Quilt Gallery

Washington, UT
USA

Techniques: Machine pieced and quilted; original digitized quilting
Design Source: P!nk Truth About Love Tour; adapted from t-shirt image and various images on social media

This was inspired by the singer/songwriter P!nk, a.k.a. Alecia Beth Moore. Her music, lyrics, style, and unfiltered thoughts celebrate life and authenticity to oneself. This quilt is a tribute to her as an amazing artist and to women everywhere! It represents friendship, strength, compassion, and nurturing. “True beauty is knowing who you are and what you want and never apologizing for it.”— P!nk

Houston, TX
USA

Techniques: Hand appliquéd; machine appliquéd, pieced, and quilted
Design Source: Pinterest and Moda Fabrics; variation of Quarter Square Triangles and squares

My daughter collected patches from places we visited, clubs she belonged to, and any that she just thought interesting. After sewing them on numerous jackets, which she promptly outgrew, I settled on a quilt that I gave her for her college graduation. She still collects, hence the additional patches on the border of the quilt.

Tainan City
TAIWAN

Techniques: Hand-appliquéd, embroidered, pieced, and quilted
Design Source: Original design

My father passed away last year. He was a captain who sailed against the wind and water. He fought with the sea and protected our family with his whole life. This quilt is a blessing for the family. He sailed off happily, braving the wind and waves, stayed safe, and returned with fruitful results.

Bradenton, FL
USA

Techniques: Machine pieced and quilted; photo transfer
Design Source: Original design

This is a celebration quilt commemorating my parents' wedding, attended by friends and family in my grandparent’s home in Baltimore, MD. It also includes a letter written to my mother by my father while he served in the US Army.

Tainan City,
TAIWAN

Techniques: Hand appliquéd, embroidered, pieced, and quilted
Design Source: Original design

My mother passed away just a few days before Mother’s Day. I sorted out fabric scraps beside her sewing machine and used the materials that she had accumulated over the years to create this work in memory of her. It was only during the sewing that I realized how a woman cultivates herself continuously from a young to an elderly age in her lifetime. This is the last lesson she taught me.

Washougal, WA
USA

Techniques: Hand-pieced; machine quilted; commercial digitized quilting design
Design Source: Space Travel Quilt pattern by Rye Bread Quilt Co.; E2E pattern—Deco Arch by Longarm League

My son-in-law asked if I would make this pattern for my grandson Harland’s 3rd birthday. Panda had to say yes! He opened the gift at his party. I took it back and entered it in our local quilt show the next weekend. It won the NACQJ Award, 2nd place, and Best Non-Traditional. This quilt has been in three other shows and won a ribbon at each of them. He just turned five, and he may never get this quilt back!

The Villages, FL
USA

Techniques: Machine pieced and quilted; original digitized quilting
Design Source: Original design

This celebrates eleven years of cruising and snorkeling the world’s oceans with my husband. I suffered a stroke, putting an end to our cruising days. My husband called for a quilt to memorialize the life of his favorite mermaid riding the most elusive creature, the seahorse, amid a pristine coral reef garden.

Akron, OH
USA

Techniques: Machine embellished, pieced, and quilted
Design Source: The Great Blue Heron pattern, Toni Whitney; Regent Street pattern from Tabletastic! 2 by Doug Leko, Antler Quilt Designs

I made this quilt in honor of my husband, Artur. He is like the mighty Great Blue Heron. He is majestic, tranquil, and has a calming effect during the storms of life, much like the feel of this quilt.

Regina, SK
CANADA

Techniques: Machine appliquéd, pieced, and quilted
Design Source: Original design

This quilt is a tribute to my dad. The nucleus is his family and the next section depicts his busy life as a farmer. Retirement depicts grandkids, golfing, and cottage life. Near the end, Dad’s words to me echo, “I had a good life; I had a very good life.”

Overland Park, KS
USA

Techniques: Machine pieced and quilted
Design Source: Original arrangement of vintage blocks

Ida died in 1950. In poor health and confined to a sanitarium, she made quilt blocks…hundreds of them...to pass the time! As a friend of the family, I inherited those blocks. This quilt is #4 in a series using Ida’s blocks…my way of keeping her memory alive.

Leavenworth, KS
USA

Techniques: Machine appliquéd and quilted; shaded with InkTense pencils; stenciled with a fabric pen
Design Source: Original design using the photo from the wedding kiss on the steps of the courthouse

Great Falls, VA
USA

Techniques: Hand-appliquéd, pieced, and quilted; English paper piecing; machine quilted
Design Source: La Passacaglia pattern from Millefiori Quilts 1 by Willyne Hammerstein

This quilt was made to celebrate Mama’s eighty-ninth birthday. The rosettes represent her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Though bedridden when we started it, she enjoyed helping with fabric choices and various fussy-cut designs. The bright colors reflect her optimistic and happy view of life.

Seabrook, TX
USA

Techniques: Machine pieced; hand quilted
Design Source: Shadow box; Pattern drafted to fit the scale of my fabric; Inspiration from photos of String blocks by Alwaysquilting.com and Four Square Float Quilt by Sarah Zimmerman for Quilting Daily

My sister, Melissa, spent four years overseas as a missionary liberating and rehabilitating victims of human trafficking. When she came home, she gave me fabric—the perfect gift! I love the exuberant colors and the challenges the fabric presented. It was used to make this quilt and another that I donated to Stitches of Love, a ministry of UBC. This quilt celebrates my sister, her mission, and using our God-given talents to love others.

