Quilt 37 - Brandon's Baby Quilt

1993, 45 x 60
This was one of the first quilts I ever made. It was made for the little cutie sitting on it. His name is Brandon and he is my best friend's first nephew. (He is getting his driving permit this year!)

Mom had the turtle blocks from her days selling Tri-Chem fabric paint. We finished coloring the blocks and used the colors in those to match the rest of the fabrics. The piecing was pretty basic, but it turned out so bright and cheery. And he still has it!

Quilt 36 - Mom's Blue Feathered Star

2000, 20 x 20
If I am not mistaken, my Aunt Gladys started making this quilt when she heard about my feathered star quilt in progress. She wisely stopped at one block and gave it to my Mom as a 50th birthday present. It is hand quilted.

It is amazing how different a block can look just by using different fabric. The detail of this block really stands out by using contrasting fabrics.

Quilt 35 - Ingrid's Feathered Star

2000, 75 x 94
My best friend's Mom once asked me if I would make a quilt for her. Little did I know what quilt she had in mind!! It turned out beautifully but boy was it work. There were 768 half square triangles. (and yes, Mom, I trimmed them ALL!)

Ingrid finished the quilt by scalloping the edge. I also made a row of three stars with a small flowered border to use as a pillow cover. I love the look of the feathered star, but I still have not made one for myself!

Quilt 34 - Black and Grey Wall Hanging

1998, 45 x 55
After making the previous 2 quilts, I had many odds and ends leftover: a few Mary's Triangle blocks, some of the rectangle blocks used in Deb's quilt, and some scraps. Since I gave away both of those quilts, I wanted to make myself a black and white quilt.

I began with the rectangles and the few Mary's Triangle blocks. Those were pieced together to form the center. I had never done a pieced border before and Mom had just taken a class on them, so I thought I would try it on this. I pieced those and adjusted the inner black border to fit.

Mom quilted this for me. We keep saying that we may need to put it back on the machine and add a little more quilting on that black border. I love minimal quilting, but we may have taken it a little far on this one!

Quilt 33 - Black and White Mary's Triangle

1996, 70 x 80
I was a little over-zealous in making the Mary's Triangle blocks for Deb's quilt (quilt 32) and had many left-over. I decided to make a few more and arrange them in this diamond pattern. Instead of taking the blocks all the way out to the corners, I used wide white and black borders to give the eye a place to rest.

Quilt 32 - Deb's Curvy Log Cabin

1995, 65 x 75
Another Sally Schneider design! I made this for my best friend for her birthday (or maybe it was Christmas....). The center blocks are log cabin squares that have skinnier strips on one side, allowing you to piece them into curvy shapes. Around that are two rows of Mary's Triangle blocks. Then I finished it off with some rectangles of all of my fabrics.

Mom and I spent many road trips collecting black and grey fabrics for this quilt. I love shopping for fabric in general, but it was fun to see what different fabrics we could find in different parts of the country.

Mom made the matching throw pillow with the Friendship Star block. The next two posts will be quilts I made with the same fabrics and some of the same blocks as Deb's quilt.

Quilt 31 - Blue/Burgundy Wall Hanging

My sister, Gladys, brought me a gift many years ago. It was a journal that had a picture of a quilt on the front of it. The second surprise of the gift was that she had made a quilt like the picture, hand quilted and all. Thanks again, Gladys!