Mom's Birthday Quilt

 I made this lap-size scrappy quilt for my Mom's birthday.  It is a Judy Martin pattern, except I reconfigured the blocks.  I quilted it using my Singer Featherweight sewing machine.  I had to cover the feed-dogs with a piece of plastic.  It was my first attempt at free motion quilting. 

This is the label for Mom's quilt.  I embroidered it using a different sewing machine by moving the quilt under the machine with a straight stitch. 

Aidan's Scarecrow Quilt

Aidan's Scarecrow Quilt

This quilt was made for Aidan's 2nd birthday.  It is flannel. The center of the quilt is a panel, and the border is pieced.  I used my antique Singer hand-crank sewing machine to do the piecing on the border. 

It's is cozy and soft.  Julie loves it for a lap quilt.

detail of label

Starry Woods

Starry Woods

I had this great woodsy fabric and I wanted to make something out of it, and the stars appealed to me.  I made blocks and sashing and lots of borders.  Viola!  A quilt!  This quilt lives at Michelle's house.

back of Starry Woods quilt

 The backing is pieced and it was quilted in sections.  I had experimented with free-motion quilting ideas, so the quilting patterns on this quilt are quite varied.

detail of a star

detail of another star

detail of Starry Woods label

I used a commercial label from a label panel.  Then hand-stitched the title and date.

Dancing Keys

Dancing Keys quilt

This was Scott's "College Quilt" except it didn't get finished until after he graduated from College.  It's log cabin blocks in a Streak o Lightening set.  I felt that the blocks and the colors produced a more masculine looking quilt.  This set reminded me of xylophone or piano keys; perfect for my musician son.  I pieced the blocks using an antique Singer handcrank sewing machine.  Then I pulled out my regular machine to do assemble the blocks.  The backing is done with fabric that has musical instruments and notes all over it.  This was quilted using straight lines because I couldn't drop the feed dogs on the sewing machine I had.  As a result there is very little quilting and its all in straight lines.

Detail of Dancing Keys label

The words on the label are hand embroidered, as on many of my early quilts.