I finally got around to downloading pictures off my camera and onto my computer. Toward the last few days of school, I had 15 million things going on and things to do, so I gave my quilts and camera to a small group of students to take pictures of them for me. I, of course, expected for two of them to hold them up and the other to take the picture. Quilt picture taking 101, right? Well, I was surprised later that night when I looked at the pictures and these are the pictures they took. They set up several tables in the restaurant and laid out the quilts like they would be laying on the bed.
Anyway, here are the three quilts I finished binding and gave away at family reunion. This first one was for my aunt. The name of the quilt is "Welcome to the Zoo". The pattern is a 3, 6, 9, 12 quilt from Fons and Porter and the block pattern is chain link. I love this quilt pattern and this is my 5th or 6th quilt using this style, but I have used 3 or 4 different block patterns so they all come out differently. The hardest part about this quilt is making 15 million (my favorite number today) 3 inch blocks, but you gotta do it to make the quilt sparkle!!! (the block is not hard, it's just tedious! and that makes it hard) (what's really hard is typing today - I think I have had to re-type almost every word) Oh, yes, this quilt is all batiks. Everything but the green is an animal skin batik.
This next quilt was a long time coming!! I made the quilt top many, many years ago and was just waiting on a back, but I just wasn't motivated enough to get it made. Now that I have an awesome quilter, that has all changed. This quilt is for my cousin's daughter, Chelsea. Her favorite color used to be orange. Now, I am not sure it still is or not, but I made this top when that was the color she told me she loved. Technically this is her high school graduation quilt. She has since graduated from college, technical schooling and gotten married. (so, you see, why I said it was a long time coming?) I named this quilt, "Good Morning Sunshine". It is so bright and cheery. The black and white stripe is from some found fabric that was only 36 inches wide!! That is some old fabric, but it was perfect for this quilt. Pattern: well that is a good one since I saw a picture of a quilt on a calendar and this quilt was made in honor of that one - not the same pattern, but some of the same colors.
Someone at family reunion held it up so we could take pictures. You can just get a better feel for the quilt when it is like this.
This third quilt is another one that had to wait to be quilted and is for another cousins daughter for high school graduation. This one even had the back and binding all ready to go, it was just waiting on me to find a quilter. This is a flannel quilt that I named, "Firefly Fuzz". I think it's a yellow brick road pattern, but with more blocks. The back is a different black and white flannel, but I don't have a picture of that - or I may have one on my camera, but I didn't download it to the computer, sorry.
Alright, there are three of my 20+ quilts I need to bind all done and given away. Now if I can just get myself motivated to do the others. (I did finish one that was part way bound, but not included in the 20+ and I am halfway through another)
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