This Table Runner was made for cousin Susan this past Easter, 2005. I used two blocks, one from a BOM called Garden Party, and the butterfly, I am not sure where i got that right now...for some reason, I thought it was from that too....
This BATMAN quilt is a wall hanging that I designed, based on an image I found, and fusible appiliqued, and pieced. Around the outside edges, I photo-transferred the words to a poem that Timmy wrote, called "Shadow of the Bat". I gave it to him for Valentines Day, 2004.
This quilt is a rail fence, large lap sized quilt. The fabrics are HEAVY flannel,(chamois) and although its heavy already, I used COTTON batting. It is absolutely awesome to curl up under!
This quilt is the only one I have made that is COMPLETELY machine done. It proves I "CAN" machine quilt.... I made it for Becky Morales, who worked with me at JoAnn Fabrics. I started AND finished it in under a week, a personal best for me.
Another very early work. I used a design from JoAnn Fabrics block of the month. The yellow is because I made it for my Nana Glynn, and her favorite color is Yellow!
Unfinished, but used! This has been an ongoing, quilt it while it keeps you warm on the couch kind of thing...
A work in progress....I really should take this out, now that autumn is upon us. It is a railfence pattern, with my own applique shaped autumn veggies. I am using the stained glass technique of applique.
This is one of the very first quilts I made; it is flannel, and completely handsewn, for my godson, Matthew Thomas Bernhard. The binding is 2 inch wide satin ribbon.
Also, unfinished. Started at a quilt class taken with my friend Eithne, at Richmondtown, Staten Island, taught by Carla DeFillipo. It was to be a hand pieced Delectable Mountain. I chose to machine piece, and have been hand qulting it. It is eventually going to be a Christmas gift for Aunt Gael.
My first quilt. The center blocks are painted with Tri-Chem tube paints, by Mom, many years earlier. Not finished.
A gift for my cousin George Bernhard. But he and his brother Matthew have swapped quilts and now Matthew has this (althought it IS a wallhanging in their shared room)
My MINI version of a jar quilt, just needs a bit more quilting and a binding. Am planning a LARGE one, someday.
This was Arlie's going away/arriving at college gift. She has it hanging on her wall at school. I developed four different blocks and just kept adding, till I got it the way I wanted it.
Hello to all.... A year. How different we all are. Each person in this country has been touched, and changed, some in far more direct ways than others. I started making a quilt the other day; just a lap-sized quilt. I have had these antique colored fabrics--beige, and an old red, for a long time. They sat and sat, and occasionally I would add another piece that I thought worked. Just last week, I went into a quilt store, and saw this beautiful star fabric, with the same colors, plus blue. I purchased it, and have been working on a simple star pattern quilt. As I was doing so, my mind wandered, and the patriotic aspects of the design couldn't be ignored. This quilt was meant to be my way of acknowledging a year. There is a song in the play RENT, and the lyrics go as follows. "Seasons of Love"
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure - measure a year?
In daylights - in sunsets
In midnights - in cups of coffee
In inches - in miles
In laughter - in strife
In - five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure a year in the life?
How about love?
How about love?
How about love?
Measure in love
Seasons of love
Seasons of love
Soloist #1
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty-five thousand journeys to plan
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure the life of a woman or a man?
Soloist #2
In truths that she learned
Or in times that he cried
In the bridges he burned
Or the way that she died
All:
It's time now - to sing out
Tho' the story never ends
Let's celebrate
Remember a year in the life of friends
Remember the love
Remember the love
Remember the love
Measure in love
These words came to me, as I was driving, and they helped themselves to my quilt. So the quilt I am making is to be called, "How Do You Measure a Year?" So, how do I honor this past year? There were so many changes in my life...my brother moving in with us, my marriage, the graduation of my daughter, her moving away to college, my moving away from New York, changing jobs...and all of these, tinged with the memory of a year past... ...and of the sights and sounds of horror as we stood and watched the buildings fall; and the tears shed on my brothers shoulder, and the tears Arlie cried on mine; the cold wet ground stealing up through my shoes as the bag-pipes played at Mike Fiore's funeral; of the endless processions of sadness that lined Staten Island roads for months as family after family came to the sad realization that their loved one was gone. I wanted a way to honor this. I decided that around the border of this quilt, I will embroider the initials of some lost that day. I was fortunate enough to know few. But step outside the line, just one step from my door, and there are many people I know who lost friends and family. I would like to use their initials on my quilt as well. If you knew any of the victims of September 11, or if you know of a close relative or friend who lost someone, would you be willing to give me their names, or just their initials to quilt? There is no good memorial for them but remembering. Michael Fiore, Stephen Harrell, Harvey Harrell, Martin Giovinazzo, Michael Kasper, James Leahy, William McGinn, Thomas Hannifin. I appreciate your help in designing this small memorial.
This is the letter that I sent out to friends and family. They provided me with more initials to put around the outside.
This top is finished!! My first for the UFO challenge of 2005.
I finally madE a tree skirt for the tree!! (No more artfully arranged, raw edged fabric under there for the cats to burrow in!)
Orignally it was for the Hoffman Challenge... yeah, right...two years later, I am NOT finished handquilting it...
A work in progress... this window still needs a palladian top, and more sky and some wall....
This is a large lap quilt...the pattern was "quick and easy" and almost a year later, I am still adding to it because it was too "Quick and Easy"...
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