More of Patty's Half-square Triangles, front & back

Rebels, 9/2010

Elda Wolfe

 Elda Wolfe, My late Grandmother, was a lovely Crazy Quilter....

She inspires nearly everything I do...

This is a pillow I have of hers, (front and back)

16" X 16"

Patty H. Half-Square Triangles Quilt, Rebels, 9/2010

Buffy's second machine applique quilt, 36"x39"

These pieces are a little small to do easily with machine applique, but it can be done. Also did a little machine embroidery embellishment with Sulky rayon threads. I like the Kaffe border on the traditional patterned quilt. Also added a piping in the border, because I'd just had a class on that.

Buffy's first machine applique quilt, 65" square

Pattern by Barbara Brackman. Technique from QUILTMAKER'S GUIDE TO FINE MACHINE APPLIQUE by Karla Menaugh & Cherie Ralston, Sunflower Pattern Co-operative, 2002

This book jumped off the shelf into my hands in 2002, and I've enjoyed machine applique ever since.

Roberta Horton Workshop, on Yukata cloth, 2006, 28"x34"

More from Buffy's archives

Pattern from book by Eli Sienkiewicz, SPOKEN WITHOUT A WORD. Kaffe shot cottons, and silk. This is from 2005, when I was more serious about quilting. Machine applique and machine quilted. As I recall it was about 20" square.

Jocky Cap Quilt from Kaffe Museum Book, 35"x46"

Started with a kit I picked up in Houston in about 2005, but except for the applique, I started using my own fabrics. The kit fabrics were a little too dull. I like the contemporary applique with the repro fabrics. Hand quilting with red thread, a forever project. Hand pieced, with machine applique.

Ragamuffin

Yes, I should be cleaning.

But I kept playing with all the lovely Orphan Blocks

for my Ragamuffin quilt...

and now, I'm about ready to sew it all together!

Right after I finish cleaning...

;-)

Premie quilt shown at guild

From Buffy's archives, Square Clamshell Block