Our Own Quilts

This queen/king-sized quilt was made for our oldest granddaughter for her fifth wedding anniversary. The central motif is a set of 25 "Nipper" blocks from Joan Hawley's book "Lazy and Lovin' It," from Lazy Girl Designs. The layout and color selections were done using the EQ5 software, from the Electric Quilt Company.

Quilted with circles, roses, leaves and vines, and quarter-inch technique.

Photographed at the Sapphire Quilt Guild's 2002 Apple Valley Quilt Show, Stevensville, Montana, August 2002.

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Detail of the anniversary quilt above. Each fabric in the foreground represents a family member, with dark blue for the father, blue floral for the mother, pink floral for the daughter, and lighter shades of blue for the two sons.

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"Hopi Basket," a full-sized quilt made for my sister's 50th wedding anniversary. Southwestern theme figures are quilted into the background. The overall theme is a loose stipple, with cross-hatching in the border contrast pieces and quarter-inching in the basket wedges. This is a great pattern we picked up on a trip to Arizona. It was fun and easy to make. The basket was pieced separately and appliqued to the background, which was then cut away under the basket to remove bulk.

This quilt won the First Place Viewer's Choice award in the machine-pieced, machine-quilted category at the 2003 Bitterroot Quilt Guild's biennial quilt show, 19-20 July, 2003.

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"Heart to Heart," a wall hanging about 28 inches square, made for my niece. This pattern is from a kit made for a Montana Public Radio premium in the 2002 fund-raising campaign. I decided to try it in my own choice of fabric colors. The quilting is mostly stippling with ribbons running between the hearts.

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