Showing posts with label quilt completed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quilt completed. Show all posts

Sunday, September 06, 2026

binding for fall, double 4-patch on point; red and white bar quilt, stacked bricks quilts completed

Double 4-Patch on Point
83 1/2 by 67 inches
top completed 2025
quilt completed 2026
quilted by Sue DiVarco
Directions and details HERE 

Red and White Bar quilt, Stacked Bricks
80 by 68 inches
quilt completed 2026
quilted by Sue DiVarco
Directions and details HERE


Sunday, August 09, 2026

binding for late summer into fall: 16-patch bar quilt, summer flicker, protest quilt


Red and White 16-patch Bar Quilt
top compoleted 2025, quilt completed 2026
66 by 51 inches
Quilted by Sue DiVarco
Details HERE
Summer Flicker
72 by 63 inches
top completed 2025, quilt completed 2026
Details HERE
quilted by Sue DiVarco
from a design by Julia Davis
Protest Quilt: Resistance & Resilience
quilt completed 2026
about 31 by 38 inches
I quilted this one myself
details HERE

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

binding work for late spring into summer: Tulips, Summer Stars, Red Aggies, Umbrellas

Tulips 
83 by 65 inches
quilt completed 2026
from a pattern by Bess Casey Wilke of Side Lake Stitch
quilted by Sue DiVarco
details HERE

Summer Stars
81 by 67 inches
finished 2026
From a pattern by Julia Davis
quilted by Sue DiVarco
details HERE

Red Aggies Log Cabin
90 1/2 by 75 1/2 inches
finished 2026
from a pattern by Kathy Hamada
quilted by Sue DiVarco
Details HERE

Umbrellas 
71 by 62 inches
quilt finished 2026
block is from a pattern by Lindsey at Pen + Paper
quilted by Sue DiVarco
details HERE

Wednesday, August 06, 2025

scottie dogs, binding! quilt completed


Scottie Dogs

top completed 2024
Quilt completed 2025
68 by 62 inches

Quilted by Sue Divarco

48 blocks set 6 across and 8 down
Block finishes 5 by 6 inches
I used Kona Snow for the white
Go HERE to read about the quilt and links to directions.

My design, use at your pleasure.

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

teacups, red and white, binding


Teacups

I Need a Cup of Tea
about 54 inches square
Pieced in the days following the November election.

54 blocks
Block finishes 3 by 5 inches
Exquisitely quilted by Sue DiVarco. She quilted a tealeaf in each teacup.

Block constructions is HERE.
Sashing directions are HERE.
Top assembly is HERE.


Friday, May 09, 2025

lady of the lake

 

Lady of the Lake
Quilt completed 2025
96 by 80 inches
quilted by Sue DiVarco

I show how to make the block HERE.
Top construction is HERE.
I cut for this top when I made the Ocean Waves. This one uses several larger motif fabrics.

Thursday, May 08, 2025

bullseye chain

 
16-patch with bullseye chain
96 by 80 inches
Quilt completed 2025
Block finishes 8 inches
quilted by Sue DiVarco

Binding on the Bullseyes has begun.
Directions for this quilt are HERE.

Monday, March 24, 2025

ocean waves, binding

Ocean Waves
top completed 2024
quilt completed 2025
96 by 80 inches
120 blocks, block finishes 10 inches

I talk about the block construction HERE
Layout options HERE
And quilt completion HERE

Monday, March 10, 2025

framed coins

Framed Coins
Chinese coins, 1930's repros framed blocks
Top completed 2024
Quilt completed 2025
70 by 50 inches
35 blocks
Blocks finish 10 inches

Directions on making this quilt are HERE.



Thursday, February 27, 2025

red and white ladder, binding!

Red and White Ladder
top completed 2024
quilt completed 2025
81 by 68 inches
quilted by Sue Divarco

I realize I don't get completed quilts photographed very often and it often is years after I finish them that I do so.
I have decided to start posting them at the binding stage as that is something I can photograph more easily and can post them when I am actually at the completion stage.
Here is my Red and White Ladder quilt.
Directions on how to make it are HERE.

I have asked the kids to help me photograph the backlog of dozens of quilts!

