Plugging right along! Here are the quilts I made in 2008.
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This is the baby quilt I made for my first nephew. I love the soft colors and variety of prints and solids.
042:
Another Iowa Hawkeye quilt (the first one was in my last post)! This one was for my friends' baby boy. Sidenote: I had the pleasure of repairing this quilt years later, which is the best compliment you could give me, in my opinion. I love when a quilt is used and loved!
043:
This was an original design for a baby quilt gifted to a friend. I think this was just a matter of finding an interesting block from my Electric Quilt software, adding a sashing and border and using up great fabrics I had from another project.
044:
This quilt was a commission for a customer I didn't know but who was referred to me by a quilt shop. The woman had the center of this wallhanging - an old pillow - cross-stitched by a family member and pretty old. She wanted to bring new life to it. I was happy to help do that!
045:
I made this baby quilt as a commission, too. I repeated last year's original design with new colors and fabrics and for a finishing touch, embroidered the new baby's name into the top border.
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Here's a mini-quilt that I made for a friend who commissioned it.
047:
I designed this quilt for a special commission to be given as a wedding gift. I really loved collaborating on the fabrics and ideas online. I really do love all the stages of quilting from the design and fabric selection to the final binding!
048:
Do you see how one quilt can inspire the design of the next? This baby quilt I designed and made for a lifelong friend's baby.
049:
I made this quilt with a lot of scraps from other projects and gifted it to neighbors for the birth of their new baby. One letter of personalization goes a loooong way with a simple quilt. :)
050:
Another commission with the same pattern as seen previously. I wouldn't mind patterning this one someday.
051:
I made this quilt out of scraps from the last quilt I posted. I'd over-made SEVERAL half-square triangle units from that previous quilt. Then a deadly tornado came through an Iowan town and destroyed lives and property. Because of a mutual friend, I'd learned of a young family who had just brought their new baby home from the hospital when the tornado hit. I decided to make this quilt for that baby.
052:
Pretty bold and modern here! I designed and made this quilt for a wedding gift for friends.
053:
This was QUITE a commission, let me tell you! I designed and made this quilt for the children of a couple who would be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. If I remember correctly, I mapped out 50 stars and incorporated as many photos as I could, transferred onto photo fabric, of course. I really wanted this quilt to be great for them!
054:
This was another commissioned quilt that I made at the request of a customer for his wife. He already knew exactly what pattern he wanted, so the rest was easy! I think this was a quilt-as-you-go method and the applique was secured/quilted through the layers.
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In the fall of 2008, my friends had way too many babies! This was one quilt I designed and made for one of those friends and her new baby boy.
056:
Quilt for twin boys #1. :)
057:
Quilt for twin boys #2!
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Quilt for twin girls #1.
059:
Quilt for twin girls #2.
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This table topper commission was super fun to make, I loved using that negative space to do a few fancy quilting motifs. Log cabin layouts are so versatile!
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I self-published a pattern using this wall hanging designed. It's called Four Winds and I offered different layouts but this one was my favorite layout.