Quilt As You Go, Simply Done

Category: Quilts in the works

  • Watercolor Quilt in Florals

    Here’s an older top that I did using Dina Pappas’s method of fusing the fabric squares to a lightweight gridded stabilizer. She loves florals so that’s what we all (in her class) used. I don’t love florals that much, so I tried Dina’s technique in batiks. This is still a pretty quilt and made even…

  • Watercolor Quilts in Batiks

    Watercolor quilts are usually made from floral fabrics, but I hate florals, so I used batiks.My friend, Dina Pappas, wrote a book about making watercolor quilts using a foundation stabilizer with gridded lines on it. I used her technique to make these quilts and what a breeze!! Even MY seams are straight – and that’s…

  • Fabrics from Quilt Market in Houston 2007

    My daughter, Sarah Raffuse, my best friend Penny Herndon, and I all went to Quilt Market in Houston and I came away with these fabrics! I bought quite a variety!The Earthtones are P & B Textiles. The dark chocolate and periwinkle blue are In the Beginning fabrics, called Bohemian Manor. The milk chocolate and powder…

  • Scrapper at Heart

    I love scraps and save every sliver – I even save the ends of my decorative threads! I randomly pieced these scraps together and ended up with 4 squares. Check out the stitching – I am happy with it. I need to get it sashed and bound this week.

  • Overpowering Purple

    I put together a few mismatched fabrics, and an awesomely overpowering purple flecked with silver, just to see what would happen. I might make a purse out of the squares.

  • Black & White and Bright!

    This little quilt is a favorite! I love black and white quilts and wanted to throw some really bright fabrics in it, just for fun. For extra special fun I am using my extensive collection of 12wt cotton Sulky threads. I couldn’t be happier if it were quilting itself! I can’t wait to see what…

  • The X Bag

    I read about this bag and saw a photo posted to the website for Stashbusters at Yahoo! I wanted it immediately. I ordered it from Quilterswarehouse through a link on the designer’s page Four Corners Designs. I just love this pattern. I put it together in a few hours, modifying the size (down) to a…

  • Crazy Eights Quilt

    I am sashing the squares to a reproduction quilt that was made by a group of quilters. The fabrics are by Chainteclaire and designed by Darlene Zimmerman. The squares were randomly cut by the ladies at Seams Like Home Quilt Shoppe in Anchorage, Alaska (http://www.seamslikehome.com) and machine quilted by them in part and finished by…

  • Quilts in the works

    In the latter part of December, 2007, I’m working on a quilt made of feedsack reproduction fabrics. I’ve had the fabrics for a long time and thanks to the folks on the Yahoo! group “Stashbusters” I’ve been inspired to finish this quilt. The more I work on it, the more I love it! I’ve also…