Hearts

Happy Valentine's day! It seems appropriate to have a quilt with hearts on it today.
This is a baby quilt that I made for a friend. The hearts are hand appliqued. It looks like the binding wasn't finished being stitched on at the time the pic was taken.

This quilt had a name, but now I don't remember what it was.

A few of these quilt block patterns came from the Debbie Mumm book "Quick Country Quilting". I arranged the blocks my own way and added extras. Each lady has a different colour of skin, representing the hope of unity in the world.
I'm kicking myself because I sold the quilt for $125. Is it worth putting all that work and energy into something to sell? A person can spend that amount of money in about 5 minutes in the grocery store. I always mourn for years after selling a quilt! But giving one away for a gift has a different feeling, it's like blessing someone with good energy (as long as they like the gift and it doesn't get flung with disgust into the corner).

Batik Bento Box

This is a queen size Bento Box quilt that I made for my guy for Christmas a few years ago. This pattern goes together quickly because the pieces are quite large and there aren't a whole bunch of seams to line up. I didn't do any kind of fancy quilting on it, just in the ditch. I want to start getting more adventurous with my machine quilting.

Langford quilt show, 2007

This was the second last quilt show that I had a vendor's booth. This time it was in Langford (next to Victoria.

Former Quilt Shop

I used to have my own quilt shop, but it didn't work out and now I have to pay for it for the next billion years- groan! Once a year, I would have a vendor's booth at a quilt show somewhere. This is the last show I went to, in Abbottsford. I'm sitting on the left side of the table and my sister, Linda is on the right. Being a vendor was fun and hectic, but was kind of frustrating when somebody would have a bad credit card.
One of the funniest times was when somebody bought a book that I hadn't been able to sell for 5 years. This lady kept picking it up and looking at it. I was trying to project suggestions into her mind that she should buy it, lol! Then finally, she said
"Oh what the heck, I've always wanted this book, I'm going to buy it". I was so happy that I had to restrain myself, then when she left, I did the victory dance!
Now I have enough fabric left from the store to sink a battleship. I think I have a hoarder's complex, not wanting to get rid of it because I'll use it someday.

Fractured Stars

This is a stack and slash method of making these blocks. I hand quilted it when I was on vacation one summer. I figure it's a waste of time if my hands are idle, so it's good to have something to work on when I'm riding in a vehicle, not as the driver, though. :)

Bug Village

One time when my sister was visiting, we decided to experiment with making freeform houses with no patterns or templates. I made a set of crazy looking buildings, then put them together to create "Bug Village". It was a lot of fun, I'd like to do that method again sometime.