Submitted by Julie Bagamary.
You can see more of Julie's quilts on her blog.
Submitted by Rayne.
This is for another grand daughter. Her choice was for mainly purple with some brights.
Submitted by Mama Spark.
My son is a HUGE University of Texas Long Horns fan. I had made many quilts for my daughters but not one for my son. So when he requested a UT quilt I had to put my thinking cap on and design something that I knew he would love.
I started to formulate a design but needed my friend Robin to help me with the long horns. She designed the applique for me to fit in the blocks.
As it turns out the UT fabric just came on the market shortly after I designed it so that was a lucky break for me! I had my very talented friend, Liz Bowman, custom quilt it for me.
If you will notice there is barbed wire in the small border, long horns and loops in the outer border and small circles to simulate leather around the long horn appliques.
She also wrote 'Hook em'Horns' in all 4 outside corners, which is what the students chant at the games at UT. Needless to say he just LOVES this quilt!
Submitted by peppermintpatcher.
Peppermintpatcher is a professional pattern designer and you can see more of her work on her blog and buy her patterns on her website.
I have designed a range of quilts incorporating children's photos under the name Imagine That... quilts.
This is the first one that I did for my niece Chelsea. It is called Chelsea is a Princess.
Chelsea was so excited to see it, she just loves it. Her reaction prompted me to keep going with these little designs.
Submitted by One of a Kind.
This quilt is an original, hand painted, thread painted, applique, and machine quilted. It represents Skating on a pond when I was young. I painted the sky and the buldings, as well as part of the skaters. I thread painted the trees in the town and the two trees in the foreground.
Submitted by Denise.
A friend had this Debbie Mumm hanging in her house for the holidays and I liked it so much I made my own. Denise
Submitted by Hillingdon Quilts.
My christmas wallhanging was a project in one of the Australian craft magazines - can't remember which one - about ten or so years ago. I used only fabrics from my stash and it includes both needle turn and machine blanket stitch applique. It's simply quilted - just in the ditch, around each shape and a few christmassy motifs in the border. It's a happy little quilt and still makes me smile when I hang it each December.
Submitted by Lyn Duhig.
This is a machine quilting sampler that I made to try out as many different freehand machine quilting designs that I could find/invent. The centre is two fat quarters, each backed with fusible webbing and then cut into strips with an undulating line. They were then woven together and placed on the black background then a few of the 'blocks' resulting from the weaving were cut away and strewn on the black background, and the whole line fused in place. The lines of the weaving were extended out to the edge of the quilt and more lines added to create 'paddocks' for the quilting.
The centre is appliqued using hot pink satin stitch, extending onto the background. With the benefit of hindsight I should have done the quilting in colours that contrasted with their backgrounds. Instead the quilt spends a lot of it's time hanging face to the wall so I can consult the stitch designs on the back where they're visible.
Submitted by Judy B.
You can see more of Judy's work on her blog.
The star and tree blocks for this quilt were made by members of the Golden Harvest Quilters in 1997 for a lucky draw at their Christmas party, which was held a Corny Point. I made one of the blocks myself, but had to reverse the design because the piece of fabric I was given for the background had a flaw in it. I attached a note the block for the winner of the blocks explaining that it was reversed and why there was a seam in the background of the applique! The pattern came from one of the quilt shop series of books, 'Piecemakers Country Store', by the Piecemakers staff members, published by That Patchwork Place, 1993. The pattern name is 'Can't see the forest for the Christmas Trees', and in 1997 we purchased our first outdoor lights, and put large Christmas tree shapes on the front of the house and the side of the garage, aiming at having our own Christmas tree forest amongst the gum and pine trees which were growing around the house we were living in at the time. The blocks were pieced together late on January 16, 1998. It was too hot to do anything else! The borders were added the next day when it was even hotter. (Seems I do most of my quilt tops when it is too hot to do anything I don't like doing!) I almost followed the pattern exactly, but I used about a dozen each of red and brown fabrics for the sashing instead of one of each, and made the first border slightly wider, and added an extra border. This is the only time I have followed directions so closely for about 10 years!! The plan was to button it or use large utility quilting stitches, otherwise it would join the collection of UFOs on the shelf, and I do want to use this one in my lifetime. It waited until 2004 after we left the house at Kadina with all the trees around it and moved to a house with a water tower to hold a large tree in lights before it was quilted with utility stitches and completed to be included in the Golden Harvest Quilters exhibition in October 2004. It is the ultimate Christmas decoration to have a Christmas quilt on the spare bed.
