Genz quilt

I don't have a finished photo of this one, but this is pretty close to finished. It was made for a sewing client from her daughter's high school and college t-shirts as a graduation gift. The biggest challenge here was finding a good size to use. As you can see, we ended up using a standard square size and then making it out of a single shirt, horizontal or vertical half shirts, or even quarters of the square as necessary to get everything to fit and to highlight the best parts of each shirt. The one piece that wouldn't fit within our unit we sized to the unit plus sashing and made it the center point.

Machine pieced, hand tied, polyester batting (eventually!)

Nona's quilt, twin size (SewingBAG)

And a twin size version. This project was such a delight. So many little variations, and so neat to know that many family members were able to hold onto these special memories of their "Nona."

Machine pieced, hand tied, polyester batting.

Nona's quilt, lap size #3 (SewingBAG)

Another lap size quilt, again very symmetrical.

Machine pieced, hand tied, polyester batting.

"Nona's" quilt, lap size #2 (SewingBAG)

I honestly can't remember if we tied this one with some red and some periwinkle, or if this was just photos testing out both to get preference from our client! As you can tell from the upper photo, this quilt is not quite complete at the time of the photograph.

Machine pieced, hand tied, polyester batting.

Nona's quilt, full size #2 (SewingBAG)

On this version of "Nona's" memory quilt, we used the batik to define the corners, and a few other pieces in a more symmetrical layout than some of the others (see the green stripeish one and the denim.)

Machine pieced, hand tied, polyester batting (8 or 6 oz).

Nona's quilt, full size #1 (SewingBAG)

This was one of two full-size quilts. The outer border was a fabric that "Nona" had in her collection - everything else in the quilt (except for sashing and backing) was her clothing. The navy/teal batik and the peacock print were truly marvelous pieces that really defined the quilts. Because there was a lot of the batik, we used it as an organizing element - here in a diamond shape through the quilt.

Machine pieced, hand tied, polyester batting.

Nona's quilt, lap size (SewingBAG)

This was another memory quilt for one of my sewing clients. "Nona" had a fantastic wardrobe, and many children and grandchildren who wanted this cozy way to remember her. A whole series of quilts was made from this selection of clothing, so a wider sashing was used to make the clothing items we had to work worth go farther. This one had some embroidered squares stating clearly who the quilt was made to honor.

Although this one was a "lap size" quilt, it was still quite generous. Each in this series was hand tied with a silky periwinkle yarn that matched the sashing fabric, and used polyester batting (likely 6 oz for this one.)

Lilia's quilt

Another InterVarsity college Bible study family baby quilt! Pretty standard - 10x14 grid of 4" denim squares with a few of the backing fleece throw in for sparkle. Hand tied at every other interval, polyester batting.

The fleece fabric for the backing was one of our all-time favorites. I wish we'd gotten the whole bolt of it.

Fun to have our own little one (Owen!) helping us with the quilt.

Kaitlin's lap quilt

After making a larger bed-size quilt for Zach when he was born, we decided to make a little lap-size one for Kaitlin in a pretty purple with some neat embroidered jeans as accents. A few pockets make for convenient places to keep a few things while she snuggles up!

The pieces in this one were of a different than usual size - I don't remember what, but it looks like 3" and 2" combination, some serged seams out, and some not. The backing was fleece, and I don't remember what we did for batting.

Peter's quilt

This one was for one of the families in our college Bible study group. Peter and Owen ended up being very close in age.

10x14 grid of 4" denim squares. 4 oz polyester batting, hand tied, machine pieced.

Oliver's quilt

The other family in our Bradley class were Packer fans. We serged this one with green going one way and yellow (gold?) the other. 4oz polyester batting, machine pieced, hand tied.

Hayden's quilt

Made for one of the two other families in our Bradley child birth class - Hayden's quilt is a standard 10x14 grid of 4" squares, with polyester batting (4 oz), and fleece backing. We tied at every other intersection. No serging.

Isaiah's quilt

Chele said she didn't want us to have to go to all the work of making a denim quilt when she had her second child, so we just made a fleece-on-fleece quilt instead! Using scraps left over from other projects, we pieced together 4" (finished size) squares, and incorporated a fun print that we had only a little bit left of by making composite squares out of 2" (finished size) prints and solids. We backed it with fleece and fringed the edges, no batting. No tying, either, if I remember correctly.