Feathers and Ferns

Quilting the Moon Glow is progressing.  I am trying to make feathers in the log cabin blocks but it's not as easy as I thought it would be.  My "feathers" are looking more like "ferns."  It is going well, though, and the results are acceptable.  Not perfect, but it's the thought that counts, right!?  The hard part is rotating the quilt 90 degrees to do the next section.   Here's how it looks:

Working Away

This monster quilt is definitely a challenge!  It's BIG.  Hard to turn and maneuver through the sewing machine.  It's not pinned as tightly as it should be either, thanks to that foam pad, so I have to stretch each section as I go, first the top, then flip it over and make sure the back is also tight.  The first section I quilted, I didn't do that. I just assumed that if the front was stretched, the back would be also.  Nope.  I had to rip it all out and re-adjust the pins and start again.  I learned my lesson!  So I have to flip the quilt a lot but it's better than tearing out quilting stitches.  I make a little "runway" between the seams where I want to sew, and make sure both sides are tight along that path.  It works pretty well.

The quilt is HEAVY too.  It falls off the table, and the weight of it pulls the quilt against the needle.  I have to work hard to keep it on the table, piled up close to the sewing machine.  I need a bigger table or a smaller quilt!

Garage Floor

Bob cleaned out the garage and swept the floor  and we rolled out some leftover carpet pad pieces.  We cut and taped the carpet pad to make a huge square, and laid the quilt sandwich out on that.  It was quite nice to kneel on that and pin the quilt!   My granddaughter, Kaylyn, helped me pin, and it made the usually tedious job enjoyable.  Only problem was that we didn't want the foam pad to be pinned to the sandwich so that did slow us way down.  But the job is done, and I have started to QUILT this monster!  Only have it quartered (stitch in the ditch) so far, no fancy stuff yet.  It is a very heavy quilt and I found that I can quilt it better if I stand at the sewing machine instead of sit.  Better leverage and better view.  At least it fits under the sewing machine!  From now on I need to make SMALLER quilts, or get a larger kitchen floor!

Ready to pin

No Floor Space Big Enough

My replacement fabric came and I pieced the back for the Moon Glow Quilt.  Easy.  but it is sooooo huge, I don't have a floor space large enough to lay it out and build my quilt sandwich.  When I made my Cowboy quilt (90" x 90") I said I would never make another quilt that big!  Never say never!  The Moon Glow is supposed to be 110 x 110.  I shortened up the borders and it is now 104" by 104".  That's just 4 in. short of  9 ft square!  It so hard to imagine how big this is!  Bob is going to help me rig up something in the garage so we can lay it out.  I love it when he helps me.  I am so THANKFUL for him.  Oh, by the way, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

"Backed Up"

My Moon Glow quilt is temporarily on hold.  I received backing fabric in the kit, and it's supposed to be big enough to back a 110 x 110 in. quilt.  However, it's 44" wide, and according to the directions, I would use 2-1/2 strips for the width.  Do the math!  2 strips at 44, and 1 piece cut in half is 22.  So 88 and 22.  This is EXACTLY 110.  Hmmmm!  Gotta cut off the selvages, and take some off for seam allowances.  Now it is not wide enough to quilt the quilt!  I wrote an email to the quilt company that sold me the quilt, explaining my problem, and they were very nice and will send me more fabric.  Hmmmmm!  Seems like they ran out of the kind of backing they sent me, and will have to send me new (but similar) backing, enough for 3 full strips.  I will have to return the original 8.25 yards of backing.  Geez, it's always something, isn't it!?

Progress

I have been working hard on the MoonGlow quilt.  I have the top finished now, and I am liking it much much better!  (Whew!)  The borders seem to set the center section apart, and brighten it up too.  This is a very large quilt.  The finished top is 104 x 104, not the 110 x 110 the pattern states .  But then, I did not follow the pattern totally!  I made all the border strips the same size, whereas in the pattern, they get wider as they get darker.  I also added a new fabric, the lightest turquoise to help brighten it up a bit.  I did switch out a couple fabrics, too, from the stars, deleting a dark blue and a dark purple, and substuting a lighter blue, and a lighter purple.  The stars look better to me and do not get lost in that black background.  I love how this has turned out!  In the making of the final stars, I did do paper-piecing, and while not necessarily easier, the points turned out crisp and sharp.  You do have to peal off all the papers afterwards though, and that is a pain, but the result is worth it, in my opinion.  So!  here it is!

