quilts made for friends

I am a member of a few quilt groups.
sometimes we make a small quilt for a member who celebrate a special birthday or moving to a new house.

here you see some samples




there are 2 quilts on the way in the next month.

My own quilts for friends .

Antique Quilts.

Today I want to share with you one of the most beautiful quilts I have in my collection of antique quilts:

I bought it in Houston last year.
I fell in love with the crib quilt and then there was a big quilt with the same patern it was impossible to seperate the quilts.


detail


the big quilt

This Book had a picture and info about the quilt.




Crib Quilts and other small wonders by Thos.K.Woodard & Blanche Greenstein

43 Sunburst
c. 1885 Lehigh County Pennsylvania 39”x 42”.
Thirty-six miniature quilt blocks,
separated by a blue cross and surrounded on
three sides by rows of variable star blocks and
on the fourth side with a birds in air variation,
form the basis for the design.
A bit crudely pieced and quilted,
but imaginative, this is a mate to an almostidentical,
well-worn quilt from the same area,
probably made by the same maker
for two siblings.
Collection of Richard and Rosemarie Machmer,
Now they both are mine.

Darning Sampler

I have a small collection of Antique Samplers.

A few weeks ago I found this beauty.
from 1768
Maybe from an orphanage in Amsterdam







In the corners You see 1768

Playing with Kaleidoscope Kreator

This is my quilt made from an Indonesian batikfabric



This I made with the programm from the picture above.




And a little joke.

Quiltweekend in St.Jacut (1)

In januari I went with Isabeau to a quiltweekend in St.Jacut in France,
to meet our friends we have met in the Elzas,
they all live near or in Paris.

You can see also about this weekend,
on the blog of my friend Wil

Not so zen-quilts in Paris.

One evening we went to a beautiful shop

Fleurdelinetboutondor in Dinan.

In Hexagon

Today came Quiltmania nr 82.



On page 56 you see a hexagon quilt from Kristel Salgarollo.
I started with this quilt 2 months ago I bought the patern
during the quiltshow in France.




You can see the result so far.
I don't know yet how I am going to make the enter of the quilt.






The CD on the table is from my favourite singer at the moment
Rumer here cd is called seasons of my soul.

quilttop of Isabeau.

This quilttop, my friend Isabeau bougt years ago
from Mary Koval.

You can also see this quilt in Quiltmania nr 73

This is the site of our friend Mary Koval.
http://http://www.marykovalantiquequilts.com/

when we were in France she took it with her to show to our france friends.