Trapunto - Sharon Schamber

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More memories still... This little project was my first trapunto piece made in Sharan Schamber's trapunto class several years back. It is her pattern. I do not recall the year I completed it.

Finishes of late

I finally have some finishes to show. This quilt top was one of the first I ever made. In fact, it was done so many years ago that I even sashed it in really cheap fabric.

When I got it out this summer to quilt, the fabric bothered me so bad that I picked the whole thing out and ...


...resashed it with an excellent quality batik blue. The binding is attached by machine but still needs to be hand-done on the other side.



Jessi's has been done for several years and is hand quilted. I made both the girls quilts out of scraps that were given to me and some leftovers from a couple of quilts I had made.

This is my last orphan quilt. I won it my first year at Annual Meeting and finally added a border and quilted it. It is kind of cute for a poor little orphan, don't you think? I bought the border fabric and backing at a yard sale. It was fabric that was meant to be used for little girl's dresses.

Here is the first of FOUR Halloween quilts I'd like to get done this month. This one is Jolynn's. I even made a little pillowcase for her to store it in while she goes on bus trips. It is a buggy barn pattern. I mixed the witches and cats because I liked them both. I borrowed the broom border pattern from a pattern Becky bought at our Fall Retreat.



Here are some close-ups of the quilting.




Justin's is ready to quilt and mine and Jessi's still need to be assembled but the blocks are pretty much done.

Sliced Quilt Challenge Group

This was my section of Bev's underwater sliced quilt. You can read more about it by following this
sliced quilt link.

Italy Through Window Blinds

I made this one for an art quilt swap -- my first. You can read more about it on my Dorinda Blog at: this Dorinda page, and this Dorinda page.
This page tells about how I designed it.




This is the original photo I used as a guide for my project. I love Italy, and this photo was taken there. I am always careful to only use free photo images on-line and to document its source. If you zoom in you will see the source.

Here are some close-ups.




My plan was to try a "convergence" quilt. This is a style of art created by Ricky Tims, and I wanted to take a swing at my virsion of it. The idea is to sew a project and then slice it up horizontally or vertically (or both)and place plain strips between the original project. Ricky actually prefers to use wild hand-dyes fabrics that have various colors in them for his "between" strips. It really adds variation to his quilts.

I traced and sliced the pattern first vertically thinking I would prefer it this way.



I felt like the tall buiding really shrunk with this effect, and so I tried horizontal strips. Wala! It was just what I was looking for. I liked how it really exaggerated the tall building.

My next step was to create a paper pieced pattern. Here is my base pattern with a numbering and code system that I'm certain only I could ever interpret. I'm not even certain I could follow my code to make another one in the future.

Next I copied the sections onto transparency sheets. All you have to do is flip the transparency over and you have a perfectly reversed image for paper piecing.

Attic Window Snowflakes

I also finished the binding on my snowflake quilt. I really like it done in attic windows. The one that is not centered was made by my mother-in-law. She donated hers to me because she wanted a different background. I love this one but wouldn't do it again.

The Butler's Jelly Roll

The Butler's Jelly Roll is what I named this quilt. Deb Butler shows up at my house to sew one night with a surprise. She bought each of us a jelly roll for only $15.00 each. That is really a steal. Anyway, she had a jelly roll pattern book, we selected one we liked, and sewed the entire quilt with borders all that night. It was so much fun!! I quilted it up within a couple of weeks, but didn't get the binding done until tonight. It is larger than a crib size but now big enough for a throw. I really don't know what I'll end up using it for.

This one was completely painless!

Feathered Star

I love this feathered star pattern, but my colors are really crazy. I had been making and selling patterns for my row quilts back then and Sharon suggested I make a tropical one. This star is as far as I got on that tropical idea. The star is MUCH prettier done in more striking colors.

When I pulled it out of the box that stored it, all it needed was the center block pieced so I could assemble the block. I had to call my friend, Deb, to get a copy of the pattern for the center as I have no idea where mine went. After that I added a simple border, quilted it last week, and finally got the binding done yesterday morning.


I finished another "old" project. This is a feathered star that I made from a class taught by Sharon Schamber 6-7 years ago. Mom took the same class and completed her quilt. Pictures of that quilt are posted on this blog on April 9th.