I dew quilting: January 2014

Friday, January 24, 2014

Grow Your Blog

Vicki is hosting

Grow Your Blog

http://vicki-2bagsfull.blogspot.com
again this year.

A great way to find new friends.
I would love to have new followers and
find blogs that I never knew about before.
Thanks Vicki.

Welcome to my blog,
I dew quilting,
my name is Diane
and I love quilting.

I made my first quilt top in 1994

(wow that seems like forever ago)

I have learned, I have grown and love everything about
quilting (except maybe binding).
I make traditional and modern quilts.

I have now found a new love...

I have fallen in love with longarm quilting.

I bought my first machine in 2011 or 2012.

I didn't use it a lot. I couldn't quilt the way I wanted to

so I just didn't use it very much.

Then I discovered the Internet and books and rulers and teachers.

Bloggers that shared their beautiful quilting and even showed and explained how they did what they did.

I sold my first machine
and I bought a APQS Millie last year.

Millie and I get along great.

I make Memory quilts for family and friends
(even a few for strangers)

This one was for a friend at work, whose parents passed on within

6 months of each other. It was made out of their clothing.
Mother and father stars surrounded by nine stars, one for each of their children. I quilted each of their names, dates and symbols of
their life together.

Then I made one for his son

and his daughter.
The children's had 23 quilted pinwheels, one for each of the grandchildren.

More pictures here Jimmy's Memory quilt http://dewquilting.blogspot.com/2013/12/jimmys-memory-quilt.html
and
here Details, details http://dewquilting.blogspot.com/2013/12/i-dont-have-anything-new-to-show.html
(because I love pictures)

My favorite quilt this past year
has to be the one I made for my son's shop.
http://dewquilting.blogspot.com/2013/10/iq-quilt.html

He loved it.

It was so much fun to make,
inspired by a quilt made by
Lisa Snipes
I love the way it finished.
Even won a 1st place ribbon in a local quilt show.

Another one of my favorites is one I made for myself.

A wall hanging
for myself.
I drafted everything and free hand quilted it with Millie's help.

I make t-shirt quilts.

Wedding quilts.

Well that's a little of what I do, in addition to quilting
I work a full time job, married, have an incredible 11 year old son with Down syndrome and an older son mentioned above.

I don't post everyday, gosh I might not post every week but I do share my quilting and hope you see something that will bring you back again.

Now let's have some fun.

Let's have a giveaway!!

I have a Scrap Basket Surprises Quilt Club Kit.

You can make anything you like

or use the quilt on page 44 of

the Scrap Basket Surprises book.

This kit includes:

two Fresh Cotton Jelly Rolls by Fig Tree Quilts

1 3/8 yards background

5/8 yard binding

and