Donna's Quilt, 2014

The quilt top was made by Donna Madden, it sat at my place for about eleven years. I finally got around to quilting it, then I gave it back to Donna for her birthday. That means the second item I've finished for 2014, only twelve more to go!

UFO #2 Completed for 2013

I quilted and bound this quilt top made by Donna Madden. I've had the top at my place for the past ten years, so it was a well aged UFO! I tried a new machine quilting design (new to me, anyway). I want to keep learning new designs so I can have a variety to pick from. The thread I used was a variegated aqua coloured Signature thread that my sister sent for Christmas. I didn't know what to use for binding, then finally came across a black, multicolour dot print that was in my stash. After an entire decade, Donna was able to have her quilt back!

Donna's Quilt For This Christmas

I just finished quilting one of Donna Madden's quilt tops as a belated Christmas gift.

Tree of Life

I don't think Donna Madden will mind me showing her "Tree of Life" quilt which won the viewer's choice prize at a quilt show quite a few years ago.
Donna always comes up with great designs!

Quilters Gone Bad; Butt, It's a Watercolour

This Donna Madden quilt is called "Butt, it's a Watercolour".
Each square of fabric has a butt of an animal on it instead of a floral print.
That's my kind of quilt!

Quilters Gone Bad; Donna

Here is Donna Madden in front of some of her quilts.

Quilters Gone Bad; All Dressed up and No Place to Go; Cat Houses

These are two quilts by Donna Madden, I don't remember the names of them, I'll post the titles when Donna lets me know. I love the square head people!
I was supposed to be getting lengths of fabric cut for a garage sale I'm having next weekend. There is still a lot of fabric from my closed store that needs to thinned out. I kept getting sidetracked because of wanting to start a new quilt, so I was gathering up and cutting fabric for that. Then I was agonizing over which fabrics should be put in the sale bins. I don't want to get rid of any of it, my hoarding tendency kept rearing its ugly head. But hopefully, I've managed to part with enough. I'm also putting a box of patterns in the sale. I had to buy multiple copies of patterns from the wholesalers when I had the store, so there ended up being a lot. I kept a rather hefty pile of them for myself. I sorted through the books awhile ago, kept what I wanted and donated the rest to the Steamboat Mountain Quilters in Edgewater, one of the guilds I belong to.
I'm going to have to live to be 1000 years old to make all the projects I have in mind!

Quilters Gone Bad

I don't know what the title of this Donna Madden quilt is, but I love the lime green!
When I garage sale a pile of more fabric from my closed fabric store and get my stash thinned down a bit, I'll be able to go into a quilt shop and buy some more lime green fabric. The past three years, I've only bought a bit of fabric twice. That's hard on the old girl because I love looking at all the new stuff that's out there! It takes a long time to use up a whole store full before I can ever go shopping again. Oh well, being frugal now will pay off later, I hope.

Quilters Gone Bad; Waiter, There's an Earwig in my Soup

Here is a creation titled, "Waiter, There's an Earwig in my Soup" by Donna Madden.

Quilters Gone Bad; Donna's Earwig Quilt

ARRRRGH! I was going to send a post yesterday, but the computer wouldn't connect to the internet, it must've been in a snit about something.

Donna Madden made a series of quilts featuring earwigs. This is one of her creations.
I can't remember the title of it, but I hope Donna will reply to this and let me know.
I love the lime green in this quilt, it's one of my favorite colours.
Earwigs have to be one of the creepiest things out there! I get them coming into my house at the end of every summer- YUCK!
Donna is the only person I know that would make quilts with these creatures on them!