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My Mother-in-law, who is amazing and how fostered my love for quilting, lost her mother in March. She asked us to take her clothing to a local thrift store. Before doing so I removed several of her tops that were a statement of her mom. In June, for her 60th birthday, the family surprised her with this quit which was the first one I have done from start to finish (including the quilting).

My nephew loves lacrosse. I designed this quilt for him using available lacrosse fabric including a panel with players. Purple and gold are his school colors.Green represents the grass they play on. His favorite color is orange and his number happens to be 17 - which was on one of the players. His best friend is #8 which is on another one of the players. I also made him a matching pillow case. I love the way it came out - and so did he. :)

My brother Phil is a runner and has collected lots of T-shirts from marathons and 10K runs. The blocks are lined with knit interfacing set perpendicular. I cut out a square larger than the tee-shirt design, iron on the interfacing with the stretch in the cross-direction to the tee-shirt stretch, and iron it on. Then I trim the square to the correct size. In this pattern, I have used wonky triangles to set the tee-shirts off kilter. Several blocks completed. The rest of the cut-outs are either too big (would have to crop) or are of sponsor products like Pepsi. Been waiting for Mom to send more, but so far no. Maybe we'll pick some up at Christmas time. Fabric: Fusions Mist by Robert Kaufman. Unfortunately am not sure of the specific color, and it comes in so many. I have green and blue. The green may be Olive, or may be Forest (or may be discontinued). I am hoping to get some more to do the borders; perhaps I should get the blue/green mix for contrast and not try to match. Bought 3 more yards of Fusion Mist Olive at Ruth's Stitchery in Colorado Springs. It is maybe not the same, but it is pretty close. The border doesn't have to match exactly anyway. Got to get going on this so that if I need more fabric I can pick it up during the 15th SHop HOp Aug 1-3, 2014. Border: 1 inch grey Mist, 4.5 inch green. Size: 59 x 72 batting: Fairfield Quilter's 80/20 (80% cotton, 20% polyester), twin (72x90) Got it basted, but no reason to try to finish this weekend cuz huz booked carry-on bag, not checked. Nov. 29, 2014: Could bnot find the green (it was under the Bonnie Hunter Grand Illustion Hotel Mystery stacks) so I did the border in grey, sewed it all on today. Done. In time to take with me to L.A. on business trip. May take back Joe's T-shirts bur he said he put them in the attic to make room for Jacob to sleep. Maybe he did the Christmas decorating today and took them down from the attic. He's going to Hawaii tomorrow, maybe he's going to wait to do the decorating. Oct. 12, 2014 - finished wavy quilting. Cannot find the rest of the green border fabric, I'm sure there must be some more somewhere, maybe I'll have to use the silver.

I saw this pattern in a book & decided to make one for each of my girls. This is Kathryn's quilt. Elizabeth's has the same blocks, but different borders and backing. It only took me 12 years to get Kathryn's finished. SHE won 3rd place in a local fair for "her" work.

My grandma passed away last December, and my mom was devastated. As my brother was helping Mom clean out Grammy's house, he got the idea to smuggle out 2 bags of her clothes...he knew I sewed, so he figured I could do something with them for our mom. Thanks to Pinterest, I found Jenny's tutorial for a rag quilt, and got to sewing my grandma's old t-shirts together. Grammy always loved roses and springtime, and it is so fitting that her quilt perfectly captures that essence of her :-). My brothers and I presented the finished quilt to our mom as a surprise on the first Mother's Day ever that she was without her own mother. Needless to say, she was absolutely thrilled with this tangible keepsake, and could not stop crying happy tears! Making this quilt got me interested in "real" quilting, and ignited my newest obsession :-)