2025 QUILT FINISHES

It’s Valentine’s Day

And I love my quilts!

I hope you do too!

I didn't get a full photo of this beachy feeling quilt for

Laressa, my person in Myrtle Beach who helps me

book my resort when I visit my son!

Summer Picnic is a winner!

Starstruck Ghastlies used up a lot of my OOP stash!

I'm talking early lines from 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012

Twisted Geese, by Zen Chic was a fun one

and now I'm not afraid of a gaggle of geese!

This was a pattern test called Sweet Mae.

And the FQs were by Zen Chic as well.

A wonky churn dash used up a layer cake I had in my stash.

I love this design...tutorial by Missouri Star, Freestyle Churn Dash.

I finally finished some Ghastlie wonky star blocks into a top.

This was all part of a IG swap many years ago.

Oh now we are talking about some more wonky flying geese,

Monkey Wrench pattern and more Zen Chic fabrics.

Fall Breeze by V & Co

Fabric is GRUNGE set on a light gray tone on tone.

I finished a baby quilt for our great-granddaughter

and Great-grandad Phil snuggled under it!

When she arrives…her name will be

Anora Blair Chatman

Last but not least was Felicity the Feisty Flamingo.

A mini quilt for my sewing room!

Collage by Laurie Heine!

I had a good year...and 2026 will be as much fun as 2025!

BABY CHATMAN QUILT!

A new great-grand daughter arrives in January.

I made her quilt, long before she was a gleam in her daddies eyes!

I was at Ocean Isle Beach a few years ago and made

a test pattern using Into the Woods Jelly Rolls...

I've always loved Lil'' Red !

The pattern was called TYPE and a very quick and easy make.

There was a local garden, not far from the beach

so I made a journey there for a photo op...

Into the Woods.

Then home it came and sat on a shelf for several years.

Now that Baby Chatman was in the works...

I found a backing that would work for this one.

I still floor pin my quilt sandwiches....it works for me

cept my old body doesnt care for it.

I wanted to quilt this one myself....so down I went.

It really didn't take long to quilts as I

just quilted some serpentine lines.

I made a scrappy binding that was just perfect for framing!

And now we wait...til she arrives!

FALL BREEZE KINDA WAS A BREEZE

This was a quilt my friend Kathy Guenther made 

and I fell in love with it.

Yes, I'll make it too.  

I've always wanted a vibrant fall quilt.

I love the fall colors, and I love GRUNGE fabrics.

Seemed like perfect choice for...

FALL BREEZE

I drug my feet on making this one.

I was leery of all the HST.

It took a while to cut, bag and label all the

pieces and then it SAT for about a year.

I like to use a KEY card to label my fabrics

and make sure my colors will fit nicely into

the layout of the pattern colors

Just change color names as needed.

And here I sewed the stems my way, I didn't like

the way the pattern directions said to make them?

The pattern needed 12 large maple leaves.

I made them with my 5 vibrant GRUNGE color choices

on the light gray background.

There are 28 small leaves.

Gotta say...this pile of leaves is

looking very good!

I selected a light gray for the background.

All blocks made and

the top was laid out on the design wall.

and sewn!

Ta-DAH!

    Such a pretty finished top.

So off to Kim Hensley for the Longarm Quilting.

We selected an E2E design Fizz and it 

showed up beautifully on the backing

and all the neutral space on the top.

Binding was same background fabric.

I wanted the leaves to float.

Cause when leaves fall in the breeze...

They float.

I am thrilled with this beauty!

And the hubby here with his obligatory photo

seems to like it too!

I don't know why I was so worried...it kinda was a breeze!

CHURNING OUT SOME WONKY!

I have a trunk show available for groups, guilds called

"Let's Get WONKY"

The idea is to take a traditional quilt block

and make it wonky.

That's the idea here and I used

Missouri Star, Freestyle Churn dash tutorial

I had a Layer Cake and needed to give 

this a try.

I love the result!

The backing uses same concept, my design, on a larger scale.

I gave it to Kim Hensley of

Happily Every Quilting.

We decided on the E2E Design WHITESPACE!

It's just perfect for this one.

Take a closer peek at it.

Here's the back and the thread color 

was also perfect.

I made a scrappy binding using the

two prints/colors on the quilt back.

Don't forget to label your quilts!

My fav part of making a quilt is hand stitching down the binding.

It's taken me years to get the pretty mitre corners.

The wonky churn dash looks dashing on my sofa.

The "Gordon Seeds" pillow matches perfectly!

And the biggest POSER is at it again!

FLYIN HIGH WITH A GAGGLE OF GEESE

I used to despise making FG quilts.

That is til this one.

Its Twisted Geese pattern by Zen Chic.

Several years ago Kim Hensley gave me the

pattern and a Layer Cake to make this quilt.

It didn't take too long to make.

AND I didn't cut off too many geese noses!

I also had some yardage in my stash to make the backing.

A great black and gray stripe for the binding, also in my stash.

A fall day presented a great photo op

I love how this gaggle of geese hangs in the dining room

Of course Kim He Spey had to quilt this one since  she’s the reason I have it!

She used the E2E design CALDER

and here's my big GOOSE GORDON

under the quilt for his obligatory photo.

It's a tradition.