Silhouettes

I made a set of four wall hangings for Veronica's new shop. She wanted vintage silhouettes. I made them up real simple so that the silhouettes really stood out. I absolutely love them!

A Double Sided Wall Hanging

I don't know why I do these. You would think I would learn how hard they are. First both sides have to be the same size, second I have to have a binding that matches both sides. So with one side Halloween and one side Christmas I was practically tearing my hair out trying to find a binding that would work with both. In the end there was a tiny bit of black in the Christmas side, and the Halloween side was dark enough that I could get away with it. It's a miracle I pulled it off. And now it's on it's way to a very happy life in Iowa.

Dahlia's Quilt

For Dahlia's birthday this year I wanted to make her a nice quilt for her bed. She has a full size so as I was working on it, I realized it needed to be bigger than I thought. I love the way it turned out. It is so bright and pink, just like her personality. I had enough fabric for matching pillowcases too - that was a nice bonus.

A quilt for Tige

Jamie brought over fabric for a military quilt for Tige's birthday. She said I could do whatever I wanted for a pattern (yaaay) and quilt however I wanted (double yaaay). It turned out so great! More later.

Alterations were in order

Dahlia started pre-school this week. She has twenty students in her class. Six girls in her class have this same backpack, and all over the rec center were little girls with this backpack. I couldn't send Dahlia to school and expect her to bring the right one home every night. So I trimmed the edges with pink feathers and added buttons on the front to look like jewels. I ran ribbon down both straps so she would know which one was hers from both sides. "It's Fabulous" she said, in her princess voice. Yaaaay!
Lining up for pre-school, I heard a mom ooooh over my backpack with her friend. Double yaaaay!

Iysha's Tesselation

This year's Quilt of Dreams quilt was influenced by a number of factors. First, as I was getting ready to look at the fabric, a 2 year old girl passed away in our old ward. I wasn't really close to her family but her story really affected me. I have never named a quilt after a person before, this is the first one. These are all the things she could have learned and I loved the idea that this was a quilt of knowledge. I began selecting blues and purples representing water and the sky. I decided on a tesselated pattern that really had a lot of movement to the eye.
The next factor was looking at the dreams of the children. A few of them said that their dream was to go to high school. I started thinking that I could put high school into the quilt. I doodled and looked up references for things from high school. I made a list of subjects and started filling in information you would learn and fun things about high school. I ended up with more than I thought and a lot of fun things went into this quilt.
Biology - a plant and an animal cell, a heart
Chemistry - part of the periodic table
Math - the tesselation, also acute, obtuse and right angles.
Art - a pre-raphaelite painting by Millais (thanks for the book Dad)
P.E. - footballs, baseball and a badminton set.
History - I put three WWII planes a British Hawker Hurricane, a Japanese Zero and a U.S. P-61 Black Widow. I also wrote about the Berlin wall. There is also, and this was for my mom, Charlamagnes throne.
German - a few words
English - a quote from Shakespeare and one from Charles Dickens.
I also put in a locker and some fun things about high school.

Around the edges was a list of classes and also a list of some clubs from school.
In the end the quilting turned out to be more what I did in high school so at the very bottom I put FIS class of 92. I had a lot of fun making this quilt and it became very personal.

The Finished Product and the aftermath.......

So the quilt is wrapped and ready to go out the door. I took a photo and looked up at my sewing table strewn with little bits of fabric and even the ball of tape that was used when I sewed in the straight lines on the pillow shams. What a mess, but what fun it was!