My Creation from Inspiration

Now, what did I tell you? What do you think? See, patience has lots of rewards! This quilt was called "Friendship Garden". In the magazine, it has signatures on the fence posts and rails.

My problems now is.....I don't want to give it away! But that is my problem. I will give it to the person that I made it for and hopefully they will keep it forever and think about "aunt" cheryl whenever they look at it. Maybe it will become an heirloom and they will pass it to their children's children. sigh!

Well, I can dream, can't I?!

Quilt of Dreams

So, Here is what I have learned from quilting, "Patience, grasshopper, patience!" and "If you can dream it, you can do it." I am finished trying to figure things out. Because I did it. Not just on one quilt, I did it with two of them!

Now back to reality! I figured out the patterns. The first pic is of the baby quilt that I have worked on all week. This quilt has picket fences bordering the center and I figured out how to make them picket posts instead of blunt cut posts. I tried it and I did it!

There are just alot of little blocks to deal with, but the result is worth it. This is a drawing of the baby quilt that I did in Microsoft Publisher. The actual quilt has five picket fence posts instead of three, this is just a representation. And again, I want to thank Quilters World magazine. They always have such pretty quilts. When i get is completely finished, I will post a pic of the actual quilt that I am making.



So this one is called the bride's bouquet. My eldest daughter picked this pattern out of my quilting book. She loves it. She wants to make it with me. I think she picked out the hardest pattern in the book. UGH! How do you make this? Don't know? Neither do I, but this is how I am going to attempt it.

First, I divided the whole pattern in to six inch squares.

Second, I divided those six inch squares into 3 inch squares. Except for the stem of the bouquet, that I left 6 inches.

Third, I divided the squares in the bouquet into triangles. The original pattern from the book had diamonds, but man, my brain is still trying to wrap around those. (Remember, I am a beginner. Still trying to perfect my seams and my measurements.)

Fourth, I added in the small blocks in between the points of the bouquet.

Now, the only problem I am having is figuring out the angle on the stem of the bouquet. Any suggestions? Anyone. (Oh no, I hear crickets chirping!)

Well, as I work on it some more, I will let you all know.

So, I am still working on the rail fence. But in the meantime, my friends daughter is having her first baby, a girl. And I am making her a quilt. Her shower kind of snuck up on me so I have to get this out of the way before I finish my fence. I got this idea from Quilters World magazine. I simply love their quilts. I always copy them. They challenge me and I really like that.

I cut these appliques by hand, no pattern, so the petals of my flowers don't exactly match, but that is the beauty of it being "handmade/homemade". They are never perfect, but there is love in every stitch and imperfection.

These little 6 x 6 flower blocks are going to be alternated with 2 1/2 inch nine patches in green checks/yellow, blue checks/yellow, purple checks/yellow, and yellow checks/yellow. If you look really close you can see the yellow that is in the nine patches on the center of the flower blocks.

A green floral print will border the blocks and then I am attempting to make a picket fence around that in white. The idea is to have everyone who comes to the baby shower to write her a message on the fence posts and rails. She can wrap her little girl in the well wishes of family and friends or she can hang it up in the nursery for a keepsake.

Don't worry, I will post a pic of the finished product. More later!