting family'! They are very talented and creative.

Our new BOM is one we all really liked and the colors are "autumn". We bought fabric after the meeting and cut out block "kits" for 6 blocks, all alike! After we got started, we thought maybe the colors were more Christmas-y than autumn, but the apple theme is autumnal, so we will use them anyway.

I liked it so well that I already made more blocks with the same pattern and colors - just in case I don't win the blocks at the meeting LOL! I wonder what the reaction will be when they get 6 identically patterend blocks in the mix?? Oh well, it's what we wanted to do, and we did it. I may make a couple more in more traditional autumn fabrics, just for fun, and to add to the drawing. Someone may as well get a lot of blocks!

We were supposed to also make one block in patriotic colors for our Quilts of Valor project, so I made one of them using only 3 fabrics instead of 4. I was pretty impressed with the result of that too. I am going to share what I used for the focus fabric in the patriotic block with those in the family who want to make a patriotic block too.

At the guild meeting I was invited by one of our guests to her hand quilting group. I am excited about that, and hope to be able to attend.