FLIGHT #2

I haven't quilted much in the last five years due to the expense, plus the inability of my arthritic fingers to function well.  My favorite part of quilting was always the hand-quilting part, and that has become quite a chore to accomplish. 

The daughter of close friends is getting married in Peru, and since I have a new machine; I decided to make her a small quilt as a wedding present.  This was my very first machine-quilting effort.

Years ago, I made a quilt like this with the 'flying geese' on the diagonal.  This is a smaller version at 28" x 28" named Flight #2.

 In the old days, I think I could have hand quilted this in the same time it took me to machine quilt this one.

Time will tell if I attempt another machine quilted piece - it wasn't near as fun as hand quilting!

FIVE QUILTS FROM "TRADITIONAL TWO BLOCK QUILTS"

I'm doing a post today over on my lifestyle blog that includes in one of the pictures the following five quilts.  The patterns for these five quilts are included in my book, "Traditional Two Block Quilts".

AROUND THE BLOCK, 46"X60"

COUNTRY ROAD, 47"X47"

PERSIAN PUZZLE, 38"X38"

STARSTRUCK, 64"X64"

TEMPO, 36"X36"

I machine pieced and hand quilted the above quilts with the exception of 'Tempo' which was machine pieced by me; but  was machine quilted by Judy Case of Florence, Colorado.

A BIT OF SPRING

All of the talk these days is about Spring; so I thought I would show you a 'springy' quilt called Xanadu, which means an idyllic or luxurious place.  I must admit that I'm really a 'winter' person, so I don't dream of warm, sunny spaces.  But if I did, I suppose that it would look like this quilt.

The quilt is 31" square; and the pattern is included in my book, "Traditional Two Block Quilts".