March 2007 Challenge: Mattress-Sized Tops! (Page 1)

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Barb Vlack
The Neighborhood

Barb Vlack
Fours and Beads

Anne Hawn Smith
My Beloved

Dorothy Atkinson
A Lily from Our Garden

For clubEQ challenge, March, 2007: Create a quilt whose primary design fits on TOP of the bed.

For a queen-size bed.

I have made a quilt similar to this using novelty fabrics to characterize each house. It was addicting and a lot of fun to find just the right fabric to help name a house. With EQ6 I can print names of the houses with each block on the quilt to use as a quilt label.

St. Charles, Illinois USA

 

For clubEQ challenge, March, 2007: Create a quilt whose primary design fits on TOP of the bed.

For a twin size bed, mattress size 39" x 75".

A different look for a Streak of Lightning setting, using the Vertical Strip Quilts layout.

St. Charles, Illinois USA

My bed is an antique and is not a standard size. It is quite high , so I designed a fairly deep drop (to hide the boxes of material stashed under the bed!)

The top is made from all EQ6 blocks and I used a custom set. I changed some of the applique blocks to motifs to add the heron and the Sunbonnet couple at the top. The pond was made from a watermelon block sans seeds.

Fernandina Beach, FL

This is a very simple quilt. I really wanted to put this photo from our garden in it.

Then I had problems getting the right colours to go with it. Funnily enough it came together after I used the thread to outline the blocks, spacers and borders.

Thanks again Barb. and Andrea for a great "Challenge"

Dorothy Atkinson
Beautiful Georgian Bay
On.

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Dorothy Atkinson
"Do You Want to Go for a Walk in the Garden?"

Barbara Gilstad
Time for Tea

Barbara Gilstad
Mountain Laurel

Bertha Hawley
Scrap Heaven

My husband always says "do you want to go for a walk around the garden with me"?

Which of course I do.

I just thought I would show a bit of his handy work. This is a small corner of his beautiful garden in the back of our house.

I designed the flower blocks using the "Oval Tool" in EQ6.The little pots were drawn with the "Free Form Tool" and then adjusted to look something like a flower port. If you haven't tried it, it is so much fun. Imported the photo from my collection of pictures of our garden, and our pets. People too!! I really played around with the "Thread Tools". I used all of the "Thread Tools". They are fun too, just seeing how you can change the look. I had to leave the quilt alone because I started messing up. I still going to practise on it. I would rather see this as a wallhanging, of course, changing all of the sizes. I think a pictorial collage of the garden would be nice.

I was trying to think of something that would represent a path which my husband has placed between the beds of gardens so that we can walk around without our having to go through the flowers. I went to the EQ6 ready to try borders and found this one which to me was just perfect. It is from "Curved Borders" and is called "Simple Fans".

I learned so much from this "Challenge".
Oh yes, I really used the "Set Blocks" a lot this time. I managed to get the right size without the borders.

Thanks again Barb. and Andrea for a great "Challenge".

Dorothy Atkinson
Georgian Bay Ontario

Disigning this quilt was great fun because I imported one of my original embroidery designs in alternate blocks (see Time for Tea embrodiery design notecard for additional information).

This is my second entry in this month's challenge. I wish I could send you a bottle of the fragrance from the Moutain Laurel which is currently blooming in our front yard.

I saw a pattern similar to this where each strip is quilted as you go and bound individually. I plan on doing this quilt while living and traveling in a motor home full- time.

On the road in southeast Tennessee

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B. J. P. Curtis
Two-Handed Card Trick

Brenda W
Flower Quilt

Carien Verbiest
Playing Bears

Carien Verbiest
daffodils double bed cloth

First EQ6 Submission

Oklahoma

 

With application motif from bears and balls.

Rotterdam
the Netherlands

Rotterdam
the Netherlands

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Carol Campbell
Flowers Around The Block

Carol Campbell
Tall Ships

Celia Norman
Sister's Choice

Charlotte Kleiner
"No Bed of Roses" variation 1

twin XL and finished size is 71 x 96 inches

Well, I love all the muted and dusty colors. The idea of making a quilt using these colors appealed to me. The subtle colors of the blocks in the backgroud make a great setting for the applique flowers and the flower colors don't have to be too strong with the subdued colors of the background blocks.
I used the diamond border setting and blocks from the library were edited slightly and used in the topper.

Ireland

Queen Size: 92 x 96 inches

I liked Barb's quilt in her example of March's eq challenge. Adding text to a block is new to me. I used a block from the library to make a Queen size top with the borders.

The quilt design is a gentle reminder of another quilt _ which is one of my ufo's that also has a sea & sand theme and is waiting to be made complete.

Ireland

I would never make a quilt without a top border because you can only use it one way round.

