Eagle Quilt Presented to CJ Dec. 4

At the Christmas party for our Wasatch Front families, I presented CJ's Eagle Scout Quilt to him.  He is our oldest grandchild, and will be the first to earn this award.   This particular quilt is one of the hardest I've made, so I hope he will take good care of it.

CJ and his brothers and cousins whom we hope will also be Eagle Scouts





Santa's workshop..

Getting ready for Christmas.  Just got this puppy dog quilt finished for Logan...as I think she deserves something more than a cactus!

More kids quilts

I made baby quilts for Travis and Hinckley, though the girls cut out the blocks. and did some of the finishing work.  Here are the two Wiggles and Giggles, which go pretty well with these two cute babies.









Jeri Montella quilted Travis's  with sports ball motifs



Travis and his big brother Ethan.. Sept. 2010



Hinckley's was quilted with bikes and trikes on the back



Hinckley and Grandpa, Oct. 2010

Lone Star Eagle project

When our oldest grandson, CJ, was getting close to earning his Eagle Scout award I decided I better shift into high gear.   He is the pace setter for lots of other scouting grandsons, so I hope they will follow his good example.   It took me a full week to piece together the eagle part of the quilt, and I had to go visit Shauna Hurst and Julie Hawkins several times to figure it out.  It was easily the hardest piecing job I've ever done, but it was worth the effort.  I had this finished by April.

  Since he hadn't begun his final project, I let the Eagle "nest" for about 6 months, before I worked on it again, as I wanted to make sure he was serious about earning it this year.  Setting in the right angles and triangles around the eagle was also a little tricky, but not as bad as I had imagined.  I had Cathy Cosby do the machine embroidery of his name.

Next I made a modified court house set which created a southwest design which I really liked.  This went clear around the quilt.  I hired Jeri Montella to quilt it, using a customized pattern of the scout motto, stars, and fleur de lis.  On the outside border she alternated eagles with the scout symbol.  I love how it turned out.  It is bound with angled striped material matching the main colors.   The total cost of fabric and quilting was around $300, in addition to the 90 hours of labor.

   The finishing of this quilt, actually helped me find about $450 which I had put in an envelope in preparation for our cruise on Oct. 4.  I had searched the house for two days, and could not find the envelope with the money in it.  Part was in Euros and part US money.  Finally in desperation, I prayed that while I went to work on finishing up the quilt, I might be inspired to know where to look. 
   I had not decided on the backing for the quilt, and started looking through my stash.  After checking the cupboards and not finding anything quite right, I went to open the lid of the wooden chest on th back porch, as I moved the sacks off the top, I noticed an envelope had slid down the side be the check and my sewing cabinet...IT WAS THE LOST MONEY ENVELOPE.  BOY, THAT PRAYER WAS ANSWERED QUICKLY.  I WAS SO THANKFUL, I HAD DECIDED TO CALM DOWN, PRAY, AND SWITCH JOBS!! 

September 2010 weekend workshop

I taught a workshop on Sept 17-18 using a pattern from the Spring/ Summer 2010 issue of Quilt Sampler called Lake Cabins.  It combines log cabin blocks and Bear Paw design.  Those attending can do the basic pattern or take on a challenge modification.

The challenge was to create a centerpiece or use something you've already created and build the blocks around it. Because the finished blocks are each 12.5" square, the center panel needs to fit into multiples of that. If it's square then 24.5" X 24.5" or on mine it's 24.5" X 36.5".

This Batik print is the one I'm going to use. I bought in Mexico 12 years ago and have been waiting for just the right pattern to incorporate it. I think this will work. I will do 5 rows of blocks instead of four, replacing the center six blocks with the Mayan print.

The challenge is to find or create a panel to use for the centerpiece on the quilt, if you wish to do so.  Even though the pattern calls for batiks, I'm only using part batiks, as I'm committed to downsizing my stash.  Choose fabric that goes with your center art piece.  I'll be e-mailing this information to our Blanding guild members, Ganado sewers, and others who might like to attend.  We will work Friday evening, and Sat. as long as people want to stay.  All pattern pieces must be cut out ahead of time, and the panel must be sized up to fit into the  24.5 X 24.5 or 24.5 X 36.5 inch space in the center.


