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Thursday, April 21, 2011

The start of a new quilt--always fun!

Posted by Sharon at 8:00 PM

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JackieApril 29, 2011 at 12:26 PM
I do love the selvage bag!! You need to do a tutorial on it!
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Sharon: McKinney, TX, United States; I've been a quilter since 1989 and have made hundreds of quilts since then, most by using my Sourdough method and using any fabric that I love. The only reason I need to buy a new fabric is because I don't already have it! Every fabric looks great in my Sourdough Quilts.

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Samples

The bag on the left I made. I made the Halloween witch--she's all wool. And I made the pink/blue quilt on the right.

Victory Quilt

block exchange--the block was my choice and it's my quilt

Christmas Quilt closeup

These 4-patch blocks were part of an exchange at the Dallas Quilt Guild quite a few years ago. The theme was Christmas fabric that month. It took me 8-9 years to finally put them into a quilt.

Christmas Quilt (another)

Made with scrap blocks won at a guild meeting

Japanese wallhanging

Magnolia

Never cared for this one

Saturday Morning

I woke up on a Saturday morning and decided to make a quilt with only fabrics from my closet. So I found these blocks that I had won at an auction at a local quilt guild. They were made by women I knew years before that and someone must have won them and never did anything with them, and then donated them to the guild to sell at the quilt show. I won them in a silent auction so I used them in this quilt. Everything else in this quilt was fabric from my stash--I didn't go buy anything new for it.

Ohio Star

Baby Steps

Old Quilt Top

I absolutely love this quilt top. I quilted it for a customer but it was an old top she had for years. I would like to try to replicate it.

Baby Quilt

Simple

Plaids! Plaids! Plaids!

Sun Bonnet Sue

Surgery Quilt

I had surgery and my doctor wanted a quilt, so I bartered with her for part of her fee, with this quilt.

Closeup of Asian Stars

Asian Stars

Another t-shirt quilt

Photo Quilt

Another Student's Sampler

Student's Sampler

A sample made by one of my quilt students in the beginner's class I used to teach.

Photo Quilt

More Pinwheels

Pinwheels are such fun!

On the quilting machine

Japanese Pillows full shot

Closeup of Japanese Pillows

Japanese pillows

I need to make this one again

Row Quilt

Chickens

Quilt

3D Wallhanging

A Favorite

You can't see it, but the border fabric has 1920's ladies all over it.

Sampler

Bobbie's Quilt

Bobbie died of cancer a few years back. Six of us, including Bobbie, made this quilt together and her children hung it at her funeral.

Ribbon Winner

I quilted this one for the woman who embroidered the blocks and put it together. Together we won a ribbon on it.

Grandmother's Flower Garden

I bought this quilt top from a 82 yr old woman at a garage sale. Her son had brought her scraps and she hand-pieced it.

Closeup of Thing

Hateful Thing!

I hated making this quilt. What a pain to match the pattern. It was supposed to have an uneven border but I was so aggravated that I just wanted it out of my hair and didn't want to spend another minute on it.

Z Quilt Closeup

Z Quilt

I don't know the name of this pattern. I saw a picture of an old quilt and realized that I had some partial block pieces already cut that I could use for this one, so I pulled them out and finished it in a day. Notice the red block where I switched out the fabrics because I didn't have enough of the same fabric for the whole block. I do this often, even if I do have enough. I like the effect it gives to the quilt.

Scrap Quilt

Long gone

I don't usually make quilts with only a couple fabrics. I don't know what I was thinking. It was pretty, but I don't mind that I don't own it now.

Christmas Sue

Winter Block Trade

These were 4 blocks that I made for a winter block exchange in my friendship group. The rule was blue stars on white background. You would get your name in the drawing once for each block you made. I didn't win them but I've thought often of making the checkerboard star for an entire quilt.

Christmas Sue

This was the start of a Christmas quilt with Sun Bonnet Sue's that were embroidered and sold on ebay.

T-Shirt Quilt for a customer

The start of a row quilt that I was designing for a group of women to have a block exchange.

a small wall hanging

Work in progress

I bought these blocks on ebay and have added 1930's reproduction fabrics to them.

Another Scrap Quilt

Jamaican Jungle

The fabrics remind me of a jungle, but a very bright colorful jungle with lots of flowers and birds.

Big Border Quilt

Boxer shorts? Swim Trunks?

Thimbleberries Birdhouses

Baby Steps

This is one of my favorite, fast baby quilt patterns. I keep these rectangles cut and ready. Then when I need one in a hurry I only have to pick a border and backing.