The Quilt o’the Day today is a quilt I finished in 2005. It is called “The Celebration of American Life” and is from the book by the same title by Barb Adams and Alma Allen, published by Kansas City Star Quilts.

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This is the last quilt to highlight from my book! This was also the last quilt to be finished before sending off the manuscript and quilts.

Have A Heart first came to life when we got Moda’s breast cancer awareness fabric in at the store where I worked. It was all pinky and cute and I wanted it so badly. There were fat [ MORE » ]

This is the next to last quilt from my book to highlight! It was also the next to last quilt I made for the book, oddly.

In designing Every Blooming Thing, I knew I wanted purple, lime and teal together, and had been collecting fabrics for awhile. (This is a dangerous habit, as I tend to keep [ MORE » ]

I purchased the fabric for this quilt long before I had any idea what I wanted to do with it! I just loved the purple and the sheep.

Not long after that, my husband was sketching sheep on his sketch pad one day, and I just knew I had to have them! They were so cute! So I scanned them and started tracing.

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One of the things I love most about designing quilts is seeing them in different fabrics! I love seeing other peoples’ ideas and colors in my design. This quilt was made by my good friend, Mary Christensen.

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This quilt actually started out to be a queen-sized quilt for my bed in dark colors! When I was working on the book the Martingale

people were more interested in my bright quilts than the “more traditional” colors. So I set aside the darker colorway and bought all new fun bright fabrics. (You’ve got to love any excuse to buy new fabric, right?)

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This quilt came about when I was working for “Threads of Time” quilt shop several years ago. The fruit fabric came into to shop, and within 24 hours the fabric was gone. We, the employees, had split it up amongst ourselves! I really don’t know if any customers bought any at all, but we all got several yards each.

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My quilt “Every Blooming Thing” is the April quilt in the 2010 That Patchwork Place Calendar! It is available for sale now. To learn more about it click here and to purchase it click here!

 

 

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This fun quilt was inspired by some shape studies my husband was doing on the computer. I wanted to make this something easy.  I designed the center blocks first, then wanted the border to have little squares that “float.” That was probably the hardest part to figure out, actually!

 

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I had  a wonderful 10-day vacation visiting many historic sites in New York, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri! I saw tons of beautiful, antique quilts, and even have a few pictures of some of them. (See entire post)

I also got to see some beautiful Amish quilts in Ohio. We ate dinner at a little Amish place called Mary Yoder’s. They had many wonderful quilts hanging on the walls, all hand quilted.

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