Joy To the World the Lord is Come

Here is a quilt that I finished up this morning while helping my children with their writing assignments. It is another one for our church this Christmas season. I'm thinking it is going to look real beautiful hanging while candles are burning and joy is in the air. I love Christmas!!!

Polar Bear

I just finished this quilt and I'm actually tired of it but still proud of it.

It, being white, gave me quite a bit of trouble.

I use a tracing kind of pattern paper for drawing my designs for quilting the borders and I, not thinking, used a led pencil to draw my design on my paper. Well, then I laid my paper down and sewed over it, following all my nicely penciled in designs and wouldn't you know it, the led smeared all over my white fabric and thread. I was horrified! It took some real doing (or should I say undoing) but I managed to get all the led out and have nice white fabric in the end. Sigh, but what a lot of extra work!

Lesson learned and I'll use a propper ink pen next time and make sure the ink is completely dry before even bringing it near my fabric. This is the end result and so far people are loving this one. It is not sold yet and is up for sale and I'm happy to say, it is wonderfully beautiful and white just like it was intended to be.

Ice Fishing

This quilt was difficult because it was the first quilt I've ever done with piano key design around the edges. They stretch and pull out of shape very easily when sewing and so in the end I ended up with a crooked quilt that I could not seem to straighten out. Well, the answer to that was mounting it around a wooden frame and stretching it straight. I wasn't willing to just throw it away. In the end, it sold for a nice price and I was very happy.

I saved the pattern that I made for the little Inuit people on the quilt and can remake it anytime. Next time will be even more beautiful as I definately learned some things from this quilting experience.

People's responses to this quilt have been overwhelmingly positive. They love this one! I do too now, but it took me a while to like it again after it gave me so much trouble.

African Royalty

These two quilts are smaller wall hangings. They are simple and elegant. They were fun to make, however they don't get a lot of attention from on-lookers. People seem to like the bigger and more complicated quilts better.

Fruit Medley

Fruit for breakfast!

This quilt makes a beautiful wall hanging for a dining room. It brightens it up and makes for a cheerful place to be. It is also a great conversation peice.

The abstract part of this quilt are the circles within circles and they have been greatly discussed as to what they could be. Some say maybe olives, no, they must be grapes, or actually no, they must be something different. I just smile because they are really just circles - nothing more.

One person told me that it gives them a picture as to what's in my mind (hmmm! now it is my turn to question. Are they thinking, "just a bunch of wholes"? LOL) This one is sold but I saved my idea and could make it again if anyone would like one like it or even with different colors. Just post me a note. :0)

African Savannah

This quilt was inspired by my love for Africa. It is 5' X 5', 100% cotten, appliqued, and a machine quilted peice of work. It was a lot of fun to make and is for sale if anyone is interested. :0)

It took me about two weeks and long hours to do this quilt and basicall the details you can see in the pictures. The longest part was putting the zebra's together. I sewed on all the stripes before I actually appliqued the zebras to the quilt. It was just a lot easier that way. Then I quilted in black on the black between the white stripes so that they lay flat on the quilt. Have a look and enjoy!