And why you love it and if it was your first or your 25th or - and if you have a pic, I'd love to see it!
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One of my most favorite quilts I have made is the quilt in my Avitar. It is called "Twice as Nice" by Glad Creations, Inc.
I made it for DD#3 as her going away to college quilt. It is queen size and I also made 5 pillows of various sizes to go with it.
We worked together to pick out the fabrics and she picked out the pattern from my "stash"

I love the colors in it. It went together nicely but looks really complicated. I have had so many complements on that quilt.

I hope to make it again with a little more green in it, someday!

my favorite quilt is the one i just made with my niece.

its her first quilt and i just love teaching her how to sew and create art.

i have no doubt that these moments will always be cherished by her and i.

i posted pics, here's a link

http://www.quiltingboard.com/posts/l...15.page#626656

It would have to be the one I made for my SIL. It was also my #2 quilt I ever made.

Billy

When I was going through my divorce my ex wasn't paying any support even though it was court ordered. Christmas was just around the corner and I was lucky if we were going to have food on the table let alone gifts under the tree. I always sewed but never quilted. My DD loved nightgowns from the time she was 2. Since I don't like fake fibers I made all her nightgowns out of flannel. DD was 9 at the time so I had lots of flannel scraps for a top and yardage the were suppose to be for nightgowns to use as a backing. I can't remember what I used for batting I might have even had batting, but I sewed her a simple patch quilt and tied it. The quilt was her Christmas gift, she is now 24 I came across the quilt last week, she had packed it way a few years ago. I want to wash it and repair it if need be. I think she would really like to have it at this time in her life. This quilt symblolizes to me that even in the hardest of times a simple quilt made with love is all that is need to make it through another day. It was on that quilt that I hand embroidered a red heart with the year in the middle. Every quilt I have made for my children since that one all have a red heart.

My fav would also be my picture, i was using some fabric i got from a local friend of mine that owns a drapery shop o loved the colors together, well i was sewing along and realized i had sew some of the fabric in the wrong place and i was not going to redo it!!!! after it was all over with i loved it better this way!! i've had several people try to buy it but i cant part with it! it was it first one with so many pieces that i had done, a total of 521!!! i haven't quilted it yet, i just dont know what to do!!! Thanks for letting me share this!!

Wow - all very beautiful & inspiring! :D

This is my favorite quilt that I made. I had a ton of fun making it. I couldn't find a picture of it on my den wall but this will suffice I think.
It is called "Just John." You may have to squint a bit since it is like pointillism and this picture is a bit too close.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...s/100_0531.jpg

Sybil

Sybil - that is amazing!!!! How did you do that??

It would be quilt #2. I made it for my son about six years ago. He picked the pattern and fabric colors.

Thank you. I put the photo in photoshop and used the mosaic feature. Then just took it line by line and fussy cut my fabric so that I had the shading where I needed it. I used all batiks. I also cut my binding so that it matched the fabric on the outside. I didn't want a "frame" around it.

Sybil

I still have a LOT to learn - what is a Mark Twain quilt?

After struggling with HST and flying geese to make a "spectacular" quilt for my grandson, I realized that my all time favorite quilt is one I did with a fabric I loved, alternating colors of 6-inch squares and a couple of borders. Also a simple design that I hand quilted.

My favorite so far is a quilt my mom and I made together for my sister's birthday this year. It is by far the most challenging quilt I have tried, and mom stuck it out making all the flower blocks except 2 that are paper pieced...I did those 2. My sister loves Victorian looking things, and this looks great in her bedroom. It's queen bed sized. I love how it came out. The pattern came out of a QuiltMaker magazine issue.

It's really called "Mary's Garden"...fat fingers!!

Oh this is a fun thread! Here is my very first big quilt, made for my son and his wife for a wedding gift. I hand quilted it and thought I would never finish on time! I was still sewing the day before I had to fly out. Whew!!

These quilts are gorgeous! Thank you for sharing.

Here is my favorite. It was one of my earlier big quilts. I am not very good at visualizing colors, so on this one I followed the pattern very closely and it worked

I love the flower in the cabin...and it does look like the one in the book I bought. You did a great job. I have made this quilt 3 or 4 times, but had to enlarge the pieces by 1/8 or 1/4 in to be able to handle them. I also had one of my quilted in circles.

I'm not sure if I have a favorite, but I think this is the most appreciated quilt I have ever made and given away.
I made this for my grandson to mark a very important event in his life.

