2009 My last quilt of the year

This quilt is made with three pairs of capris that I was no longer wearing and a paisley sheet I found at the second hand store.  It measures 52" x 67".  This is my husbands favourite quilt.  He keeps it by the couch and uses it daily.

​2009 Christmas

A stocking for Sareim. ​
A tie for Samir.
 A diaper bag for Nicole.
Money cards for
​Darsea and Daniel.

2009 Common Threads Challenges

Our quilt group has so many different levels of quilters and some are delving into art quilting and want to learn more about it.  So this year we are going to have basic quilting meetings and art quilting meetings.  We will have art quilting challenges each month to create journal sized (8.5" x 11") quilts.
Challenge # 1:  Use an interesting button as the inspiration to create your quilt.  I used the design of the leaf in the button to create the pattern for the leaves surrounding the button.  This is a whole cloth quilt.
Challenge # 2:  Trees.  I stitched on the underlay scraps from our new laminate flooring and then attached them to a bacground.
Challenge # 3:  Line - the first Element of Art.  I used stitched lines to create a secondary line which spelled the word 'line'.  I added a button to dot the I.

2009 Wet bags

Nicole is using cloth diapers.  These are wet bags to put the dirty diapers in until you are ready to wash them.  You just throw the bag in the wash along with the diapers and it's ready to use again.  The little ones are for taking along with you when you go out.  The vinyl lined fabric only comes in white so I had some fun stamping them with acrylic paints (mixed with textile medium) to make them more cheerful.

2009 Sareim

July 12 I became a grandmother for the first time and it's just the most wonderful thing.  He is so beautiful.  I had most of the top of the quilt made before his birth but had to finish it after he was born and named.  The quilt measures 33" x 52".  Sareim measured 20.5" and weighed 7lb 5.6oz at birth.

2009 Tree purse

2009 For Aunty Yvonne

Picture
Measures 55" square.

2009 Quilting again

After a month or more of not quilting because I was involved in many volunteer activities, I just had to make something so I grabbed these drapery samples and a cream coloured sheet and threw this together.
42" x 55"

2009 St. James Anglican Church 19th Annual Quilt Show Viewer's Choice

2009 Grandma and me

My Grandmother (1903-2001) was my earliest creative influence.  The butterflies were crocheted by her many years ago and I decided to put them in one of my art quilts.

15" X 16"

2009 St. James Anglican Church Quilt Show Challenge

We have a challenge at our quilt show each year.  This year we each got a fat quarter of one fabric.  The fat quarter was a brown/orange/yellow fabric.  I added the green and blue fabric as well as the black background fabric.  I quilted it with silver and black thread, of course only the silver thread shows. 

16" x 24".

Below are the other entries.



1st place
129th Springfield Country Fair - Dugald 2011
Wall quilt, hand or machine pieced, machine quilted

2009 Black leaves

I made these in solid black with white thread to make the quilting really show.

Free online pattern from Any Butler.
www.amybutlerdesign.com/pdfs/FabricLeaves.pdf

See my other leaves here.

2009 I spy... (#3)

This one is for my daughter, Nicole, who is expecting for July.  The backing and binding are denim because it is meant to be used on the floor or taken to the park or the beach.  It measures 68" from tip to tip or 60" from flat side to flat side.  My daughter's husband is from Djbouti, Africa.  I had Canadian flag fabric for the quilt and I hand painted a Djbouti flag patch to match it.  After making three I Spy quilts I am officially tired of these fabrics.

Carellan Sewing Centre
2009 Creative C
Winner-Large quilt category

2009 Ballet bag for Alyssa

Commissioned birthday present for Tammy's daughter.

2009 Paisley Purse

My second vinyl purse.  It turned out a little bigger than I expected but I like my design...it's got all the right pockets.  The paisley really added something to it.  It measures 12" x 12" x 4" and it is 16" across the top.

2009 I spy... (#2)

My daughter Nicole and I made this quilt for Toni and Richard's baby.  The back of the quilt is a panel.  I'm sure Hayden will be driving with his Hot Wheels on it. 

52" x 58".

2009 I spy...

... with my little eye.  There will be a few babies in my life in the next little while so I bought many different prints and this is the first in what should be a series of I Spy quilts.  I gave this one to Lisa that I work with for her little girl.

34" x 46".

2009 Small Shopping Bag

Just something quick I made on a lazy Sunday afternoon from drapery samples.