Well I say mine, but it now lives with Keri, my oldest daughter lol. It was given to her as was the plan when I started it.
Well effective January 7th, 2009 I finished the dear jane. And yes I am glad lol. That quilt took me 11 months to do. I am ready for something else. 
This is my latest completed project.(Well it was the latest back when I posted it on blogspot lol). I hope to make a lot of small wallhangings like this in the next few months and swap them out.
As anyone who knows me knows, I adore applique! Especially hand applique! It is the reason I quilt.
Over the many years I have been quilting now (almost 20 wow!), I have tried to learn something new, or at least try a new method (to me anyway lol) every year. Over the many years I have tried many different ways to applique, both hand and machine. And I have incorporated a little from each method, well most methods into the way I applique now.
Recently an online friend (thanks Retta!) sent me some fabric and a little book by Ami Simms called Invisible Applique. I had never tried her method, and of course decided I had to try it lol. While her method of using the ladder stitch is not for me, I did learn (why I didn’t think about it before is beyond me lol) a new way to make sure that intricate blocks like the Baltimore Blue and Christmas Windows blocks are stitched down right where the pieces need to go. I had made clear overlays and was doing it that way, but if you are familiar with the method, pieces can shift when you remove the overlay. So what I am doing now and it works wonderfully for me, is to use a blue water soluble marking pen, (be sure you read and see if you can iron over the markings, on some of the old kind you couldn’t but the one I recently purchased there are no heat warnings) mark the entire block on the background fabric and then worry about one piece at a time. I like to iron the block multiple times before it is finished so that the pieces lay down flat as I add the next pieces. This pen has completely washed out with just a small paint brush and some room temperature water. And I have ironed the completed block and it has been over a week and the lines haven’t reappeared on the back or front where I was “off” just a tad in some places.
On the Baltimore Blue block some pieces fit on top of others so I will use a marker to mark the underneath piece and sew that on (which I normally do anyway) then fit the bottom piece into the drawn background.
Clear as mud? Feel free to ask any questions this post raises for you lol.
While my youngest daughter learned to quilt (and still does a little sometimes) while we were homeschooling, my other two daughters haven’t really shown an interest. Well the oldest was living 900 miles away so that may have been part of it lol. Anyway Keri (oldest) has decided to try quilting. And she is loving it!! I am so happy. I want to know that someone in our family will continue to quilt after I am gone. There will be more babies as these grandchildren get older and they will need quilts!
Anyway here is a picture of one of the blocks she has machine appliqued. She is having a long time friend come in from out of town this weekend so we will be starting the quilting process next week. I will of course post a picture of the finished project as soon as it is done.
This was from June 2009. Since then she is selling quilts as fast as she can make wallhangings at work. But this was where it all started.
This post is from August 2009.
David Jonathon is here! He weighs 9.5 and is 22 inches long! The scriptures on the quilt are references made of what David meant according to scripture.
Here is a picture of the quilt I made him.
I decided this past week to make a baby quilt for someone due on October 8th. I know, what was I thinking! But I managed to finish and here it is.
I did this quilt in just a couple of days.