What book is that from? I love the pattern!

I think it is PATCHWORK BOOK BY PAM BONO "QUICK ROTARY CUT QUILTS".

I gave all my quilt books to my sister so can't check my copy, but did a search and found an old listing on ebay for this.

I guess it would be the top I just finished, and am getting ready to hand quilt it. Lots of pieces, and loads of fun. Also my first 2 color quilt.

The flower in my cabin and the circle are just awesome!

My favorite quilt is usually the one I'm currently working on! I'll post pictures when my daughter gets home and figures out what I did to make my photo program unaccessible!!!!

I love this quilt. It was a challenging pattern with all the individual circles sewn together and when you look up close, not all of the circles are 100% round. BUT: I found the perfect use for one of my favorite fabrics; I got to use a rainbow of colored FQs.; the white fabric was my grandmother's linen (she died in 1960).

The name of this quilt is "3 generations" because I used my grandmother's linen, my Mom is the recipient, and I am the quilter.

love those circles, Mad!!

Mad, this is beautiful. I can't figure out who this is made, will you explain how you did this?

Thanks Loretta, I think these are called Bargello in the Round. The pattern was for just the circle part, and a fellow I know figured out how to make a pattern for the background fabric to finish it into a square so it could be made for a bed quilt.

Very lovely!! Will you share how this was made!

Hope you kept this one!

Happy Holidays. :-D

Hmmmm, I guess my favorite one would have to be my bright hopes rainbow quilt. It was the third one I made, I think, and it was done about a year and a half ago. I still have not decided how I want to quilt it, so it's just a top for now. I finished it inside of a week, and spent every spare moment that I wasn't at work or in the hospital visiting my best friend. It's not spectacular like some of the other ones posted here, it's actually quite simple, but it's still my favorite :)

ok, that link didn't work, let's try agian...

ok, I got it now, lol! I don't like that you can't edit pictures when you edit your message *sigh*

My favorite would be my avator quilt. It's a simple quilt I put together for a friend who is very active in supporting the troops. He called and asked if I could make something that could be raffled off for operation sweettoth that he was organizing. It was last minute so I did some serious late night sewing to get it ready . The day of the auction my friend introduced me to several of the family members of soldiers stationed in Iraq that were organing this raffle and subsequent donations. I was so moved to be able to be part of this that it will forever be my favorite quilt.

I think this one is my favorite so far. It's for my middle daughter and it hasn't been quilted yet. It's my first feathered star and my own design. I did it before I had EQ6 so there was a lot of figuring out the layout and I was so happy that it came together as it was supposed to.

You all have some really beautiful favorites!!!

Thanks. Let me see if I can explain it:

Each circle is sewn as a separate unit - you cut a small slit along the edge and pillow turn. Then you quilt each circle across. Then you sew two circles together along one edge until one row is done. (Where the circles are together, they form a wedge that sticks up.)
Once all the rows are done, you sew them together, again along the edges.
When the assembly is finished, you push the wedge pieces down and top-stitch them down.

Let me see if the close-up makes sense out of the description.

This is my favorite; I haven't quilted it yet. It is called Special Memories. Each block is a memory in my life! I just loved doing this one.

Martina, I just love how you used color across your quilts. The circle one is my favorite but they are both gorgeous. Did you make the pattern yourself or is there a pattern or book out there that gave you the colors? I ask because I really want to do a quilt with the color changing like this across the quilt. I just haven't sat down to actually draw and color it out on graph paper yet. I keep hoping someone in the family will take the hint and buy me EQ6! So far no luck, but I'm holding out for Christmas.

EDIT: hmmm, the 3rd page didn't show up until I posted this. Now I get to go look at more fabulous quilts. I just love this thread!

I Actually have 2 favorites,They kinda of are neck and neck in how much I love them. The First is my Attic Window quilt. Took so long exactly one yr. to make and it was for myself. I just think it is Beautiful,I love it.
The next is the last one I did for my DH Grt.Niece Abby Harris. I love the Applique Butterflies and it was my first time to do freemotion quilting on my kenmore Domestic machine. I want one for myself. BillsBonBon

this is a quilt I made for my daughter, it was a mystery quilt and I love how it turned out. I sent it away to be quilted and the woman did a fabulous job on it.

My second favorite one is a photo one that I made for my brother.

These quilts are all awesome.

Tiffany, I got it from a pattern but don't know what I did with it. (You know, one of those "never again" quilts.)