I call this my "ADD quilt," because looking at it causes me to feel like my brain is going in six directions at once.

Apparently, I missed the quilting lesson that teaches one not to use too many busy prints in one quilt. I chose only 3 fabrics for this quilt top - a print of scattered peas, a print of scattered carrots, and a print of assorted vegetables - but the end result looks like a bomb went off in a backyard garden.

So this is the quilt that I let the dogs sleep on. This is the quilt that I allow - no, URGE - my kids to take outside for picnics. And this is the quilt that I will someday give to someone to wrap around a piano when they move, and I will pray with every fiber of my being that it (the quilt, not the piano) will blow off the back of the truck and never been seen again.

Animal lovers, please do not fret about the pug on the quilt in the photo. He is already blind, so no worries about the quilt affecting his vision.

This quilt is for my son's girlfriend who lives in Ind. I was going to make a beach theme quilt for her to wrap in during her cold winter. It was to be a lap quilt. Then they announced they were getting married so the quilt needed to be larger. Ordered more fabric and ended up with way too many different patterns. I thoiught a "water" fabric would be good for the borders. I went online and found what I thought were crazy quilt blocks. Unfortunately the blocks were for paper piecing (who knew what that was) and had no seam allowance. Needless to say my blocks weren't very square. So, I started adding fabric to the sides. the borders look as crazy as the blocks. It looked so wild when I laid it out that I made it reversible so the back is more of the same wacky blocks. This is my 3rd quilt, first 2 were baby quilts, so I can only plead ignorance and the truth is I wasn't thinking! It will be a looong timebefore I try another crazy quilt! It will make a great pet bed if they get a dog.

This pattern is from The Buggy Barn's Certifiably Crazy book. Which is what I must have been when I put these fabrics together! I made it for a contest at a quilt store. Guess who didn't win a prize?

It might be ugly, but it is a good warm lap quilt!

Fons and Porter was doing a tutorial on this pattern I used what I thought were good contrasting fabics...so contrasting that they glare at me.. I am not a purple fan not sure why I used purple. it is more the colors I used more than anything. It is quilted just waiting to finish the prairie points on it.

I had just had a major surgery and was recuperating. I needed to walk a bit so my Husband took me to some garage sales..a favorite past time of mine. I found a maternity dress made from a batik fabric that had frogs on it, which had been gifted to the woman having the sale by her Mother in Law. She thought it was hideous..but at that time (2000) I had never seen batik fabric and I thought it was wonderful.

I bought that dress and came home and took it apart so I could reuse that fabulous fabric. I pulled fabrics from my stash that matched colors in the batik and cut and pieced my blocks OK...BUT..I was on strong pain killers at the time and what looked beautiful to me then..is quite awful when viewed without opiates in my system. ;) LOL

When my oldest daughter was about 7 or 8, I got some fabric strips that were discarded from a furniture mfg plant. They were sheet ends, so pretty nice quality. I decided to make my daughter a quilt using squares of these fabrics. I had sewn forever, but never made a quilt so had no problem sewing the squares together.

I sewed the layers together and turned right side out and tied it. I was pretty proud of it until after I had washed it a couple times and all the batting slid to one end. I knew nothing about battings so didn't know to be sure and get bonded batting.

So I opened it up, pulled all the batting out and she had a "light" quilt. I was disappointed, but she loved it and still has it. She took pix of it so I could show you.

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CREO QUE ESTE ES EL FIN DEL PATCHWORK TRANSMITIRLO A NUESRAS GENERACIONES PARA QUE ELLAS CONTINUEN CON ESTA PACION DE DAR AMOR CON NUESTRAS MANOS QUE YO HEREDE DE MI ABUELA Y QUEDAR EN EL RECUERDO DE NUESTROS SERES QUERIDOS POR ESTO ES QUE ME DECIDI A INGRESAR EN EL CONCURSO

I make quilts for family members that graduate from school and I ask what they would like. My son decided he wanted a 2 color quilt..
1. I had never made a quilt with just 2 colors.
2. I wasn't overly fond of the colors he choose.

I found an 8inch block pattern that seemed rather simple with lots of placement options.

It eneded up having too many options and I tried several and ended up with this hodge podge of a quilt. The big blocks did give me great options for hand quilting... but that can't change the way a quilt looks.

I didn't like the pattern when I had the top together and could have changed it.. but didn't..What was I thinking??

I was reading about the Red Sea crossing of the Isrealites with Pharaoh of Egypt in hot pursuit. I thought I would use a play on words and make this piece as the second in my EXAGGERATION series.

It is pretty bad... everyone thought it was a portrait piece, I wanted the ugly, mad Pharaoh to be in the shape of the RED SEA, or vice versa.. well, you get it, I am sure... I used symbols in the 'rock work' to imitate perhaps a castle, whatever.

It just didn't work like I thought it would. I will cut it up eventually.

This quilt for my hubby (TJ) has been in the making for years. He and his mother picked out fabrics for this quilt. I had no say so whatsoever....I kept saying "there's no way these will go together" "how will I coordinate these colors and patterns"? So, I just starting cutting triangles and sewing them together best I thought they looked. I had hopes for this quilt, I really thought I could turn it around and make it look like a decent quilt. haha.....little did I know, it was too late. I just couldn't! So, I sewed all the blocks together. Layed them out to the design I sewed them in and this is what I came up with. Then I thought a black border couldn't make it look any worse. And some where along the lines, I thought rick rack would look good. WHAT WAS I THINKING?? Next, I got my free motion sewing foot and thought I would practice on this quilt. oh my! Now, the quilt is in such a state I'm not sure I can even fix it. It's packed away in a tote. The hubs likes it!