Table Top Quilt for karen's May birthday, 2012. Fabric has been dyed with tea to give it an antique look. The pattern is one of my favourites...very simple pattern, but love it..."trip around the world" with the cross as the central figure. I was able to fit it into a large brown envelope for mailing......sent expresspost, took one day to get to White Rock. Amazing!

Robin's Quilt

This is called Boston Common. I made this in 1995 for Robin Brown when her 2nd son, Taylor, ws born. It is made of small squares, angled in rows to look as if it is a mosaic floor. Since I just reconnected with Robin, after a long while ( over 12 years), I looked up the quilt in my Photo card, and found that there was still a picture of the quilt. Amazing to look back at a quilt you made so long ago......

Vintage Messenger bag

 Vintage messenger bag, 1/2 the size of the regular bag. Not too big, not too small. Used vintage fabric with fringe. Used beaded cording from an old top I had to rim the edge of the flap.

 On front flap sewed beads in haphazard design, took apart earrings to sew in random placement. Used needle nosed pliers to bend the backs of earrings that I shoved through all thicknesses.....works great.

 Side view...bag is light weight..fairly thin.

Detail of fringe and flap. will have to make some more with vintage style fabric...

Antiqued Amish Rail Fence

 When babies come along, everyone seems to make pink and blue and yellow or white or something klike that. I've been reading a lot about the Amish and their quilts and thought it would be neat to make a destressed rail fence in traditional colours. Easy pattern that you can twist and turn, any which way, into desired patterns. Then I took the back fabric and the finished quilt top and stuffed them into a vat of scalding hot tea, let it soak for an hour or so, rinsed ,  dried, ironed, put it with the filler, pinned it up , and was ready to sew up. I used a swag stitch to do the stitching, mimicing the rail fence idea as it made a pattern of fence bars on the border. Easy. Then added a binding in green to offset the antiqued fabrci. Took about a week to do. It's too big to be a baby quilt, and just right to be a lap quilt. 

Decided to add a nice "label" to the back. I have packages of stamped squares that you can embroider , in whatever colours you choose....so used this wedding ring square and added  the year and their names. I hope Christine and her husband like it. I know I love the Amish quilts....

Gothic Diaper Bag

Diaper bags. Usually they are in blue, or pink , or yellow, with little bears, stars or assorted barnyard critters.  Why not a diaper bag that is more gothic? Why not have fringes, beads, coins, leather, assorted velvets, with filled and lined pockets inside and out........Finally found the right person to give this to. She was delighted with it, and loved the coins dingling away on the front. and it was not too big and not too small, she said.....just right. Hurray! Every bag has its home....

Sept 1995

Found this tucked away on the computer....a baby quilt made for Rachel Van Heteren in Sept 1995. Didn't think I had this, so glad to have found it again.Log cabin and piano keys pattern.

Sunburst....

Tired of all that grey. Grey skies. Grey clouds. Grey days. Wanted something really bright, really hot and so put together oranges, pinks, hot pinks, blues, all swaddled with green borders and jewels here and there.  A queen size quilt that sizzles............no more grey.