Angel Garden Quilt

A friend in Hugs and Stitches handed me some fabric and asked if I could come up with a quilt.  One fabric was cute girl angels on white background.  The second fabric was a pink button pattern.  The third fabric was an ugly green/turquoise modern looking pattern.  The fourth was a pink flannel for the backing.  I didn't know what I would do especially with the ugly green fabric.  

Then I thought of a pattern I had in my file using Beatrix Potter fabric called Garden Tales.  It would downplay the ugly green fabric and highlight the prettier fabric.  I was able to add to it lots of leftover pieces from earlier Hugs quilts.  I only had to use a few pieces from my own stash.  Overall I was pleased with the final result.  The pattern calls for rows of different designs.  I changed one row from a picket fence type design to pinwheels and small fussy cut angels.  The quilt was machine pieced and quilted in the ditch.  I quilted a scallop design in the border.

Angel Garden Quilt

Close-up of quilting and blocks

Primary Colors Kid's Quilt 1and 2

Someone donated nine quilt packets to our Hugs and Stitches ministry at church.  Each packet contained the same pattern (9 patch) and included fabric. The solid fabric colors were yellow, 2 blues, and green.  Really ugly!!!  No one wanted to do anything with this, but since it was a donation I hated to see it go to waste.   So I decided to take on the challenge.

I was able to make two kid's quilts out of the packets by adding my own fabric and trying to make it look more interesting.  The fabric I added was patterned to set against the plain solids.  I bought a bright yellow dot fabric for sashing for both quilts and the blue submarine fabric. The other fabrics were already in my stash.  Fortunately Hugs had some backings that could be used.

The blocks were machine pieced and quilted.  Quilt #1 was quilted in an all-over meander design with blue thread.  Quilt #2 was quilted along the ditch with a serpentine stitch.  The submarine blocks were quilted with three waves, and the 9 patch had a quilting motif done in free motion.

Quilt #1

Quilt #2

Fun backing for Quilt #1

Beach ball backing for Quilt #2

Close-up of quilting motif in Quilt #2

Compass Table Topper

My sister asked for a round quilted table topper as a Christmas gift.  I decided to make a compass design with a band encircling the compass.  She asked that the colors be taupe and cream.
The compass was paper pieced and then machine quilted.

Quilted Compass Table Topper

Close-up of compass and quilting design.

Back of compass table topper showing quilting motifs.

Close-up of quilting motifs.

Autumn Splendor Quilt

This quilt pattern is from American Patchwork and Quilting magazine, October 2012 issue, called Maple Tree Farm.  I named my quilt Autumn Splendor because all the beautiful fall colors remind me of God's gorgeous autumn colors back in the Midwest.  I pieced the quilt top in Fall 2012 and quilted it in Fall 2013, finishing it just two days before Thanksgiving.

Autumn  Splendor

Autumn Splendor displayed  on queen bed

Close-up of quilting motif of triangle blocks.

Close-up of quilting motif of leaves in border.

Close-up of leaf quilting motif on outer border.

Close-up of quilting motif of triangle blocks.

Backing of Autumn Splendor

Hugs and Stitches Blue and White Quilt

I designed this pattern inspired by a segment on "Sewing with Nancy" TV series.  I was given multiple strips and asked to make a kit for Hugs and Stitches.  I sewed the cut strips into a tube, cut across the tube by the same width as the cut strips were, and then by "unsewing" a different seam of each resulting tube strip could obtain a cascading  design of square blocks.  The quilt top goes together quickly and easily with no seams to match.
I was able to create 3 kits out of several strips sets.  (See May 2014 for second quilt made, Floral Garden Strip Quilt.)

Quilted with wavy line in white sashing and straight diagonals in printed squares.

The backing is a blue/white square print.

Animal baby quilt for Hugs and Stitches

This quilt was machine pieced and quilted for Hugs and Stitches.

The quilting was stitch in the ditch as well as wavey lines crossing thru square blocks.

Jungle Baby Quilt for Hugs & Stitches

Bento box pattern, pieced and quilted by Nancy Smith; completed July 2013

Patriotic Table Runner

Pieced and quilted by Nancy Smith, June 2013
The fabric was obtained in the annual Bay Area Shop Hop.

