This quilt was drafted from an antique Amish crib quilt. I learned many lessons from this quilt: the value of an accurate 1/4" seam and not to admire the completed quilt on the floor of the living room with a young child and a can of Coke nearby.
This turkey red and white quilt was made from a pattern in a Rodale book. Foundation pieced and hand quilted.
This quilt was a class project using the John Flynn double wedding ring pattern. Double Wedding Ring is definitely the "thinking man's" quilt. I really should make another because it was fun!
Oh the lessons I learned on this one! Mainly, being careful about cutting and piecing parallelograms. I thought I would never finish it! From a pattern in Quiltmaker magazine, it is handquilted.
A foundation pieced quilt from a pattern in Quiltmaker magazine. This is my son and his first grade teacher. You can't see the quilt too well, but I wish every kid could have a teacher as sweet as her!
Foundation pieced with a free-form border. This was for my son's third grade teacher.
I decided to try this project for three teacher quilts. Each one was a little different. Bethany Reynolds' book is a must have for this style.
This is a quilt from the book "At Home with Thimbleberries". Need a quick gift for someone? This quilt is a winner.
This is a design by Lisa DeBee Schiller. I learned to applique three ways on this one quilt! By hand with regular thread, by hand with silk thread, and by machine with monofiliment thread. Challenging, but worth the effort!
This was a charity quilt sent to a military family. I used a block pattern by Nancy Johnson-Srebro. That's me and the boys in our living room.
Our guild makes baby quilts for charity. I've made many of these throughout the years, but this one is special. My son picked out the fabrics and pieced the blocks on my Featherweight. He was so thrilled when it showed up in a newspaper picture.
