Tahoe Sunrise by Charlene Dakin
Charlene Dakin says, “I designed this quilt from a photo I took (the bears were not in the photo!) I took Gloria Loughman’s class at Asilomar on tiling landscapes. Her class was very enjoyable and well worth the cost.” Charlene created a beautiful watercolor effect of the sunrise, using Gloria's mosaic tile process.
Happy Days by Linda Reid
Happy Days refers to the fact that Linda Reid completed this quilt! This is one of the prettiest Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilts we've ever seen. Linda Reid says, "I had finished 2 years of Civil War fabrics and needed something bright." We love the color combinations of turquoise, apricot, teal and pink, and the beautiful print border.
In addition to quilting in the ditch, each block was quilted with a scrolled or spiral pinwheel design. The blocks are based on The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt: 55 Letters and the 111 Blocks They Inspired by Laurie Aaron Hird.
E Komo Mai by Ellen Eller, quilted by Elaine Beattie
“E Komo Mai” is Hawaiian for “Welcome – Come In”. The quilt is a representation of a welcoming door mat, upon which visitors place their slippers/flip flops when entering. The surprise comes when you look carefully at the flip flops and see that they are three-dimensional. The straps stick out from the surface of the quilt, just like real flip flops!
Ellen says, "I made this for my son when he moved into his home on Maui. It’s one of my first quilts." She says that the pattern is by Pattern Adaptation; we found it online at the Maui Quilt Shop.
Happy Cow, ~30 x 30", by Faith Andresen
This happy cow, created with Kaffe Fassett fabrics and other prints, is based on the Jersey Girl pattern by Barbara J. Jones (you can see this fun pattern at BJ's Designs). We admired the fabric selection and the beautiful machine applique work with blanket stitching, as shown in the photo below.
Yoyoville by Maryann Maiorana
Hooray for yo yos (and houses) ! Maryann Maiorana says, "Two years ago, a friend introduced me to this pattern [by Bunny Hill Designs]. It was love at first sight. It was so much fun finding fabrics for the almost 200 yo yos."
The border of whimsical houses, punctuated with yo yo trees and flowers, really makes this quilt! Maryann says, "Appliqueing the yoyos and houses made for great armchair handwork. My granddaughter, Natalia, has laid claim to it. We shall see."
Lily Pond by Catherine Jarett
The yummy colors and restful shades of blue and green really drew us to this quilt. Catherine Jarett says, [This quilt is] “my interpretation of the mood evoked by Monet’s water lilies paintings, with some modern quilting sensibility mixed in.”
The center medallion is made from a print fabric that was quilted with wavy vertical lines. Catherine did a wonderful job piecing and quilting the outer rows of snowballs, as shown below.
Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration.
