Quilt Gallery
I don't know the best way to do this, so I will just get all the photos I have up there and try to organize them along as I have time. First things first...
This is the genesis quilt... my first one ever, made in one weekend in 1997. It certainly set the trend for me getting ideas from a pattern but not really following it. I went out for a little retail therapy the weekend my husband left for his second summer internship in a far away state (we were both grad students). I had had my machine for a little over a year and had wanted to try quilting. I bought some really cute fabric on sale with nothing in particular in mind (another trend that I still tend to follow) and a $2 pattern pamphlet about strip piecing and rotary cutting and went home. I pulled out the graph paper and came up with a plan. I sewed all weekend and by Sunday night had finished the top. I also made a pillow to go with it and quilted both with the help of my sister later that summer. It is still not quilted 'enough' but it gets used on the guest bed quite a bit.
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| Chickens in the Cornfield 1998 |
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| PinWheels 1998-1999, tied |
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| Will's baby Quilt (blades) 2000 |
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| Hidden Wells top ~1998 |
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| Finally quilted!! 2012 |
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| Desden swap quilt post 2000 |
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| Dutch Shoe Maker 1999-2000 |
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| Book Case Round Robin 2000 |
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| Job's Troubles first paper piecing using Little Quilts Fabric |
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| Flannel HST bed topper ~ 2001 |
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| Sun Shines Through Triple Chain 2002 |
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| Tiny Stitches Saturday Sampler #1 2001? |
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| 54:40 or Fight 2002 |
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| Tiny Stitches Saturday Sampler #2 batique version 2002 |
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| Andrew's baby quilt 2003 |
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| Quilt Interupted Valentines Style JoAnns class sample |
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| Winter Winner (Winning Hand) JoAnn's class sample ~2004-2005 |
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| New Century of Progress block test JoAnn's class sample |
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| Blooms trapuntoed panel/border print quilt 2007 |
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| Bright Baby quilt |
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| QOV 2006 Carpenter's Wheel |
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| Jacob's Ladder class sample 2007 |
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| Confetti Stars for class 2007 |
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| Around Carla's World comfort quilt 2007 |
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| First Year Sampler - donated to auction 2008 |
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| Planet Patchwork New Years Mystery Quilt |
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| Anniversary/QOV for reservist Pastor 2008 108x108 |
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| Commission Quilt from clothing 2010 |
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| Magic Ties for my dad 2011 (started in 1999), tied |
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| back of Magic Ties |
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| The Ripple Effect; a quilt made for my son's 2nd grade teacher who was retiring after many years of service. Each light square in the 9-patch blocks contains the name of a student she taught and the year they were in her class. The amazing thing to me is that she remembered many of those students and knew where some of them are going to college now. |
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| the back - the teachers all signed back here |
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| closeup - I like the Bee since her classroom was "the hive" |
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| New York Beauties - still needs a border and to be quilted. |
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| Hearts of Gold crumb quilt (a little washed out from the flash) still needs a back and to be quilted. |
