Blue Plane Wholecloth Toddler's Quilt

Just finished this 50x70" crib or toddler's quilt. Really enjoyed doing this quilt. It incorporated both my love of sewing and my creative side.

This beautiful crib or toddler bed quilt shows a fun airplane soaring to new destinations. Images are HAND QUILTED with blue thread and feature a little plane flying through clouds, surrounded by swirling winds, crosshatch diamonds, quilted squares and more clouds. Adding fun interest, the quilt has patchwork borders and double-folded dark blue binding.

Quilt pattern was NOT a pre-printed kit. Airplane image was hand drawn, crosshatch and squares were created with a ruler, the swirling wind was drawn with a quilt border stencil and the outer border's clouds were also hand drawn, all done by me.

Drunkard's Path "2012" FINISHED!

Finally have a computer with which to post my Drunkard's Path "2012" quilt! My other computer died during backup, a couple weeks ago and it's taken forever to try to recover my old data. Aaarg! I am sure you know how it feels to see "Hard Drive Fatal Error In Progress". That's exactly the way I felt.

While waiting for a temporary computer I had the opportunity to wash and naturally dry the quilt on the drying rack, in front our wood stove. What a wonderfully nice freshly washed smell it now has.

According to some people, December 12, 2012 is a significant date. That's when the otherwise very accurate Mayan calendar ends. Of those believers, there are those whom believe our world will end! How dramatic!!! You really should Google the subject for the whole story and all the versions...

I am not so sure exactly what will happen (possibly just a few minutes will be added or subtracted to our day, week, month or even just to the year) but am eagerly awaiting the eve of December 12. PARTY!!!!

I am sure you have guessed, all the circles represent planets and stars. I chose to use a light blue background to represent the sky. It's a nice calming color and shows my belief that everything will be fine and December 13. We will have blue skies and great weather (plus compositionally, it really pulls the blue in some of the blocks out, bringing the quilt colors together, nicely). Hey, maybe even the economy will reverse itself!!!!

The quilt is bigger than I planned. It is 56"x74" and is shown spread out on a king sized bed, making it a good quilt for most bed sizes and a topper for a king!





More Drunkard's Path blocks close up.



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You can really see the unique hand-quilting in these photos.

Drunkard's Path "2012"

Done!
This took a long time to piece and hand quilt. Really like the way it turned out!

Will show the entire quilt once my computer is fixed and I have my photo applications back.... aaarg! At least you can sort of see the hand quilting in a couple shots.






Please stay tuned!!!!

Drunkard's Path

Another sneak peak!

The colors are green, purple, blue, yellow and orange. The hand quilting will be along the triangles, making a diamond pattern. Also each circle will be treated with a special pattern, different from the others.



Interesting thread I'm using for the quilting. It's a bend of green and yellow. It looks so cool, the way it appears, on the quilt. Hope when the quilt is all done, I am able to capture the thread quilting with a camera. The funky colors can be seen in the jelly bean shape quilting in the photo above.



Eager to finish, but fingers are getting a bit raw. Talking about working fingers to the bone!

Drunkard's Path Quilt Block

"2012 or 2060?"
SNEAK PEAK!
Do the Mayans have it right or does Sir Newton? Will 2012 just change our calendar as we know it and in 2060 the galactic event will happen? Who knows? For me, it's an interesting subject to design a quilt around.


This is just a small part of the whole quilt. Lost count how many pieces are actually in the quilt. Probably will count again, when all sewn together.

Flower Pinwheel Twin Quilt

Hand quilted (green and pink fabrics) with handmade flower stencil.