This quilt was made many years ago. The ties are three dimensional and although difficult initially went well after several blocks.

The quilt was given to my nephew Ben for his 21st and unfortunately it has been hung on his wall rather than being used as it was intended. Admittedly he does like it but his mum thought it was too good to take to the footy or to be used in a young man's home. Hopefully one day soon he shall reclaim it.

Dancer and Rabbit

Another quilt from Charlotte Warr Anderson's book. Great book and if you ever hve the chance to pick up a copy I definitely recommend it.
i think one of my problems with realistic applique is that I found it too restrictive choosing realistic colours/fabrics. However I did learn a lot about value selection making this quilt and the rabbit.

Dancer and Rabbit

This design came from Charlotte Warr Anderson's book Faces and Places. 

At this time I thought I might go into applique and although I enjoyed this exercise it was not a thought I kept for too long.

Crazy Stars

In this detail you can see how scrappy some of my fabrics were.  This quilt was my first attempt at crazy patchwork and although I enjoyed the higgledy piggledy piecing the idea of embroidering each seam didn't excite me in the least.

For the sashing I had just one metre of a fabric that changed from red to jet black as it went across the width.  This was sufficient for only the sashing and with careful placement bright sections appeared to float from the quilt.

This quilt still hangs on our walls.

Scrap Shadows

Photo needed given to Joan when she retired from Lindsay Park PS.

Mrs' Quillow

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Brandon Hexagon

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Richard's Bird

When Richard was in kindy he made a plasticine picture of a bird. He was very proud of it and we kept it for ages however over time the plasticine started to dry out and crack and so I decided to make a quilt copy of it. 

This is an exact replica of it apart from the top right hand leaves. The colours are also fairly accurate of the original.

It was hand appliqued and mainly machine quilted.  I can quilt something this size.

West Bound

This quilt was another early attempt at scrap quilts. I have always liked the colours in this one and enjoyed making it. The fabrics used were sheeting and it had a mountain mist polyester batting. I gave this to my nephew Matthew as I thought the colours seemed to suit his nature.  It ws started in 1992 and finished 1999... can you see a tendency emerging here?

Green Scrap

Ahh you can tell that I was very creative with the naming of my quilts in the early days.  by the time I made this quilt I had a few more fabrics and so was starting to use more variety in the choices.  In truth I was finding it hard to finish any quilt which was made using too much meterage.  I had bought one green and a white TOT for the QST but when I came to make them figured that it would be too boring if I restricted myself in that way.  I ended up using that fabric for the borders and have loved this quilt since. 

I regularly use this design for gifts.