Quilting Scrapbook Album

I made a scrapbook album of all of the quilts I've ever made (well, the ones I managed to get pictures of, anyway), and I just about finished the album. I still have to take a picture of the first quilt I ever started, but didn't finish until December 2001. Anyway, here are the pages (click for bigger versions, of course). Warning: the bigger versions are MUCH bigger versions. For the pages that have journaling, I've typed it out here so you can read it.

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	A small Bridal Bouquet pillow I made for some friends of Mike who were getting married. This was my first pillow, and my first set-in seams! I think it turned out well, but I certainly learned a lot on the way. - August 1999		I made this Buzzsaw wall-hanging when I took a mystery class at Becky's Fabrics in August, 1999. The instructions called for 12 fat quarters and a coordinating background. I like the quilt, but would prefer more contrast.
	This is the first quilt I finished all the way through, and the first class I signed up for. It was a four-part series, designed to teach very new beginners everything they'd need to know to make a quilt from beginning to end. It's a wall-hanging, Double Irish chain, with a maple leaf in the open parts. I blanket-stitched around the edges of the leaves, using my sewing machine. I was very pleased with the way it came out, except for the "invisible" thread I used in the yellow sections. - September 1999.		A simple, fun "one-block-wonder." I paper-pieced a frog block, using a background fabric I thought looked like rippled water. I was practicing some of the decorative stitches my new sewing machine could do, hence the wobbly stipple stitch in the green border. Another one of my very early quilts. I gave this one to my friend Melanie, who loves frogs. - September 1999.
	A tiny little paper-pieced tree quilt I made to practice decorative stitches my new Bernina 180E could do. I finished it before I learned the right way to do the binding, so the edges are lumpy and unfinished, but I still think it's cute. September 1999.		My mother, Della Coe, loves to watch birds. When I made this quilt for her, she was living in Kemp, Texas, and could look out her back window and see birds there. I got the paper-pieced patterns from a magazine, and used scraps from other projects to make the blocks. It was the first quilt I entered in a fair, and it won a blue ribbon! - September 1999
	This miniature wallhanging was made in October 1999, at my first Quilt Camp. I bought the kit at the Spokane Quilt Show, and made the quilt as a break from other things I was working on. It's made of foundation-pieced log cabin blocks, using scrappy greens, cream-on-creams, and white-on-creams. The outer border is a holly print with a bit of metallic gold for accents. The buttons were all sewn on by hand. This is one of my favorite quilts, and it's always fun to bring it out at Christmastime.		I wanted to make this quilt to hang over the front door around Halloween. I didn't realize that it was too big for that purpose! The pattern came from a quilting magazine, and the purple fabrics came from the $1.00 fat quarter bin. The border is a Debbie Mumm border print, the sashing a brown batik left over from a sunflower paper-piecing project, and the rest scraps from other projects. The quilt was great fun to make. - October 1999.
	I made this paper-pieced wall-hanging for a friend's birthday in November 1999. I used buttons for the eyes, and machine-stitched the pawpads in pink thread.		Mike's mother saw a quilt like this on display at our local store when she came to town for a visit after we were married. she asked me to make one for her just like it, and even bought the kit. I finished it in December 1999. It was my most challenging paper-piecing project to date, but turned out quite well.
	I made this quilt top in January 2000 for the charity Wrap Them in Love, which delivers handmade quilts and blankets to orphanages all over the world. The quilt is mostly made of very bright Moda Marbles.
	A bunch of ladies on the QuiltingFrenzy quilting group decided to work together to make an I-Spy quilt for the son of one of the members. Alex suffered from mitochondrial myopathy, and was confined to his bed for most of his life. he had developmental problems and far more health issues than any small boy ought. Women from around the world contributed small swatches of colorful "novelty" fabrics, and sent them to me to be assembled. I contributed the fabric for the sashing, and someone else contributed the border and backing fabrics. It was completed in March 2000 and given to him shortly after.		I was very disappointed that I had to miss Candice's graduation, but I just couldn't make it. So instead, I made her a quilt that she could take with her to college and use in her dorm. I designed a twin-sized heart quilt with e-D flaps, in all kinds of jewel tone fabrics. I quilted it with variegated jeans thread, and used a wild star print for the backing. I machine-embroidered a label for the quilt, and got it applied. The entire quilt was made at the April 2000 quilt camp, and she got it in plenty of time for her graduation.
	Shelley Doyle and Dian Schaffhauser have been very important in our life as a couple. Mike knew them before we were married, but we've both become close to them since. This small table runner was made belatedly in honor of their marriage.		I made this stained glass daffodil in a class in April 2000, and subsequently entered it in the St. John Fair. It won the purple ribbon for the wall-hanging category! I love the way it turned out, and don't really know why I haven't made more of them. I used fusible bias binding for the black strips, and fused the individual pieces to the background. it was very easy to make, and the hardest part was doing all the stitching on the bias tape to make sure it stayed down.
	I finished this quilt in May 2000 for my friend, Steve Rojo. He lives in California, and even with the heat there he says he likes to snuggle down under his Jacob's Ladder quilt. I liked the way it looked when it was all done, but I'll never make another one - too monotonous!		I made this Puzzle Quilt for my mother, Della Coe, in May 2000. I purchased the pattern and the fabrics - pre-kitted, at Becky's Fabrics and Bernina in Colfax, Washington.