While I'm sharing pictures of past creations, I thought I'd also post some of the quilts I've made.

I started quilting a looooong time ago. My mom is a quilter, and I think I first started playing around with it when she was making a log cabin quilt for my little brother. My mom says she doesn't remember this, but I know I didn't make it up... when I was a wee crafty lass (I'm thinking I had to be about eight years old), my grandma gave me a book of upholstery samples. I cut out all the little fabric swatches in the book and sewed them together to make a doll quilt. I remember that I pieced together the little top, layered it with batting and a backing, and started machine quilting it in an X pattern (which was the same pattern my mom was using for the log cabin). I never finished the quilting on that project, but I can remember that little unfinished quilt stuffed in the back of my closet for a long time. It has since disappeared, but I sure wish I had finished it and still had it.

Then in high school I got back into quilting. I made a sunflower-themed quilt to take with me to college, and another more traditional sort-of Amish quilt that I didn't finish. (I think that project might still be stuffed into my old closet at my parents' house!)

Sadly there are no existing photos of these early creations, and that's probably for the best anyway. But here are some pictures of more modern quilts I have made in recent years.


made for the first baby of my childhood best friend


made for myself, and this is now the snuggly blanket we use on the couch every day



made for noa, the baby girl of dear friends



made for demonstration on the DIY Network's Uncommon Threads





made for sweet little baby Sophie... see the how-to here!