Some quilts I have made

Most people think that I have a lot of quilts in my house since I am a quilter. Well, most quilters will laugh at that suggestion, as I do! Many of the quilts I have made over the years have been given as gifts or have gone to charity. I make as many quilts as I can per year for Hope Pregnancy Center, a Christian crisis pregnancy center. They do not counsel to abort but rather keep the baby or put it up for adoption. They also help with other services and expenses as needed.

Over the next few days or weeks, as I have time, I will post pictures of quilts I have made and where they are now.
I made this quilt for my niece and her husband for Christmas. She likes blue & silver for Christmas instead of the traditional red & green. The pattern is Turning Twenty.

This quilt is a more recent one. It is flannel and, obviously, scrappy with a scrappy binding. It is hanging as a class sample in a local quilt shop. It was really a lot of fun to make! The pattern is Geese in the Fields.


I saw the pattern for this quilt during a local shop hop and knew I had to make it for my niece - the same one who was the recipient of the blue & silver Christmas quilt. This was a pattern, but I cannot remember the name of it. I will post it if I remember or can find the pattern. I cut out all the "Bugs" during a car trip to NC at Thanksgiving to visit my in-laws. The hubcaps are all buttons that I had or found after I got the idea. Button hubcaps was not part of the pattern, as I recall. This quilt was also a Christmas gift, in 2005.

Now you won't guess who received this one - yup, the same niece that received the other two. This is a Christmas tree skirt I made for her and her husband. No wonder she caught the quilting bug from me! This quilt was made from strip sets and with a large wedge ruler. My husband had made an extension to the ruler so I was able to make the quilt this large. Since then, the company sells an extension as well. Guess my idea was just a little ahead of its time.

This is a quilt I made for my Secret Sister at church and presented in Nov 2007. She said she LOVES cows, so a "cow quilt" she got! The pattern is from a magazine and the fabrics, believe it or not, I had in my stash! Can't have too much stash! The backing is cows as well, which I also had in my stash. She loved it.

I made 7 quilts using this pattern, besides the cow one, for Christmas gifts in 2006. My parents and in-laws each got one, one of my sisters-in-law, our next door neighbor and my husband. It is a fun and easy pattern that adapts well to a theme, like the cows. My husband, neighbor and Dad got "tool" themes, my father-in-law, golf, his wife, flowers, my mother cats and my sister in law, oriental, something they all like!