A T-Shirt Quilt for Danielle

Danielle graduated from Ramona High School in the Class of 2008. She started working at the local quilt shop, The CraZy 9 Patch, when she was 16. She learned how to piece a quilt, applique, and even do hand embroidery. Since most of the women up there are much older and some use language inappropriate for young ears, we set up a cus jar and called it Danielle's College Fund. When she graduated, we knew that she would be going to college "down the hill" about 50 miles away, so we would not see her as often. So we put these donation into a gas card and gave it to her as a graduation present.
She is such a bright and centered young lady, it has been wonderful to watch her grow up. Danielle was a member of the high school water polo team. She is also very much into rodeos and cowboys. I wanted to try making a t-shirt quilt for the Ramona Quilt show Oct 17-18. I wanted to use the t-shirts of somebody I know since I was going to give her the t-shirt quilt. Martha, the owner of the CraZy 9 Patch and Marilynn donated the binding fabric and the binding labor.
She will see it for the first time at the quilt show. I hope that she likes it.

Betty's Log Cabin Table Cloth

Betty made this wonderful Christmas gift. It is a square tablecloth. It has all my favorites, log cabins, flying geese and 8-pointed stars. She decided that she wanted it thin so she used flannel in the center instead of batting.



I quilted a big feather wreath in the center medallion. I used a wave and leaf stencil on the 3 outer borders, a dancing leaf in the floral border and SID all around.

I used Superior So Fine It's a Boy #435 poly thread top and bobbin.

Birds of Feather

Back in July, my friend Brenda, celebrated (probably not the right word) her 50th birthday. She threw a party at the LQS afterhours. There were 7 of us there and Brenda had chosen the Take 5 pattern and fabric so each of us could make a quilt. It was her birthday but she was giving us the presents. We drew numbers and got to pick the fabric kit that we liked. Mine was birds and birdhouses. So of course, I will quilt it all over with feathers. It will make a wonderful picnic quilt.