Mom and Dad's quilt

This one is kind of an oddball - an unusual mix of the denim quilts Matt and I enjoy making together, and the Frank Lloyd Wright inspired stained glass window quilts I've tried. We used the exposed serging on some of the seams to be the leading in the glass. ;) I think what's most appealing about this quilt is the size (a large lap blanket) and the soft corduroy backing. From somewhere I can no longer remember I received a whole bolt of this corduroy, and it's shown up in many projects over the years - a quilt backing here, but we've also made a little jumper that our girls made and a cushion for the wagon out of it. It shows up in the oddest places. ;) The red satin was left over from the bridesmaid dresses my mom made for our wedding.

The quilt was machine pieced and serged, and hand tied. The tag was hand embroidered and machined onto the back of the quilt.

Hannah's quilt

This quilt was made for the first child of my college mentor, Sheli Hedlund. It's another very large one - only a few of these that we made were this large. The squares are our standard 4.5" cut size (4" finished). I think by this time we had friends saving old jeans for us - I know my grandparents (Kelbe) were giving us theirs. We experimented a bit with the pattern on this one by putting in a few double-size rectangles.

One note about this photo - we laid Hannah's quilt out over the top of our bed which was covered with the denim quilt that my grandparents had made for me that became the inspiration for all following denim quilts that Matt and I have made.

Grandpa's quilt

This was made for Matt's grandpa, Walter Glewwe, the first Christmas we lived with him (2001). We like the pocket that had a "W" embroidered on it! This one is in what became our standard size, a 10x14 grid of 4.5" (4" finished) squares. Grandpa used this one a lot to lay over his lap when he sat in his chair. We have since given it to our first-born, Owen Walter, who uses it not only as a blanket, but also to drive his cars on, the stripes on the fleece backing being roads and houses in his mind.

Machine sewn/serged in red, hand tied at every other corner, polyester batting.

Matt and Andrea's quilt

This is the quilt that Matt and I made together during our engagement, and it has been the quilt on our bed together ever since our wedding. These photos were taken in 2016, although the quilt was made in late 1999 and early 2000.

We purchased the reddish and the brown floral, but all the rest are scraps from my collection. Many of them have special memories for me in particular because of the projects they were left over from, so in many ways, this quilt is a summary of most of the things I had sewn in my life at the time of it's making.

The "cow" square is a nod to my Dad who'd been in the dairy business, and was left over from Damaris, a stuffed cow I made myself. Even though the light/dark wasn't perfect on this one, I knew I wanted it in the quilt.

Many of the blue/yellow blocks are combinations from Katie's quilt, definitely one of my all-time favorites.

These bits are all from the clothes for a cute set of stuffed cats I made as a store model while working at the fabric store when I was in high school. I still have the cats!

This one I love mostly because of the beautiful watercolor-ish fabrics.

This is a memento from my very first quilt.

Another one from Katie's quilt.

Beautiful fabrics from Jenny and Andrew's quilt. Funny - the bit of the blue paisley that I have left I have sitting out now (2016) on my sewing table planning to be used in a quilt for Gloria and one for T.

Hi, Reuben! (He loves to drive cars on this quilt, just like his big brother Owen used to do!)

Ha! This was fabric I chose to decorate my bathroom in the new house we moved into when I was 12. That was the one short period in my growing up years when we had a bit of flex financially, and not only did Sara and I have our own bathroom upstairs, but I got to help Mom decorate it. We picked out some fabrics, fish posters for the walls, AND new towels. Talk about extravagance!

Mykaela's quilt

Scans of old photos again. ;) This was one of our first denim quilts for friends' babies. As you can see, it's larger than the size we settled on. The top is machine sewn (and serged - seams out) 4.5" denim squares, with a few squares of the backing fabric (polyester fleece) thrown in. It's hand tied with yarn, and filled with light weight polyester batting. It was made for the first child (a daughter) of a college friend while we were all still in school.

Matt's quilt

To celebrate our second Christmas together, my lucky boyfriend got a quilt! I was inspired by a quilt that my grandparents had made for me when I went to college which was made out of old jeans. I don't even remember how I got enough old pants to put together a whole quilt for Matt, but I did. I don't know if I used the flannel on the front to make it pretty or because I didn't have enough denim to make it as big as I wanted it! Regardless, this was the first denim quilt for me, and started something I don't think either Matt or I anticipated!

Size - probably roughly twin size - mostly just big enough to cover him all up. This was machine sewn and serged in green with the serging out, just like my grandparents had done for me, and then tied with green yarn at the corners of the squares. Filling was polyester batt, and the backing was flannel.

Jamie's quilt

This was the last quilt commissioned by the Urquhart family. Their older child, a boy, didn't get a quilt to use, but rather to hang on the wall for decoration.

This was machine sewn, and probably polyester batting, and my note on the back of the original photo says, "Machine quilted (?)," so that, too, is unknown. But a fun pattern in great classic colors.