Grow Your Blog

Vicki at  http://vicki-2bagsfull.blogspot.com

is hosting Grow Your Blog again this year

and it is so wonderful to meet old and new friends, sooo...

 

Hello and welcome.

I am Diane and welcome to my world of quilting.

 

Monday thur Friday, 8:00 to 4:30,

I am an accountant, Controller at a wholesale hardwood

lumber company. 

 Wife and mother to 2 sons.

The oldest 39 (does that spill the beans of my age?)

the youngest is 12 with Down Syndrome.

 Kind of like having two only children.

Saturday, Sunday and any minute I can squeeze

I am a quilt maker, about 17 years, and

a longarm quilter, about 3 years.

 

I sometimes design my own quilts, just

so I can quilt them on my APQS longarm.

All of my quilting is freehand, no computer here,

I use rulers and templates.

(Click on the pictures for a larger view.)

 

 

 

I seem to make a lot of memory quilts

for people who have lost a love one.

 

 

 

I love to make memory quilts special with a story to tell.

Love to quilt names, date and special memories.

 

 

I also make quilts for my family (whether they want one or not)

 

 

I made this one for my son's shop.

 

 

I quilt for friends, old and new.

 

 

 

 

 

I have entered a few quilts in quilt shows

and have won several ribbons.

 

 

 

 

Baby quilts

 

 

T shirt quilts

 

 

wedding quilts

 

 

(Feeling like Forrest Gump now.)

 

 

 

 

Hope you look around, like what you see

 and join me in my quilting adventure.

 

I may not post every day or every week

(remember squeezing every quilting minute)

but I do share quilting progress and completed quilts.

 

If you have made it this far without getting bored and leaving

let's have some fun.

GIVEAWAY!!!

Just leave me a comment

and you will be entered to win a

jelly roll and about 1 1/2 yard of Sunkissed by Sweetwater.

 

 

Beautiful fabric, came out several years ago,

 just yelling to be made into a beautiful quilt or bag.

 

 

Please make sure you are not a no reply blogger or

leave your email address so that I can reach you.

 

Thank you for visiting and hope you decide to follow.

 

 

Coming along

Working on a special quilt

and guess what...

it's not a memory quilt.

 

 

 

Need to finish this one this weekend.

 

More pictures when it is finished.

 



And a Happy New Year to you!

I want to share my last quilt

for 2014.

I tried to finish for Christmas, but

I was a couple of days late.

I came down with a nasty bug on Christmas,

flu I think, (even though I had a flu shot).

Even though I love sharing things,

 I didn't think I  should share the flu, so the quilt

has not been delivered yet.

Being in the accounting field, year end is...well you can image.

Monday was the day I scheduled inventory,

outside, 32 degrees and still sick, but I made it.

 

Anyway, I'm sure you did come here to listen to me whine.

 

So here it is....

 

 

A little history...

This is a memory quilt I made for my aunt.

The stars are made from her late husband's

shirts.

There are six circles of stars, one for each of her children,

and 8 stars in each circle, one for each member of her family.

I quilted 18 friendship stars for each of her grandchildren.

There are 15 pinwheels for her great grandchildren.

 

 

The pattern is Round and Round by Thimble Blossoms.

68X72.

I left the center circle off and quilted his name.

(just in case you noticed, I did fix the corner of that pinwheel)

 

 

I quilt everything freehand, including the names.

2 layers 80/20 batting.

Glide thread, linen, it's not a white white, but not beige.

Love it on a white background.

 

 

I like to try something new on every quilt, this time it was

feather circles.

 

Nice little feathered border.

 

 

 

I couldn't get a picture of the whole quilt,

this is as good as I could get.

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by,

back to work tomorrow.