Angel Fire Dreamin'

Angel Fire Dreamin'

This is a log cabin quilt that I worked out how to do after seeing a picture of a similar log cabin quilt in Judy Martin's "The Creative Pattern Book".  The dark half of each block is made of 1" finished logs, and the light half of each block is made of 2" finished squares.  Except when they meet in the middle - those are 1" squares.  I wracked my brain to work out the block.  And then, that wasn't complicated enough so I had to throw in 9 stars that were also worked into 9 of the blocks.  Then the top hung around for about a year, and I wracked my brain some more and figured out how to do the border.  I worked on the whole project on-and-off for about two years.

The name comes from the fact that Jim and I had bought some property in Angel Fire, New Mexico.  I thought about that while I was making the blocks.  Maybe some day it will be on a bed in a log cabin in Angel Fire!

Aidan's Pirate Quilt

Aidan's Pirate Quilt

Aidan's Pirate Quilt

This was a birthday quilt for Aidan's 4th birthday.  Gordon said he really liked pirates.  I just gathered different fabrics with pirates or ships and started putting it together.  It turned out that I liked the map fabric and the blue ship fabric better than the pirates.  So what was going to be the border became the center motif.  I added the pieced ship and the compass in the top two corners.  The bottom two corners have fish, treasure chests and mermaids.

I did not follow a pattern for this quilt.  I would put pieces up on the design wall and the quilt told me what to do.

detail of Pirate Ship (top left)

detail of Mariner's Compass (top right)

detail of Mermaid and Treasure (bottom right)

detail of 9-patch

Twin's Baby Quilts

 Gordon called up one day and said Julie was pregnant with twins!  As soon as I found out they were having a boy and a girl, I began planning baby quilts.

Anna's Baby Quilt

This quilt is all flannel and its girly-girly with hearts and pink, purple, yellow and a little green, and a little blue.  This is the official baby quilt for Anna.

Anna's Baby Quilt label

The label was stitched on a machine with black thread.  Welcome baby Anna!

Joey's Baby Quilt

This quilt is all flannel with little Noah's Arks and sun-shiney faces.  It is the same pattern as Anna's quilt with a very different look.  The fabric is designed by Jim Shore.

detail of Noah's Ark

detail of Joey's Baby Quilt label

This label was also stitched on the machine using black thread.   Welcome Baby Joey!