My finished quilts


Just click on the images to read more about each quilt.


#38 Hexies and hidden stars

A minimalistic quilt for my newborn niece. Dense free motion quilting that forms little stars within the negative space.



#37 Simple Squares - A homage to Gerhard Richter

A quilt for someone special


#35 and #36 Quilts for brothers

Two quilts for the sons of our friends

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#34 Railfence - A Baby Boy Quilt

A scrappy Baby Boy quilt for our friends' first Baby.

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#33 Homage to V.Vasarely - An Op-Art Quilt

Inspired by the art of the sixties.

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#32 Sew-Euro-bee-an: A bee quilt

Pieced by all Bee members;
designed, backed, quilted and bound by me.

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#31 A Baby Boy quilt - made by MQG Bielefeld

Pieced by all MQG Bielefeld members (except the new-to-be-mother of the Little Boy); designed, backed, quilted and bound by me)

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#30 Gemmed - A Baby Girl quilt

A Baby Girl quilt for my sister's second child.

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#29 Elmer revisited: A Baby Boy quilt

A quilt for my friends' first baby.
She asked for a smaller version of my Elmer Quilt.


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#28 Oh Deer! A baby boy quilt

A baby boy quilt for my cousins first baby.
Including Appliqué and a ric rac border.








#27 Stacked Strips

Epic Fail #2. Another bearding quilt.




#26 Baby Boy Patchwork Quilt

For my sister's first baby - my second nephew.




#25 Wonky Stars

A baby girl group quilt for our first MQG Bielefeld Baby.



#24 Paper lanterns

A not-so-girlish quilt for the newborn daughter of my former colleague.



#23 In the hedgerow

Almost wholecloth. A quilt for my mother-in-law.




#22 DNA Quilt

A scrappy quilt for a close friend of my husband.




#21 Dare to be different

A scrappy quilt inspired by David McKee's character "Elmer".

Elmer - Dare to be different

#20 The yellow Lessons Learned Quilt

Not my favourite - so I turned it into a FMQ Practise Quilt.

Yellow Improv Quilt


#19 Optimism - a manly gift

A gift for my colleague whom life had played a bad trick.

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#18 A Paper Pieced Baby Girl Quilt

A gift for friends who expect a baby girl next month.


PP Baby Quilt

Lots of Dogwood quilting

Baby Quilt Detail with grid

And a matching backing and binding.

PP Baby Quilt Detail of straight line quilting

#17 Finally a Patchwork Quilt

A quilt for my youngest son (3).

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Lots of free-motion circles...


Hues Quilt Detail of Quilting and backing

#16 Bus-y words

A birthday gift for my dad.


Instead of making a quilt label I quilted the message all over the background fabric.

Papas Quilt Quilting after washing

#15 Modern Mosaic - A Quiet Quilt

A christmas gift for my mum.

Quilt Margret

#14 Henning's Improv Quilt

A quilt for the third child of our business partner.


I used a triple zig zag stitch to attach the binding. Love it!


#13 Emma's Baby Quilt

A quilt for my newborn niece Emma.


Detail of raw edge application:



#12 Space Rocket Quilt

A summer quilt for my eldest son (4 at that time)



Detail of my FMQ


#11 Baby Quilt "Cars 'n Dots"

It took a long time to decide on the layout... 
but finally I came up with this one:


The Pieced Backing:


Fabrics are again Ann Kelle's beautiful designs, 
this time it was Ready, Set, Go! combined with some dots 
from my LFS and an unknown white solid.



#10 Baby Quilt "Zoology Circles"

Raw edge appliqued circles of Ann Kelle's beautiful fabrics.
I was inspired by this book cover.


The backing and my name tag:


#9 Quilt "Loops 'n Rectangles" for my canadian "parents"

I used Monica's free pattern "Rectangle Reverie" that you can find here.


The pieced backing.


Detail of the FMQ (Loops)



#8 Quilt "Fiddleheads" for my canadian friends

I was inspired by a free tutorial of "crazy mom quilts" but changed the block layout a bit.


Detail of my FMQ, hence the name of the quilt :o)
I found the FMQ Design here.


#7 Baby Quilt for my first nephew



Detail of the binding. 
I used a decorative stitch of my sewing machine.


#6 Lap Quilt for my best friend :o)


Detail of the FMQ (after washing and drying)


My first quilt label.


#5 Quilt for my oldest son



Backing and my first straight line quilting



#4 A quilt just for me!


The back


#3 Red Baby Quilt for my youngest son



Detail of my first free motion quilting and the backing


#2 Julius' Quilt


The backing is a Streets & Cars Print


 

#1 My first quilt ever...

Inspiration struck at moda bake shop :o)


The backing and hanging


6 comments:

  1. These are darling quilts! I'd love to see where you found that fiddlehead FMQ design but your link is not working. Could you email me the correct link? idaewing@yahoo.com

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  2. Kimberly, thank you for your nice comment! And sorry, you are right, the link didn't work :o( I fixed it and I will send you the information by email as well.

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  3. Ma courtepointe est tout simplement magnifique !! Tu m'impressionnes par ton talent Christine, mille mercis !! Ta maman canadienne !!

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    1. Merci, Nicole! Ça me fait un grand plaisir d'avoir coussu quelque chose que tu aimes. Et il faut que tu l'utilise :o)
      Bisous! Ta troisième fille :o)

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