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This one is hand tied with varying shades of green and brown embroidery floss but the rest of it was put together via machine. Made with green batik and solid fabric. Do the squares not look exactly square and all the same size? They're not supposed to be! This quilt was done by taking a solid square of fabric and a printed square of fabric and staking them together. Two horizontal and two vertical cuts were made and then the center swapped. Then solid-ish squares and printed-ish squares were placed in lines on-point making squares within squares. I like making quilts on-point because squares turn into diamonds and what girl doesn't like diamonds?

This is the first quilt I ever made. Took ten years to complete. Most of that time it was stored in a plastic bag, however. It is based on the four seasons. Corn, snow flakes, trees and rainbows are hand embroidered on puffy appliqued hills. Because it took so long to make, it was no longer the seventies when I finished it and the colors looked very dated. I almost gave it a tea dye to tone the colors but decided aganst it.

This is the martini quilt. I have been using this as my watching tv quilt and it has done an excellent job. Unfortuately the seams are beginning to give as my seams were not quite big enough. This is based on the shadow quilt concept where a similar design is placed within a bigger one. Each block sort of looks like a martini and the light and darker blocks are combined to make a larger martini over all.

This is the quilt I made for my brother in approximatly 1997 which is still in use on his bed. It is based on the lone star pattern and the border is the same as the leaf print. I made a similar quilt for my nephew. It was sort of a father and son thing. My nephews was smaller and the colors were black with bright batik fabric in blue, yellow and pink but still in the lone star pattern. I am pretty sure the quilt for my nephew is worn out as he took it off to collage with him.

This is my under the sea quilt. It is made with blue batik and solid fabric in a lattice design that makes it look like you are gazing into the sea through the lattice. I machine quilted only where the batik fabric was so as to have the solid lattice strips puff up a bit higher than the batik pieces.