Plaid Quilt

I have always loved plaids. Making a plaid quilt has been on my idea list for a couple decades. This is the beginning.

10" squares with the solid navy appliqued by hand. Each square is different - primarily plaids with a few stripes. Color ranges in blues, maroons and dark tans.

Not sure yet how big this project will be. I'll go until I run out of fabric. It will probably be lap size.

Progress with Rob's creation

During a few days off from my day job, I worked on adding more layers to this wall hanging. The white horseshoe crabs will have black eyes and shell details.

The center quilting has begun with ditch and 1/4" lines quilting. The dark blue will have wave quilting lines.

The only layer left to add is a ring of sail boats on the dark blue ring.

Fish baby quilt top

Another quilt top finished and waiting for autumn weather quilting. Quilting lines will be clam shell design to look like ocean waves on the aqua. Fish will be quilted in the ditch and scale designs on fish.

Each of the four large fish is being followed by three or four smaller fish.

Tee-shirt quilt

This is the third tee-shirt quilt I've made. It is tied in each corner and quilted in the sashing and border. There is 25 tee shirt squares. The mottled batik tan border was added to give height (the owner is over 6'). It is quilted with cross hatching.
Batting used is cotton. This is a very heavy quilt.
It is finished with a month to spare.

Color in the garden

Finally some color in the garden.
After what seems like weeks of rain, the day lilies are blooming. This garden has a yellow/ pink/ white palette. I'm considering removing the coneflowers to the back purple/blue garden.
No rain forecast for today. I'll be weeding, removing thousands of slugs and snails, and generally helping that beaten down look of the gardens.

Signature quilt

One of my favorite gifts to give is a signature quilt. The cream rectangles are ready for people to sign.
Through the years I have made them for events like baby showers and retirement parties.
This piece is hand quilted in the ditch with 1/4" quilting also in the cream rectangles and cornerstones. Its size is 42" x 60"

Golden Eagles in progress

Three years ago I joined Keepsake Quilting's Gold Membership. Apart from the coupons, etc. I received many 10" squares of gold fabrics. I have never been a fan of gold fabric, but with each years' membership the pile of 10" squares was adding up. A few years ago I received the medium blue bamboo floral with a touch of gold.

Slowly, I've been putting this together. I started with the flying geese and bamboo print. The first set of rectangle/square borders were made with left overs after cutting the flying geese. One or two more borders are needed for a twin size quilt.

The time I have spent with this piece, the more I admire and like working with the gold fabric. I'm actually looking forward to my next gold membership renewal in November.