Late July Quilts

Sharon's Elements quilt: Water, Earth, Wind and Fire. This was a detailed custom job--each of the six borders had a different design to compliment the different elements in the quilt. This was part of a round robin in the quilt guild last year, and was my favorite of all the completed quilts.


I love the "Fire" element with the sun rising over the pyramid. Yeah, when I think of pyramids, I think of very hot deserts!



The Birds in the Air



The Mountains


The Kites

The Water droplets and waves



Marilynn's Butterflies Quilt was made for a friend to celebrate a life milestone. (Pictured with the quilt is Marilynn, herself!) Originally I was going to create a butterfly motif to cover the entire quilt, but the quilt told me that it wasn't interested in that...it wanted a zig-zag pattern, like the Flight of the Butterflies.



The brown border does have a continuous butterfly pattern that I created.


Keep on Quilting!
Karen
Ye Merrie Quilter

July 2008 update

Here are some new quilts that I finished since the last post--some were actually from June, but one was finished just tonight!

This is actually the most recent--Marilynn's Windmills. She said to be creative, so I gained my inspiration of the pattern from the border fabric. This one is covered with six and seven petaled flowers, dancing merrily across the top.
This is the back of the quilt--just as pretty as the top!

Sharon made this miniature Underground Railroad Commemorative sampler that she used for a class sample. This was fun to do each block just a little bit differently, including a boat rocking on waves and wind blowing the sails.

Michele's Mountains - an online swap culminated in this gorgeous scrappy mountain quilt. Because the quilt had so many sharp points and long lines, it seemed only logical to quilt it with flowing leaves.

Enjoy!

Karen, Ye Merrie Quilter