"Lullaby of Bird-land"

Here's the lovely Miss E posing on her small quilt, "Lullaby of Bird-land."  She is the sweetest baby, loves to smile and laugh, and poses perfectly for quilt photos!  She was about 3 months old when I snapped this photo.

The bird fabric had been in my stash for a while, just waiting, so I did a star in the center, then added border after border to make a medallion style quilt.  

Cutie, hun?

Playing with Baskets

I've admired the basket quilts in Gwen Marsden's book Liberated Quiltmaking II, so I decided to have a go:  

I put them together and added a border of flying geese to make a table runner.  The colors go with my dining room, and I'm adding Insul-Bright batting to allow the runner to be like a hot pad.

There's a lot going on in the design wall department right now.  I'll post more when I get a few minutes to upload photos from my snazzy iphone.

"Washington Squares"

I figured out how to do it!  It has been a while since I uploaded anything on a blog. . . it's good to teach an old brain new or newly remembered tricks.

Here's the quilt on its way to Sweden for a very special person and her new baby-to-be.  I decided to name quilts for songs, so this "Granny Squares" quilt is named Washington Squares.  (You have to be pretty old to remember that song.)  The back is pieced with lots of dots and some children's print from Ikea.  I'm getting happier all the time with my skills in free motion quilting as you can see in the close up.

Hope it will snuggle well.

YaYa

Flying Geese

A quilting blog from the home of Rainier Cherries.  Here we go.

Today I mailed a package to Sweden for a new baby, and here's what was in it.  (I'll show you as soon as I remember how!!)

Thanks.
YaYa