HMQS 2014 Favorites

Here are some of my favorite quilts from the Home Machine Quilting Show in Salt Lake last week.

This one is completely non-conventional. Lots of open space with little metal steam punk bits connecting the circles together.

All of the shading  and lines are done with stitching. It is really amazing to see up close. The gears in the mans chest are actual little metal embellishments.

The person who made this one made it for her daughter and son in law. It is their favorite music albums. They are all appliqued.

You can not see it from the picture but there are 27,000 crystal embellishments on this quilt. It is amazing!

Monty Python and the Holy Grail!

The little triangles on this one is called flying geese. I think it is hillarious. Flying geese with flying geese!

This one is amazing too. There are so many angles and sizes of pieces. The pieces in the center are only about 1 cm big finished size!

Giant Purple Dahlia

This has been my obsession for the last six months and now it is my masterpiece! Enjoy!

Check it out in my Etsy Shop here.

Gift Boxes for Sale

I am selling some gift boxes Father's Day, Graduation, and For Chemo/Get Well Soon. The boxes are crushable fabric storage boxes.

Each picture is followed by a picture showing what is included in each box.

Each one is $10.00.

This one is for Father's Day.

For your favorite Chemo patient or just to say Get Well Soon!

This one is for your graduate that is getting ready for college. 

Here is another one for Fathers Day.

Local pick up is available. If you prefer shipping I will send it not wrapped up. It will ship better that way. For more information or to buy one please email me at missbecky1@gmail.com

Thank you!

Purple Pinwheel Quilt

 I had some fun with this one. There really is no back story. It just happened!

 

I love how crazy it is!
Check it out in my Etsy shop here.

Grandma's Quilt

My maternal grandmother was quite the quilter. She was a member of the Quilt Guild (like me!), she taught quilting classes, and made quilts to support the family and to donate to people in wheel chairs. I remember when I was small she came to my house and taught me and my sisters how to make quillows.

She made this log cabin quilt for my mother sometime around 1990, a few years before she died. It is has loved and abused. It seems that one of the fabrics used just seemed to have disintegrated after all the years of use. My mom asked me to fix it but was so afraid to even touch it. It has all of my grandmother's hand quilting stitches in it. I feel like I would be ruining it if I tore it apart to fix it.
 

So this is what we came up with. Some wall hangings. There was a couple of squares that hid minimum wear and tear so I cut those out, and re-used the original binding to finish the edges. 

I didn't touch the quilting. That needs to stay just the way it is. 

 I love that we could rescue it, and not have it end up in the garbage.

Custom Brown Wallet

This is another custom wallet order from my Etsy shop.  This time it is in a fun brown retro circle fabric.

It had a velcro closure, bill fold, 4 card pockets, a zipper pouch, and a clear plastic ID pocket.

It is quilted on the outside. An awesome lady wallet.

First Mug Rug

 Something I have recently discovered in the quilting world in mug rugs.  I don't know if it is new to the quilting world if if it is just me, but they are cute and everywhere.  They are basically a half size of a placemat. It is somewhere you can put your mug and snack. I am assuming this is a big thing for ladies for thier coffee of tea. So I decided I wanted to try them out.
 Here is what I came up with.

I like that they are so small that I don't have to make a big quilt just to try out a quilting technique or a particular square.
This also doubled as another project for Quilt Guild. Everyone was asked to bring orphaned quilt squares (quilt squares without a project) then everyone mixed them up and took one and was challenged to make something new out of it. So I can not claim the yellow and white square, but I can claim everything else about it. And I love it! Check it out in my Etsy shop.