Submitted by Cindi in Michigan.
This is a quilt I made while taking the 'Realistic Fabric Photos' class with Marily Belford online at Quilt University. It was my first class at QuiltU, and I had an absolute blast. I can't wait to start my next picture. The picture is of Jefferson, my massage therapist and friend, who is one of the warmest, most gentle and kind people I know. I've included the original picture that I made the quilt from and also a picture of the label.
Submitted by Judy B.
You can see more of Judy's work on her blog.
In 2000 I issued the first part of a challenge at annual Hi-fibre Retreats at Port Hughes. Participants had to make a house block before the next years retreats, when the instructions were to add a path border, then in following years a garden and finally a fence. Almost every technique available was used in this wall hanging, and hand made buttons were purchased from Llewena Newell, who also "retreats" each year. No fabrics were purchased for this project, they all came out of the cupboard. The finished projects were gathered together in 2004.
Submitted by Julie Bagamary.
Over sized batik Fall leaves are machine appliqued onto a curvy background of batik fabrics. Even the curvy border is made of batik fabrics. As with most of my Quilted Art pieces, this one included a Scripture verse that is a journal of sort as to what I am currently learning or a verse I feel led to use. This verse is hand embroidered onto discharged batik fabric reminding me of a time of 'New Song' on my life.
Submitted by Quiltmuts.
This quilt is an impression of a summersunset in my village in the easter part of Holland.
It's a very happy quilt, it shows how I feel about living here. I wasn't born here, but I came to live in this small village when I got married, some 30 years ago. I made this quilt for the Annual Show of the Dutch Quilters'Guild and I wrote a poem with it that is about being home and sometimes feeling a stranger here.
Submitted by Judy B.
I first saw this block design soon after I started quilting, but have never seen it made up, probably because it would have been very tedious to do as a hand applique. It was described as "modern" in 1920s and 1930s.
In June 2004 I pieced together 16 background blocks using creamy fabrics from the stash. Fabric beads were added at the Golden Harvest Quilters August Hi-fibre Retreat, then I tackled the machine buttonhole stitch around the beads on 11-12 Sept, machine quilted 13-14 September, and started hand quilting around the beads the next day. The binding was completed on September 27th and the quilt was shown in the Golden Harvest Quilters "All Things Bright and Beautiful" exhibition over the first weekend of October 2004.
58inches Square Machine pieced, appliqued, machine and hand quilted. Pattern published by Judy Butcher, 2005.
Submitted by Margeeth.
This is a picture of the quilt I made for our guilds annual show. It has been finished for some time, but I wanted to wait to show it until it had been at the show. I meant to make a cheerfull, uncomplicated quilt and judging from this reaction: 'When seeing Margeeths quilt one of the visitors spontaneously exclaimed that she was going to make just cheerful things from now on' I managed to do just that.
It's inspired by this haiku:
The admiration
for these flowers is painful
for my vertebrae
(Japan, 17th century)
Submitted by Bizarre Quilter.
You can see more of Bizarre Quilter's work on her blog.
My brother-in-law loves his records. Listening to music means the world to him. His hobby is turning records into cd's on his computer. He removes the hiss and pop, applying filters while wearing headphones. He has a large collection of records - probably over 500. Every time he goes into the city for a day out he goes to 2nd hand record shops and buys more records to turn into cds. There are certain artists and albums that he listens to all the time. For his 50th birthday I decided to incorporate his favourite music into a quilt.
My DH secretly took photos of some record covers and record centres (with the circular label). Some of the photos needed correction on Photoshop as the covers showed a lot of love, as well as wear and tear. Then, my DH resized the pictures so they printed out the right size. I made the records slightly smaller than their actual size of 12 inches so they would fit nicely into a 12 inch block. The records were machine appliqued, as were the record centres. I stippled around each record and also stitched along the ditch. As you can see he was thrilled when he opened his present and held it up for all to see at his 50th party a couple of years ago.
Submitted by Judy B.
In 2004 the Golden Harvest Quilters presented me with these blocks as a farewell gift, along with some fabric to match, a plant and a photo Album, and made me a Life Member all at the same time. As those who were there on the day I received my blocks should know, I was thrilled, and challenged! Also speechless! I had to think about how I would put them together while I unpacked, and for some time after. The first problem was that here were so many blocks that I would have to make lots of wall hangings. Or a quilt! And if it was to be a quilt, how about queen size for our bed, and leave out the wadding so we would actually use it during summer.
