The Blueberry Patch Crib Quilt

This a baby quilt I made for some friends for the birth of their little boy.  It is a pattern from a book that I will have to go through my library to find in order to give credit where credit is due.

I like the fabric in this quilt.  It gives the illusion that the cuts are crooked and uneven, but they are not.

The label below was done with my embroidery machine.

A quilt for room and board?

This is a quilt I made for the host that billeted our daughter during a soccer tournament on Newfoundland island.  It is a Thimbleberries pattern that I made in Labrador colours.

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Raising Money for the Power Bill

A Labrador Welcome

Here is a quilt that I made in 2003 to for a lottery draw to help raise money to the pay the power bill at the Goose Bay, Labrador curling rink.  I made it from a magazine which one day when I come across it again I will give credit to it designer.

I really liked this quilt a lot and though I'd have loved to have kept it, I know it went to a nice home for a nice cause.

I machined pieced it and did the rest by hand - applique, accent stitching and quilting.

DND RESCUE 420 MEMORY QUILT

We had arrived in Goose Bay just 4 days before Rescue helicopter 420 on a searching and rescue mission went down with 4 souls on board, killing two and severely injuring the other two.

This is a quilt made in memory of that crash in honor of those that were on board and two that died.

Charlene Pulaski's husband was one of the severely injured that day.  Her husband very nearly was not saved because during those days the search and rescue helicopters were painted green making it difficult to find the crash site in the trees on the side of the mountain.

Charlene made it her personal mission and took it all the way to the Defence Minister himself to have the helicopters "put back the way they were" and once again painted yellow and she won.  Hopefully, because of her cause there will be no more helicopter's that can't be found because of camoflage.

Women and young girls came together to make squares for this quilt.  The squares represented all the things that Julie and Colin, who died that day, loved.  Their hobbies, dreams and homes.  It was my job to put it all together.  To make all the squares lay flat so it could be quilted.

It took me exactly 14 days, some 12-14 hours a day to prepare it, quilt it, bind it and prepare it for hanging on time for the a special visit from the Minister of National Defence in a newly yellow painted search and rescue helicopter.  The quilt toured Canada going to all the search and rescue squadrons through out Canada.

The padre's wife asked that quilt birds of peace into the quilt which I did.

  I recall that is was 7 ft. x 4 ft.  I bound it in the search and rescue colours.  I was very heavily quilted and was very heavy.  I had to make a heavy duty hanging system to hold the weight of the quilt.

I do not know where it is today.  Possibly in the Goose Bay, Labrador museum.

75th Birthday Story Quilt

This is a quilt that I made for my step-father's 75th birthday.  I told a story of his life using quilt patterns.  For example the fish tails patterns for the fish tales he told and the Virginia Reel for their love of dance.

I worked day and night on this quilt and from start to finish had it done in just one month, on time for my first trip to Florida, 4800 km from Goose Bay, Labrador by car in the winter, to give it to him in person.  He's gone now, but his story lives on.

The finished quilt pics have yet to be uploaded.  I used my embroidery machine to embroider the meaning of each block in big black letters.

The most challenging block I did was the yellow and blue French star block and I did get it to lay flat!

CHILDREN'S FLANNEL RAG QUILTS

These are my first attempts at rag quilts.  Since I wanted to see how quickly one could be made I decided to use a single, but busy flannel fabric for each of my granddaughter's and grandson's quilts.  I chose flannel so they would be soft.

I was quite surprised how much fabric it took to make the quilts.  And oh boy, it took forever to snip them after they were sewn.  A day to sew and a day to snip.

 But they are nice and thick and wonderfully soft.  The kids love to cuddle with them.

QUILTING BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Mini Exchange Quilt

Here is a little quilt I made for ALQS7 this past fall, an online quilt swapping blog.  It found a new home with a quilter in Nova Scotia.  I couldn't be more thrilled as that is where I am from.

Since it was an international swap I wanted to make it quintessentially Canadian.  What's more Canadian than canoes and snow.  I designed quilting cabin in the mountains where by one can quilt by the light of silver moonbeams cast by a canoe shaped moon.  One can just imagine a quilter inside the cabin with the light on.

Rather than making a plain backing, I used up three heart strips that were in my scrap box stash of quilted things and fabric that hope some day to make it into a project.

CHICKEN SCRATCH Scrappy Baby Quilt

CHICKEN SCRATCH Scrappy Baby Quilt


This is a quilt that made for my grandson.  Several years ago I was into making these little chicken doorstops.  They were made of crazy quilting squares and filled with rice.  I'll have to find a picture of one of the chickens.

Well, going through my scrap box I found a ton of these crazy squares I'd made and decided to put them together in a quilt.  As a crib quilt I wanted it to be soft so for the first time I used a modern micro-fiber fabric for the backing.  It turned out really nice and is one of my favourite quilts.

I did my typical crazy doodling quilting.  The name for the quilt came to as I was doing the machine quilting.   The navy fabric is flannel and the crazy squares are cotton.

Machine-made Cathedral Window Baby Quilt

This quilt is my first attempt at a machine made cathedral window.  As I went along I learned how to make it better.  Should I attempt a second one in the future I will be able to make it much quicker.

This is back.  A smooth side for laying baby on.


I was going to edge stitch the folded fabric to make leaves, but found it too thick and difficult to manuver.  Instead I made a wiggle pattern which turned out much better and was a lot easier to do.  I am all for easy.


The quilt is quite thick and very texturized.  I think it will be very nice to keep little hands busy.  It think it will be a very rugged blankie that will last years.