Quilts by M&D ♥

TOTES I made these 3 totes.  I love the pockets on the front of the bag.  When I first tried the butterfly pattern, the set of three pockets is one piece of white fabric.  And so the first embroidery pattern messed up but continued with the other two patterns on the strip of fabric. I then cut out the two good patterns and created a smaller tote bag.  The tote bag, not pictured, has a lining with butterflies. I gave that bag to a lady at church.  She is always providing service for others. I wanted her to know that I appreciated her.   The blue tote bag I made because I like blue and it had the bicycle.  The bags have a zipper and I use the blue bag constantly now.  It is handy when I am shopping for one or two items and I can just put them in my bag instead of having to use a plastic store bag.   The next two bags were made to use up fabric.  When we moved to Illinois in 2002, the family next door moved in at the same time....

October, 2024 Made these two quilts.  Downloaded the designs.  This is an applique and embroidered quilt.  I enjoy creating pictures out of material scraps.  Our oldest granddaughter took the blue quilt for her baby son.  

 Our granddaughter gave birth to a son.  We are thrilled to be great-grandparents.  Here is his welcome to the world quilt. Stitching pattern is elephants.

Two quilts made for two granddaughters out of their infant clothes.  Looking at these quilts creates a lot of memories for their mom and dad as they remember their daughters wearing the clothes.  A lot of measuring and creating full squares so that a row would be even went into making these quilts.  The backing is butterflies.  

 Summer's welcome to the world quilt Doug sewed the stitches with an elephant pattern.

 My daughter asked me to make a quilt for her two daughters out of their baby clothes.  I cut the square from a soft pink cuddly bunting and put a trim around it.  I thought it looked really.  She asked me not to use it in the girls' quilts because this was an article of clothing that the girls never wore so it didn't hold any memory for her.  I thought the piece was really cute and so I created a quilt with this square being at the center.  I made four different types of borders to build the quilt up.  I found different types of borders that I had never done before and so I tried them out as a learning experience for me. Close look at the butterfly stitching that Doug used to quilt the quilt.  

January 2024 quilts - Strawberry Shortcake and her friend Huckleberry Pie.  Beautiful design quilted by Doug. Darling busy buzzing bees.  Doug used a bee design to quilt. Rag quilt - to use up flannel pieces.  30 10" squares  

Grant's quilt, March 2022.  Grant requested that we make him a quilt.  He and his family enjoy visiting the National Parks.  Amber was able to find fabric with the different national parks represented.  Doug created designs using animals that are found in the parks.  

I found this large piece of fabric and decided to do a simple quilt.  Really cute material.  I think I initially used it to make an apron for Audrey when she was a little girl.  After I finished binding it, I found a stack of this fabric cut into squares with contrasting fabric.  Too bad I had not seen it sooner, I could have made the quilt larger and with contrasting fabric.  But it is a cute little quilt anyway.  

Using up flannel - The first is yellow fabric against flannel with bees on it.  The bees are adorable.  The second quilt is called a rag quilt.  Pretty simple to sew.  No binding required.   January 2024  

Cardinal looking in the window.  This is a panel.  All we needed to do was add batting and a backing and then quilt.  Just in time for Christmas 2024