Quilts I Made in in the late 90's early 2000's

These pictures are not the best quality as I copied them from our old website. I do not know where the originals are at the present time, but if and when I find the original pictures I will update them.

The first three wall hanging are ones that I made for Joel to take to Germany when he went to visit our exchange students during his Junior year in high school.

I made this wall hanging for our exchange student Mattias' and his family. They live in Pforzheim, Germany, where several years later we discovered we have family.The pattern was in a quilting magazine, but at the moment I cannot find the magazine to note the title an issue.

I made this one for our first exchange student Jens and his family.

I made this one for our exchange student Axel and his family.

Joel said all the families loved the wall hangings.

This baby quilt was made for Benita who worked with Tom at the Anchorage Daily News.  She was doing her nursery using a farm animal theme.

 

This quilt is one I made for my youngest sister-in-law, Amy and her husband Joe, when they was married, though they did not receive it until their first anniversary due to an accident that resulted in my breaking my right wrist. There are 40 paper pieced birds in this quilt.  The pattern was originally found in a Carol Doak's book and was a baby quilt that I enlarged.  It was also my first experience paper piecing.

I also made this quilt for a friend's daughter when she graduated. Erica was our babysitter for several years.

The three little pigs is a piece I did as part of group quilt that was donated to the Loussac Library here in Anchorage. At the time Tom worked for the Anchorage Daily News and they were doing the quilt to hang in the children's section of the library.

I need to find the pattern and some fabric that would work as I would love to do this one again. I had this one on my school webpage for several years.

Hand and Machine Quilting Projects

I have a couple of tops pinned and either in the process of being hand quilted or ready and waiting for hand quilting.

This wall hanging is my youngest son on his snowboard. It is a modified Pat Loose pattern.  He had a skate boarder and I modified it to make it a snowboarder.  He is a daredevil and ready to conquer the mountain. It is partially hand quilted and will be done someday. 

 

This one is my older son and needs the ski poles embroidered and then will be ready for me to hand quilt. It is also a modified version of a Patrick Loose pattern.

When cleaning my sewing room last year I found this one hidden in the closet half hand quilted and set it aside to finish at a later time. As you can see it is still waiting for me to sit and hand quilt. I think I need to schedule in some hand quilting time.

I also discovered this one pinned and ready to machine quilt, though I do need to adjust a few of the pins and press it before I start quilting.

 

Plus of course I am still working on machine quilting my Kitchen Sink Jacket. I have one side of the front quilted.

I cannot machine quilt for too long of a period when I am doing more than stitch in the ditch because I get too tense in my neck and shoulders. I have tried a variety of things and nothing seems to work to keep me from getting so tense and having my muscles freeze up.  I can't say for sure but I think it is related to when I had open heart surgery and they yanked everything all out of whack. I think some of those muscles will never be back to where they were before the surgery.

TOPSVILLE Post Four

OMG!  I went to pull out tops to box up and send to the quilter and I found more tops that I did not document yet.  Oh dear that brings the total closer to 60.

First is  Lightning Quick, a Debbie Caffrey Mystery that I sent to the quilter along with OFF KUiLTeR.

I have a lovely pale pink for the backing and will dig through my stash to see if I have any of the purple or dark pink left to use as a binding.

Shirley found a great pink to quilt it with.

I also have this beautiful blue California Confusion which is another Debbie Caffrey Mystery. I think I like it the blue better than the brown and red, but I like them both.

Lastly I have Q is for Quilter, a Debbie Caffrey Mystery.  I need to finish the last two borders on it and decide if I want to add an outer border in blue. I have the fabric folded up with the quilt, so will make that decision based on how much I have for the backing which is also with the top.  The backing may determine if I add a second border or not. 
I believe these are all of my tops that are not already quilted or in the process of being hand or machine quilted. I think everything else is a work in progress (WIP) or a PhD, project half done.

More UFQs that need to be Finished

When pulling out all my tops to document them I discovered a few more UFQs that I need to finish.  I know that I still have a few UFQs to take pictures of but am not going to dig them out tonight.  I will wait until I am ready to work on them.

This is the background for a table runner or wall hanging.  I need to find the leaves and applique them on. I have them all made, just not sure where I stashed them, and that is the question.

Yin Yang.  My friends Jan and Sally took this class with me and all of ours look very different. I think Sally is the only one of us to get theirs quilted.  I am debating making it into a larger quilt. I have the fabric. I may do several of the center yin yang blocks and do the small log cabins as a border for the whole quilt and keep this as a small wall hanging to go with it. Either way I need to quilt this so it is no longer a UFQ.

This is a fun winter quilt made form four patches and rectangles.  I am debating adding a border using a textured blue or red fabric.  I do not have any of the fabrics that I used in the quilt so will have to see what I can find to match or coordinate.

Wild Berry Vines, a BOM from too many years ago to count. I need to finish making a few of the flowers that go in the border, and then stitch down all the border vines, berries and flowers. Sorry the picture is blurry, I tried several shots.

This is a round robin that I did many years ago.  I have the backing fabric, but am debating it I want to add one more border.  What do you think, should I add one more border?

Here is a close up of my center that I sent out.

Barbara's Antique, a Debbie Caffrey Mystery. I have the rows together and hopefully they are all there, so I can finish putting this top together. I am thinking I will see if I have one of the fabrics that is not on an edge to use as a border. I hope I still have one in my stash.

This is a baby quilt I started years ago that was lost in a box of counted x-stitch.  I think I will see if I can find a fabric that matches the two blues, the two browns, a white, and maybe a pink and yellow to make some four patches or pinwheels to use around the x-stitch for a baby quilt.

