Canterbury Quilts

Additional Dear Jane's

Still trying to catch up with the DJ group...

TR-9 Needles Point

C-11 Soldier's Monument

A-11  Pebble's Protest

Some New NI's

I am weeks behind on these NI blocks and I am happy to be back into the swing of things.  

Block 90

Block 84

Block 77

two more half blocks for the Aunt Millie's project

These are the last two half blocks for my project.  I still have one more long border piece to do then I can begin to put it together.

Dear Janes

I haven't posted any Dear Janes or Nearly Insanes for quite a while.  I will try to get caught up with these two groups in the next few weeks.  Life is slowing down a wee bit now and I think I can get something accomplished.

A-9 Cabin Fever

RS-12 Lily of the Valley

C-10 Patriot's Lantern

M-2 Duff's Bluff

Graduation Quilt

I have fourteen nieces and nephews and I have set the bar high for them for receiving a quilt for graduation.  It has to be from college, not just high school. 

My second niece just graduated a few weeks ago and here is the quilt I made for her.  She loves stars, I found out after I had started the quilt.  I added these machine applique stars to the blocks after it was underway.  It is a subtle look and she loved it.

More Aunt Millies

I have been working hard on my Aunt Millie blocks.  We have had about one solid month of rain here in New Jersey and applique seems like a good way to deal with the rain.

This is one of my borders.  I will have a top border and a bottom border on my Millie project.  

Here are two of my 1/2 block pieces that my project will make.  I still have two more 1/2 block pieces to make.  I will add some colorful circles to the blottoms of these when I decide what colors work best in the overall layout.

Busy quilting....and ebaying....

I have been busy machine quilting and doing a little piecing while the machine is hard at it.  I have also been watching the antique quilt tops and blocks on ebay and having a little fun with that.  I have made some fun purchases, some blocks and some tops.  I will show them to you as I get them quilted.  It seems like a good idea to finish some of these treasures that someone went to all of the trouble to make many years ago.  I know they should be hand quilted, but that is not going to happen!   I will try to put something on them that will compliment the piecing and the era it came from, but it won't be by hand!!!!!  I have a little repair work to do as well to make some of them more usuable.  

Anyone know of any websites that sell cabinets to store your antique quilts in????

Cinco de Mayo

Every year, everywhere we live, we host an annual Cinco de Mayo party with all of the fixins for 100 plus people.  A lot of people wonder why?  What is our affliation with Mexico?  Well, the answer is "its just a good excuse to drink margaritas.  

About a week before the party, we mix up the margaritas (70 liters to be exact) and put them all into plastic containers and then put them into the freezer.  After a week in the freezer, they come out semi frozen just like a blended margarita (there is enough alcohol in there to keep them from freezing)

This year I saw this cute fabric online and it screamed for a Cinco de Mayo quilt.   Another decoration to add to the many we already have.

Fourth Aunt Millie Block

I have finished the fourth and last full Aunt Millie block.  I plan to make two borders, four half blocks and one small divider.  I will show you the plan later when I have more of it finished.

This is the divider piece...

hanging up the applique quilt

A few people have asked me how I hung my applique quilt.  Here's how I did it.

I used a 1"x1" board and put it through the hanging sleeve on the back of the quilt.  Then I looped wire around the wood and made a wire loop.  I then put the loops on a nail at each each of the quilt.   It does hang very close to the wall because I made the loop on the board right at the wall not the middle of the board.