kaleidoscopes, jeans and mayville

In 2001 the group of us made a "stack and wack" Kaleidoscope quilt. We were to look for fabric that had a repetetive pattern, which for some reason took me to every quilt store in Winnipeg. Most of the women chose a bright floral pattern, which worked out quite nicely. Not me, I ended up choosing tropical birds.

It's hard to tell but when I stacked, wacked and then sewed each pinwheel I ended up with mutilated birds, nicknaming this quilt Buzzard Butts and Birdie Beaks. I did quilt it but as you can see never did bind it. It is without a doubt the ugliest quilt I have ever made.



You can see the buzzard butts in this one!

During the year I made a jean and flannel picnic blanket. I had a bunch of our old jeans and purchased some nice flannels on a trip to Grand Forks. Using a patch from one of my son's jeans that had the little pocket makes it special.

The backing is flannel, too but I didn't put any batting in it, it would have been to hard to sew.

By 2002, we were meeting for out 9th weekend and we had many new women quilting with us so we decided to repeat the Log Cabin. Kathy and I taught this weekend. I made this Log Cabin Queen size for our bed.

This one has been on our bed for quite awhile and has faded somewhat. I made the flower and leaf pillows to match.

There was a class taught on paper piecing in 2003 and I think that was the only year that I missed the weeked. The following year the Rag Time Flannel quilt was taught. I used the same basic pattern but did not have the hand cut fringe parts, too much cutting for me.

This my favourite lap quil,t it is very soft and cuddly. I used chenile, and regular cotton on top and flannel backing. I bought the fabric in Mayville, North Dakota. It's a really cute little town with a huge quilt shop, Faye's Hen House. The pattern reminded me of the fields of canola and flax that were in bloom at the time, so I have called this quilt Mayville in memory of a wonderul trip.