Another Nickel Quilt

This is another Nickel quilt, this time from the "More Nickel Quilts" book. The name of the psttern is "Windblown Clover". I made a variation of another quilt from the book last year, but it ended up being given away and I didn't get a chance to take a picture of it :(

My Inspiration

Aunt Alma was the one who inspired me to start making quilts in the first place, more than 23 years ago. We would go to visit and I would look at her latest projects and see photo albums of quilts she made in the past. She always said that "making quilts kept her out of trouble". She left this world quite a few years ago, but she'll always have a very special place in my heart and memories.

Trip Around the World

Going waaaay back to 1989 now, this was the first queen size quilt that I made.
It is Trip Around the World, It was a Christmas gift for my brother. I didn't know how to quilt something that big on my machine, so I tied it. He still uses it on his bed to this day, I think the binding is getting quite frayed now.

Nickel Quilt

This quilt pattern came from the "Nickel Quilts" book. Couldn't take a very good picture of it at a quilt show because there wasn't enough room to stand back directly in front of it. I still collect five inch squares for future projects from the book and also the other one "More Nickel Quilts". Good books!

Mom's quilt

This is totally off my beaten path- a pink and white quilt. My mom doesn't like bright colours and a billion different fabrics put together, so I had to restrain myself. Did end up sneaking in a little green and purple, though. Pink is my least favorite colour. I don't mind it when it's in a bold batik. Mom has been using this quilt on her bed for quite a few years now, I made a pillow and wall hanging to go with it. There isn't a place to hang the wall quilt where she lives now, so she gave it back to me.

Mystery Quilt

Our quilting guild works on a mystery quilt once a year. I haven't made one of the projects for a few years now because I'm working in another town and can't get to all the guild meetings. A few friends from work and I have started a new guild in a little
town that's close to here. The new guild is called "Steamboat Mountain Quilters".
We'll have to see if any of the ladies are interested in making a mystery quilt sometime in the future.
This is a picture of one of the mystery quilts that I made. I tried making a machine quilted cable border, but the cables look a little squished in some spots. They probably don't show up in the picture.

Blue and Yellow

My sister and I were exchanging blue and yellow blocks over the period of several months. We noticed that we kept using bright yellows and dark blues, not the usual paler blue and yellow colour scheme. Then we started adding bits of red here and there to try to balance things out. We quit making the blocks when it seemed the colours were too bold and they would knock the eyeballs out of one's head.
I looked at my stack of blocks one day and put them together into a quilt that was smaller than the bed size one originally planned. Linda used her blocks to make placemats.