I have this on my bed, a California King, so you can see that this is a BIG quilt!  Even bigger than the Cowboy quilt.  It's gonna be a pain to quilt this baby, but I am more experienced now, so we'll see.  I have to go make the backing now.  I have a dark blue backing fabric, and tomorrow I plan on making the quilt sandwich.  I am hoping that I can have this done by Christmas!  Wish me luck.

Moon Glow Stars

I have been working hard on the Moon Glow quilt blocks, and I am not enjoying this very much.  The blocks have quite a few "inset seams" and I cannot seem to get the hang of it.  I also do not like the colors.  There is a dark purple color and a very dark navy blue in some of the the stars that seems to get lost against the black background.  It looks like pieces of the stars are missing, or lopsided.  I am hoping the "connecting blocks" will lighten it up.  Also, my blocks are consistently measuring 11.5 inches, and they are supposed to measure 11.75 inches.  I'm hoping that quarter inch is not gonna cause big headaches.  Here's what I have done so far:  10 different stars.

Moon Glow

Since my finger incident, I have put the deer quilt on hold for awhile.  Free-motion quilting doesn't appeal to me at the moment.  I thought I'd piece another quilt top and then go back to the quilting.  I have started a new quilt.  It's a kit I found online, called Moon Glow.  It's a darker quilt, but beautiful.  I ordered the fabric online and got started as soon as it came.  There are 13 compasses, and 12 log cabin squares.  This was originally a Block of the Month quilt. The pattern/directions is 76 pages long!

Klutz

On Wednesday, I was working on the deer quilt.  I am outline stitching the logs, trees, deer, cabin, etc, and it was going very well.  I must've been a little too confident, or going too fast, or not paying attention, or all of the above!  Anyway, my finger got under the quilting foot and the sewing machine needle plunged right through the fingernail and completely through the finger.  I had green thread sticking out!  The needle broke into 3 sections, the eye of the needle (about 1/2 in. long) was inside my finger, under the nail, completely buried.  In fact, I wasn't even sure if the needle tip was in there.  But I had an odd bulge near my fingertip, and it was extremely sensitive!  Oh my!!  So I called up the doctor, went in for an x-ray, and yes, it clearly showed in the x-ray that I had a needle in my finger!  This facilitated an in-office surgical procedure to remove the needle tip. Strangely enough, it did not bleed until the Dr. started probing for the needle (my finger had been highly numbed up for this.)  The Dr. cut through the pad of the finger so as to not damage the fingernail.  At any rate, I was sent home with antibiotics, pain meds, and a huge blue bandage!  I see the Dr. this afternoon for a post-op check, and I should be good to go again.  I will be more careful in the future for sure!  At least I didn't get any blood on the quilt!

Click on each picture for an enlargement.

Pink Quilt-Finished!

After multiple setbacks, I have finally finished the pink quilt.  I had a lot of ripping out to do when I discovered that a section of the quilt was put in upside down and disrupted the pattern.  I had to rip out quilting, border, and a big section of the quilt to flip it around.  But I am glad I did it (I contemplated leaving it as it was, and I was so upset I couldn't even blog about it!)  I was worried that, after all that ripping out and re-sewing, that the quilt wouldn't be flat or square, but it all worked out and went back together perfectly.  Whew!  While I had everything ripped out, including a large amount of the quilting I had done, I decided to quilt it a little it differently than previously.  Instead of going around each block with a stitch-in-the-ditch, I decided to go completely across the whole quilt along the sashings.  This worked SO MUCH BETTER and resulted in a much smoother finish.  No puckering in the corners!  It went together much faster than doing it one square at a time.  So that's a good thing that came out of my mistake.  I also took some advice from a fellow quilter friend, and did all the quilting before binding it.  "Quilt to the edges, THEN bind it."  The wide outer border has parallel lines quilted at an angle that matches the star points edges.  I really like that effect.  The binding went on so easily too, no puckering at all.  The easiest binding I ever put on any quilt!  I love the feel of the flannel backing, and wish I would be keeping this quilt for myself!

So here it is, in all it's glory, ready for the birthday girl in a week or two!

Front

Back

Click on each picture for an enlargement.  There is a flower design free motion quilted in the center of each block in a pink thread, but it is hard to see in the picture. I also experimented with "Star Points" which I put in the 4 corners of the quilt.   A nice touch.  I really like this quilt.

