Hi all,
I've been a member here for awhile, but have never posted pictures. Thought you might be interested in my recent stuff
The kaleidoscope quilt was created for a challenge - had to symbolize 'spring' and had to be our own design. I created the kaleidoscope blocks and frames from photos my DH took - most are from ice and snow on pine trees and weeds, some are from flower pictures. Then I inserted pictures of babies (again my DH work).

The denim shirt jackets were created one day when I had a couple of orphan blocks, and I realized that my stuff is on a bed or on the wall, but no body ever sees it, so I created a line of denim shirt jackets
casamanana
aka Vicky :D

Beautiful work!!! thanks for sharing!

I especially love the quilt. It is so different from most of the quilts I've seen. I think the black really makes the blocks pop.

The jacket is very nice also.

I love the pictures you added....great touch. Right
not I am making a Memory Wedding Quilt for my Goddaughter.
I gave squares to all the guests to sign and now I
am printing photos to go on each block. I need to
go some sashing fabric because I don't like the stuff
I bought before. It needs something more of color to
make the photos POP. I hope it turns out the way it
looks in my mind.

Thank you!

Dorian,
just a suggestion - in your photo editing software, saturate the colors, increase the amount of contrast, and increase the 'brightness' a little.
That's how I got mine to keep the rich colors when I printed on the fabric
casamanana
aka Vicky :D

Wow-that quilt is great. The jacket is beautiful.

Thanks for all the kind words. My internet connection is making me crazy, so I'm going to try putting the denim shirt jacket up tomorrow.
sorry,
Vicky :cry:

You do beautiful work!! Great idea on increasing photo resolutions! They came out brighter! :D :D

WOW!!!! Your quilt is really beautiful! I like how you added the photos also! Great idea!

I definitely want to add this one on my list of quilts to try!

I have been trying to figure out how to make a snowflake block quilt without using appilques! This looks like it could be turned into snowflake blocks. Plus I have always liked the look of the kaleidoscope blocks!

Thank you for sharing your pics and inspiration!

DeeDee

Wow! You are one very talented lady. Thank you for sharing with us.
Hugs
Patty

Beautiful! Everything is just gorgeous!

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

Stunning quilt.

Yours and your husband's work is beautiful :thumbup: :thumbup:

Gorgeoous quilt and I love the jean jacket! Great work and thanks for the pics.

That quilt is awesome. Great job. And I love your jackets. A great way to display your work.

Dee Dee,
try www.villagequiltshoppe.com

they have lots of free patterns, and bunches of really inexpensive patterns.

I know they have several snowflake patterns. just do a search for them.

They also have a quilt pattern that has different snowflakes in each block.

I've used their patterns before, and they are accurate and well written.

If you don't want to pay for snowflake patterns, go to www.about.com/quilt. Thousands of free block and quilt patterns - and do a search on snowflake

casa manana
aka Vicky :D

Quite unique, great job

Wonderful!

Love your quilt & jacket!!

i love that first pic, all are very nice

Thank you Vicky for sharing this added info. I will be searching thru these too.

DeeDee

Thank you all for your kind words. You are all so wonderfully supportive, it's hard to comprehend because it is so different from what I'm used to in daily life - sales clerks, people walking in a door, doesn't matter where, it just seems most people are out to serve only themselves.

Well, I'm going to try again to post one of the denim shirt jackets.

Wow!!! Your denim shirt/jacket is so pretty!!!!!

I love the blocks and fabric choices here!!!

Very very nice.

Beautiful work, thanks for sharing pics.

Very nice. :thumbup:

Very pretty! I really like the picture idea! Wonderful use of the extra blocks. I really like how you used your imagination. Great job! (and great photos, too!)

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!

Your quilt is just downright exquisite!!! And I love your jackets!!! :D

Fantastic !! your quilt is stunning !!

Absolutely beautiful....Love the live shot pictures in the quilt....

those are beautiful, thank you for sharing. Penny

I love that use of kaleidoscopes! Stunning and so personalised. The jackets are cool too.

Fantastic !!

These are lovely, and brought back memories of my son as a
first grader! (Now 41 years old)

Since he had insisted on wearing denim shirts like a real cowboy,
and kept losing them with no way of instantly spotting them on other
kids' backs, I said I'd embroidery pictures on them if he designed them.

We came up with some good results, one of which was a head shot of his
dear Doberman Kurt. Another shirt was of a pretty car with pin strips he
had fallen in love with (no, we didn't buy it for him at age 16!!) and another
one the school teacher took from a boy who had stolen it and tried to wear
it home..that one had a big cougar snarling on it that we had seen in the
mountains!!

Come to think of it, I have a small grandson about 5 years old now....maybe
he will like a shirt or jacket made from his own ideas!!

Very nice, all of them.

Beautiful.

Wowwwwwww woman these are all fantasitc! Love the photos in the quilt ! and the deisgn is gorgous! not too mention that adorable jacket!