Quilting Jetgirl

24 Jan

Handkerchiefs for Jess

While I was working with the material for Mr. O's quilt, my friend Jess had a birthday. Some of the material just screamed "Jess!", so I stitched up 2 handkerchiefs for her for use as a bandanna / headband. I think they've held up to use, so far.

21 Jan

2010 Finished Quilts, Quilts

King Baby Quilt

After getting back into quilting, my mom came out for a week long visit and we worked together to make a quilt for my cousin Beas' first child. I had a great time quilting with my mom, and I was amazed that we were able to make the quilt in a week! Here's the log cabin quilt we made...

27 Dec

Quilts

Tighe Baby Quilt

December 27, 2009
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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...

06 Feb

Quilts

Pillow Quilt (Quillow)

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,...

08 Aug

Quilts

Fuchs Runner

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...

01 Jun

Quilts

Gradient Quilt – My Wedding Quilt

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...

31 Jul

Quilts

College Star Quilt

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.,...

25 Dec

Quilts

Music Lap Quilt

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...

11 Jul

Quilts

My First Quilt

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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Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
Quilter | Designer | Tech Editor | Blogger

Yvonne is a former aerospace engineer turned modern quilter, designer, and technical editor. She was introduced to quilting by her paternal grandmother in high school when her grandmother offered to hand quilt a twin-size quilt to use in her college dorm room if Yvonne made the quilt top. Now, 25 years later, Yvonne has developed a style that bridges her technical background and love of bold color, specializing in transparency color play and bold, geometric designs. Yvonne’s quilts have been featured in numerous national and international magazines, quilt shows, and Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century. She lives in Tehachapi, California, with her husband.