Sunflower
Sunflower applique pillow for Beth, Thanksgiving 2010.
Cats for Phoebe
Small practice quilt with fabrics bought at a big quilt store in Florida.
Leaves
Michael asked if I could make him something to alleviate the weird feeling of bald head on leather. I created this using some scrap fabrics. It’s an antimacassar! I looked this word up. Apparently Macassar oil is something men used to put in their hair. So the “antimacassar” is something easily washed you put on […]
ABC
Made for the First Dallas UU Church silent auction. Sold for $85. Phoebe and I tea-dyed this to get the aged look to go with the reproduction 1930s prints. This is the same pattern my cousin Andi Carvalho used for a baby quilt she made when Phoebe was born. I loved the quilt and many […]
Dia de Los Meurtos
Dia de los muertos square for community quilt put together by Lillis Taylor.
Letter pillow
New Sewing Machine!
I love my new sewing machine. It’s a Brother Innovis NX-450Q. It has blanket stitch! Which my other machine was lacking. And you can move the needle left and right. Plus an automatic threader and cutter. This is my 40th birthday present to myself.
Quilt made with Crayons
I can’t recall the purpose or impetus for this quilt. I remember I used scraps of fabric I already had, and I bought the pattern on Etsy, mostly to get the alphabet, I think. The letters are colored in with crayon and then set with an iron. This is one of the few quilts we […]
Paper Piecing
I made this square to try out paper piecing. I didn’t love it. I ended up sending this square to my cousin Lillis Taylor to put into a community quilt for QUILTED (#2): US Quiltfest which began with the letter below. The final quilt was shown at a Bare Hands’ Loft Space in Birmingham, AL, in […]
Pinky Pie
After the great success of the Denim Star rag quilt, I decided I was an expert. I made this cat quilt for Phoebe for Christmas. I gathered the pink (her then-favorite color) at the Plano Quilt Show, and the back is a sort of half-ribbed pink chenille. Again, I used osnaburg instead of batting, this […]