Starting to Quilt the Pink String Quilt

I am making progress on the pink quilt.  I am now in the process of quilting it.  I stitched in the ditch to quarter the quilt and am now going around each of the blocks.  I thought this would be easy!  It's a lot harder to sew a closed square than it looks!  Seems like the 4th side ends up with a bunched-up corner.  Sometimes I leave it, sometimes I rip it out and redo it.  I'm also working with a flannel backing which I have not done before either.  It's very heavy and warm to work with. Quilting isn't really a summer time activity, but this quilt would be my first choice on a blustery winter's day!  After I get all the squares outlined, I want to fill in with some sort of flower, or design to fill in the center of the squares.  Then of course, do I quilt some design in the sashing strips or not.  And the big pink border needs to have some kind of quilting as well.  I really like doing that meandering quilting that I used on the blue star quilt.  I also might like to try some feathers.  I am trying to get this quilt finished by Sept. 15 for the Quilt Show here in town.  I am going to enter the Kalaidascope quilt, the Dino quilt, and this pink one.  They asked me also if I could enter the Sampler Quilt I gave to Linda.  I'm still thinking on that one.

Making progress in the quilting.

The Trip is Finished!

Well, here it is, finished at last:  my Around the World Quilt.  The final step was the binding, and I had some trouble with it.  I trimmed the backing and batting to 1/2 in. bigger than the quilt top, and I usually do a quarter inch.  I recommend the quarter inch.  I had backing fabric and batting folded over and sticking out of the binding on the back side of the quilt.  I had to redo a number of sections.  But it was worth it, because it is finished and it is beautiful!  Now, who should I give it to???

Quilting in progress

I have been working on quilting the Around the World Quilt.  This is done via free-motion quilting on my sewing machine, not on a long-arm machine.  I do it myself.  I always have trouble deciding how to quilt the quilts, but this one just seemed to naturally call for circles.  My brain saw circles right away, and since it's "A-Round" the World quilt, it's a perfect fit!  It's really easy to do, too, although some of my circles are a little wobbly.  I'm getting better at this free motion stuff, and not so leary of it either.  I have learned that a little faster is better than little slower.  Going to slow gives me too big of stitches.  I am finding a very comfortable speed for my movements with the quilt.  Practice makes perfect!   (If you click on the pictures, you can see a enlarged photo of it.)

Front

Back

Rip and Flip

I should have named this Blog "Vicki's Quilting MISTAKES!"  Sigh.  My Around the World quilt was looking beautiful, and I was all set to back it and bind it.  One final check before I started revealed a startling truth!  Some of the white squares were sewn in upside down!  16 to be exact.  Ohhhh I was heartsick!  So much work had to be redone.

It wasn't very noticeable, but I knew it and had to fix it.  My seam ripper got a good workout, and each upside down square was carefully ripped out and flipped over.  Ironed and re-sewn.  I was worry that now the edges would be stretched, or the corners wouldn't match, but that was all for naught.  It looked perfect again after it was fixed, but it was VERY time consuming

I hope people who read this will learn from my mistakes and save themselves some trouble.
Today's lesson:  Beware of fabrics where it is hard to tell the front from the back!   PAY ATTENTION!  My only consolation is that I discovered this error BEFORE I  bound and quilted the quilt!  Ripping seams is bad enough, but ripping out quilting, binding and then seams, unthinkable!

Perfect? NOT!

Well, LIVE AND LEARN!  My "perfect" backing for the Dinos on Parade quilt has some real logistic problems.  First off, I bought just enough fabric to back the quilt.  ALWAYS BUY EXTRA!!  I measured the quilt (measure twice, cut once, ok. I did that.)  I cut the fabric into 2 halves, now sew them together, backing is done!  WRONG!!  What did I forget in that scenario????  MATCHING THE PATTERN!  The backing fabric has large dinosaurs.  When I cut the fabric, aligned the edges, ready to sew, I noticed the discrepancy.  OHHHH!  Yeah, it'll be WAY BETTER to match the pattern, it will be much less noticeable that the backing was pieced.  Ok, I matched the pattern, but there was about a 6 inch jog in the fabric now, and since I had bought JUST ENOUGH, that 6 in jog at the top and bottom made the backing too short.  Six lousy inches too short! Booo hooo hooo!

