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Xena and Gabrielle Go Dutch

This is a large (almost twin-size) lap quilt, designed to cover myself and several children while we watch TV. It has a giraffe-spotted flannel backing and wool batting, and is very cozy! It is made from Dutch-Indonesian batiks, animal-prints, and African fabrics. Machine quilted with variegated Star thread.

My helpers really tried to hold up this quilt, but it was just too big for them!

I found some bigger helpers to let me get this picture. Click on the thumbnail for a bigger view.

Each corner is different highlighting different fabrics sent to me by friends in South Africa.

Halloween Quilts

Here are the first 2 quilts in a planned set of 6 - one for each of the kids, plus one for me. I'm sure I'll also end up doing several wall hangings, table runners, etc. I love Halloween! Each year, I host a Halloween fabric swap, and this is the first time I've put the fabrics to use. I found the backing fabric on eBay, after seeing it on a quilt in a fabric shop.

Trick or Treat Around the World was designed to go with this great Halloween border fabric I found. There is a poem around it that goes: In a witch's garden late at night you'll see strange and spooky things growing wild and free! There are ghosts to give them water and bats to guard the site, and little monsters everywhere to give you such a fright! The plants are for her potions. Add bugs for homemade stew. Be careful if you walk there. She'll cast a spell on you.

My first mitered borders. Not bad, eh?

I did spiderweb quilting all over the main part of the quilt, using variegated silver and black thread.

Halloween II, the Sequel

Here are 2 of my goblin helpers, showing off this little quilt. As you can see, we've started to decorate for Halloween. How do you like our purple house?

The backing was made up of various pieces from my stash, pieced to get to the right size.

I used my twin preschool girls to "model" the almost life size skeletons that are quilted on. Of course, they're much cuter with skin on!

And bones are quilted around the border.

I took a class with Grete Moe called Using Color in a Norwegian Way. This quilt was made using some of the color theory and ideas I learned in the class. It was made for my brother-in-law and his wife for their first baby. I used a bright yellow Fossil Fern flannel for the backing. The border print is a German fabric, with bees saying "zumm zumm".

Here is Born Under a Lucky Star, made for my nephew, from a pattern called Funky Stars from Fons & Porter Magazine. My son, Henry, is holding it for me.