Georgetown, TX
USA

Techniques: Hand-appliquéd; machine pieced and quilted
Design Source: The center block is an original design. The 12 surrounding blocks are based on the Eye Candy Quilts pattern, 16th and Baltimore.

This quilt commemorates my daughter’s wedding. Each block is a bridal bouquet. Jasmine wanted proteas in her bouquet. I grew up with Mom’s Bird of Paradise plant, and the center block blossomed accordingly. The quilt label is a boutonniere honoring my son-in-law.

Hamilton, VA
USA

Techniques: Hand-pieced; machine appliquéd and quilted; collage; raw-edge fusible; free-motion tiny zig-zag for organic quilting
Design Source: Original design

This was inspired by my mother who was a colorful, strong woman until Alzheimer’s started to show up. She slowly bleached out and entered a world of grey and darkness. She sometimes realizes this, and it makes her sad and mad. I hardly recognize this patient as my mother and almost want to defend the sick old woman by showing you how beautiful she was and always will be, too. Alzheimer’s cannot take that away.

Washougal, WA
USA

Techniques: Machine pieced and quilted
Design Source: Original design

To relieve stress during my mom’s illness, I would come home after sitting bedside and sew leftover strips of fabric from my three granddaughters’ quilts around a white square. I created these wonky Log Cabins with nothing in mind. After Mom’s passing, I knew I needed to create this heart to symbolize what she meant to me and her grandgirls. She would have loved this quilt as much as she loved them!

Cortland, NY
USA

Techniques: Hand-embellished and dyed; machine appliquéd, pieced, and quilted
Design Source: Original design

This quilt was inspired by a rocker on my sister Arlie’s backyard deck that became overgrown with ivy when advancing cancer made her too weak and disoriented to take her morning tea there. I found the parallel of being consumed disturbing until I realized that the symbolism might appeal to her.

Laguna Niguel, CA USA   Techniques: Hand-appliquéd; machine quilted   Design Source: Original design; from a photograph I took at the Salt Lake City, Utah grave of this sweet boy; permission granted by his father Mathew Robinson was born deprived of oxygen, causing him to be severely handicapped. He was expected to live only a few hours but lived to be 10 years old. Confined to his wheelchair most of his life, his father designed and created this statue for his gravesite, depicting him leaving this earthly life and gaining freedom from affliction in the next life.

Las Vegas, NV
USA

Techniques: Hand-appliquéd and embellished; machine ribbon embellishment and quilting
Design Source: Patricia Cox

The care and love my mother gave her roses in southern California inspired me. They were big and beautiful!

Genova
ITALY

Techniques: Machine appliquéd and quilted
Design Source: Original design

One cherished memory of my childhood involves my Granny and me sewing doll garments. Through the storm we call life, I became an engineer and led a busy family life, but my love for fabrics and threads held firmly within me. My self-portrait celebrates the two sides of my personality that make me whole—the mathematical and logic-driven side and the artistic, colorful, and playful one.

Lubbock, TX
USA

Techniques: Hand appliquéd, embellished, embroidered, and quilted; machine pieced
Design Source: Original design

The final moments before a hurricane makes landfall appear deceptively un-suicidal. Craig was killed by terminal depression and despair; even with the strong structures of family, home, work, and church, he collapsed under pressure. We did all we could to protect our son but were powerless against the storm’s onslaught.

Magnolia, TX
USA

Techniques: Machine appliquéd, pieced, and quilted; printed words on printable fabric at home
Design Source: Center medallion pattern found on the internet with no name given; Dresden Plate variation on the corners and 1/2 Dresden Plate for the outer sections between the corners

The quilt is a celebration of 420 men. Many serve or have served as ministers, deacons, and members. Their birth years range from 1879 to 2001—four from the 1800s, 414 from the 1900s, and two from the 2000s. I have a new respect for the price of ties after taking them apart. The prep work took much longer than the sewing project. I pieced it from March to May and then gave it to the quilter, who breathed life into this unique project.

Clarksville, TN
USA

Techniques: Machine pieced and quilted; photo transfer; some fabrics (pieces of blouses) have commercial embroidery
Design Source: Original design using clothing belonging to my mother, who died in 2012

When my mother passed away in 2012, I gathered all her blouses from her closet. I decided to make a memory quilt for myself and quilts for my sister and brother. I cut pieces of the blouses and sewed them onto existing fabrics that I had on hand. I used photo transfer in the quilt and can remember when each photo was taken. This quilt brings back many happy memories made with Mom.

New Taipei City, Taiwan
TAIWAN

Techniques: Hand pieced and quilted
Design Source: Original design

Meet Taylor, my grandson, a remarkable child. He enjoyed Lego in childhood and built wooden cabins as a teen. I quilted this fabric art to capture his journey. Let’s share and witness his growth.

Federal Way, WA
USA

Techniques: Hand dyed; machine appliquéd and quilted; photo transfer; trapunto; fused
Design Source: Original design

For three years, as my granddaughter and her boyfriend fell in love, they would walk to Kindred Spirit mailbox at the south end of Sunset Beach, North Carolina, leaving letters with dreams of love for the future. After asking her parents and showing them the ring, he took her for a walk to the mailbox and surprised her.