I made this quilt for my niece, LeAnna.  I just loved it.. When I found the pattern I just knew I had to make it for her.  It was real simple. Just cut out the butterfly wings, put them in a paper sack and pull out the pieces out of the sack and go to sewing. I tried that technique because my brain always wants to match and I wanted to work “out of the box,” on this one!  I love the way it turned out. It won a ribbon at Mt. Olive Quilt Show a couple of years ago.  I think after I get some projects that are pressing finished I will make another one these.   You can click on the pictures to see a closer view!

  The quilt top.

I wanted to make my brother Tommy a quilt. I thought about it for a long time until I found the right pattern.  I really enjoyed making it. Especially the log cabin. I took alot of different colored strips in the brownish family and sewed them together and then cut out the log cabin. I even have mosquito’s and fishing bobbers on this quilt. He loved it..  He called and said all the years our mother quilted he never got one of hers and now he has one of his own.   It made me cry.   Be sure to click on the pictures to see larger size view and you will get to see all the neat parts of this quilt.  I may try to make another one some day!

Hey I bet your thought I was going to post my first boyfriend. Remember your first love.. You thought they were so perfect, gorgeous and you were totally in love. Well this is my first quilt in the early 70’s.. I was totally in love, thought it was perfect and gorgeous!! NOPE.. my first quilt as an adult, now totally horrible!  As a child I messed around making my doll quilts and quilting with my two old maid aunts, but I never completed something as big as a bed quilt. Here is another example of the Tri-Chem Paint project. I made it a disaster. I used a coloring book to get the Disney characters, painted it and mother hand quilted it. YES HAND QUILTED on a frame!! I sure have come a long way since about 1974!

  click on for a more hideous picture! Mother bless her, sure did not quilt in a straight line!! The black quilters also do not quilt in a straight line. They don’t want the devil to find them. Maybe she did not want him to find her! The white background is a sheet!!!