“Grand Old Gal” Marcia asked if I would quilt a very old, hand pieced child size foundation pieced top. Identified fabrics via AI as from the 1920s. Foundation pieces: muslin, flannel and curtain pieces. Suspect more than one person completed the blocks – some blocks well constructed and some poorly constructed. Blocks were different sizes. I did not restore, but repaired and stabilized. Wool & cotton batting. Brightened with good bathtub soak!

I was struggling to pull together a birthday banner. My Friday Friends came to my aid with scraps of guitar fabrics. I pieced together fabrics to make an appliqué guitar. ‘13’ and musical notes used in quilting. My grandson plays guitar and drums. I faced the banner with two little holes for the dowel to hang the banner.

“Happy Charm Pack” This table runner was made for a challenge to make something with one charm pack. I’ve included the lamp in my special tools to help “mark” the quilt for wavy quilting.

“Chandelier” I was looking online for some easy Christmas quilt patterns, and came upon this quilt. I fell in love. It went together fast. I used Jacquie Gering’s book “Walk” to quilt this quilt. I found it difficult to mark the dots on the quilt; because, of all the colors. So, I came up with using color coding dots. Success.

“Millefiori Wall Hanging” Willyne Hamerstein hand pieces stunning millefiori (thousand flowers) quilts and taught the technique in this QuiltFolk workshop. The top is hand sewn and quilted. The floral print used for the facing & on the front is circa 1991. Other fabric is more recent. The hanging sleeve fabric was also used on the front. Workshop participants kept commenting about how soothing this hand work was.

“Giant’s Causeway” Instructor Kay Walsh taught an innovative technique using freezer paper ironed to the wider section of a column to use as a guide for adding the narrower strips to the sides. After completing one column, we removed the freezer paper, trimmed it for the next column size and ironed it on. We learned to use a Hera marker to mark a temporary line to use for quilting with a walking foot.

“Restful Stars” Needed a quilt to cover new King Size bed in guest room. I wanted to have restful colors so I went with the grey and white and mustard color palette. White border fabric has wonderful sayings like “be worthy of the friendship you are given”. Or “Be content”. Sweet inspirations.

“Village in the Woods” This has been in the works since 2020 when my small group decided to do a “house” quilt during our COVID lock-down. At the time, my granddaughter and I were reading “Little House in the Big Woods” over Zoom. Using Jinny Beyer’s Quilt Encyclopedia, I drafted the pattern for each house and tree. This was a long time in the making, but evolved into something I love. It’s on my granddaughter’s bed in my house. Quilted by Teresa Koster.

“Spirit of the Northwest: July” This quilt project was about 10 years in the making! Spirit of the NW: July. Each monthly wall hanging became a vivid scene. I infused texture/movement to embellish the animals/natural surroundings. Name plaques include cork from Portugal and rivets. FOCUS: Hand-guided machine quilting – Use brush strokes for trees – Boots- Sunrise & rays – Cloisonne pin of soaring eagle.

“Spirit of the Northwest: October” This quilt project was about 10 years in the making! Spirit of the Northwest: October Each monthly wall hanging became a vivid scene. I infused texture and movement to embellish the animals/natural surroundings. Name plaques include cork from Portugal and rivets. FOCUS: Lesson learned…Quilt background first before fusing applique pieces – Added 2nd pheasant – Changed border fabric color – A quilt evolves to its final piece.

“Spirit of the Northwest: December” This quilt project was about 10 years in the making! Spirit of the Northwest: December. Each quilt monthly wall hanging became a vivid scene. I infused texture and movement to embellish the animals/natural surroundings. Name plaques include cork from Portugal and rivets. FOCUS: Quilting background/borders/details – Pine cones only have straight short lines – sky/water need movement – Looked at the fabric lines/design – considered complementary quilting.