Quilts

I've been working on a few baby sized quilts that will be donated to the UofM preemie ward via the Preemie Pals group of ladies so thoughtfully working on that project.  These are just a few that I've made using fabrics from my scrap boxes.  I'm working hard trying to use up some of those fabrics.  Maybe we'll start a scrap busting challenge in our FW Club classes this year.

This next quilt is one I made a couple of years ago when I was teaching an applique class.  This is my personal design and I call it,  "Seasons of Audibon".  The birds I drew were from a early 1900's coloring book of Audibon prints but they had to have some slight changes to make them good for applique.  I wrote patterns for the four birds but used a fabric of small bird pictures to compliment the appliqued Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter images.  I hope you like this one.

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I love making quilts and usually I do some applique on them.  This is my first applique quilt.  I need to take a picture of the entire quilt but for the moment I only have a picture of the top and the bottom and the quilt is at the cabin far from here.  The pattern is 'Day at the Lake' by Nancy Davis Murty of Bee Creative.

The original pattern had mostly bass and we have northern pike and perch in our lake so I designed those fish to replace the bass and represent the fish that we catch at the cabin.  And, we do have loons so that's what drew me to the quilt pattern to begin with.

I could have put these pictures in the Applique Tab but decided to add it to the quilts I've made because I still love it so much.  And, applique gets easier and easier the more I do it.  I hope you enjoy viewing this one.

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This is one of my quilt designs made for my sweet niece as a wedding gift.  Her fiance proposed in Paris in front of the Eiffel tower so the quilt had to have a couple on the tower.  Since my niece told me the lights turned on just seconds after she said yes, there are beads stitched all over the tower and one tiny sparkly bead on the ring.  This one was fun to create, a challenge to learn all the things I had to learn to make this one happen.  I do hope you'll enjoy this one.