Friday, April 27, 2012
2001-Cross Stitch Pitchers 40 X 50
I designed this quilt that is supposed to look like a collection of pitchers sitting on shelves because I have a collection of pitchers, but the shelves do not have scalloped scarves on them. My pitchers are sitting of a hutch made by Warren Hubbard when he was in high school.
2001-Wedding Ring 16 X 36
One of my goals is to make a full sized wedding ring quilt, but this is as far as I have gotten so far.
2001-View From the Veranda 36 X 30
This design was made by ironing 2" fabric squares on a gridded interfacing and sewing the rows together to form the design.
2001-Sample Clowns 14 X 14
I stitched out three versions of a clown design to teach one of my classes how embroidery designs could be manipulated on the computer.
2001-Redwork Animals 42 X 36
I used two large pieces of muslin with batting sandwiched between to embroidery these redwork animals to look like they had been pieced.
2001-God's Seasons 42 X 46
I made two copies of this quilt which symbolizes the Christian calendar. I gave one of them to a local church.
2001-Cathedral Window Sampler 12 X 12
This little cathedral window design was harder to stitc than a regular sized cathedral window because it was so small.
2001-Butterfly 36 X 31
I designed this quit for a class I taught. The students arranged and pressed 2" square pieced of fabric on a grided interfacing and then stitched them in rows to form the butterfly.
2001-Three Teapots 24 X 56
This is another quilt I made at the week long workshop with Sharlene Jorgensen in Minnosota, but it wook we whilt to actually finish it.
2001- Sam's Whole Cloth
I sorry the hand stitches in this full sized whole cloth quilt I made for Sam, Jr. It took about a year to quilt it and another year to quilt one for Arden. The bottom picture shows a close-up of the stitching.
2001- Kokopeli 26 X 28
When we sent on our retirement trip to the western states, Sam was captivated by the Kokopeli symbols. I made this little quilt from him.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
2000-Redwork Mini 13 X 13
I made this little quilt to demonstrate how redwork designs could be used as quilting designs when I set up a booth at a quilt show.
2000-Redwork Church 10 X14
I digitized an outline of River Road Church, Baptist by using a picture on the Sunday bulletin. I have probably made at least fifty of these to give to church members on various occassions.
2000-Nixon Crest 25 X 32
I digitized the Nixon crest and designed and made four copies of this little quilt. Although it is not visible in the photo, the quilting in the black border consists of Nixon family names.
2000-Embroidered Nativity 32 X 41
It took me a long time to embroider all these designs and stitch them accurrately on this manger scene.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
2000-Decorator Cat 23 X 30
This cat actually has eyes, but I took the picture before I attached them. This quilt was constructed by ironing many little of squares of decorator fabric on lined interfacing and then sewing the rows together.
2000-Christmas Sampler 48 X 61
This was a good way to use a collection of Christmas fabric and to practice different traditional blocks. Its a great piece to hang on the balcony during December.
2000-Blue Fish 36 X 35
I just wanted to see if these little squares actually did look like fish once they were sewn together.
1999-Srebro's Cats 46 X 53
I made this cats in a class I took that was taught by Nancy Johnson-Srebro.
1999-Scrappy Twins 19 X 28 & 19 X 27
I used little scraps of left-over decorator fabric to make this little quilts. They were quilted with a variety of stitch patterns on my sewing machine.
1999-San Xavier 26 X 22
I enlarged a photograph I took of San Xavier near Tuscon, AZ to make this small quilt. The large border is supposed to symbolize the extensive desert surrounding this beautiful cathedral.
1999-Needle Turn Nativity 21X21
Although this quilt is very small, it took a long time to stitch the intricate needle turn applique.
1999-McAllister McPuff 53X64
Decorator fabric was used to make this puffy quilt. The individual pillows were sewn together with monofilament thread to from the design.
1999-Dora's Cows 39X40
Since my mother had an extensive collection of cow figurines, etc. I embroidered nine cow designs and put them together in this quilt fro her.
1999- Millie's Legacy 58X58
Since Millie Adaline Hatcher Hubbard was the inspiration for my love of quilting, I made this tribute to her with several pictures depicting her life.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
1998-Retiring Sam
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