These baby quilts were each made from one beautiful ombre fabric.  The color gradation in the fabric creates the design so simple piecing makes a big impact!

These baby quilts were each made from one beautiful ombre fabric.  The color gradation in the fabric creates the design so simple piecing makes a big impact!

These baby quilts were each made from one beautiful ombre fabric.  The color gradation in the fabric creates the design so simple piecing makes a big impact!

This quilt was published in Scrap Happy Quilts by Annies Quilting.  It was made of scrappy rail fence blocks in bright rainbow colors that were left over from several other quilts.  I mixed up the colors and arranged the rail fence blocks in rings that remind me of a Trip Around the World quilt.  It is bright and cheerful, and I like it better than the quilts made according to my original plan!

This was selected to be the cover quilt for Fons & Porter’s Quick+Easy Quilts June/July 2023.  The quilt resulted from leftover blocks and an error.  When I placed the red and blue rail fence blocks on my design wall in a traditional setting, a few were inadvertently rotated, creating a new design.  I repositioned the rest of the blocks in the same way and liked the result. 

I have learned that when I am creating an area of one color from many fabrics, I prefer the visual texture that results if I choose fabrics that are similar to each other in color and value.  I try to get enough variety, so that the quilt is interesting, while at the same time selecting fabrics that blend together smoothly.

This quilt is on the cover of One Day Quilts by Annies Quilting.  Precut 2 ½” strips made it quick and fun to piece this quilt. The richly colored batik fabrics in medium and dark values visually blend together to emphasize the whole quilt rather than the piecing design.  The quilting is overlapping circular spirals quilted with the walking foot.

This quilt was published in Quilter’s World Spring 2023.  During a winter visit to Iceland, I snuggled under a cozy woven Icelandic wool blanket.  The herringbone pattern was easily adapted into a quilt design.  The quilt was pieced using precut 5-inch squares plus white fabric.

A package of 5-inch batik squares plus one background fabric were used to make this version of the Blanket Weave quilt, inspired by the weave of heavy yarn in an Icelandic blanket.

This quilt is one of three made from two bags of bright scraps purchased at a quilt show, with white added. Since some diagonal rows are longer than others, the arrangement of the fabrics was determined by the amount of the fabric available.

This scrappy quilt includes pieces of many fabrics, with the rainbow colors based on the Ives Color Wheel to create a cheerful palette.

Scraps in colors from the traditional color wheel were used to create a rainbow of primary and secondary colors.

Full width strips of many primary colored fabrics were combined to make symmetric bands. Multiple circular spirals quilted with the walking foot soften the straight lines in the piecing.

I bought a bag of scraps, and it included two wide strips of fabric with owls, along with some coordinating fabrics. I added fabrics from my stash to create a fun owl quilt in colors that I don’t typically use.

This Christmas quilt is reversible. It began with the holly print on the back, leftover from someone else’s backing. I had some fabrics from the same fabric line, and kept adding others from my stash until I had enough.

Large squares of fun fabric with bright borders create a cheerful I Spy quilt that is ideal for fabric with larger scale prints.

Wide and narrow strips of fabric are perfect for creating a sampler of free motion quilting designs.

Wide and narrow strips of fabric are perfect for creating a sampler of free motion quilting designs.