Artful Homemade Quilts Have A Way

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Found this cute quilt show at a place called "Mariposa" put on by the "Mariposa Quilters," of their show in 2010. Just thought it was a beautiful thing to do for their community. Quilt shows add a touch of class to small towns.

 

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Inspired by Egypt

Kevin the Quilter, credits

 

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Just did a little surfing to see if anyone posted pictures of the Stafford, Texas quilt show for yesterday and today. Surprise, not all of the quilts are in the show, and are not well captioned. Even so, I'm bringing what I found forward:

Birds!!!!

This has to be the biggest Mariner's Compass square ever:

And another...

Details, details:

 

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This one looks like railroad tracks all around the blocks:

This shot is a little clearer, but doesn't show the whole quilt:

Someone took a closeup of the bird (above post)

I love seeing a picture with good details on tiny-printed calicos that add so much texture and vitality to a quilt:

Well, someone DID do a periwinkle background on something I can almost stand:

ummm Slice of cake:

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Quite fun amplification of the ordinary Dresden Plate:

Centering around the stars here:

Another cutie that took probably a year:

And here's the cake:

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You could make this one any size! Also, it only uses 7 fabrics, and not 90 million itty bitty pieces like my usual quilts, and it looks very interesting at least to this eye:

I really need to do more sewing and less surfing.

Hope everybody has a great and wonderful day today! ​

 

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She calls this one "shattered." I call it gorgeous.​

This one has quilt blocks on it I've not seen and some old faves:​

Like a church window...​

Every day denims were used in some of the blocks of this one:​

I may have seen this one years ago, or was it a fabric:​

 

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Wow~!

 

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More assorted quilts and wallhangings around the net ...

Found! Another very pleasing Stained Glass quilt done in album style:

This queen-size bed quilt is a stained-glass sampler quilt done in vibrant jewel tones with black "leading". The top was donated. Quilted and bound by Blanche Dunn, President of Victoria's Quilts Canada. This quilt has been appraised at $2,980. Victoria's Quilts Canada

This Stained glass quilt was made for a son by Frances and posted before 2007:

This one by Jeanne Wright was posted at Town of Dexter, Maine News where her prize-winning quilts were shown:

Yet another French Braid Stained Glass Quilt:

 

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Well, someone got creative with her French Braid stained glass quilt and set it on point:

Hahaha! This isn't stained glass, it's a beaded curtain, and you can get the free pattern at Timeless Treasures:

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Well, it's early but I'm sleepy and will be signing off now. Hope everyone has a blessed Sunday and a great week ahead! ​

 

[freedombecki]

The stained glass quilt has been renamed "Ezekiel's Bow in the Sky Stained Glass" quilt top. It measures 48x64" and was finished in the last half-hour, with time just for scanning and reducing to bring it here. It's about #42 for the year, I'm thinking.

I'm recalling the scans which were done a couple of days ago for two posts and the right-side border which took 6 scans which also take up two posts. If you've never used USMB's "Manage Attachments" in the advanced message box, (instruction below,) I recommend it the next time you have 3 pictures to show in a post from your computer's "my pictures." It's a really fun feature of USMB, and I love it very much.

Scans 6, 7, and 8

 

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Scans 9, 10, and 11

 

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Scans 12. 13, and 14

 

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Scans 15, 16 and 17

 

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Well, it took some doing, but I finally got measurements made and descriptions made up for the two quilts #40 and 41, and brought cake!

 

[koshergrl]

Beautiful as always. And the cake looks yummy. I had all sorts of plans for the day..I ended up making a loaf of sourdough bread (it finally turned out!) and that was pretty much it.

 

[freedombecki]

Beautiful as always. And the cake looks yummy. I had all sorts of plans for the day..I ended up making a loaf of sourdough bread (it finally turned out!) and that was pretty much it.

Thanks, koshergrl. Love that sourdough bread! Used to make it in Oregon when we lived there. Perfect bread baking place--never too hot or cold where we lived, and the kids loved it!

Believe it or not, I finished another quilt today. This one was started in Wyoming in 2008 or 2009, and I had made it to augment our teacher's never-ending historic quilting class. A fabric and quilt designer/historian named Terry Clothier Thompson designed a quilt in honor of Louisa May Alcott entitled simply, "Louisa" and my Wyoming shop had the entire collection from Moda fabrics. This quilt is based on her pattern, though you may not be able to see it clearly, I'll go online later and see if I can find a square. The squares are 18" and my sashes are a little wide in black and white of 3" total, which makes two across plenty big for a child's width, and 3 long, well the quilt is longer than all but one or two quilts I've made this year.

So here are the first 3 scans, and there will be 3 more in the next message.

 

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Scans 4, 5, and 6.

All I had to do was remove 2 squares, use the 6 remaining joined squares and add a border! It took only a couple of hours!

This is a 2-quilt top day!

And after posting these two posts, I'll go hunt and seek someone who finished their Terry Clothier Thompson quilt, "Louisa."

 

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To give you an idea here's what it looks like:

At least if you can envision 6 of them making a quilt 58x70 inches, and there being 3 borders plus double borders around each square, that added a lot of extra space without looking too egregious, I hope. It was a joy to finish two tops today.​

Oh, here's another Louisa quilt with some details of the GORGEOUS fabrics that were in the Louisa collection. I had all forty something of the pieces, or however many there were, and I had to reorder in 2 weeks, a first for my shop. When you see the details, you'll surely know why people went for "Louisa" fabrics. They were way, way too cute!​

This came from luciethehappyquilter blog link

Her larger quilt:

If you go to the link, Lucie's quilt doubles in size if you double click it, and in the new window it doubles again if you click it again.​

 

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Here's a book I own and love: