Quilt Gallery

I wanted to document all the quilts I have made thus far in my life.

I believe I was a young teenager when I wanted to piece my first quilt.  My mom had some leftover Christmas scraps that she let me use.  I remember her telling me that I needed to be exact in my measurements and I was not that thrilled with the instruction.  Mom knew I struggled with things like that :)

I think it was a year or two later that I made this Christmas quilt.  I used strip piecing with this one.

In my late teens I completed one that was a bit more challenging in the piecing department.

I actually hand quilted this one.

My grandma let me put it on the frames in her living room and she taught me how.

It took me a while to finish this but I believe I had it done when I graduated from high school.

When I was pregnant with Abby (about 8 years later) I had a desire to make a baby quilt...

And then in 2010 I made another baby quilt for a friend who was having her first boy.

This was my first time working with minky and I remember it being frustrating...I haven't touched the stuff since :)...well, I've touched it, because how can you not when you walk by it in the store?...but I haven't sewn with it :)

I've posted about the rest of these before so they will look familiar.

In 2014 I made my first mini.  This was about the time that I started feeling more independent and confident in my skills.  On all of the above quilts, my Mom was a major part of their construction...helping with just about every step.  She was still a part of the ones below, but more from afar...phone calls and consultation and such.

This was also the first quilt I machine quilted.

I just recently finished the one on the right.  These are my New Hampshire minis.  I made the left one for myself and posted about it here.  I just recently finished the second one and sent it to my sister for a very late birthday present.  They are mostly the same except for the stars in the middle...depicting the different stained glass stars that we made during my trip to visit her.

I figured out how to paper piece her star, but accidentally didn't leave enough seam allowance for the fifth point :(  It got cut off a little bit.

I like the circular arrangement of the leaves and acorns on the second one better than the first one and I also like the echo quilting on this one better than the stippling on the pink one.

Maybe I should make two of every quilt so I can decide what looks better :)

Then, of course, there was the quilt for my mother in law last Christmas...the first large quilt I machine quilted.

My Valentine mini...

And, of course, my banner quilt.

So far that is the extent of my quilt making.

I have helped put together many others but these are all mine.

I am hoping there are many more to come :)

***From now on, as I make a quilt, I am just going to add it to this page so it will be a complete collection of my quilting adventures :)***

This quilt was made in the fall of 2015 for a friend who had a baby pass away.
Her name was Rose.
My mom offered these 12 block made with all rose fabric that she had stashed away.
So I didn't piece the blocks but I did put the top together and quilt it.

A little mini made to give to a friend for Christmas 2015

2016

A friend had some quilts that her daughter had pieced for a local shelter.
She had me quilt this one.

Two Irish minis...

My mom had pieced this little guy and offered it to me to practice my fmq skills.

I wanted a copy of the one I made for my friend at Christmas...

This is Christmas Carol in honor of the sweet woman who gave her quilting machine to me in 2015.
All the fabrics (except for the back) are ones she sent to my mom and then Mom shared with me :)

Picking Raspberries

A couple of weeks ago we went as a family to my Grandparents' backyard to pick raspberries.

It was a fun activity.

Ben just ran amok and Andy had his hands full keeping track of him.  The rest of us enjoyed the picking :) 

I found a colorful little friend.

After we were done picking, the boys were throwing fallen, green apples up in the air and catching them.

My soon to be 92 year old Grandpa and Andy always enjoy a good visit. 

The first five years of my life were spent in the basement apartment of this home so it was good to visit and reminisce.  Such  good memories were made here.

Heavenly Sabbath

I just had to post these pictures of a few weeks ago.

We were driving out to my parent's house for our traditional Sunday dinner and had to stop for some pictures of the gorgeous clouds.

Also, that same evening, we had a bit of rain with a lovely rainbow afterward.  

You can faintly see the temple underneath...

The 4th 2015

So here I am, trying to catch up again :)  

 These first few pictures aren't really of the fourth but they were the weekend before so I threw them in.  We got together with Andy's family which is a tricky thing these days with his parents on a full time mission.  We found a Saturday that they had off (kind of) and gathered.  We hadn't been together since Christmas and we were still missing two families but it was the best we could do.  

The kids were thrilled to see their cousins again.

The Idaho cousins had brought down a new toy that everyone had fun with :)

Ben, especially loved it!

Jenny even got me behind the wheel.

We had not planned on taking the kids to the fireworks on the 3rd, but, last minute, Andy took the three oldest in the car and drove off to find a spot from which to observe.

He had them climb on the roof of the van to watch...

 Then, on the 4th, we had a bbq with my family and shot off a few of our own out back, despite the wind.  Between us and all the neighbors we had quite the show going :)

Andy had also bought a bunch of glow sticks so the kids came in and had some fun with those for a while.  Ben was not interested at all!

Pretty low key holiday but enjoyable nonetheless.