After moving to California, I did not set up my sewing room quickly enough, and it turned into an airplane spare parts storage room instead: I didn't really have any huge inspiration to do a project for almost two years, though.  However, recently Michael and I have been getting more baby announcements than wedding announcements.  So, I set out to...

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I came across some beautiful fabric that made me think of my sister-in-law, and I set out to make a quilt that stores folded up as a pillow. I made up the pattern and "stitched in the ditch" for the quilting. The pattern I made up starts with smaller blocks at the top, so that as you fold down,...

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I cannot remember when I made this, exactly, but it was probably in 2003 or 2004.  I had sort of envisioned it as a table runner, but I like how Frank R has claimed it for his chair.  I look forward to making a real quilt for Katy and Frank later that will have better workmanship - having a...

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I worked on this quilt for about a year.  I didn't have it done when we got married, but I finished stitching the binding on the day we moved into our first house in Florida, about 5 months later.  Michael is so tall his feet stuck out of the bottom of the quilt we had been using (the star...

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I made the second quilt that I used while I was in college during the summer of 1999.  After 3 semesters in school, I started co-oping.  So Spring 1999 I lived in Hampton, VA, and worked for NASA Langely Research Center.  The way co-oping is set up, I would work a semester, go to school for a semester, etc.,...

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The second quilt I ever made was a Christmas present for my high school boyfriend. We were in the marching band together, and I made a music lap quilt. I am still friends with him, and in 2012 he found the old lap quilt at his parents house and he shipped it back to me, which was a pleasant...

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I pieced together this quilt top in 1995 with help from my mother and my paternal grandmother hand quilted it in 1996.  I used it 1997-1999 as a quilt during my freshman and sophomore years in college.  The pattern is the Winning Hand "Quilt-in-a-Day" pattern by Eleanor Burns.  This was the last quilt that my grandmother worked on before she passed...

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