Another Scrappy Burgoyne Surrounded

While I was in Canada, I worked with an amazing Kinder teacher

by the name of Gail Hegquist.  I think I was in her class for

 7 of the 17 years I spent as a School and Support Worker.

Her daughter, Alana met a wonderful man from the Netherlands last year,

 and they had a small wedding ceremony in the early Spring.

This summer when I was making my teacher friend, Heather's wedding quilt;

I knew I would have enough materials to make another

Burgoyne Surround quilt for this couple also.

I added a blue border for Christiaan's heritage and I

was so pleased with how it turned out.

I hope the newly married couple will spend many happy nights

under the quilt.

Drunkard's Path for Rachael or purplicious Good Fortune by Moda

I have been commissioned to make a couple of quilts this year!

One of the said quilts will require a ton of template work to make

 Drunkard's Paths.  My youngest daughter's best friend Rach - just purchased her own condo and Jessica said her Laura Ashley comforter needed to go. 

This offered me the perfect occasion to make a practice quilt using the new templates.

The quilt has lots of purple as that is the recipients fav color.  I am sorry

that I didn't get a picture once it was completed and the phone pics the girls sent

were not too clear, but her is the topper completed.

I added a very modern backing in geometric shapes with purples,

gold and pink so it is actually reversible now :)

I also added a couple of pillowcases to coordinate and Rach absolutely loved

her new quilt and was said to be rolling all over it like a cat!

Gemma's Bug Quilt

A few years ago, before my youngest granddaughter

Gemma was born I made quilts for Kaitlyn and McKenna

using a bug jelly roll I had picked up at Tuesday Mornings.

Along came Gemma and I just knew I had to make her a bug quilt too with the same material - hmmm I couldn't find that jelly roll anywhere on the Internet.

So I went to the Quilting Board and asked the members there, if

anyone had this jelly roll in their stash.

Yippee a lady from Virginia answered my plead and we agreed to swap out fabrics

She was working on a charm quilt in green and asked that I send her

2.5 inch WOF green strips in exchange for the bug jelly roll.

It was a perfect answer to my quest for the bug jelly roll, I was surprised

at just how many greens I had in my stash and was able to send her 

44 different green strips and I added some other

unusual greens that were not exactly WOF.

I was so happy to be able to give my name sake - Gemma Elizabeth

a quilt with bugs along the same lines as her sisters.

Gemma's quilt was made from a sale pattern called Square Root 

from Connecting Threads and has applique on it.  I swear

the applique took as much time as the whole quilt did.

I am not a fan of applique that is for sure.

This is about as close to modern quilting as I get for now :)