Old style quilts

I participated in Camille Roskelley's Summer Swoon Along. It was fun! I made this sweet scrappy swoon for my cousin's new baby, Archer. The fabric is Bee Plaids by Lori Holt. This is my 110th quilt! You can view them all on this page.

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The Oak Cabin Quilt is a traditional hand made quilt, made with a variety of cotton fabrics. The design features a playful arrangement of patterned period fabrics in the courthouse steps style made popular in 1800s. The courthouse style is a variation of the iconic log cabin quilt design. The colors range from soft earthy palette of olive, rust, rose pink and lake blue on an elegant foundation of natural browns, ecru and umber. The quilt has a warm ecru cotton backing with a chestnut stripe…

Some of the prettiest fabric ever is Jennifer Paganelli's Nostalgia collection from Free Spirit. I adapted Carrie Nelson's pattern called "Place C" from her book Schnibbles Times Two: Quilts from 5" or 10" Squares. Since I had various sizes of left over fabric from my first Nostalgia quilt (here), I made half square triangles instead of Carrie's suggested flying geese and trimmed everything to 4.5". Aurifil 50wt. Muslin thread was the perfect choice for wavy line quilting following the…

Welcome :) I hope you’ve been well while I’ve been away from the computer. You may recall my little Blog Hop a week or so ago where I managed to over stretch myself and ended up not qui…

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This is Linda’s Dresden Plate quilt and it is made with reproduction fabrics. This will be a wedding gift for her granddaughter who loves vintage things so this will be the perfect gift! Linda’s friend Nadine made the blocks and machine appliqued the Dresden plates. She gave them to Linda and then she pieced the blocks together and then gave it to me to quilt, so it has been a real team effort! She asked for traditional quilting which is exactly what this quilt needed. Since the border was…

My second entry in the Blogger’s Quilt Festival is Baby Steps, which I am entering in the small quilts category. It measures 50 1/2” x 64”. Until I made Quilter’s Scrapbook (my other BQF entry) I always bought fabric for specific projects and didn’t feel I had enough left of anything that went together to make anything else. I certainly didn’t consider the leftovers a stash. With the success of Quilter’s Scrapbook I was inspired to use up my strings for Sparkling Strings. That went well, so…