  

Still plenty of width though, so I tried putting the quilt on sideways with the seam running horizontal instead of vertical.  IT FIT!!  with about an inch to spare at the top and bottom.   Whew!  BUT....  Geez,  The dinosaur pattern has one dinosaur that only faces one way. (It's the T-Rex, too.  We can't have the T-Rex laying on it's back, can we?!!)  All the others have some facing up, or down, or left, or right, so they could be oriented in either way.  But the T-Rex should be oriented only in one direction, or he would appear sideways on the backing.  What to do????  Here are my choices:

1. Give up.  (no)
2. Buy more fabric!  (no.)
3. Don't match the backing (no)
4. Fussy cut dinosaurs squares from the excess on the sides to match the pattern on the bottom and sew them on.  (Possibile, but I think that would look tacky.)
5. Put the quilt top on with the horizontal seam and hope no one notices the sideways dinosaurs. Would a kid notice? Probably not.  It's the BACK of the quilt, after all.  (Possible)
6. Cut the backing into large asymmetrical sections and join them again with strips of leftover fabric from the quilt front. (hmmmm....!) (no.)
7. Who says the quilt has to run with the grain of the fabric?   What if you "cocked" the quilt top on the background?  Wouldn't it look the the T-rex was just "leaning"?  Hard to envision this... (especially in the picture below, the quilt top should be at the other end...)  (well, no.  The seam would run at a diagonal and look goofy on the back.)

Another problem here is I don't know how to join the two pieces of fabric so that the seam from the back exactly attaches the pieces of dinosaurs.  I could match them up and TOPSTITCH them together, but then I'd have a line of thread running right down the middle of the dinosaurs.  The purpose of matching the pattern is to make is LESS noticeable.  So here's how I finally did it:

I over lapped the pieces, aligning the matching design.  Then I pressed about a 1/2 inch seam allowance under  on the top piece of fabric, and rematched the design. I pinned as close to the seam edge as possible.  I flipped the fabric over, and found that seam allowance underneath, and now pinned that down too.  Going back to the front, I removed the first set of pins which were very close to the seam.  Now I found the pinned seam allowance underneath again, and found the crease of that seam allowance.  I sewed right in the crease.  The larger seam allowance allowed me to sew right past the pins.  It wasn't perfect, but still not that noticeable in the long run.

I have decided to go with choice #5.  Sew it on sideways and who cares if the T-Rexes are sideways.  My guess is that few people will notice.  If you flip a corner over to look at the back, the T-Rex would be standing upright! 

 Let's get it done!

Deer Quilt

The Deer Quilt is a kit that I bought.  All the fabric is flannel, so this quilt will be especially snuggily!  Kits are a really nice way to do a quilt, especially for a beginner.  All the fabric is included, along with directions.  This kit also included a center Panel, so it went together really fast.  The "Flying Geese" in the border are not real flying geese (3 triangles).  Instead, they are made of 2 sets of  half-square triangles which made it really easy.     All the pieces in this quilt are larger, also ideal for a beginner.  The trickiest part of this quilt was getting the pieced borders just right to fit around the panel.  Also sewing the Flying  Geese sections so the points just touch the seam.  A good learning experience!  This will be a great quilt to cuddle up with in front of the TV on a cold winter day.

Backing for Dinos on Parade

I found a really cool fabric for my Dinos on Parade Quilt.  I LOVE fabric stores!  So many choices, but sometimes you find what you want right away.  Its a navy blue background with orange/yellow, lime green/white, green/yellow, blue/light blue, aqua/light aqua dinosaurs on it.  Same colors as on the top!  Perfect!  Can't wait to put it together now!

              Front                                                                             Back

Around the World top is finished.

Well, I have finished the Around the World quilt top.  I need to get backing fabric yet. (YAY!!  A trip to the fabric store!)  I chose an orange stripe for the inner border because 3 of the fabrics I used have this exact shade of orange/peach in it.  I think it makes a nice frame.  I will be using the dark blue with the orange floral design as the binding fabric.  That'll also bring the orange out to the edges.  For a quilt I wasn't crazy about, it sure turned out nice.  This is the first quilt I have done that measured what the pattern said it would when it was finished!  My quarter inch seams must be right on target now!

Progress on Around the World

I have been working on the Around the World Quilt.  Ever since I put it out on the design board, and can see the larger picture, I got excited about it again.  Take a look!

Lots of horizontal strips to sew together.  I'm not sure how many rows I want to add, I am thinking I'd like the largest dark diamond to meet at the top and the bottom.  The limitation will be if I have enough of the lightest fabric.  It's not much that I have left.  I am also thinking I'd like it to be at least one or two squares wider.  Adding a strip to each side will be easy enough.  Again, will I have enough fabric?   The class I took had this listed as a "throw" and I have enough fabric for that.  But I like making larger quilts. These are 3 in. squares, finishing to 2-1/2 in.  So it's 62.5 inches wide so far.  Another strip on each side would make it 67.  A small border would add another 3 or 4 in.  So 70" x ? @ 80" ?  There sure is a lot of math and geometry to quilts, isn't there!  I'm a lot better at sewing than I am at math.

