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| This is a quilt I made for my Young Womens Project (an LDS church thing) to take to college with me. It's just square blocks sewn together. If you look really closely the white fabric is printed with little spools of thread. |
I have made many blankets over the years but have just recently really started in on the quilting process. Before it would just be 2 pieces of fabric sew together, or the occasional square block quilt. I now have done a few more but the block quilt is still my favorite and I revert back to it often.
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| This blanket we lovingly refer to as "Confused". It has Scott's 2 favorite college football teams, BYU and Nebraska. It has just 2 pieces of fleece fabric serged together. It makes for a great stadium blanket though. |
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| This was a blanket I made to start expanding my idea of quilting. It reminds me of a back to school blanket with all the apples. This was regular quilt blocks that were slashed into triangles (like cutting a sandwich into fourths). Then we mixed up all the fabrics and sewed them together. 2 triangles together then that triangle sewed to another 2 triangles sewn section. That makes a square and then you sew squares together. That is essentially how quilting works I've discovered. Take whatever shape you have and somehow create a square and sew squares together. |
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| This quilt was randomly created. I was at my husbands grandparents home in St. George October 2005. My husband and his grandparents were enthralled watching some football game and I was bored. So his grandma (an avid quilter I might add) told me to go into her fabric closet and make a quilt. So I did and this was the end product. |
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| This was going to be quilt. I started piecing this together at a teaching conference I went to. It's a pinwheel pattern. You can kind of see it. But I never finished piecing enough together to form a decent sized quilt so I just used them as covers for preformed pillows. ( I made 2 of them) |
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| This is just a piece of muslin fabric that I stitched everything in with some embroidery floss. My sister taught me how to do this. Then I just took some leftover fabric I had laying around my house and formed a pillow that I stuffed. |
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| This is a T-shirt quilt I made for my husband for fathers day this year (2010). It has 3 of his favorite t-shirts from high school, and then the rest of the quilt is made of Christmas pajama fabric (a tradition in his family that I carried on). |
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| This is by far the nicest quilt I have ever made. It is also the most time consuming. I followed a pattern for this one. The pattern was called a Trip Around the world. It is really simple in that it is just little blocks sewn together but you had to sew them together in a certain order to get the branching out effect. I loved this one so much that I even had it professionally machine quilted (a $100 expense). |
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| This was a cradle given to me by my mother in law. She had the foam in there already but it was covered in a fabric I really didn't care for (Sorry!!). So when I had my baby girl my husband encouraged me to just recover it. I was a little apprehensive but it turned out great and made the cradle look really cute. |
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| This is a bridesmaid dress I made for my sister in laws wedding. It was a plain purple fabric lining a sheer overlay. It then has a sheer white wire ribbon at the waist and hem for an added flair. We made 4 of these for all the bridesmaid to match. |
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| This is my daughter in her blessing dress that I sewed. She was very good a posing for the overload of pictures I took. |
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| This is my son in his blessing outfit I sewed. He was not so good at posing for pictures, therefore we only took a few. |
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| These are the Christmas Jammies I made in 2006. I made jammie pants for my husband and I. Then I made a sleeper for my son. It had feet and snapped underneath and up the front. |
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| These are the jammies in 2007. Again pant for my husband and I and a sleeper for my son. This had a zipper in it (much easier than snaps) and it had a collar and cuffs for the sleeves in a matching knit fabric. |
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| 2008 Jammies. This time I did pants for my husband, son and I. (I didn't want to make 2 sleepers) Then for my daughter I made a more interesting type sleeper. She was only 2 months old so I made her more of a sleeper sack. This has no legs it really is like a sack with arms and a zipper. |
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| Now we have the most recent 2009 jammies. I made a sleeper for my daughter but opted out of doing the feet and just put a cuff on the bottom of the legs and the end of the sleeves. I used the same fabric to do a collar for the neck. I did make pants for my son, myself and husband but we did Christmas by ourselves this year and therefore we don't have a picture of the 4 of us together. |
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| This is the dress I made for my brother in law's wedding that I included in my last post. |
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