Category: Quilting

Hydrangea cabinet and table top set

hydrangea tea doily

Wanting to learn free motion quilting, I decided to create place mats and other small-medium size projects to practice on. Quite enjoying the mosaic designs that can be created using border striped fabrics, I went looking for free patterns and … Read more

Purple Bargello Quilt

purple bargello quilt

This blog page is a brief discussion of how I created my first quilt, my Purple Bargello lap size (60- by 52-inches) quilt.  I assume you are either comfortable with the various stages of creating a quilt, or like me, … Read more

All Aglow lap size quilt

All Aglow quilt

This blog page is a brief discussion of how I created my second quilt, my All Aglow lap size quilt.  I assume you are either comfortable with the various stages of creating a quilt, or like me, you viewed several … Read more

Sage color lap size quilt

My first quilt, 36 by 59 inch lap quilt

This is my first completed lap quilt, 36- by 56-inches. Front side shows the color range: aqua-sage green-gold on white. Second photo shows backside, quilted in-the-ditch with echoing quilting along the outer edges. Many thanks to Jenny of MSQC and … Read more

Squirelly Girl Table Runner

5 panel pumpkin colors panel closeup

Log cabin design. Soft range of grey through pumpkin color table runner.  Solid colors rusty color range. Border stripes cut into 8-inch pieces then slanted joined. Table runner finished size: 13- by 72-inches.

First effort at quilting in over a … Read more

Sage table runner with mosaic and teal

Sage table runner with mosaic and teal

Sage table runner with mosaic and teal. 15-inch by 60-inch. Pattern is seven 9.5-inch squares each with a left or right half square (9.5-inch by 4-inch).

Square combos fabric. Mosaic fabric is from Christiane Marques Terracina Metallics Teal, 2.5-inch jelly … Read more

Peach with purple table runner

peach quilt square closeup

9.5-inches by 76-inches, quilted table runner. Each square is a combo of various size fabric pieces.

Six 9.5 inch peach-floral squares with purple separation. The purple fabric, purchased around 2000 is cotton/polyster with an interesting pattern weaved or heat set … Read more