Something old made new again

My Mom gave me an old quilt that my Grandmother Marlin made for her many years ago. I remember this quilt being on our bed growing up.  The quilt had many holes and in very bad shape. (Don't you just love the quilting details.) She told my brother he could have it to cover up cabinets he was moving.  I just couldn't stand the thought of that. So, I told him I would make him a pillow out of the scraps. Hope he likes it. I made 6 pillows from it.

Baby Shower Gifts

I made this cute little monkey quilt for my new cousin to be, Logan Peach. My cousin Jenny loved it.  The pattern is from Quilts for Babies  by Lark Crafts.  Also made her 2 little bibs.

 

Here's my cousin Jenny with another beautiful quilt someone made for her. She got lots of nice things, especially homemade goodies.

Flying Geese Quilt

 I have been working on this for a while. It's for my sister-in -law. I adore the blue and white flying geese. Seems like it took forever to quilt. It's a queen size that was already pieced, I just quilted it for her.

Finished Dutch Girl Quilt

 I finally finished my Dutch Girl quilt. I love the way it turned out. The yellow and red's really stand out.

Dutch girls and a few vintage finds

I really love the little dutch girls pattern.  My mother-in-law gave me this pattern when my kids were very small.  She even helped me make a few of them. Then my grandmother helped me quilt.  These are new ones I've been working on.

                                         Here all is going well, then all of a sudden....................

          Somehow this doesn't look quite right. I actually did this one more time after this one.

              Found these at a local thrift store. The zipper repair kit was dated 1957.

Amaryllis, Christmas tree and a finished quilt

First I wanted to show my beautiful Amaryllis. They are really easy to grow.

 Then to show off my pretty tree. It doesn't change much from year to year.  That's okay I love it just the way it is.

 Been working on this quilt for weeks and finally finished quilting. Another double wedding ring I found. All hand pieced and quilted by me. This one is mine. All mine.

Quilt for Layla and Ruby

I found this great queen size quilt top and had to have it. It took me about week, working 5 or 6 hours a day, but I finally finished it.  I love the curved corners.  I think it's called a double wedding ring.  It was hand pieced, so I thought it needed to be hand quilted.

Ruby is trying it out and I think she likes it.

Kitty Cat Wall Hangings

In the late 1980's I made this wall hanging for my Mom.  I remember finding this pattern in an old Better Homes magazine. I had to enlarge the pieces by getting some 1 square inch graph paper and drawing the pattern. Around 2005 she gave it to my grandchild Layla. So I quilted it, put some soft backing on it and added binding trim. Her Mom had put it up during the move to their new house. She found it last week and Layla fell in love with it.  Ruby wanted me to make her one.

I had forgotton I made this one for my sister Vickie. When my niece Ashley was going through some of her things she found it and gave it back to me and I  put it up.



Just found it the other day and showed it to Ruby. I quilted and put new binding and a flannel back and she adores it.

My new vintage sheet quilt

I've been working on my king size quilt all week.  Now I'm ready to start quilting.  I made it from 12" squares.  The backing is 4 sheets cut to fit.  I wanted them really big so it wouldn't take as long to finish.  These are my very favorite sheets. I love them all. A few of the squares I swapped with Lani at Create. Can't wait to finish.

Queen Size 9 Patch

I've been working on this 9-patch for about 6 months. I put it down in the summer because I was tired of working on it and it was just too hot. So lately I've really been determined to finish it. I made it for my niece Ashley. Hand quilted in about a week, because it has been pretty cold and I could cover up. Hope she likes it.

My finished Vintage Sheet Freedom Quilt

It was May 25th of 2010 when Deb first gathered 12 members to make a block and send to everyone for Vintage Sheet Freedom Bee. We would end up with 12 and finish our quilt by the end of November 2010. I was only missing 1 block so decided not to wait any longer and do my own thing. I love the sheet on the back and the quilting really stands out. I did machine and hand quilting.

Here it is on my front porch.

Vintage Bee quilt ideas

First I'd like to show you my newest block from Tina Warren in the Vintage Sheet Freedom Bee. (Still 2 more to come). I just couldn't wait to get started on them so I embroidered each members name and the state or country. Who knows I may start putting some of these together.

Dutch Girl for the Little Girls

The girls have been wanting to do some quilting so I let them choose a pattern. Of course they wanted to do the Little Dutch Girl with a kitty. I ironed the pieces on, cut them out, and ironed them. Now they can start sewing. Maybe they could do a little pillow. I'll keep you updated. The pattern came from "The Ultimate Sunbonnet Sue Collection".

Grandmother's Flower Garden finished

I'm so happy the way this turned out. I had bought the quilt top at a yard sale last summer. It was all hand pieced by a lady that was in a nursing home. I took it to the Stitchers Garden Quilt Shop and the lady there thought a lot of the fabrics were from the 30's and 40's. We matched up a vintage 1930's fabric for backing, then I hand quilted around the flowers.

Vintage Bee Blocks

This post is mainly for Ginger. These are my 3 fabrics for the Vintage Blocks. Hope this helps.

Marissa Jilly

Me

Melissa

Tracey

Leslie

Love them all. Thanks guys