Here is a wall-hanging size quilt that I made with some of the liberated houses I won last year. I’m going to enter it in my quilt guild’s challenge next month. It is our 20th anniversary, and the challenge was to make a quilt that has 20 of something (mine has 20 yo-yos) and was ‘crazy’ since we are the Crazy Quilters Quilt Guild. I love all the bright colors. It is going to hang in my laundry room where I have...

Thanks to my lucky winnings, I was able to put together and complete a quilt top today! I used a little fewer than half the blocks in this table topper. (it is 36 x 42). I have a friend who is a wine lover, and she will be a recipient of a “pay it forward’ promise I made earlier this year. The purple, green and blue colors made me think of wine, and I found these wine panels that went beautifully. It was a math challenge, because...

Using an idea Sophie posted, I sewed blocks together in panels, put borders on the panels, sewed the panels together and then used the remaining blocks in the border. If I were doing it again, I would use the same color fabric to border each panel and in between the blocks that form the outside border. I used every block I received and made two additional to have 3 blocks on the top and bottom borders. My husband said this quilt top is...

Here’s the top, mostly done. A colorful batik strip border followed by another black one are in planning, but I thought you might like to see it this far...

Krista gave me permission to post photos of her finished Tic-Tac-Toe quilt. You can read more about it on blog, Quilts and More: June UFO The pieced back is really cool, too–a giant Tic-tac-toe block...

I finished this quilt a few weeks ago but have been having problems getting good photos of it. These are probably the best I have. I love the cheerful colours in this...

Used the May 2011 Pineapple Blossom pattern to put this bed shawl together.  When quilted it will go at foot of my mom’s bed to warm her feet.  It can also be pulled around her shoulders for warmth when she is sitting up in bed reading.  I’ve named it Pineapple Rose after the May 2011 Pineapple Blossom pattern and the embrodiered rose in the middle of each block and in the cornerstones.  (Rose is from an Anita Goodesign embrodiery...

Reeds, free-pieced blocks from summer 2010. I shared more photos on my blog. Phew, now I can enter next month’s drawing with no guilty conscience! I saw an ad in a quilt magazine that Quilter’s Dream batting company is hosting a contest, requesting lap-size quilts for people with ALS (Lou Gehrigs disease)…I think this one will be a nice...

I made my “super rectangle” table topper my Friday Night Sew In project and managed to quilt 28 different designs, inspired by Leah Day’s Free Motion Quilting Project, into the 27 rectangles. It was fun to play with the different designs … and discover that I’m better at free-motion-quilting circles than I would have imagined. I’m sure some of these designs will find their way into other quilt projects. Over...

That’s how long it took to make this quilt using 4 fabrics and this month’s block pattern to make 42 blocks. Top size is 42″ X 54″ and the time included cutting and sewing. Half of the blocks have yellow polka dots, half have blue with stars and swirls for the 4.5″ x 6.5″. I used the same two fabrics and placement for the smaller patches in all the blocks. I did not use strip piecing, but it easily could have...

my son gets to enjoy his tic tac toe quilt from blocks I won in January 2010....

Quilt block swapping slid to the back burner in May when it finally stopped raining and I could get out in the garden. Also, an acquaintance takes “little dresses” to Ecuador a few times a year so I whipped up a few to send along.  I’m mentioning them here because the pocket decoration came straight out of Sophie’s Junction “Free-Style Trees”.  Another quilting connection was realizing I could make...