Before the blocks became threadbare from me playing with them, I put the small borders around each one in Jan 2005, and got them together, though still ragged around the edges two days later. The project was left a bit rough around the edges for more thinking time while I planned the border. It came out again in May 2006 and but it was not until the day the Golden Girls celebrated their 20th birthday on Wednesday 13th September 2006 that it became less ragged. Finally the day came, while the Golden Girls were celebrating at the 2006 Christmas Party, I got it all together, sandwiched (with out the filling so we can use it over our summer Christmas), quilted and within days it was completed and on the bed.
It looks absolutely wonderful, and every time Brian wiggles a toe bells ring! (I'm not telling you what is going on when the bells ring for extended periods of time, but we will have to curtail that sort of activity while we have guests!) I am delighted with the results, and it is sort of sad to put it away during the colder months, but what a thrill it is to get it out when the Christmas decorations come out for their annual airing. It is unlikely that I will ever forget the Golden Harvest Quilters anyway, but I have no doubt that the memories will come back every Christmas despite age and old timers disease!
Submitted by Stuffyquilter.
This quilt was made using the 5 inch charm squares that are so easy to find on the market these days. I used the Chocolat line from Moda, then added a border and some simple applique.
It hangs in my spare bedroom and really gives the room a warm feel.
Submitted by Emma How.
You can see more of Emma's quilts on her blog.
This is the original Beach Quilt made for my brother-in-law and sister-in-law's wedding in 2005, preceding the Seaside quilt for their daughter.
It's Queen-size, made mostly of 2' squares, and what I remember most about making it is crawling around on the floor, at almost 8-months pregnant, trying to get the placement of all the squares right.
I finished the binding at about 2am the morning of their wedding.
There are a few foundation-pieced sections, including the sun, some Margaret Rolfe dolphins, and the sea-gull which I drafted myself, and a few appliqued touches - the whale, bikini and sailboat.
Submitted by Margaret Gunn.
You can see more of Margaret's work on her blog.
The beach scene (entitled 'Sandy Dunes & Salty Surf' - full panoramic) quilt was initially made for a summer themed quilt swap this summer.
Living in Maine where the summers are ever so short, I could not imagine anything more appropriate than a view of what I see at the ocean.
Upon this quilt's completion, however, I found it too nostalgic and personal for me to conceive of sending it away, so I designed and made a second 'beachy' quilt. In the end, the second quilt, which is comprised of four mini-views of the beach, as though the beach is being seen through a cottage window, (entitled 'Scenes from Home') actually hangs in my home, and the first one I made is loved by Ginger P.
The quilts are made largely from the same fabrics. The ocean is from a multitude of blue and turquoise batiks. The sky is actually a novelty cloud fabric I never imagined ever using. I found that it worked well on these quilts though.
I added items that define the beach like the adirondak chair, beach bag & towel, rickety dune fence, sailboats, lighthouse, brightly colored umbrellas and of course (what maine is so well known for) the lobster buoys.
The quilt was made using raw-edged applique in order to get all of the details. This was a first for me. Similarly, I have only machine quilted about 4-5 other mini-quilts, before these. Overall, however, I love how they came out, and how they depict "the way life should be" (one of the motto's of Maine).
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Submitted by Roslyn Power. You can see more of Roslyn's work on her blog. |
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I am not the most prolific quiltmaker but really enjoy the process of making a quilt. |
This quilt I helped design for my Quilting group as a challenge. It took a year to construct and this was my first adventure into machine applique.
The quilt is machine pieced with some hand applique and I had it professionally quilted by Kim Bradley.
I entered my quilt into a small quilt show at Wyong and was pleased to have won 1st. place. My prize was a wonderful new sewing machine.
Submitted by Sandra McLay of Foothills Fabric and Threads.
Sandra is a co-owner of a quilt shop - read about the shop on their blog.
This is a quilt that I made for my Mum.
It is called Strawberry Laurel and was made in a class with Alison Niclair at Sandlyn House.
I made if for my mum's 80th Birthday which was in 2003.
It is machine applique blocks, foundations pieced sashing, quilt as you go with hand quilted wreaths.
I didn't do the full size quilt, I omitted the borders. It sits on top of my mums double bed and she loves it.
