Vintage Fall Trucks - by Erica ...and me!

This Pattern is called "Vintage Fall Quilt" its by Ericamade.

Super cute!

it's not quite done, but i wanted to get it up while it's still October. :o)

Look at all these gorgeous fabrics. can't wait to play with them!

there are several fig tree fabrics here from coney island and hazel and plum

I love my turquoise trucks!!! they're so big i imagined a HUGe quilt. but its not.

I just finished the leaves and i'm arranging them. I added a third row of leaves on the top row because, well,  i love them.

If you look at her pattern, you'll also see i added 2 more trees.

I hope it's not too messy.

Four. Weeks. Later.... (sponge bob-ish)

It was so hard to get good coloring on these photos...Ugh!

I had to find a random not so gorgeous fabric for the border, but it was just right for the quilt.

anyway, i am absolutely delighted with this!!

it was iffy for a while there. it was in it's homely stage for a long time.

til the border went on in fact...

you may notice i dug up one of the trees. it was too busy.

still not quilted. but i love how it turned out!

it's getting backed with a really cute turquoise bandana fabric from walmart!

Pioneer Red and Tan Quilt

Red and Tan Triangles!

I was inspired to do this when I went to Deseret Book and saw the neat pioneer age quilts they sell there. They were all red and tan.

 

It feels very homey.

 

I hand stitched it so it would feel more pioneer period.

My goal was to do one row a night while I watched TV with my husband. :o)

Now he REAlly thinks all I do is sew....

 

 

Rose and Vine Wedding Quilt in Pink and Navy

 

 We recently had a son get married! I can finally put up some pictures of their wedding quilt since they've seen it now. It was fashioned after one of my Grandmother's antique quilts. See that here. I've been wondering if blending the vintage rose quilt pattern and the navy modern lines really worked, but we've decided it's symbolic of weaving together the older generation and the new. :o)

 

First, the vines. I cut about 1" wide strips, folded them in half and twisted them.

 

Hand stitched the large flowers on.

 

wonder under for the leaves and other flowers.

 

some detail on the leaves! 

  

I love the navy ribbons, the vines, and the cross hatch machine quilting.

 

The six main pink roses are stitched down by hand. The rest are stitched by machine.

 

I did the quilting all on my juki TL-2000 home machine.

I attempted some feathering...

 

another view of the center and the cross hatch machine quilting.

 

cross hatching around the outside too. 

 

twisty vine around the inner border.

 

Feathering on the outside border.

 

 

 

Vintage Rose Quilt - Grandma Wins

 

 This month on mother's day would have been my grandmother's 100th birthday. It's a good time to share some of her quilts. When I first saw these vintage, antique quilts, I thought: "Wow. Grandma wins." These are the most gorgeous quilts I've ever seen! I am making a wedding quilt for my son. His fiancé asked for pink flowers. I remembered that my grandmother had made some flowers quilts and thought I'd like to see her quilts for a pattern as to how to place my flowers and vines. I asked my aunt for some photos. I felt immediately as though my grandmother was doing a little quilting show and tell with me like I do with my friends now. She wanted me to see her quilts. I feel her watching over me as I make my sons quilt.  I'll post that in July, after I give it to them. I even used her thread (on an old wood spool) as it was the only pink I had that matched these vintage colored fabrics. It's been a neat experience.

 

This is the famous rose quilt. ;o) It's all hand turned applique and hand quilted. Apparently, it was a pre-printed kit. The other quilts were expanded off that idea.

 

 

I love the quilting and the neat binding.

 This one is called the "Dogwood" quilt.

 

 

beautiful feathering and crosshatching....

 

 

the "Poppy" quilt

 

Pansys

 

My mother made this a long time ago. It's quilted with polyester instead of cotton so it's puffier. It really shows off the quilting!

 

this is my mother's rose quilt she made many years ago.

 

spectacular hand quilting...

Vintage Quilt Show and my Urban Cowgirl Quilt. My OTHER Urban Cowgirl Quilt....

 

I went to a vintage quilt show last weekend. some of them were really neat. but there was one fun surprise.

I was amazed by the Queen Sized hexie quilt. It looked like this one. The Hexie's were one inch. Literally. ONE. INCH! Wow.

(picture borrowed from here caused I didn't take one. augh!)

There was also a very fragile yo-yo quilt in a glass case. So neat. Partly because it was obviously about queen sized.

(again, borrowed a picture! from this gal who took the quilt out of it's glass case when she saw it. I wonder if it was the same quilt?)

Loved this one!

I also really love Dresden plates. and the hand quilting.

But the fun surprise was seeing this one! I am working on that Urban Cowgirl pattern by Urban Chiks for my daughter to take to college. I was so surprised to see that that pattern must have originally been taken from this old pattern - Star Dahlia! My daughter and I so enjoyed seeing the original way of doing this quilt!

The new pattern is very 3D. This one has the flower petals actually pieced into the star. The circle is also pieced into the center so that the whole thing is only one layer - very flat. Looks like it was rather difficult to do.

 

 

Here is one of the Urban Cowgirl quilts I've done. You can see the daises here are 3D.

 Here are some pretty squares!!

 

 

there's the polka dots!

 

 

Here's the machine quilting.

The border quilted. And I added some felt to the centers so that the centers are puffy.