Solstice Sizzler a paper pieced star pattern, I have one block done and all the pieces for the other three blocks either sewn or in need of the blue fabric. The quilt has paper pieced borders also, but I an not sure if I will do them or just add plain borders. I will decide once I get the four blocks sewn together.

Black Tie Mystery.  I am doing a modified version of this quilt as my husband did not like part of the pattern, but loved this section. I have made three of these sections and need to make at least one more depending on how I want the quilt to lay on our bed.  If I do it vertically or the length of the bed I need four, but if I go horizontal or across the bed I need five.  I need to complete one more section and put in the sashing and lay it out on the bed to see which way I want the quilt to lay on the bed.

TOPSVILLE Post Three

These five tops need the borders finished for various reasons.  In one case I misplaced the border fabric, so could not finish the second two borders.  I found the fabric and it is now with the quilt ready to be cut and attached.

Day Dreamer, a Debbie Caffrey Mystery. This quilt needs the last two borders added. The star points and outer borders are a light purple, not blue.  Not sure why the coloring is off in the photo.

I believe this was a Judy Niemeyer mystery.  I took this class after being gifted it because one of my student's parents was injured in a rotary cutter accident.  I am a huge Debbie Caffrey fan and the ladies in this class kept dissing her. She did not teach at that store, and some of those women were very catty in their comments. I was not happy and think some of anger over their comments is directed at this quilt top, so I never finished it.  Now I am debating whether to add a border or not. I am thinking an narrow inner red border and an outer border of a Christmas print. What do you think? I plan to gift this quilt since I do not really like it due to the bad memories from the class.

Flip Flops of Summer is what I am calling this because the word "thongs" has a new meaning theses days, though when I was growing up that is what we called them.  I am debating whether to add another border using the fabric below. I will remove all the ribbons before quilting and then sew them on. At the moment they are pinned so I can use this picture to help me after quilting.  It tool me a long time to pick the ribbons for each set of flip flops.

What do you think of this as a border on my flip flop quilt? I was thinking about 4" all around.

These are left over blocks from a quilt I made my dad. I need to add a border. I am thinking a gold or green inner border to go with the gold or the green in the lighter colored blocks. I am hoping to make it a small lap size. I think I have some of the light fabric for an outer border.

Twenties Treasure, a Debbie Caffrey Mystery done with Doreen Speckmann fabrics.  I need to add the last two borders, which are already pieced.  I made a mistake in this quilt but was consistent in every block.  I did so well that when we laid the quilt out at class, even Debbie did not notice that I put one set of points facing the wrong way on every single block.  I already had the rows sewn together when I noticed it. Debbie told me that I had made it my own.  I gave it my own unique twist. I may add one more border if I have enough of the blue fabric.

TOPSVILLE Post Two

Here is the second set of quilt tops. These are the next 26 tops. Several of my tops are to big for me to quilt on my domestic machine, so they will be going to the quilter.  It may take me all year or longer to get them all done as I cannot afford to send more than one or two a month to quilter. I think I finally found all of the tops.  I hope no more are hiding.

Saturday Sampler in Pastels.

Red, White, and Blue Swap

Blue Hoffman Swap from the 1990's

 

Buggy Barn Black and White Stars

From 1992 or 1993, back when I was under the mistaken impression that you needed to use only one print and the rest solids. You can tell the borders were added about 15 to 20 years later when I learned more about textures.

Simply an Illusion, a Debbie Caffrey Mystery.

Undercover in Houston, a Debbie Caffrey Mystery.

Rainbow Stars with Piano Key border

Simply an Illusion, a Debbie Caffrey Mystery. I think it looks like tumbling blocks.

Friendship Star Christmas Swap

1997 Churn Dash Christmas Swap, also called Hole in the Barn Door, debating whether to add another border to this one or not.

Mystery Quilt - Diana Bradley teacher and designer.

Undercover in Houston III, a Debbie Caffrey Mystery. I call it my Michigan Apples quilt because of the reds and greens and the background fabric is a tiny apple print.

Spirit of the West, a Debbie Caffrey Mystery

The colors in this quilt do not come through as true. This quilt was a swap quilt in which I sent my primary fabric and one of my two secondary fabrics, teal and purple. Some people got teal, others got purple.  The dark print was my primary fabric and is the border fabric.

Confined to Quarters, a Debbie Caffrey Mystery. I am debating adding a black inner border, and a black and white print outer border. What do you think? Suggestions are appreciated.

OFF KUiLTeR This one is ready to send to the quilter.

Good Night Sweetheart, A Debbie Caffrey Mystery

New Year's Mystery Quilt 2011
Pam Ventagen, teacher and designer

Half Square Triangle Quilt

Undercover in Houston II, a Debbie Caffrey Mystery

Braid, I am not sure if you can tell but the top is cut at an angle with border wider on one side than the other. 

I am undecided if I will quilt these or send them off to be quilted. But since I have so many I have time to decided. :)

Blue and Yellow Friendship Stars. I have the backing for this one and may decide to quilt it myself, I need to measure it and see what it size it ended up being.

These are two quilts that my son's started when they were young. I finished up the tops and added borders, and now need to quilt them. You can learn more on the story of each of them here.

Joel's Space Quilt, Attic Windows.  I plan to quilt this one.

Bryce's Lizard Quilt.  I plan to quilt this one.

Then I have this one that I cannot even find, but I know it needs to be quilted. It is somewhere in my sewing room, but where is the question.

Block Pattern: Clay's Choice. This one I may have quilted and donate to the American Legion Auxiliary for a fund raiser.