I'm excited to see how it turns out.  I have to decide on a backing fabric, and also on a binding fabric.  Decisions, decisions, decisions!

Around the World

I took a class at a Quilt Expo, and we began making an "Around the World" quilt.  I learned about "strip sets" and choosing fabrics.  I was in the midst of making a very exciting Sampler Quilt at the time, and not all that interested in this new quilt of small squares.  It was an interesting class, but afterwards, the quilt pieces went into a box and there they joined the Cowboy Quilt on the shelf for a year.  

Over the course of time, I learned about a "design board."  At first I didn't see the point.  Now I wouldn't want to be without it!  My design board is home made, cardboard from a new furnace box (ie--big cardboard!) and I draped it with old strips of unused batting material, leftover from previous projects.  I can lay out my quilt pieces on it, lay out the rows and/or blocks, rearrange blocks, step back and see the "Big Picture."  The fabric of the quilt squares stick to the batting material.  You don't have to pin it, so it is easy to rearrange.  Many people use flannel, and I have even heard of using old vinyl tablecloths with flannel backing.  But I used batting strips, which would have been thrown out otherwise, and they work just fine.

I recently laid out the pieces of the Around the World Quilt that I had thought was "dull."  I wanted to take a picture of it for this blog.   Before, I could only see small strips of squares.  Laid out on the design board, I can see the pattern coming together.  SURPRISE!!  NOW I can see the big picture of this quilt, and I thought, "WOW!  That is really pretty!"  I have a new motivation to finish it now! 

Linda's Red Sampler Quilt

While the Cowboy Quilt was on the shelf, I needed a project to work on that I could actually quilt when finished.  By now, I have been doing quite a bit of reading on the web, watching You-Tube videos, buying books.  I stumbled upon the "Quilt-as-you-go" technique.  I bought a book called "The Essential Sampler Quilt Book" by Lynne Edwards, and I carried this book with me everywhere.  It is well-worn, read and re-read.  I love this book, and would highly recommend it.

I decided to make a Sampler Quilt with this book as my guide, quilting each block as you go along, and sewing them together at the end.  The hard part was deciding which blocks to do.  I ruled some out right away, they were "Way too hard!"  I started with the 3-rail fence block since I already had done that one.  It was such a delight to be able to quilt a 12" block, especially after my struggle with the monster Cowboy Quilt.  I loved doing these blocks.  I gained skills and confidence with each one I did.  As I approached the end of the quilt, even the "way too hard" blocks now seemed possible to me, and I was successful in making them too.

One main problem was that I ran out of my red fabric for the sashing strips and borders.  I should have paid attention to that old adage, "Measure twice, cut once."  But again, live and learn.  I was left with a lot of smaller pieces, and so I improvised, adding a small 4-patch piece between red strips, making a double border of them.

This quilt was given to my friend Linda, for her birthday.  Linda loves red, and this was my motivation for the color and fabric choices.  She LOVED the quilt.  (So did I -- it was hard to part with this one!)

The Cowboy Quilt

The Cowboy Quilt is a "Whack and Stack" quilt.  I saw a picture on the web, and the gal said it was her very first quilt, and so I knew I could do that too.  I read her directions and THOUGHT I knew what she meant.  However, I did not understand what a "repeat" of a fabric was, and I needed 8 repeats per pinwheel.  I went fabric shopping, looking for something that had a "repeat."  I knew that I needed to stack 8 of the "repeats" in a pile, and then cut the triangles.  I'm thinking "fussy cuts" even though, at the time, I didn't know that term.  Anyway, I found some cowboy fabric, and yes! it had repeating pictures, so I thought this would be perfect.  Here is the fabric:

I proceeded to cut out the fabric, and oh!  so much fabric was wasted.  I would cut out 8 boots, or 8 sheriff badges.  I didn't understand that you just layer the fabric, mark and pin like elements, and cut a ROW of fabric, and make triangles from that row, irregardless of what was pictured on that triangle.  (I learned this lesson later, thanks to You-Tube.)  I also was not able to cut through 8 layers of fabric, so I ended up actually fussy-cutting all my pieces, one at a time.  Very time-consuming but I was new at this, and excited by the process and the results.  After you had the 8 triangles cut out, you arranged them points together, and it made a kaleidoscopic.pinwheel.  They were BEAUTIFUL!!  Each one was a surprise, and I was thrilled!  I made some of my pinwheels go clockwise, and some counterclockwise.  In retrospect, I wish I had made them all going the same direction, but again, live and learn.  I wanted this quilt for my husband and we have a California KING waterbed, so it was quite a humongous project.  It took a long time to piece the top.  The finished top was 90" x 90". But then came MISSION IMPOSSIBLE.

