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Back in 1999, while visiting in San Diego with my favorite craft-cross-pollinator
friend Janis, I bought myself a Bernette machine and a walking foot. Prior
to that, I had been strugging along with a 1960's White machine that I
bought used from another student in college for ten bucks. Needless to
say, I now have the tools to make real sewing projects!
my quilts
- More, as always, are in the works...
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- Curtain-Scraps Lap Quilt and Pillow
- completed December 1999
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I made this little lap quilt and nine-patch pillow for my ex from
the fabric left over from making pillow shams and curtains for the
house. I have enough nine-patch squares made that I have a queen-sized
quilt in the works, but I've not gotten my gumption up to take on
that much machine quilting. Note that cottons are easy to whip up
into curtains or quilts!
gift quilts
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- Mrs. Monaly's Cuddle Quilt
- closeup - completed May 1999,
given to me August 2000
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This lovely little lap-sized quilt was given to me for my sinus surgery
recovery by Heidi Monaly. It's hand-quilted in beautiful tiny little
stitches.
- Grandma Schesel's Hawaiian Quilt
- completed December 1999
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This is a rescue quilt... my father's sister Lucy purchased three
quilt tops from her mother's mother, sometime in the last few years
of Great-Grandma's life. She saved them for a while, and then, when
she and my Mom were chatting about some of Mom's other rescue quilt
projects for her coworkers, Aunt Lucy brought them out. My Mom put
backing fabric and edging on them but didn't quilt them, and now each
of Lucy's daughters and I are the curators of these little pieces
of family history.
The quilt top was done in little pieces with backing fabric sewn behind
each one of them (I'm still trying to find a good website describing
the technique that was used). Some of the fabric pieces look like
striped men's shirt material, others little calico apron prints, and
some pieces still show previous sewing-holes where they were part
of some other garment in their other life.
One of the newer fabrics used was called "the Hawaiian fabric"
by Great-Grandma, so she dubbed this quilt "the Hawaiian Quilt",
and the name stuck, although I'm sure that Great-Grandma never went
to the islands... Because I majored in GeoChem in college, I went
on a weeklong senior field trip to the big island in 1996 and fell
in love with the place. Mom and Aunt Lucy thought it would be appropriate
that I be given care of this particular quilt for that reason.
- Grandma Walker's Iris Lap Quilt - purchased in 1996
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Grandma Walker din't quilt. But when she and her friend Doris came
out to California from the East Coast for a visit in 1996, they saw
me admiring a sample quilt of purple irises in the local quilt shop
window. The store didn't normally sell those samples, but rather keeps
a rotating display of them. Grandma talked them into selling it to
her anyway, and gift-wrapped it for me. Once I get better at narrow
points, I'm planning on using it to create a pattern for my own irises
quilt.
- Mrs. Borgess' Lap Quilt - completed in 1996
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Grandma Walker's friend Doris Borgess brought this one when they
came to visit me. It's machine pieced and tied, backed with a lovely
lace fabric, and is just big enough for me to curl up under.
- Mom's Project-Scraps Nine-Patch Quilt - completed sometime
in the late 1980's or early 1990's
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Mom made this quilt for me from leftover fabrics which she had made
clothing, costumes and projects from as I was growing up. Most squares
on this quilt have a lot of meaning for me. It's machine-pieced and
edged, and tied on a medium-thick batting. Mom's put new batting in
it once already for me, because the original batting didn't hold up
well in patches.
- Mom's T-Shirt Quilt
- completed in 1990
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Mom made this one for me while I was in high school, and used many
of the T-shirts I had accumulated over the years by participating
in all sorts of activities. Of course, there were all different sizes
of T-shirts, since some of the summer camp shirts came from when I
was in elementary school. It's machine-pieced and edged, and tied
on a medium-think batting. One important lesson learned from this
quilt: if you have red fabrics, make sure you wash them and wash them
and wash them before putting them into a quilt.
- Mom's Months-of-Flowers Quilt - completed in 1997 or 1998
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This is another of Mom's rescue quilts. She found the squares all
sewn together with no borders at the Bargersville Flea Market in Indiana,
washed them up, separated them, and put them back together with machine-stitched
borders, edging, and a thin batting.
- Mom's Lace-Penguin Quillow - completed in the early 1990's
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Mom made this quillow for me a while ago... all while I was growing
up, I adored penguins. The quillow pattern is a nice little piece
of engineering. This one's machine-pieced, the pillow front is machine-quilted,
and the blanket part is tied on a medium-light batting.
- Mom's Print-Penguin Quillow - completed in the early 1990's
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This one's machine-pieced, the cotton-print pillow front is machine-quilted,
and the blanket part is tied on a medium-light batting.
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