Made at a quilt retreat in Mt. Shasta given by Linda Ballard, I changed the name of this quilt to "Tying the Knot on Country Crossroads" and gave it to my niece, Carrie, when she married Ryan, July 1, 2000.
This queen size quilt is hand and machine quilted. Below is a detail of the heart on the pillow runner (the runner has two fabric 'slings' on the back to hold pillows and thus acts as a sham).
Exhibited in the 2001 Annie Star Quilt Show.
Sedona
The table runner wedding quilt for Ryan and Holly (West) Jones was designed to match the Sedona pattern on their china.
They were married July 21, 2001 in Montgomery, Il. It was a perfect excuse for Tom and I to take a train trip to Illinois! The beautiful ceremony and reception took place on the banks of the Fox River.
Log Cabin
The table runner wedding quilt for Jesse and Loeta (Oviedo) Robles was designed to match their choice of linen napkins which were a dark green. The accent of purple picked up the lavender color in their potholders and kitchen towels. Hand quilting included hearts in the corners and echo hearts at the edges.
They were married August 25, 2001 at Canyon Oaks Country Club, Chico, CA. Special guests included many of Loeta's paternal relatives from Peru, South America.
Linked Hearts
A watercolor technique was used to make this wall hanging wedding quilt for Harley and Jen (Goewey) Leighty who were married June 30, 2001 at Canyon Oaks Country Club, Chico, CA. It was machine quilted following the heart shapes and the background was stippled.
Our Honeymoon Quilt
Tom and I drove around the United States in the spring of 1969 for our honeymoon. When we returned to our US Forest Service cabin in Sly Park, CA (where Tom was working), I used slides from our trip and painted squares of muslin with dye. For the sashing, I used scraps of fabric from skirts and dresses I'd made for myself. The border and the back are bedsheets and the batting is a thermal blanket. I tied the quilt.
Sometime I would like to remove the sheets and blanket and quilt the top correctly.
From top left the squares are... the back of our Mustang, the Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns, the Cowboy Hall of Fame, the Houston Astrodome (and a baseball signed by Clay Carroll, pitcher, that he gave us as a souvenir), a Florida beach, the Washington Monument, a wine bottle and view of the Fingerlakes region of New York (where we stopped for a visit with Constantine Frank, an enology professor Tom had while at UC Davis), the cabin we stayed in at the Kentucky Caves (with racoon raiding our garbage), St. Louis where we saw the Cardinals play, an antique school desk we got from Bemidji, Minnesota (Tom's mother's home town, where I met and we visited with family), and finally home to our US Forest Service cabin.
Indian Orange Peel
Made in 2000 for my daughter's wedding (September 16, 2000), this was a foundation pieced quilt pattern my Karen Stone. I bought the pattern when Karen Stone came to speak to our Annie Star Quilt Guild (Chico, CA) and probably never would have made the quilt unless Lani and Briny had not chosen it for their wedding quilt; I'm glad they did!
The label included a copy of their invitation and their wedding program along with details about the actual quilt.
Exhibited in the 2001 Annie Star Quilt Show.
Romance Behind the Barn
The log cabin pattern was used for the center of my son, Adam, and daughter-in-law, Julia's wedding quilt. The quilt is made mostly of flannels, including pieces of two flannel shirts that belonged to Adam and Julia. The queen sized quilt also has applique in the border. The barn in one corner is a replica of the barn at my parents' home where Adam proposed to Julia...ergo the title of the quilt. The label includes a copy of their wedding invitation and copy of a portrait they gave my husband and me for Christmas, 2001.
They were married Saturday, January 19, 2002 at the Holy Redeemer Church in Portland, Oregon in the presence of immediate family members.
Dave and Jenny Fipp
The quilt I made for my niece, Jenny Roney and her husband, Dave Fipp, was from a Linda Ballard retreat I attended in Mt. Shasta.
Jenny and Dave were married July 6, 2002 in Chico.
The queen size quilt was hand and machine quilted. Two matching pillows were made to add to the top of their bed.
Luke and Megan Barnes
The quilt I made for my niece, Megan Roney and her husband, Luke Barnes, was from a book my friend, Bonnie McWilliams and I purchased in Mt. Shasta. She made a wedding quilt for her daughter, Cari. The book is COOKIES 'N' QUILTS by Judy Martin and the quilt pattern is "I Have a Dream."
Megan and Luke were married August 28, 2004 in San Luis Obispo.
The queen size quilt is slightly different from the original pattern as I wanted to applique the heart in the center. The quilt was machine quilted.
The photo below shows the quilt top before borders were attached and before the center hearts were embroidered.
The quilt I made for Dawn Seger's wedding, was signed by her many friends at Paradise Elementary School. We all wish her many years of happiness and love.
She was married October 7, 2007 at Lake Tahoe.
I designed the layout of the wall hanging, but used some of the block patterns found in the "Love's Celebration" quilt given to Glenna Clark on her retirement
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The two photos on the left below show the quilt center (which was hand quilted with heart shapes) and the square detailing the dedication of the quilt and the date.
The photos on the right show Dawn receiving her quilt and the small square which was from scraps and was my Week 16 square in my journal quilt
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Zack and Sasha Wiener-Coil
Zack and Sasha's wedding quilt was a nine patch of embroidered patterns using white-on-white fabric. It was 36" square.
Zack and Sasha were married August 23, 2008 in Occidental, CA in a beautiful outdoor ceremony beneath the towering coastal redwoods.
The photos below show the ceremony and the happy couple at their reception.
Zack is the son of John and Chris Coil, long-time college friends of ours from Davis, CA.
This queen size quilt is hand and machine quilted. Below is a detail of the heart on the pillow runner (the runner has two fabric 'slings' on the back to hold pillows and thus acts as a sham).
