Puppies in Waiting Wall Hanging Quilt

This wall hanging is made using a linen tea towel as the centerpiece.  I framed it with a lovely brown/black batik and added appliqued dog biscuits.  I used the same machine the trapunto technique I used on the African whole cloth quilt to help add a little 3-D effect to the puppies.

Here is the finished quilt.  It measures 25 in X 33 in.  It is machine pieced, appliqued, and quilted.

Here is a close up to show the one dog looking forward.

This one show more of the border detail.

Here is the back which is brown/white print.  I'll add a sleeve for hanging ease and a label, then I plan to donate it to the Humane Society of Pulaski County to be used in one of their fund-raiser silent auctions.

Mariner’s Compass Rose

Updated 3/2017-- all links removed (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. 

This is my quilt for the ALQS6.  While trying to decide what to make for this one, I found the center motif tucked away inside Barbara Brackman’s Encyclopedia Of Pieced Quilt Patterns I was thumbing through for inspiration.  I found it.

I decided to draft a mariner’s compass to fit so my fabric motif could be used (whole) as the center.  I found purples and black fabric in my stash to use.  To ensure nice points I decided to hand piece this one.  It is 18 in square. 

The center motif area is hand quilted along the black lines.  The compass and background is machine quilted.
From the back you can see the quilting. 

Gold Rush SF Santa Quilt

This small quilt (9 in X 10.5 in) began as a needlepoint project back in 1993 from a kit I bought on a trip to San Francisco.  The kit is a DeDe’s needlework design  (Dede Ogden).  It is her Gold Rush S.F. Santa.  I had long ago finished the Santa, but for some reason did not do the background and then misplaced or lost the thread needed for the background.

When I “stumbled” upon it again recently, I decided to turn it into a small quilt.  I added a white fabric background and then a border.  I then machine and hand quilted it.

The back has triangles to add in hanging the quilt.  A small bamboo stick can be placed and hung on a picture hook (see where the pin is).
Here is the Gold Rush S.F. Santa design which makes it a little easier to appreciate the San Francisco elements included.

There’s the pan of gold Santa is holding in his left hand, the sourdough bread in his right.  Just off his right elbow is the Golden Gate bridge and below that the cable car.  The “E” area is the Coit Tower.  The “I” area is the Crooked Street.  The “J” flowers are poppies.

I sent this quilt to our fellow blogger Doc Gurley.

Color Wheel Wall Hanging

I finally finished the color wheel wall hanging quilt!  As you may recall, it is from a 1993 color wheel kit designed by Susan McKelvy (author of Color for Quilters).  I began the quilt earlier this summer and finished it a few weeks ago.

It is machine and hand pieced.  It is machine quilted.  It is 29 in square in size.

Here is a closer photo to show the quilting better.
Here you can see the quilting of the border.

The back is a black cotton.  I tried to get a good photo of the quilting from the back, but it didn’t work out.

Ohio Star Color Wheel

A few weeks ago I posted the color wheel kit I purchased years ago and finally got around to making.  This was made from some of the left over fabric and uses all the colors of the wheel.  It is an Ohio Star block within an Ohio Star block framed with a dark blue fabric.  I machine pieced and quilted it.  The wall hanging measures 24.5 in square.

Here is a close view of the center to show the quilting done with a light to medium blue thread.
Here is the back (the fabric is actually the dark blue used for the quilt border on the front of the quilt.  It looks washed out here.

Flowers in Hands

Recently I removed some beaded flowers from an old Liz Claiborne sweater.  When thinking of how to use them, I recalled Picasso’s Flowers in Hand.   I partially copied/ partially free-handed the flower position, stems, and hands.

I machine stitched the hands and stems, then added the blue fabric border.  I did the machine quilting next, hand sewing on the beaded flowers after I had the binding done.

The quilt measures 15.75 in X 18 in.

Here you can see the beaded flowers and stitching.
Here is the back.

Under the Tree

The batik used in the center of this quilt was a lone square of fabric which I didn’t want to cut up.  I felt lucky that it had the nice scene featured.  I noticed I had just enough of the border print I used for the inner frame.

The quilt is machine pieced and quilted.  It measures  9 7/8 in X 9 5/8 in. 

