Hudson's Nautical Quilt

This quilt is an original design for my first grandson, Hudson Peter Lien.  His nursery is decorated in a nautical theme and so my daughter Michaele asked me to make a nautical theme quilt in blues, sand, and gray, with red as an accent.
The lighthouse and sailboat blocks were paper pieced.  I quilted the top to bamboo batting.  Then I added a striped Minkee fabric for the backing and quilted around each block.

My daughter, Michaele, holding Hudsons's quilt.

Shells and whale were appliqued with satin stitch.

Lighthouse blocks were paper pieced.

Life preserver and anchor were appliqued with satin stitch.  Oars
appliqued with a buttonhole stitch.

Sailboat was paper pieced.  A wave pattern was quilted
on the water.

Sailor hat, anchor, and wheel appliques were satin stitched.

Beatrix Potter Baby Quilt

I made this quilt for Hudson, my first grandchild, as well as any future grandchildren to cuddle with when they visit Grandma's house!   I was able to use fabric from previous quilts using the Beatrix Potter theme as well as some new fabric.  I backed the quilt with yellow Minkee fabric.  The quilt was machine pieced and quilted.  I quilted the top to batting and then added the backing and quilted across the panels.  

Close-up of Beatrix Potter quilt

Close-up of baskets with yo-yo flowers.

Bear Ballerinas

This quilt was made for Hugs & Stitches.  The pattern was from Fons And Porter Love of Quilting magazine. The strip has bear ballerinas and the 4 patch colors were taken from the bear print.  Quilt was machine pieced and quilted.  Finished August 25, 2014.

Floral Garden Strip Quilt

Floral Garden Strip Quilt

This quilt was made for Hugs & Stitches.  I designed the pattern based upon a segment I had seen on a TV quilt show.  It is the second I have made in this pattern for Hugs (other quilt is Blue And White Quilt, posted on Sept. 2013).
It was machine pieced and quilted.

Floral Garden Quilt

Floral backing

Close-up of quilting

Another view of quilt

Hugs and Stitches Scrap Quilt

Hugs Scrap Quilt

I made this quilt for Hugs and Stitches using scraps from my previous projects for this group.  

The quilt was machine pieced and quilted.

I used scraps of bindings as well.

Back of Scrap Quilt

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.