sewingsuz

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tate_elliott

An old favorite on this board is Happy Daisies. I liked it, but wanted something less floral. I played with a lot of designs and came up with Sunny Days. I later realized that the sun design is almost the same as the daisy, but without the stem.

I started to make it as a small charity quilt, but then I found that a niece was graduating from college, so I expanded it to a full-sized quilt.

Tate

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ArlaJo

MY GOODNESS Such talent!!! Beautiful work. Makes my attemps look like a child did them..

Cass62

Yes, please! I would love to see this lovely wall-hanging!

lildinks2013

Well mine dont compare to all these beautiful quilts, but it is my first quilt in 23 yrs. I dont [ATTACH=CONFIG]456980[/ATTACH]have a quilting machine so i do it the old fashioned way. I tie it.

GrannieAnnie

When I first saw the Turning 20 pattern, I found acolleciton of fat quarters (10 I think) in bright fake batiks. So I made it for a personal sized quilt. It was indeed bright, cute, but bright. I shoved it into a box and kept trying to think who needed the quilt.

Well, a couple at church have a granddaughter who's had a world of trouble with epilepsy, and some other problems. I've been making things for "L" for a good while. I've knitted her scarves for Christmas for several years. A couple years ago, it finally came to me that "L" was the perfect fit for my bright Turning 10! I gave it to her a couple years ago. She's an adult now, but still living with her parents because of her many problems. They came in to visit Grandma for Christmas, Grandpa having died early last spring. I sat behind them at Christmas Mass last month. I'd not made anything for her for a while, but I happened to be wearing a fleece scarf that I passed on to her. She loved it.

Anyway, her mom and dad told me she sleeps with the bright blanket every night, even in the summer. Well, that just brought tears to my eyes.

The quilt is just a personal sized one.. On the bigger grid, it doesn't amount to a hill of beans. Simple quilt, simple fabrics. But it's probably my most prized quilt knowing the happiness it brought to a kiddo with health issues none of us want.

moonrise

One of the very first quilts I made was for my grandmother. It was a lap quilt with rows of bright, realistic floral charms with black sashing in between. It was nothing fancy at all, but since I was a newer quilter, I sure worked hard on it.

Granny was absolutely thrilled with it. To her, it was a masterpiece. She displayed it on the back of her couch all the time. After she passed, I was given the quilt back. I took a fresh look at it, and that's when I noticed how poorly lined up my seams were, and how amateur-ish my quilting was. It didn't matter, though. Granny loved it anyway, and in hindsight, I doubt she even saw the imperfections. It brought her joy, and that makes me proud of it, mistakes and all.

Kris P

Right now this is the quilt I'm most proud of. It's for my DD#2. She's 10. Ever since she was old enough to make her thoughts known, her favorite color has been this turquoise blue color. I'd been looking for just the right pattern and colors to make her a bed quilt. Her sister was much easier, she likes pink, and yellow.
I had just finished making this same pattern, Knotted Squares using a jelly roll, and she said she really liked the pattern. So we set about pulling one together for her. The turquoise solid is exactly the color her bedroom walls are painted. I found the border fabric, which has blue with pink and yellow roses. These were the inspiration for finding the other 35 fabrics to make to blocks. I needed 1 jelly roll strip of each. It took for many hours or sorting through my meager stash, and several trips to the fabric store to find all the fabrics.
Each block has 27 pieces and matching the seams is really important to me, so I'd sit for hours pinning each segment together before chain piecing the pile. Then stand for what seemed like forever to press each seam (open) before beginning the process all over pinning for the next piece.
Once the quilt top was made, I spent a few days auditioning how I would fmq. I settled on SID around all the solid piecing, vines and leaves in the narrow parts, and doing a big chrysanthemum type flower to fill in the larger blocks.
I also wanted to incorporate the label into the binding, so I stitched out the information and her favorite Bible verso onto the binding with my Janome 6600 before attaching it.
Anyway, i hope the link works, as I've never tried to add a photo.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/535083999448174732/

DottyD

Although not totally finished yet - this is my favourite. I stated my Dear Jane in 2007 and the 4 1/2" blocks are all sashed and joined together ( click on top little picture to enlarge it ) and I am now in the process of joining all the triangles together - and then attach them to the blocks.


http://www.dotsbjwall.talktalk.net/

Some really lovely photos posted here.

Stitch124

All the beautiful stories of your favorite quilts is so inspiring. It really makes me happy that I've taken up this hobby.

I've been a avid sewer and counted cross-stitcher since I was 15 yrs old. Then needed eye surgery for cataracts in 2004 at age 50. I found that trying to focus on such small stitches became very difficult, so quilting was the next best hobby. I'm happy to share that hobby with others. My quilts are not as detailed or technically correct as I'd like, but I've always thought 'it's the thought that counts.'

I just want to say thank you all so much for sharing your quilts with the rest of us and please keep sharing! You are an inspiration to everyone else.

Thanks!