Mom and Dad's 12 kids quilt

 I made this in 2003 when I got married and my parents went on their mission to Nauvoo for our church. I'm posting this now because I didn't have a picture of it. I made a square for all twelve of us kids. I picked each square by my siblings name or personality and picked the colors that I thought represented them. I made all the squares out of scraps. It was really hard at the time, I wasn't sure what I was doing. Now I think it would be a lot better.

Peggy my friend in Highland quilted this so beautifully, she really made it look so much better. (I cant get the picture to rotate-use your imagination).

My Mom has this at her house in Utah and she did a good job taking pictures of it and hiding the flaws. (actually this is why the blocks are set diagonally.)Somewhere I have the list of the block names. I wasn't able to find blocks with some of my siblings so I made blocks with aspects of their personality.   

Jenny's Baby's Blankie

My sister Jenny picked the Farm Play Retro Fabric Quilt Block Panel and I matched a bunch of fun 30's fabric from HERE  I was drooling the whole time, I may have just kept this for myself. 

 I cut a bunch of triangles out of the 4 inch blocks and came up with these silly little triangle square thingies, and went around the edges and matched them to size, who knows what size they all are.  I do tons better following a pattern but that rebellious side of me says "I'll spit on you Mrs. Winder for making me re-do my hot pad four times, I'll do it myself thank you very much". I'm not ready to conform quiet yet, I've got to create some on my own. 

 The back is the coziest sweetest fabric I found in the remnant bin at Joann- I bought it in hopes that my sister would have a boy and she is :)   Perfect!

 I machine quilted it and I got through almost half then looked on the back and realized something was wrong with my bobbin.....arg, I'll check better next time. I really like the look of the machine quilting 

First of all, I couldn't just leave it at a quilt, I've been collecting some fun farm stuff to go with his quilt!  

I'm so excited for this little baby to be all cozy in this quilt and for my nephew and neices Suzette, Corinne, Guiseppe to have fun reading this book and playing with this farm.  I LOVE you guys so MUCH

The Quilts I've Made

My very first quilt. Kate's baby quilt in 2005 on the left.

quilt made for my Mom and Dad's LDS mission to Nauvoo, IL. Each square representing one of their twelve children. 2005

Mom and Dad's Nauvoo Quilt from their LDS Mission there. 2005

My little brother's baby Ethan's cowboy quilt 2006

Spencer's sister's baby Kambree's flower quilt 2006

Sister Jenny's baby Corinne's quilt 2007

sister Jenny's baby Guiseppe's quilt 2009

Brother David's baby Claire's quilt 2008

First Large quilt with a pattern 2008 Gave to Mother-in-Law Diana

Daughter Kate's  little girl cowgirl quilt 2008

Daughter Jess's first baby quilt (we lost it on a bike ride) 2007

Cowboy  rag quilt for friends Amy and Adrian's wedding 2008

daughter Jess's big girl quilt 2009

Christmas Quilt 2010

First rag Scrap Quilt 2009

Stacked Coins Quilt made of SCRAPS 2009

 blaket for the sick girls at Madison Children's Hospital (donated in behalf of "A Sister's Love") 2010

Cowboy Quilt for US (remind us we moved from the West) quilted with machine, not using a walking foot (torture) 2010

Transition quilt (I made it up) represents moving to the midwest, first one quilted with a walking foot 2010

2nd quilt for little sick girls at Madison Primary Hospital (donated in behalf of "A Sister's Love") 2010

3rd quilt for the sick girls at Madison Children's Hospital (donated in behalf of "A Sister's Love") 2011

Spencer's brother's baby Myer's blankie 2011

Brother David's baby Audrey's quilt (first Machine free motion quilted with a darning foot) 2011

My sister Suzy's comfort blankie. 2011

Friend Angie's baby Raven's blanket 2011

Daughter Jess's Pinwheel quilt 2011

Krishay's blanket in Georgia (Wrapped in Hope- foundation gives birthday blanket's to kids whose parent's are in jail-from their parents) 2011

Daughters Kate and Jess's blankies for their beds. (taken with our fun new camera). 2011

Kate's House quilt (she drew houses and I made it into a quilt) 2011 (she also gave it to Faith Center Orphanage in Liberia 2013)

Sister Jenny's baby's quilt 2011

LaRon's Birthday quilt for Margaret's Hope Chest 2011

for Katies's project 100 Quilts for Kids. We took it to the Madison Children's Hospital in behalf of Operation a Sister's Love. 2011

Our family Halloween quilt! (flannel back, awesome) 2011

Harvada's Quilt 2011

Spencer's Bicycle Quilt 2011 (first quilt on my new Babylock)

I added to this quilting bee 2011 Summer

I also added to this quilting bee 2011 Fall

Bethany (my friend from Madison) Her babies quilt.  Machine quilted (first solid color binding). 2012

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Mylia (my dear friend from Madison) Baby Lucy's Quilt.  2012

Machine Quilted. Binding was made of scraps. Best Machine Quilting experience so far (Love my Babylock)

Jenny's  nursury rhyme quilt

First Loop-di-loop freehanded. Love Flannel backs 2013

Maryanne's Herringbone Quilt

first real modern quilt. Loved adding color to the binding 2013

A quilt for Me and Spencer

Took me a year, holy moly! 2012-2013

Spencer's brother's baby quilt. I had fun doing this one by hand while we were in England 2013

Made "Pokie Paris" for Jess (not her favorite but a good layering blankie).2013

Jess loved purple for about a month. She can't part with it though. 2014

 

For Kate. She picked out the border and helped lay out the design. 2014

 For William Jess's friend with Cancer. Jess and I quilted this one together.  2015

Jessica's Baby girl's blankie (dear friend from Minnesota) 2015

Kari's Christmas present quilt 2015(my next door neighbor and Bestie)