This little wall quilt I made in 1995, it's hand appliqued and the bow was attached after the quilt was finished. This is the 2nd one I made. The first one my SIL made such a fuss over-I was compelled to give it to her. This is one of those quilts that never seem to lose its appeal for me. I just love seeing it every fall.
This is an oven mitt. I never use is, just hang it on a cabinet knob every October and put it away when the Christmas decorations come out. It was a project from a LQS in 2003, called The 3rd Saturday of the Month Club. You paid a small fee in January and got your first little project. Then as long as you brought the completed project into the shop the 3rd Saturday of the following month; you got the next month's pattern free.
This is the quilt on my bed right now, made in 1997. It's all flannels even the backing. The pillow panel at top is cottons. I machine appliqued those using a loose zig zag stitch. This was before I had a machine with the blanket-stitch. There was no way I was doing all that by hand. It's one of the few quilts I've tied.
This is a Little Quilt (literally and patterningly as well). It is only 13" x 17". I hand quilted it.
I just love this little guy too. As I've started to document these quilts. I'm finding some of them haven't been labeled... GASP! Bad, Diane, bad.
And in this process am seeing first hand why it's so important. --It's a pain in the butt to go through 4" ringbinders of patterns and notes to try to find the date that I took a class (that quilts further down) or in this little quilts case looking back through my quilting photo albums.
Much easier to just flip the bottom up and read the label.
This little winter door hanger I made in 2005. The pattern was in Amer. Patchwork Mag. in 2004.
He hangs on our door almost all year. Annie will use her nose to ring his little jingle bell to get our attention when she needs to go out. Our 1st westie, Haley, taught her that, but Haley rang the sleigh bells on the hinge side of the front door. It, too, was a holiday decoration, that stays up year-round.
Annie will hit the big ones first, but if we don't jump up within 30-40 seconds.....she'll start flipping the snowman. Sometimes we just watch her do it, cracks us up.
And finally, my no diamonds Lone Star. It's made with HST. I think 5/2005 is when I made it. It doesn't have a label, and the class notes just have 4/29 on the top of one of the pages (in my hand writing). I don't remember and didn't have a picture of it in my photo album. Wow, I really dropped the archival ball on this one.
