A Hodgepodge of Quilts

I've been going through my vacation pictures, trying to put together a cohesive post without too many farm animal pictures.

It's hard. They were cute.

And I'm under orders from a friend to stop with the laundry already, and give you a post.

So here's something a little different.

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Melody has a great post today about Anna Williams and Nancy Crow. I know a lot of you read her already, but if you missed it, you must go see. It co-incided with some stuff I just came across when I was organizing. Instant post!

I am a happy owner of a small but wonderful Anna Williams quilt top. It was a birthday gift from my husband about seven or eight years ago. I bought it for him (how convenient for him!) while attending QSDS.


I originally intended to send it off to Katharine Watts to be quilted by the "country quilters" as she called them, who were used to quilting Anna's quirky (puckered) tops. But the more I think of it, the more I want to do it myself, so it will have some of myself in it.



Here's a tiny piece--just a top, not layered or quilted, that I originally intended to be a full size quilt. I think I might have some other blocks lying around. I made this, inspired by the Anna Williams quilts:


Segue into the Nancy Crow stuff:

Nancy was the one who introduced us all to Anna Williams's work, by hanging it at QSDS.
Here's a top I made in a Nancy Crow class. I was pregnant with Ethan so it was seven years ago. I sandwiched it with the batting and backing, and started a little random seed-stitch quilting, but abandoned it. I thought it might make a neat baby blanket, I'm not sure why I put it away.


Here is a slightly more recent (probably done about 4 years ago) small quilt that I made to sell at a show, again inspired by the Nancy Crow look. (Denyse Schmidt, of recent fame among young hip quilters, learned quilting from Nancy.)




In my opinion, Nancy is The Quilt Jedi. This is the book that started my quilting life, in 1991:


And here's a baby quilt I made about seven years ago. When I had a boy, this quilt looked too girlie to me. My second baby used it a little, but it's kind of big--about 50" square. I should get it out again because it looks perfect for picnics.


And lastly, thank you for all the nice comments about the totebags. You can expect more tote-bag-posts in the future. I still have the Tote Bag Fever. And I still owe one to my sister, my mom, and I have a couple more fabrics I want to make for myself. I'll have more photos and answer all your questions about how they are made.

Here's another shot of Sophie's tote bag, since it didn't show up well in the photos last week:




It's probably my favorite. I'm a sucker for all that Kaffe Fasset fabric. (It's too bad it didn't come on the trip with us. It was accidently left behind, on the dining room chair, filled with tiger, cow, and blankie.........all the essentials for a happy bedtime baby.)

Mother of the Year, you all vote for me, okay?!