Australian Shadow Box

Sandy also made a quilt for her son.  The majority of these fabrics she got on a trip to Australia, and she spotted a shadow box quilt at the Heritage Park quilt display, and decided that was a perfect way to showcase these fabrics.  She drafted a pattern on her graph paper and this is the fabulous result.

 I quilted this with a wavy spiral, it almost looks topographical.  I thought it paired well with the graphic designs on the fabrics.

Chicopee Snapshots

 This quilt is made 100% with extra fabric from the Chicopee Squared quilt kit I had bought from Flare Fabrics several years ago.  The Snapshots pattern is from Atkinson Designs Happy Hour book.  The only purchase I had to make was binding.

Just like the last one, pieced October 2017, quilted July 2018, and the binding still needs to be hand stitched.  I tried to hold off blogging as incentive to finish it, but that didn't work out is done.  I had some sitting time volunteering at a casino for the school yesterday.   

I used a wavy spirals quilting design--I think I learned it from Christina Cameli.    I thought it suited this quilt--square but not square. 

 

I was pretty pleased with myself.  I managed to get 4 quilts on this one piece of wide backing.   I had only planned to do the two lap quilts, but then realized I had room on the bottom for a guild baby quilt and the Mountain Abstractions. 

Nine Patch Rails

Noreen made this Nine Patch Rails quilt, and I recognize several of her fabrics.  Noreen has this wonderful habit of using the fabric remains of her previous quilts quickly, which I think is a great way to keep the scraps managed.  I love the pebbles fabric, and the stonehenges.

for the quilting, I used Christina Cameli's wavy swirl.  I think it looks like water rippling above the rocks in a shallow stream (I get fanciful while quilting sometimes, repetition frees the brain :P)