Blue and Gray

Two New Quilts For Two New People

And now, the worst quilt ever designed, can be yours! For the low low price of $23.42!

This delightfully colorful number was given to me by my sister, 

already layered, ready for tying.

I could finish it, or toss it.

I decided to finish it for my adoring audience.

I give to you,

The Worst Quilt Ever Designed!

It is approximately 34x42 inches, cotton poly top and bottom, poly batting.

Kona cotton binding.

(The best part of the quilt, I added it from my stash)

Again, this could be yours for the low low price of $23.42!!!

At this price it won't last long!!!

Donated

This is Monkey Wrench

Little monkeys peeking out here and there, with a bunny tucked into her pocket at home where she belongs.

Bubbles, Take Two, Fin

So I don't know why the colors are so, so, vibrant? The bunny is cobalt, but here he looks positively electric. The orange is supposed to be almost tangerine, but this looks again, electric. Anyway, this is one of my favorite quilts. The colors came together so well, they play together so nicely, I almost wanted to keep it for myself. But, it was promised to someone else, and it will be going to a very nice woman and her new baby boy. It's so soft, and cuddly, I'm just going to have to make one for myself!

Bubbles, Take Two

I decided to play around in my scrap piles again,

having had so much fun with Scrappy. 

Blues, greens, and a splash of

orange bring to mind this quilt made

way back in 2008, during the Bejing Olympics.

Having so much fun!

Monkey Wrench

Scrappy

Quilt is 42x54, 100% cotton front and back, polyester batting.
Hand quilted.

50th Anniversary

This is a queen sized quilt I made many years ago, and it took many years to make.

Little by little it came together. 

Piece by piece the colors blended, from the half inch strips in the center kaleidoscopes, to the 

log cabin blocks around the border.

It was a labor of love.

Scrappy, Continued

I am having so much fun with this quilt!
Using up bits and pieces of fabrics, 

some I haven't see in years.

Scrappy, Work In Progress

Using some scrap strips laying around, trying to organize.

Eventually this will be a lap quilt, intended for a present.

Enson's, Work In Progress

This is a work in progress. Enson's is a men's shop in New Haven, Connecticut. Wonderful Place.

They gave me bags and bags of samples of suiting material and said "Show us what you can do!"

So I'm showing them.

It's all 100% wool or silk samples from their sample books, cut to size, 

and put together in a 5 color plaid, king sized.

The backing is a cute blue and orange bird print, similar to what I'd 

imagine would be the lining in a forward fashion suit.

I will get around to quilting it soon.

Simply Woven

Simply Woven, a pattern by by Jessica Kelly.  I used fabric I had stashed for an "icon" quilt, but thought they would look festive in this holiday quilt.   And I simply had to use the red for the back.

Oh deer!

Woven

Woven, a quilt pattern by Jessica Kelly.

I thought I'd try it in festive holiday colors in a lap quilt size.

Eleanor, or Spumoni After Dark

The darkest blocks are a rich chocolate brown, the red, cranberry. I really need a new camera

Audrey

This quilt is modeled after a mosaic at Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green, in New Haven, CT. "After much research and long debate, it appears that the current Trinity Church on the Green, New Haven, by almost a decade, is indeed the first Gothic Style Church in America.¹ — what the Trinity building committee in 1812 called the “Gothic Stile” and  Bishop Jarvis in 1814 called the “Gothick” style—an architectural movement that spawned an American Gothic Style architectural movement called variously “Gothic Survival”, “Gothic Revival” or “neo-Gothic” style.  It led to the building of at least 1,821 historic neo-Gothic churches in America in a similar style, Carpenter Gothic houses and small churches, Collegiate Gothic campus buildings, interior decorations, ironwork, and bridges culminating in the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883.  It was built prior to the earliest Gothic Revival Style churches in Canada as well (New Haven had a thriving trade with Canada from its early days on though the 1800s), making it the first Gothic-Revival building in North America." ~ from the website, http://trinitynewhaven.org/architecture/

This mosaic is in the center of the nave, between the choir stalls, in front of the altar, and above the steps that descend to the rest of the church.

It took 5 different quilt shops to find the colors of fabric needed to match the colors in the mosaic.

1943 pieces, 60 hours, a labor of love.