Em: Tree of Life

Patty: Batik Bag

Reversible bag made from thrift market Indonesian batiks

Nifty: Chinese Coins

Scraps plus thrift market chintz in sashing and borders.

Mary: Hexagon/Star String Quilt

Amazing collection of scraps in Mary's signature colors and style.

Roberta: African Inspired Challenge

Dianne: Rebels challenge from last year

Challenge was to use cowboy fabric from vintage drapes

Mary; Mary Mashuta workshop quilt

Love those dots!!

Pam: Quilt made from Buffy's leftovers from a quilt she made from Patty's thrift-market-men's-shirts

 

Dianne: French Chicken Quilt

Dianne: Lone Star

Dianne took class from Judy Irish, who teaches the Freddy Moran pattern.

Cindy: Group Quilt for friend having surgery

Note:  not necessary to match any seams.

Dianne: Ghastly Family

Mary: Marston Medallion Workshop, quilt in progress

Sue: Family Reunion Quilt

Cindy: Wedding Quilt in BLUE

Just a corner of this 117"x117" quilt.  Too big for design wall for photo.

Nifty: Quirky Quilt based on Courthouse Steps

Inspired by a quilt in book by Roderick Kiracofe, available from Blurb.com

Mary: Thrift Market find

Mary: Scrappy trip table cover

Mary cut a strip from almost every fabric in her stash to make this table cover.

Tutorial by Bonnie Hunter:  quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/scrappy-trips-around-world.html

Pam: Red Scrappy Trip

Tutorial by Bonnie Hunter:  quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/scrappy-trips-around-world.html

Buffy: Scraps Medallion top, 57"x70"

Anonymous Rebel: Tessellating Solids and Hand Quilting

Buffy: Scrap Fun, 31"x33"

Maybe has a destiny as a Medallion.  Still a few scraps left:  bags and bags of scraps.

Nifty Nine-Patch

Pam: Color play, and pieced borders

Patty: Starburst, 1st diamond, and closeup

Inspired by quilt of this name in Victoria Findlay Wolf's book:  15 Minutes of Play

Buffy: Welsh Quilt, 25"x25"

Quilting patterns:  Making a Welsh Quilts by Mary Jenkins and Clare Claridge

Buffy: Huipil Quilt, 49"x55"

Huipil:  blouse worn by indigenous Guatemalan women.  Several of us took the Priscilla Bianchi tour to Guatemala in spring 2009.  We bought used huipiles in a thrift/folk art market in Antiqua.  The quilt includes the neck opening with hand embroidery and the hand woven panels (a weft inlay technique) from the front and back of the garment.  The quilt includes handwoven Guatemalan yardage, a bit of an Alexander Henry folkloric print, and a stripe designed by Priscilla Bianchi and printed by Robert Kaufman.

Buffy: Scrap Sew Quilt

Strategy was to sew together the most outrageous combinations of scraps and see what happened.  Answer:  another Dog Quilt.   Also practiced free motion spirals, using a paper pattern.  That worked much better and was easier than the "spin the quilt and use walking foot technique."  It gave me the chance to use my new Spiral Stencil from the Stencil Company.

Roberta: Amazing hand work!

Roberta back to her crazy quilt roots with this work.

Patty shares a vintage corduroy lap quilt

Warm and soft.  It reminds me of those state map quilts that show all the counties.

Miki: AAQI Quilt

Miki does an amazing quilt for AAQI every month.

Cindy Shares an Antique String Star

Nifty's Red Trip Around the World

This is her 2nd Trip quilt, and it's destined to be a tablecloth.  You can see the first one on her blog:  niftyquilts.blogspot.com  Check entry for February 5, 2013.  She has also included a link to the tutorial she used.

Deb Karasik: paper-piecing workshop at QA

Dawn's Block

Patty's Block

Cindy: Shares antique Spider Web Quilt

Wonderful setting for really fun scraps!  My eyes have been jaded by the gorgeous fabrics of recent years.  These old scraps now seem more exciting and interesting.

Patty: Antique Spider Web

Patty found this fun quilt at goodwill.com.  Is having the blocks end with curved pieces unusual?  The circles and pillow setting blocks remind me of the Double Wedding Ring.

Maureen: From the Scraps

Mareen did a magnum opus quilt a while back, and then made this amazing original piece from the scraps.

Mary: Star Quilt

Mary reported that this was one tough piecing challenge. Pattern source to follow.

Buffy: Rebels Winter Challenge, 49"x62.5"

Challenge fabric is the large off-white background floral in the center.  I mixed it with Sujata's scraps.  Didn't quite work, but lots of free-motion practice.

Scraps/Strips Therapy Quilt, 19"x24.5"

Started to relieve stress of trying to piece handwoven Guatemalan fabrics.  Used scraps from that project and just started sewing.  Top finished in one afternoon and evening.  "It just made itself."  Reminds me of great trip we took to the Guatemalan Highlands about 4 years ago.  Prints by Alexander Henry.  Guatemalan fabrics from Goodwill.

Buffy: Improv Quilt

Started in Gwen Marston workshop last spring, and finished at a quilt retreat with friends in late summer.  Solids plus scraps.  Finished with facing technique featured in JOURNEY TO INSPIRED ART QUILTING by Jean Wells.  Followed advice from Cindy Needham to quilt "every stinking seam", which really works to keep quilt flat.  Used Madeira Monopoly for ditch work, and it really disappears.

Cindy: Top from Karla Alexander Class

Starring Rose the Famous Rebels Mascot.

Miki: Mini Spider Web

Wonderful combination of unusual fabric and color create an engaging quilt.  Amazing background fabric is not pieced.