Canmore, Alberta

For this quilt challenge I used the quilt block "No Bed of Roses" from AnglePlay Copyright 2005 Margaret J. Miller

Winnipeg MB Canada

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Charlotte Kleiner
"No Bed of Roses" variation 2

Christiane W.
Roses

Claudia Chang
Mattress Top

Carol E. Skrube
Meandering Stars

For this quilt challenge I used the quilt block "No Bed of Roses" from AnglePlay Copyright 2005 Margaret J. Miller

Winnipeg MB Canada

 

Taiwan

My daughter picked out these two blocks for a scrap quilt and I decide to use them
for this challenge. This is for a full size bed.

Sheboygan, Wi.

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Daphne Stewart ©
Ribbons Supreme

Daphne Stewart ©
"Will I know when I get there?"

Deborah Calyo
Impossible Dream

Donna Fisher
Woven Ribbons Variation

My husband named this quilt, bless his heart. I designed the blocks for this queen-size spread. The top has four variations of a 'Woven Ribbons' block and the drop/border has three versions of 'Ribbon Ends'.

I designed, sewed, and quilted -- on a regular sewing machine -- a bedspread similar to this using 16 different fabrics for the ribbons. (I quilted it in five sections, joined them, then finished the backing seams by hand.) A well-loved magazine gave me a contract for the real one!

Sunnyside, Washington

I recently achieved my first perfect Drunkard's Path block, along with 15 others that were not so perfect. Having sewed such a baby quilt, am I ready to tackle the 78 Drunkard's Paths needed for this queen-size bedspread? Let me think about this a while ...

I spent some time trying to get the border blocks to be the same size as the top: 10". But the beauty of EQ is that it's as easy to prepare 9" blocks for the border as it is to redesign -- maybe easier.

Sunnyside, Washington

This is a quilt for a queen size bed. The top is 60" x 80" with a 15" drop all around, making the finished size 90" x 110". I called it Impossible Dream because if I really tried to complete this quilt, it would be a 2 lifetimes project!!

New York

Variation on a quilt top just finished.

Blocks current Sensational Sampler block-of-the-month at Quilting Patch, Tallahassee.

Color choices finalized using EQ.

Tallahassee, FL

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Donna Fisher
Woven Ribbons

D. Kathy Willis
Merging Log Cabin with Sashing

Donna St Jean
Pyramids

Donna St Jean
Pyramids II

Woven Ribbons variation. Similar quilt top (using brown) just completed as part of Sensational Sampler block-of-the-month at Quilting Patch in Tallahassee. Focus fabric is dark flower Russian-feel "Katrina" by Timeless Treasures.

Tallahassee, FL

Layout - Custom Set (Queen w/ 18" drop)
Borders - Block, Long Horizontal

The custom 12" block mimics four merging log cabin blocks. The sashing is incorporated into the block design.

The half blocks were created by cropping the custom block to a temporary 6" border.
The strips in the outer borders were created by dropping custom strip blocks into a block border.

Note that this log cabin version requires the use of medium fabrics, as well as the typical lights and darks.

Houston, Texas, USA

Owatonna MN

Owatonna MN

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Elaine Grasher
Thinking of Easter

Eileen Hoheisel
Cari and Dave's Hunter Star

Ellen Daley
Wilde Grow the Poppies

Ellen Daley
Log Cabin Nights under the Northern Lights

I was just in the mood for an Easter quilt for a kid's bed.

Texas

This is a WIP, a wedding quilt for my daughter and her husband--who have been married almost a year already. I didn't get it done by the wedding and told them I would by the time they needed it last fall. She said, "Oh that's okay, we have the one I made Dave for his birthday last year." She now knows that was a mistake! I WILL have it done by their first anniversary.

The pattern is from a old magazine, it was paper pieced and that's not my idea of fun, so I redrew it and resized in with EQ. And changed it a million times since. The first border will be partly on top of the mattress, but if I add another row, it throws off the symmetry, and that would drive both Cari and I nuts.

The orange fabric is actually orange, purple, gold palm trees with an 8" repeat and that will be the outer border. The other wide border depends on the amount of fabric left when I'm done with the blocks.

Pierz, MN

Sixteen Points and Celtic Patch 2 and 3 from the EQ Block Library form the basis for this king-sized quilt.

I added an inner border of blocks I drew to complement elements of the Sixteen Points block.

I would use more fabrics in the flowers for a scrappier look, but had to delete many to get the file size under 1MB!

Fairbanks, Alaska

This quilt is composed of Rainbow Logs blocks from the EQ6 Block Library with a drop border of blocks I drew to complement them.

The drop border looks like the Aurora Borealis, and bright colors are an absolute must to counteract the taupes, whites, and greys of our winters up here!

Fairbanks, Alaska