Wildlife, etc. Quilts

This quilt was part of my ‘make it myself’ baby shower gift. Since I made quilts for all our friends’ babies, and none of them sew, they all decorated blocks for me to turn into a quilt for our son. As he gets older, it will show him how loved he’s been since well before day one.

Quilt size: width: 46" height: 67"

I made it with flannel front and fleece back.
The pattern is from “Lickety Split Quilts for Little Ones” by Laurie Bevan.

I love bright colors and this one worked fine. It will make a good donation quilt at the end of the year.

Thanks for looking at it!

Quilt size: width: 42" height: 42"

I did this quilt for a show with the American Orchid Society, using a supplied orchid fabric. I built it around the jungle animals where orchids grow. I repeated segments of the larger piece on the left side and incorporated my bias circles and strips. Made on lightweight wool.

Quilt size: width: 30" height: 30"

I made this wall hanging quilt for my Father as a Christmas gift. It’s often difficult to find things to make for men, but this pattern suits him well. We have it proudly displayed in our cottage. Three baby bears, climbing a tree, all appliqued on a sky blue background.

Quilt size: width: 19" height: 22"

This is a portrait quilt created from a photo I took at the Oregon State Fair of a Dorset Ram. He is such a beauty! In the sheep industry, those big horns are referred to as a Full Curl.
I colored and painted this on fabric with Neocolor II Crayons, machine quilting and cord bound edge treatment.

Quilt size: width: 13" height: 19"

Made with 2 charm packs (sorry don’t recall) and a nice pine-cone border print. Applique parts found in a magazine(again don’t recall which).
Made in 2008 for my brother and his wife as a 25th wedding anniversary, as they are avid campers, and wildlife lovers. I got big smiles for this gift! 8-)

Quilt size: width: 44" height: 52"

I made this paper-pieced wallhanging a few years ago when I first started quilting

Quilt size: width: 27" height: 34"

My daughter loves tigers. On my first trip to the Houston Quilt Festival, I found a fat quarter packet with all these tiger fabrics which just had to become a quilt. One fat quarter only two tigers in it, so I added pictures of her stuffed tigers in the two corners. She still loves this quilt.

Quilt size: width: 50" height: 50"

This is part of the Zoo challenge for our local guild. The 2nd part of the challenge was to reflect something that our last show judge said about one of your quilts….in my case, “long lines should be straight”….a bit tongue in cheek!!!

Quilt size: width: 24" height: 18"

Applique deer, based on a pattern by Toni Whitney, done all in batiks. I thought he looked majestic and proud, hence the name of the quilt.

Quilt size: width: 30" height: 30"

My sister building a “cabin” and wanted a moose quilt to have on her bed there. I was so proud to make it for her

Quilt size: width: 90" height: 90"

I love everything to do with Africa especially African animals so I made this quilt some years ago now. I have a huge collection of African fabrics and had a lot of fun making this quilt. As my step-daughter Anne-Marie loves tigers I made an almost identical quilt for her, with tigers in her quilt.

Quilt size: width: 45" height: 46"

I made this quilt for my grandson whoo just started hunting. He got a very nice buck his first year of hunting and I thought this would be appropriate for him. He loved it when he received it.

Quilt size: width: 45" height: 69"

While working for Camp Fire USA, a youth organization, I made quilts for the annual fundraising auctions. The evening’s entertainment always featured Camp Roganunda and the outdoor activities it provided for youth. This was a fun quilt to build! Paper piecing, pieced blocks, applique. Raised $300!

Quilt size: width: 65" height: 78"

this quilt is inspired by a paper cut out picture i saw – i hand appliqued the fish onto the background and then and used cute mother of pearl buttons for the fish’s eyes.

i love the fish swimming the other way – an individual!

Quilt size: width: 60" height: 65"

The quilt is from a Poem challenge – I drew “The Eagle” by Tennison – it is applique and multiple techniques with a glitz tulle overlay

Quilt size: width: 30" height: 30"

Toonga (an African word for adventure) The fragmented images symbolize my perceptions of Africa … from a jungle safari to structural and native patterns. Machine quilted, machine pieced, hand applique. Yarns are couched to the surface. Beads form facial features of the masks in 4 corner blocks.

Quilt size: width: 37" height: 40"

Made for the annual Swamp fiber show in Baton Rouge La. Theme: SOS Save Our Swamps. Technically a quilt, but made with unusual materials: 434 adhesive bandages, corn pad, gauze, adhesive tape, spanish moss, netting, cotton fabric, acrylic paint.

Quilt size: width: 48" height: 24"

My wild cats with African themes. I’ve used free motion quilt on in and I know that I have to practice more to have better effects. But at all I’m satisfied for the effects first time free motion quilting on so big quilt. I love African themes and I’m fascinated with this continent.

Quilt size: width: 78" height: 89"

This quilt is based on the pattern “Moose Lake” by Roxane Hepker from the July 2009 issue of “The Quilter”. The moose fabric is replaced by a wolf fabric and other coordinating fabrics.

Quilt size: width: 75|" height: 75"

This quilt was all done on my embroidery machine using applique designs. I had to manipulate them to fit my hoops, using my software program. I had seen an hand applique quilt done and since I did not like hand applique at the time. I challenged myself to create a similar one using my emb. machine.

Quilt size: width: 60" height: 60"