Quilts with Flowers

This was my first ‘art’ quilt with 3D flowers and bead embellishments.

Quilt size: width: 24″" height: 36″"

I made this quilt for a wonderful friend after she bought the cottage of her dreams in Nova Scotia. Although it’s in a great location—in the town where her extended family has vacationed for years—the house dark and rustic and needed cheering up. She says the quilt makes her smile.

Quilt size: width: 80" height: 90"

A Maine winter. I long to wrap up in flower petals. A pink hibiscus provides inspiration. Layers of pink create giant petals. Much thread painting later, I declare it done. The quilt does not agree. I bead. Sprays of sparkling beads on the dark, asymetrical background finally complete Bali Bloom.

Quilt size: width: 34" height: 45"

Made from a collection of floral fabrics that have been accumulating for years, this quilt is the latest in a series in which I’ve been trying to use only the fabrics I already have on hand, with varying degrees of success. The design is my own but inspired by a number of sources.

Quilt size: width: 54" height: 54"

BOM by Appleblossom Quilts. Needleturn applique and machine quilted on my domestic machine. Three dimensional butterflies were my own addition.

Quilt size: width: 54" height: 54"

This little quilt was inspired by a photograph of a flowering cholla cactus taken by a friend of mine. It’s one of the first quilts I made using the technique described in Susan Carlson’s book, “Free-Style Quilts: A ‘No Rules’ Approach.” I love the bright, happy colors of the blossoms.

Quilt size: width: 15" height: 12.5"

“I don’t do applique”, but really thought I wanted applique flowers in the setting strips of a a bed quilt that is still in the works. So, I made this wall hanging as a companion piece. The wall hanging is done, the big quilt is not.

Quilt size: width: 35" height: 35"

Quilted wall hanging inspired by the border fabric. Hand applique with hand embroidery, beading and machine quilting.

Quilt size: width: 28" height: 26"

Flo Flo is an applique quilt designed by Toni Whitney. Her inspiration came from the real Flo Flo who lives with her. My husband and I assisted Toni with the graphics to make the pattern and I quilt samples to go in her trunk shows. Flo Flo is a real beauty and so much fun to make!

Quilt size: width: 24" height: 27"

Utility Quilt made from the left overs of a cutter quilt. This is well used and loved, a perfect take to the park quilt that has been on many picnics with our family.

Quilt size: width: 58" height: 64"

This was a nine patch I designed and made from batiks, after it was done I decided to add this fun flower that I drew myself and hand appliqued on. I quilted with tiny bubbles all over the quilt it matching threads but also going over into adjesent nine patches to give it a cool look.

Quilt size: width: 45" height: 60"

Garden Fleur is a machine applique quilt from “Garden Nouveau Quilts” by Vicky Lawrence. The original quilt was then digitized by Anna Aldmon of Anna’s Awesome Designs.

Quilt size: width: 82" height: 102"

I love flowers and wanted to make a modern looking quilt that incorporated flowers. So I created a single daisy using mostly all Sweet Water fabrics. A lot of my quilts incorporate nature!

Quilt size: width: 58.5" height: 72"

I make this quilt for my daughter and partner when they were married in 2010. This picutere was taken when I was doing. I have a computer crash so there are no photo’s more of it.

Quilt size: width: 84" height: 84"

My little friend Josie was coloring a picture one day when I visited. As I left I was given it as a gift. I enjoyed it so much on my fridge that I decided it was perfect to interpret into a quilt. I enjoy qulting children’s artwork as they tend to use bold colors and are sure of their designs.

Quilt size: width: 33″" height: 34″"

Fused applique with free motion quilting and thread sketching.

Quilt size: width: 36" height: 36"

I spent a year making monthly wall hangings and is was my May quilt. I didn’t have a pattern, I just winged it. All scraps. And one of my favorites.

Quilt size: width: 30" height: 30"

My Flower Garden is a happy crazy quilt – with machine embroidered butterflies, flowers and hearts. So much fun to make.

Quilt size: width: 40.5″" height: 40.5″"

Using left over half-square triangles from another quilt, I created the inner pieced border. That left me with a hole in the middle and an outer border to make! A needleturn applique floral piece became the middle.

Quilt size: width: 44" height: 56"

I took a photo of a parrot tulip in my garden, changed the colour in Photoshop and then printed it onto fabric. It is heavily machine quilted with trapunto in the border. My first entry into the Festival of Quilts in 2009 and it won a Judge’s Choice award.

Quilt size: width: 25" height: 39"

The large flowers are from my first drapes in my first house. I had kept the leftover fabric for many years. I used a design from 9-Patch Pizzazz by Judy Sisneros as I thought it a “purrfect” way to display my treasured fabric.

Quilt size: width: 38" height: 48"

Thie was one of the first “serious” quilts I made after I had my first little girl. It was juried into the Waterloo International Quilt Festival in Ontario and was my first quilt entered into competition! It is also pieced and reverse appliqued using Sharon Schambers pieclique technique.

Quilt size: width: 50" height: 65"

Heavily beaded quilt, pattern came from Dazzleing Quilts by Pamela Mostek. Name of pattern is Flora Fantasy.
It was enterd in the Quilts and Tea Quilt Show in Davenport ,Florida last year.I got a honorable mention for that.
No two flowers are beaded the same .

Quilt size: width: 38" height: 38"

Spring and Fall are my favorite seasons. For Spring, I see lots of flowers, wildlife looking for food and a tree with lots of dogwood blooms. It’s part fusible applique, blooms are lightly glued on, and free motion quilted with birds, tree branches and leaves.

Quilt size: width: 26" height: 15"

This quilt is made using 1930 reproduction print fabrics. The flowers are machine appliqued, and I added a piano key border.

Quilt size: width: 102" height: 111"

I made this quilt for a local women’s clinic to display in the summer. The center is a preprinted panel and the rest is my design. I saw quilts in magazines where Ohio stars were used as flowers, and I incorporated that idea here. This is one quilt I gave away that I wish I’d kept.

Quilt size: width: 59" height: 66"

I love the bright sun duing the summer. I decided that the border needed something different to it, so I did a free- hand cut scallop/wavy edge on it. The fabric is all out of Batiks (my favorite fabric). This sunflower is a pattern from Melinda Bula.

Quilt size: width: 24" height: 24"

This is my first original design. My quilt guild did a challenge that required using a piece of each fabric received, in our group exchange, and must have 4 dresden plates in it. My fabric choice was flowers. The tea pots and cups are appliqued and the whole quilt is hand quilted.

Quilt size: width: 38" height: 51"

The flying geese are made from fabric samples given me by a friend. The appliqued birds and flowers represent the different seasons in my garden over the years. Leaves from different trees are quilted in the border.

Quilt size: width: 67.5" height: 87"

This was the first 3D wall hanger I made.
A Baltimore basket with sunflowers

Quilt size: width: 25" height: 35"

I saw the pattern for this quilt in the Quick and Easy Quilting magazine,June 2000, and thought it was the perfect way to wet my feet with crazy quilting. I had such fun time making this quilt and using my machine’s decorative stitches and metallic threads.

Quilt size: width: 20" height: 30"

I made this quilt for a young neighbor. Zoe was to turn one year old on May 11, 2011 and I wanted to make a quilt for a girl. I have only one grandchild, a boy.

It was originally to be made from charm squares but I used what I had in purples and greens. I think it’s great!

Quilt size: width: 52.5" height: 70.5"