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.

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.

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.

WIP - Orange and Pink Reversible Quilt

I have always had several projects on the for a million different reasons and it's no different today.  I still have lots on the go.  What I find fascinating are the all the different reasons that I stop one project to start another and another.  Be it boredom, disappointment, weather, change of circumstance, etc. the journey to get finished is a story in itself.

This past summer I made myself a promise that I was not only going to work through my stash of fabric, but that I was also going to work through my stashed unfinished projects while at the same time documenting the journey of the quilt through the life of the quilter as they are intertwined.

So without further ado...

THE ORANGE AND PINK REVERSIBLE QUILT

I started working on this quilt the summer when my youngest daughter was in her last year of high school....three years ago.  It was supposed to be first her September birthday gift, then that year's Christmas gift, then her graduation gift and so on and so on.....   

I am determined to get this done for next Christmas.

The Front

The Back

Leaf Appliques