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

fragments, quilt completed


Fragments

(Floating Fragments pattern by Jamie Siel)

Quilt completed 2024
78.5 by 65 inches
Quilted by Sue DiVarco

White is Kona Snow
Red scraps

Jamie Siel of Sew Brainy Designs has a delightful pillow pattern series she does for Riley Blake. Her October 2023 "Floating Fragments" pillow begged to be scaled up to quilt size.
Her description of it is HERE.
The pattern tutorial is HERE.
My adaptation is described HERE.

My final finish for 2024.

Sunday, December 31, 2023

red and white sreak of lightning, quilt completed

Red and White Streak of Lightning
about 92 by 74 inches
2023
Details on construction here.
My directions for a traditional design--use at your your pleasure.
Quilted by Sue Divarco. I like how the red thread of the quilting looks like baubles in the white parts (Kona Snow).
My final finish for 2023. I finished the top a year ago this week.

About 18 months ago I had one red and white quilt. I had a desire to have a stack of red and white quilts. Now I have 4 completed--a stack!
And two more being quilted, one more top in progress, and about 6 more in my head.
And I have more red fabric than when I started.

Tuesday, October 03, 2023

bernina x 64, quilt completed


Bernina x 64
about 70 inches square
Top completed 2022
Quilt completed 2023
Quilted by Sue Divarco

I explain the piecing of the quilt at HERE. I was inspired by Warhol's Marilyn x 100 that hangs in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
I used a slightly altered Fat Quarters Shop's Sewcialities block 33 by Lori Holt.
Made with solid fabrics, mainly Kona and Moda. Border is Kona Glacier.
It was a fun block to sew. The 64 was for me being 64 when I pieced it.

A new building has gone up a block to the west and I am having trouble picking the right time/cloud cover for quilt photography. And also trouble finding willing family members for quilt photography. I have quite the backlog of finished quilts to post!

Sunday, May 28, 2023

summer quilt, quilt completed


Summer Quilt

2023
94 1/2 by 81 inches
Quilted by Sue Divarco

378 blocks.
Adapted from the delightful pattern I Spy Low Volume of Allison Jensen of Woodberry Way
Here is her blog post about it.
Here is a link to her printable pattern
Here are my notes on changes I made in construction.

It is a calming, fresh quilt. Feels like summer. It is more beautiful in person than it photographs.
The fabrics are mine plus from an exchange with my small group. We laughed and said many of our low volume fabrics were not using their inside voices.
Some of my mom's scraps made it in here too from her 1960s sewing.

Use my modifications of Allison's great pattern at your pleasure.




Wednesday, May 24, 2023

cut glass dish, quilt completed

Cut Glass Dish

2023
96 by 84 inches
quilted by Sue Divarco

My directions for making it are included here.
I am really pleased with how this one turned out.


Saturday, March 25, 2023

pink framed square, quilt completed

 
Pink Framed Square
88 by 84 inches
completed 2023

It is a wedding gift to our daughter and son-in-law.

You can read my process with cutting and sewing instructions here:
https://kleinmeisjequilts.blogspot.com/2022/12/framed-square-top-completed.html
I like how on point quilts make their own border.

Pink is Kona Peony
Back is Earth Day Fly Away by August Wren for Dear Stella
Quilted with a wool batt by Sue Divarco

The quilt is inspired by a vintage one Bonnie Hunter had on her Instagram last summer. I drafted it and worked on it thinking it might make a dent in my 1 1/2 inch solid squares. It used them up!  So I paused this quilt and made the sewing machine quilt to generate more solid squares. 

It is difficult to photograph this quilt. The closer up pictures are nearer to true color.


My design drafted from a vintage quilt. 
Use at your pleasure.



Saturday, December 31, 2022

alphabet with checkerboard, quilt completed


Alphabet with checkerboard
quilt completed 2022
About 67 inches square

Setting is mine.
Letters adapted from Lisa Bogean's pattern for Primitive Gatherings.
Construction details are posted here.

Some, but not all, of the letters have fabric where the image references the letter:
Kittens, Eggs, Roosters, Dogs, Teapots and Teacups, Scissors, Horses. Frogs, Musical notes, 
Used up some bits of indigo picked up on a trip to Japan in 1989.
This is my 6th alphabet quilt.

Medallion setting is mine. Use at your pleasure.

My final finish for 2022. It has been a good year.