Monday 21 March 2016


These were Christmas gifts made for my daughter, Robyn, and my son, Wade. Dec. 2015.
The top one is a panel that I heavily quilted and then added the battery powered lights from the back. I sewed  a small pocket on the back for the battery pack to sit in.
The bottom one was initially supposed to be finished at 48" square, but I wanted it smaller so I made it 1/2 size. That made for some pretty small 1/2 " pieces but it worked out ok. I learned a lot from my mistakes making this one. This quilt hangs in my son's home office and is appropriate as his videography business is called "Vincent and Theo", named after Vincent Van Goh and his brother, Theo.


The top quilt was a BOM (Block of the Month) done at our Langley Quilters' Guild. It was supposed to be Modern patterns, but think mine is not quite there. At least I tried. I did like the colours of this one and took them from the outside border fabric. I quilted this one myself.
The bottom quilt is a king sized bed runner that I made for our bed. This pattern was offered as a 'Mystery Quilt' through our monthly guild newsletter and I used the colours in our bedroom. Our main quilt is white, so this makes a nice contrast across the bottom of our bed. It was quilted by Debra Sanderson and she did an excellent job on it.


These 2 quilts were originally pieced in the 1980's. The Lone Star one was actually my first quilt class called "Quilt in a Day" -not the appropriate name for any quilt class. You can tell by the colours what era it was made in -rose and green, popular colours in the 80's. I recently had this quilted by Barbara Bettles and she has made it come to life with her lovely quilting. Not sure what I'll do with this one, but at least it's now finished.
The second one is a Double Irish Chain pattern and again was made many years ago. This one was originally made for my daughter when she was about 9 years old, but by the time I finished piecing the top she didn't want these colours and instead wanted her bedroom painted navy blue, so this top sat in a drawer for many years. Barbara Bettles quilted this one for me also and did an awesome job. I found the pink border fabric in my stash-glad I had that colour as otherwise it would have been hard to match. 

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