Quilting a king size quilt with a little sewing  machine is not do-able.  I ripped out and ripped out and tried again and again. There was just too much material to fit in the throat of the sewing machine, and too much bulk to maneuver through that little space.  I finally gave up, and the cowboy quilt was put on a shelf for over a year.  Then my sweet husband bought me a new sewing machine for my birthday.  Another Brother, but top-of-the-line.  (What a sweetheart!)  It was designed for quilters, and had a much larger throat.  I was able to finish the cowboy quilt, and even with all it's flaws, I love it.  Another quilter gave me this very helpful advice, and I rely on it to this very day:  "If a man on a galloping horse goes by and doesn't notice the mistakes in the quilt, it's not significant enough to worry about."  What good advice!

Three Rail Fence Quilt

This three-rail fence quilt was my very first attempt at quilting.  It is a good "beginner's" quilt, short straight seams, not too many blocks.  I was so green, I did not have any of the usual quilting tools except pins and a scissors!  All the fabric was cut by hand using a tape measure and a scissors. I didn't know rotary cutters and mats even existed!  I sewed it on a small Brother sewing machine, the $89 version from Walmart.  Nothing fancy.

I do have experience in sewing, I have made many skirts, jackets, blouses, dresses, etc.  I thought quilting would be a cinch!   OH OH OH!  Did I have a lot to learn!!  In sewing, the standard seam allowance is 5/8 inch.  In quilting, it's a quarter inch.  "Close enough," I thought.  WRONG!  I learned the hard way, and luckily, in my sewing box, I found a seam ripper.  For me, one of the hardest lessons to learn was sewing a quarter inch seam.  Quilts really do need to be exact.  But I persisted, and the quilt top came together, measuring about 36 x 40.  Yes, it was small.  

Now to "quilt" it!  How to do that!?, I wondered. First I had to make the "sandwich," which wasn't too hard since this was a small project.  I stitched in the ditch along both sides of the yellow strips, and the square in their centers.  A nice safe way to quilt. But I was immensely proud of myself when I finished.  And so began an exciting new hobby.  A Quilter was born!

My very first quilt was lovingly given to my daughter for a changing blanket for my grandson.  

12 Quilts Revisited

Hello and Welcome!  The purpose of this blog is to share and keep track of my projects, both as works-in-progress and as finished quilts.  I will try to re-establish my "timeline" of quilts, from the first one to the present.

I have done/worked on 12 quilts so far, in approximately 2 years time.  Not all are finished, of course, and some have been put on hold while I delighted in something else that grabbed my imagination.  So many beautiful fabrics, so little time! Here are my quilts in the approximate order that I STARTED them.  I will be going into more detail on each as time allows.

1. Three Rail Fence quilt.  (Finished, given to Dianne.  This is a small baby-sized quilt.)

2.  Cowboy Quilt  (Finished. KING sized, on my bed.  Oh my, what a learning experience this was!)

3  Linda's Red Sampler Quilt  (Finished.  Queen sized, given to Linda)

4.  Around the World Quilt  (Finished,  68" x 68")

5.  Deer Quilt  (Not finished, quilt top is done, needs to be sandwiched and quilted)

6.  Alayna's Quilt  (Finished, twin sized, given to Alayna)

  

7.  "X" Marks the Spot Quilt  (Not finished, quilt top is done, needs to be sandwiched and quilted)

8.  Kaylyn's Kaleidoscope Quilt (Finished, twin sized, will give to Kaylyn for her birthday in Sept. 2012)

9.  Blue Star Quilt  (Finished, queen-sized, given to Jeff)

10.  Snowball Quilt  (Finished, crib-sized, given as a baby gift to my neighbor)

11.  Dinos on Parade Quilt  (Finished)

12.  Mya's Pink String Quilt (Finished, 76 x 90, given to Mya.)

I'm LOVING Retirement!