Completely hand quilted lap quilt!

Yes, you saw this quilt below...I posted it when I had finished everything but the binding. It is lapquilt size...I machine pieced the blocks, but it is 100% handquilted...recently finished the binding. The backing is an interesting linen black/white.

Dog Jacket

I made this doggie jacket for a very special one-year-old's birthday. One of his first words was "dog" and he loves to imitate the dog sniffing. The jacket is cotton, lined. The buttons are also little dogs. The lining has tiny dog prints all over it. Ok, I know it's not a quilt, but this is what I have been working on...and if it is two layers with some quilting on it, it qualifies as a quilt in quiltquatastrophes!!!

A Crazy Project

A pile of random blocks attempt to become a quilt. Princess Marie MUST jump in front of the camera as soon as I get it out. She is such a ham.








Eeyore attempts to hold down her favorite square.









...As I type this, Princess Marie has fallen alseep on her favorite square. I few Dresdon blocks, some different sized log cabin blocks and even a strip of flying geese have tried to sneak their ways into this quilt. I'm still in the arranging and rearranging part of this...and it makes me think of life...I had all these plans laid out for the future...and well, circumstances have turned my life out different than I expected. Yet God and the companions that hold me down can turn my life into something beautiful...even if it isn't all neat and lined up perfectly.

Tinkerbell Quilt

My daughter wanted a tinkerbell quilt. I took a crib sized panel and added six inch squares all around it, mostly in nine patch patterns. I used lots of chenille, some terry cloth, and flannel. I hand quilted around the fairy, but used ribbons to tie the rest of the quilt.

Checkerboard Quilt

I made the checkerboard squares of dark blue calico and unbleached muslin. I used the strip piecing method. The setting blocks are light pink calico and light cream colored calico with a tiny pink floral pattern. The nine squares are 10 inches square, the end result with border being a 36 inch square wall hanging. I have completed the hand quilting, but have not bound the edges. I plan to bind the edges with unbleached muslin. Princess Marie jumped on the sewing machine table as I pinned the quilt to the curtain to take pictures. It's like she knows it's time for a new blog post.