Calaveras Cookie Quilt

My friend, Teresa, has been making Calaveras Cookies as wedding favors for her 2 nieces that recently got married. I thought it would make a wonderful wallhanging so I made this and gave it to her for her birthday. Needless to say, she was thrilled beyond words and cannot wait to hang it up on her wall. I even had Day of the Dead fabric left over from a shirt I made for my husband to use on the border and for the backing.

Found this baby quilt in my drawer full of quilts that need to be quilted so I finished it and it will go into the baby quilt stash pile.  Seems like I never can keep quilts in that stash pile... my daughter always finds homes for them!

I have a favorite scrappy quilt that has been named by my friends as "Kathy's Quilt". It is a two block quilt that when put together, has the appearance of curved lines, when all the seams are actually straight.

This is the most recent variation of the quilt:

This is a variation of the original setting:

And here is the original setting of the quilt:

Baltimore Blues Quilt

The small group that meets at my house once a month is doing "Baltimore Blues" from Fat Kat Patterns. This was a 2008 block of the month and I needed something completely different to work on so I picked this quilt to make. It is raw edge machine applique and I am very pleased with how block one turned out!

French Braid Quilt

I go on a quilt retreat twice a year... S'Mores Quilt Retreat at the Hummingbird Music Camp in the Jemez Mountains. My friend, Barbara, taught us the French Braid technique and this is the quilt I made from her kit. Barbara found fantastic variegated fabric... all we had to do was cut it into strips. It made this fabulous quilt!

Finished another quilt!

This is the first quilt from Barbara's Quilt-in, finished and on the bed.

Bargello

Finished this Bargello quilt today. It is the second one I made using these colors. The first one was too long and skinny so I made this one a bit fatter by using slightly wider strips.

This is the first one, but I haven't quilted it yet...only slightly different and narrower...

I'm back :)

Well, maybe :) I have been sewing more and on silly Facebook a lot less so that is a good thing.

Twice a year my friend, Barbara, does a sew-in at Del Norte Baptist Church in Albuquerque. I didn't get to go this time because I went to Baltimore to see my son and his wonderful family, but got a kit and this is the quilt top I just finished.

Oh how I have been lazy! Not blogging, not quilting, not doing much of anything, but then everyone needs a break now and then.

My Tuesday group all made this beautiful tote bag. It is nice and large for travelling with many pockets inside and out.



This is the 2009 BOM quilt from the Over the Mountain Quilt Quild.



A couple from my church adopted twin boys so these are the quilts I made for them:

Kool Kaleidoscope #2

I wanted to teach this class at the quilt shop, made my sample, had the shop order the DVD (as required by Ricky Tims) and no one... no one has taken my class.

So I was having so much fun making the first quilt, I made another.





The students are really missing out on this one :(