My First BIG Quilt is Revealed

On September 21, 2013, I attended the wedding of my friends, Erik and Dyana Byberg. I chatted with them briefly before dinner and gave them to understand that their wedding gift was still a work in progress. I had originally intended to refinish a small 1930's writing desk for them.  When I said it was a work in progress, Dyana burst out with, "You're making us A QUILT?!!" How could I say no?  So I started this quilt the day after they were married.

Fast forward to September 13, 2014.  I invited Erik and Dy over for dinner and to finally be able to present them with their wedding gift.

This a Super-Queen sized D9P (almost a king), backed with a dark teal flannel. It's massive! My friend and mentor, Jonell Carter, did a large meander with variegated thread for the quilting and did a terrific job.  I'm very pleased with the result.  I tried, unsuccessfully, to figure out how to keep it but didn't really try very hard.

Both Dyana and Erik were delighted with the quilt and that made me even happier! It's a good thing they live closer to the coast when it does get colder than Sacramento.  They're prepared for an ice storm with this quilt!

Wombat Quilts

I don't generally follow any blogs religiously but I've had to make an exception for Wombat Quilts.  This blog is written by an Australian gal, Cath, who lives here in the United States. This woman is absolutely amazing!  She turns out more quilts in a week than I do in an entire month.

Like me, she's a huge fan of paper piecing and posts her work ever Monday.  So now, every Monday, I visit her site and gather tons of inspiration, as well as patterns.  Cath does a lot of charity quilt work and anyone would be thrilled to receive one of her beauties.

Here's one of her blocks that I turned into a medallion quilt for the Mather Field Veteran's Hospital.

I'm inspired to make some of my own patterns and test them out.

Cheers!

Sue

WIP: SpikeYour English

Whenever I get some breathing room, I like working on my paper pieced quilt blocks from a 2013 Block of the Month sew-along from Quilting Board.  Here are the blocks completed to date:

Not actually part of the series yet it may work well overall.

 The original patterns are from Quilting on the Square, www.quiltingonthesquare.com. They were offered as a Block of the Month in 2013. I think I'm a slow quilter!

This year they're offering miniature quult block which I'm saving but haven't decided if I'll use them or not.  Minis are not really my "thang"!

Cheers!

Sue

Holy Moley! Catching Up!

I am so very far behind on updating this blog! Seems it just kept getting pushed farther and farther down the To-Do list until it just fell off the bottom.

I HAVE BEEN busy!  Here's a fast inventory of the things I've made since February.

Three quilts for my g/f, Michele's grandsons.

For Gregory Vaughn

For Ashton Vaughn

 Unfortunately, the quilt for the oldest grandson, Dylan, escaped without a photograph.  I'll have to get Michele to snap one next time she visits with him.

Then, I finished a gray and pink framed 9-Patch for Elara Duringer, the new daughter of friends, Eric and Suzanne Duringer. I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out.

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