Cowboy Jack

One of Polly's Texas friends was having a baby, and that called for a cowboy boot quilt, with a reproduction of an old Wild West poster to go on the back.

Fourth of July - Pimm's Cup and Pie

In July 2011, Steve and Holly Massey announced that after 20 years of having an annual Fourth of July picnic, they were throwing in the towel (or tablecloth, whichever).  I decided that deserved a quilt, so I string-pieced one out of patriotic fabrics.  The solid red strips were just right for the participants to sign as a remembrance, and I had enough patriotic Hoochy Mama fabric to make an interesting back.

2010 Just Like New Quilt

Isn't it funny how there seem to be just enough scraps leftover from cutting the catnip toy squares to make one quilt?  This is a slightly different arrangement of the string piecing.

Catnip Toy Quilt

There are always some scraps leftover from cutting the squares for the catnip toys, and Jackie Barnett and I starting making quilts from them to sell or raffle off to benefit the Just Like New Fund.  Jackie pieced this one, and I quilted it.

Star of the Sea

Over the years I have accumulated a whole bunch of crab fabrics, so in 2011, I made two raffle quilts for crab feeds, one for Tri-Valley Animal Rescue in Dublin, and one for a group in Suisun City.  It's almost as easy to cut two quilts as it is to do one.  I used some of all of my prints, but I seem to have begun accumulating more since then.  Is there no end?

Trip Around the Rose

Trip Around the World is traditionally done with highly contrasting fabric to show up the design, but I wanted to make this one blended instead.  I tried to make it look like a giant rose, with a yellow center, and the color gradually lightening toward the edge of the flower.  All the fabrics used in the rose itself are rose prints, and the "leaves" on the edges were made from leaf fabrics.  This went to my friend, Fae Massey.

Trip Around Kansas

This variation of Trip Around the World was a birthday present for my cousin Maurice Misegades, who comes from Coffeyville, Kansas.  I used a whole lot of sunflower (the Kansas state flower) prints in it, but I don't think that makes it look too girly.  If any flower can be said to be "masculine," it would have to be a sunflower.