Photo Transfer Quilt

As promised, here is the picture of the photo transfer quilt I created for my nephew and his wife for their anniversary.   They received the package yesterday and loved it.  It was wonderful working with all the family photos and reminiscing.  The lake scene was based on all the summer camping trips our family took through the years.

The lake scene was based on the pattern by McKenna Ryan's Pine Needles Art Quilts.  It is part of the At Home in the Woods-Block of the Month called "River's Bend".  

The fabric for the mountains was from the Ro Gregg Marblehead Stone series sold through Hancock's of Paducah.

UFO Project #2  May

This Sampler Quilt was hand pieced in 1989.  Some of the hand quilting has been done.  The picture was taken over 10 years ago.

April's UFO remains unfinished

April's project; The Neck-Tie Quilt remains unfinished.  Actually, I did not work on it, except to post the pictures on-line.

I used the month of April to work on a Photo Transfer Quilt for my nephew and his wife.  The top is complete and I pieced the back today.  No pictures can be posted on this quilt, until they have received it.  I don't want to spoil the surprise on how it looks.

Springtime and flowers

Out by the mailbox

Our neighbor's Iris

 

Beauty up close

UFO Project #10 April

Lolita's Class Sample Block

Is it April already?  My next UFO is the Neck-tie quilt.  Lolita from our Quilt Guild gave a class last year.  She is a wonderful teacher, so I was quite inspired to get to work last year.  There are several hours of prep work to take the ties apart after being washed.  I found this was a good project while watching T.V.  I did get that part done last year.  However, my problem arose when I tried to get the light-weight fusible interfacing to stick on the back of each tie prior to cutting.  If you get the iron too hot, it won't stick.

Ties cut and ready for sewing

UFO Project #8 for March

Pinwheel Top

Pieced Back of Pinwheel Quilt

"Parts" of the Pinwheel Quilt have been completed.  The top is done!  The back has been pieced with several different fabrics that I had in my stash and the binding has been made.  I'm delighted with this project which began as 16 simple blocks.  It has turned into a 71" square quilt top with a unique back. 

UFO Project #8 for March

Here it is the middle of March and I'm just now posting about my next project, which is the Pinwheels Quilt from our Guild Workshop given by Pat Speth in March 2011.  It took two weeks to find a setting that I wanted to create.  I found an ad on pg 45 of the June 2009 American Patchwork & Quilting magazine.  It was called Heritage Stars from Maywood Studio.  I hate to admit it, but I didn't spot the free download instructions at the bottom of the page until after I had added the sashing to all of my blocks.  Then to top it off, my blocks were the wrong size to use the star points and I didn't have enough blue fabric that I liked, so I used a bright royal blue from another project to make the stars points with a one inch gold strip in the middle of each 5" x 11" rectangle.  The blue stars were overwhelming on the design wall.  The royal blue fabric did not match the fabrics of the pinwheel blocks.

So on Saturday, off I went to the local Quilt store for a calming brown fabric for the rectangles.