Here you can see how I used dark green thread to make the metallic tree and figures stand out even more.
The outer border fabric is a black print which looks gray/black but photographs blue/black.
The back has a sleeve for hanging.

Prairie Queen Quilt

This is a quilt I made years ago (unsure as I failed to put a label on this one) using challenge fabric for a contest (didn’t finish in time).  I thought I recalled it being for a Hoffman challenge, but apparently not as the fabric doesn’t match any of the  fabric of past challenges.  So if anyone recognizes the fabric ….

I believe it was early 1990’s, around 1993.  I combined three blocks:  prairie queen, shoe fly, and flying geese.

The quilt is machine pieced and quilted.  It is 34 in square.  Here is a close up of the fabrics.
Here is the back which is made of the remaining gold fabrics.  Even though there is a sleeve on this for hanging, I use it to cover an old desk in my bedroom.

Yellow Flower

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This small art quilt was inspired by a photo of a multinodular goiter in a JAMA article (photo credit), the upper right image here.

I took the photo and enlarged it more than 400% to create this template on freezer paper.  I applied light-weight fusible web to the back of my black fabric and the freezer paper to the front.  Then using an #11 blade I cut out the design.

The black fabric was then fused to the background fabrics.  First the yellow print and then the gray print.  The raw edges were then machine appliqued.   The border consists of two thin strips (an inner black and then the print) and a larger black.

I machine quilted the piece.  Here is a  close view of the yellow flower which was fussy cut from a wonderful Batik.

Here is the back before I sewed on the label but after sewing on the sleeve for hanging.  The quilt measures 17.5 in X 19.5 in.

The quilt is for sale on Etsy.

Fracture II or Roses

A couple of years ago I made my first quilt using this technique called fracturing.  This time I started with four of these pieces of fabric I then cut into the pieces as described (see this post).

I mis-cut one of the four so ended up with a gap in the layout.
To correct this (as I didn’t have a fifth piece so I could just re-cut it), I inserted red squares so it would look like a ribbon woven in.
Here is the finished quilt.  It is machine pieced and quilted.  It measures approximately 29 in square.
I quilted it with gold metallic thread on the front using beige cotton thread in the bobbin.
Here is the back before I sewed on the sleeve and label.

Heart in Hand Quilt

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I really like how this quilt turned out.  For now it is hanging in my office.  I have decided to use it to help Movin Meat raise money for The St Baldrick's Foundation.  It is listed on Etsy if anyone is interested in buying it.

The quilt was inspired by this scarf featured on Street Anatomy. I cropped a screen shot, brushed in the heart (suggested by the arterial formation), and then printed it out on a sheet of Colorfast fabric.  The border fabric is from an old flour sack.

It is machine pieced and quilted.  The small wall hanging measures 18.5 in X 23.75 in.

I embellished the heart in the hand using yarns and thread.
The back is a simple gray print cotton calico.

You Melt My Heart

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This quilt was made from the cut-out fabric from the EKG of my “Winter” quilt. You can see what I mean in this photo.

This small wall hanging quilt is 16 in square. It is machine and hand appliqued. It is machine quilted. The icicles in the heart are quilted with metallic thread.

Here you can see the deep red thread used to quilt the “frame” and the metallic used in the middle.
Here is a photo of the center of the back of the quilt before the sleeve and label were added.

I have listed it for sale on Etsy.  Never sold, so donated August 2012 to UAMS for silent auction at my 30th medical school reunion.

Ruched Roses Quilt – Finished

More than three years ago, I began this quilt.  I reached a point where I wasn’t happy with it.  I simply put it aside and worked on other projects.  That act of putting it aside and coming back to it later gave me a different prospective.  I pulled it back out earlier this year and actually undid much of the work, redid the border, and finished the quilt.

The quilt has ruched roses made by hand and appliqued onto the quilt by hand.  The center rose is appliqued by hand and has extra batting just beneath it (trapunto technique) to give it extra dimension.  The stems and leaves are machine appliqued.

The wall hanging measures 56 in square.  It is machine quilted.  Here is a close up of one of the corner ruched roses.
Here is the center rose.
The yellow ruched rose along with tulips.
A detail of the double-folded ribbon border which is machine pieced.
Here are two photos of the back before the sleeve and label were sewn on to show the quilting.
Here you can see the trapunto effect beneath the center rose better than from the front.

Happy New Year to you all!