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Children's Wedding Quilts

Chris and Pam Married August 19, 1993 Provo Temple

Reception in Blanding. 

This was the first of my children's wedding quilts I've made. Kathy Hurst helped me strip cut and put together this rail fence quilt.  I learned so much from her in the process.  Learning how to use a rotary blade and strip cutting, opened up a whole new demension in sewing for me. We pieced this in about a day! I sewed and she pressed!  What a team.

Rob and Kathryn March 26, 1994 Jordan River Temple

Kathy Hurst helped me with this quilt as well.  It is still one of my favorites and it was quite a task picking out all the patterns and colors.

Nathan and Tammy May 29, 1998 Jordan River Temple

This is a spin off on a Navajo design I found, using pastels.  I pieced and quilted it myself, with help from a lot of good friends.

Quentin and Bev July 9, 1998  Mt Timpanogas Temple

I provided fabric in blue tones and had a lady piece together a wedding ring quilt for Quent and Bev.  I didn't think I could do it myself.  But I quilted the entire quilt by hand "with a little help from my friends."

Even though I didn't piece this wedding ring quilt, I picked out the fabrics and hand quilted most of this myself.  It was pieced by Eda Christensen, a relative of Auleen Peterson.  She specializes in wedding ring quilts.  Despite having 4th ward friends who helped some, it took me forever to quilt.

Autumn and Theron Dec. 16, 2000 Logan Temple

Guests signed their names to this Christmas theme quilt made for Autumn and Theron. I also made her a red and white tricot quit with the temple on it, with instructions,  to not let Theron jump on it.

 

　

 This was part of the sign made for display:

Tricot quilt made by Autumn’s Mother, Jane

with much appreciated help from these Blanding quilters:

 

Hattie Jones        Ardell Ostergaar          Ida Mae Hurst

Venice Lyman    Diane Carroll                Oaine Foy

Lucille Black      Renee Pincock            

J

oan Hosler

Ada Rigby          Loretta Bradford          

Red side of Tricot quilt.

Andrew and Amy married July 18,  2004 Salt Lake Temple

Amish Wedding Pinwheel Quilt

Passionate Purple for Amy and Andrew's wedding Quilt.  I loved the colors in this quilt, though it did give me a few twists and turns as I put it together. 

I love purple and had a good stash available.  This was a new pattern, but was quite fun to do.  

 

Anthony and Ashley  March 8, 2003  Vernal Temple

I borrowed Gayle Shumway's pattern for the double Irish chain.  It went together quickly.  I had LaRue Barton do embroidery on some of the block centers and then appliquéd pine trees in others.

I also did a levi camp quilt and tried a braided pattern for the center with mixed results.

Janet and Steve married Dec. 22, 1967  Idaho Falls Temple

I embroidered blocks for this quilt over the course of 7 or 8 years, then finally finished them the year we got married.  I pieced them together and then my good friend Barbara Anthony Groom, who was married and living in Provo, helped me quilt it.  Actually Barbara did most of the work!  I also had two other quilts in my trousseau I had made earlier, and mom had her Relief Society quilt them for me.  One of them later burned in our house fire in 1990.

More Grandkids quilts

Quilt made for Hunter when Peyton was born.  July 2006.

Peyton's bright baby quilt, full of sugar and spice and everything nice.
Christmas quilts for Brendan and Laurie 2005 when they were in Alaska.

Worms on the loose

These are the wriggley worm quilts Debbie Bayles taught us how to make.

My southwest version

Posting again

After year's hiatus, I decided it's time to start posting again, though I haven't done much quilting yet...too many history/writing projects.  Last summer the Blanding Quilt guild invited the Ganado ladies to come to a weekend workshop.  At that time we showed the beautiful memory quilt them made for us when we finished up our mission to Ganado. Alta Wauneka, and Farah Tsosie were the two main masterminds though many others helped.  Rachelle Chung also came up to make quilts with us.  We had a great time.

Quilts for babies