Anya's Horse Quilt

Yay! I have finished Anya's bed quilt (after about two years of work), and have now made all three girls quilts, based on patterns and fabrics they picked out. Anya's has horses, of course...

We found a fabric that had the horse panels, and then Anya and I chose coordinating fabrics for the "Turning twenty around the block" pattern. I made up my own border for it.

Here is the back...I had to throw in some ballerinas, too!

It was machine pieced and hand quilted. On the panels I quilted the outlines of the horses, horizons, and flower baskets. Over the rest of the quilt is straight-line quilting following certain block seams and diagonals.

Potholders

At one time I imagined I would be making potholders as presents for everyone on my Christmas/Hanukkah list this year...

...turns out I only had time to make a set for one...

Wall Quilt for Mom & Dad - Road to Dixie

This quilt is based on a pattern called "Road to Dixie" which was a larger quilt. I reduced the size to be a square wall quilt for my parents' new house. Of course, not so new now, as it has taken me two years to finish!

My mom picked out the border fabric and I took it from there, choosing the rest of the fabrics. The room it is going into is their great room, combination living/dining room, and it has lots of red and forest green in it, with beige walls and a light wood floor.

I machine pieced the top, and then it took me over a year to figure out the design for my machine quilting. I finally came up with a plan, and this past Christmas break got it quilted at their house.

My mom was so glad to finally have it almost done (and I think she didn't want to see it leave her house again, for fear it would be another year before it came back) she volunteered to finish the binding on it.

I'm hoping next time we visit I'll find it hanging on their wall!