Friday, December 4, 2009

Quilt As Desired - Numbers 5 and 6


The Babes' birthdays are coming fast and furious now towards the end of the year. I gave away 2 more quilt tops in the last few weeks.

First ... on November 24th we celebrated Ardis' big day. She likes fall colors...reds, golds, rusty browns, etc. And she appreciates the traditional use of muslin. She also likes this particular star pattern, and a few years ago shared with us a cool way to piece that star. So I designed this one for her. It's just 3 different sizes of the same star in the colors she likes -- set against a background of muslin. Like the other Babes, she was very appreciative.

Then only a week later...on December 1st, we celebrated Liz's birthday. You'd think that having a birthday in December, she'd want to go out of her way to differentiate between HER day and Christmas. But to the contrary...Liz LOVES everything Christmas. So she's easy to shop for. I made this colorful Christmas scrappy quilt for her. The pattern is called a disappearing nine patch. A nine patch, for you non-quilters, is a block with just 3 squares across and 3 down. In this version, you make the center block a lighter, contrasting color. Then you cut each nine patch block in half vertically and again horizontally...and then turn them and sew them back together to mix it all up. As you can see -- she, too, was quite happy. That's her on the right...wearing the big grin and the antennae.
Happy birthday, girls!

4 comments:

Desiree said...

Beautiful quilts! Especially the star; I am quite partial to stars. : )

Anonymous said...

i turn 60 in early february and i'm not picky what you make for me! the babes are very lucky to have such a batty friend as you. miz b

Anonymous said...

Both look beautiful in the pictures. I liked looking at the star quilt from a distance, you really notice the different size stars. A+ again. Gail

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