Down Memory Lane

88 X 98 queen size quilt, pieced by Nancy Smith; quilted by Golden State Sewing Center.
Begun March 2013, completed August 31, 2013.
This quilt is composed of scraps of many of the previous quilts and projects over the years.
It includes fabric scraps from the second quilt I ever made in 1982 to the last quilt I made in August 2013. The scraps are from baby quilts, Hugs and Stitches, quilts, purse projects, craft projects, other bed size quilts, wall hangings, placemats, etc.  It has been fun to look at some of those old fabrics and remember the occasions for which they were used.  Many were for gifts and others were for my own use.
The pattern, What's The Point, is from Fons and Porter Love of Quilting magazine, March/April 2013.

A side view of the quilt.

A frontal view of the quilt.

A close-up of the feather design quilt motif.

Emma's Quilt

I made this quilt for grandniece Emma Stevenson.   It is twin size, machine pieced and quilted.   Her mother, Tami, asked me to make the quilt to match her baby quilt that I made for her two years ago.
I also made a coordinating quilt for baby sister Claire.  Both girls share the same bedroom.

Emma Joy Stevenson's monogram is centered on
the main panel of the quilt. 

Emma's coordinating baby quilt.

Claire's coordinating baby quilt.

The center panel is done in filagree all over design.  The brown border is stitched in the ditch.
The first row of squares is done in half circle arcs and then gentle curves.
The outer row of squares are quilted in a circular design.  The borders are my own quilt designs.

I made a matching pillow case.

The quilting shows up well on the cream on cream printed backing.

The sunlight highlights the quilting motifs.

Elmo Quilt

I made this quilt for Hugs and Stitches.  Machine pieced and free-motion quilted.

Close-up of quilting.

 



Glorious Morning

I made this quilt from a kit that was donated to Hugs and Stitches and was not big enough to make a useful quilt for this group.  So I took it home and added fabric and more piecing for a wall quilt.  It is a stained glass technique that I had always wanted to try.  I doubt I will make another of these type quilts, but at least have one under my belt.  The fusible black tape is really expensive and used a couple rolls to make this. 

I named it "Glorious Morning" because it reminded me of Resurrection Sunday.  I put a Bible verse from Job on the back:  I know my redeemer lives.

Claire's Quilt

This quilt was made for Claire Elizabeth Stevenson, born January 3, 2013. 

I made a quilt for her older sister Emma with a tree theme.  Her mom asked for a similar theme quilt for Claire and is my original design. The colors were based upon the classic Winnie the Pooh quilt set. 

Claire is my grand-niece.

Quilt photo taken outdoors.


Tami, Claire's mom, sent me a picture of her idea for the quilt.
I drew the tree and appliqued it to the background.
The leaves are from fabric from Emma's quilt.
The border fabric was also used in Emma's quilt.

Label for quilt.   

 Close-up of quilting.  I stitched an all-over meander in the body, outlined stitched the tree and leaves, and free-motion quilted a vine/leaf motif in the border.

Simple Simon queen quilt

I made this Simple Simon quilt during a class given by Mark Lipinski at SCVQA.  It was machine pieced and then machine quilted at Prairie Queens Quilt Shop in San Jose, CA.  I use it on my antique bed during the fall months.

 

I made two pillow shams out of the leftover fabric. 

 

 

Below is a close-up of the allover quilting pattern done by Prairie Queens.

 

 

During December, I flip the quilt to the back since it looks more Christmas-like.

 



Jessica's Grandmother's Fan baby quilt

I made this baby quilt for my baby Jessica in 1990.  It was machine pieced and handquilted.  Back then I thought machine quilting was an abomination and was not really quilting.  Times have sure changed!  I love to handquilt, but since it takes so much longer, I usually end up machine quilting. 
This is my 4th quilt.  I had made a machine pieced, hand tied twin quilt in college.  My second quilt was a hand embroidered and hand quilted baby quilt for daughter Michaele.  My third quilt was made in my first quilt class.  It was hand pieced and handquilted.

This quilt either was in the crib or on the wall for over 22 years.  I finally retired it and hopefully will use it for a future grandchild!

Close-up of the handquilting.

 

Interlocking hearts were quilted in the sashing and the borders on heart printed fabric.

 



 

The backing fabric is the same as the border fabric.