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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	This was a housewarming present - a log cabin pillow - I made for a couple of friends in July 2000.		Mike's mom loves to have table runners to put out as decorations for various seasons and holidays. She chose everything about this one herself: pattern and fabrics. I made it for her as a gift, and she was very pleased with it. All three of the fabrics are metallic, so this is a very "glitzy" quilt. - November 2000
	I met a woman online who suffered from mitochondrial myopathy. She was a member of my online quilting community, QuiltingFrenzy. Through the stories about her and her family (many of her children were similarly afflicted) we learned about the disease, and about the UMDF - United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation. Several members of QuiltingFrenzy decided to work together to make a raffle quilt for UMDF. We hoped they would be able to use the proceeds to help fund research into mitochondrial disease. Each of us made one or more 12" blocks to be used in the quilt. I assembled them together into the quilt top, added borders, then took it to the local quilt store for quilting. Once it was all done, i added binding and a label and shipped it to the UMDF. The quilt was completed in January, 2001.		I made this quilt in January 2001 for my dad and step-mom, Don and Bobbie Jones. I tried to match the colors they had in their bedroom the last time I was there, but couldn't remember if I got close enough or not. I don't like working with florals in general, and the colors in this quilt are not my style. This is probably my least favorite quilt, because of the fabrics used. I chose the double Irish chain pattern in honor of my family's Irish heritage.
	Mike's mother, Pauline, loves to decorate her home with festive table runners. Whenever I ask her what she would like as a gift, that's her first choice. These are two of the table runners I've made for her. "Mom" picked out both the fabric and the pattern for the green quilt herself. All I had to do was make it! We gave it to her as a birthday present in 2001. It was finished in February. Mom & Dad's country club were having a charity auction, and Mom commissioned the purple-and-yellow table runner of me for her entry. I used purple thread to machine-stitch flowers in the centers of the blocks. I used a bright, multi-color floral print for the background. Finished November 2001.		I made this quilt from a  pattern called Puzzling Stars in April 2001. It's a flannel quilt, and I bought the fabric for it in a kit. Once the top was put together with the sashing, Mike and I took Adam to the store and I selected three possibilities for the border. We held Adam in front of the three and let him "choose", by seeing which one he lunged for first. After the top was assembled, I quilted it using meandering free-motion, and with various words included in the quilting. It is bound in black flannel, which was probably the hardest part about the whole thing!
	When I went to my first meeting of the Patchin' People of Pullman in April 2001, they gave out some paper-piecing patterns for Easter eggs. I took them home, and made this wall-hanging using them. I had the border fabric (also in this page's title) already, which I had bought on a half-off sale. I used scraps to make the eggs, which I then machine-appliqueed onto the background fabric - a fat quarter of a crackly green. I did a small stipple in the "grass" and a larger stipple in the border. I made the whole thing in an afternoon.		I made this Newport Sampler in May 2001 for our second anniversary. It was extra special because we had taken our honeymoon in Newport, Oregon.
	It was the last week of school, and since teacher Mike Anderson was about to lose a group of students he had taught for two years, I decided to help them make a quilt. On June 1, 2001 I went to Endicott elementary school armed with muslin and masking tape. I told the students to draw pictures on the muslin with crayons of whatever memory from the previous two years stood out in their memory the most. The drawings were really cute (a couple drew a picture of the time they came to our farm for a field trip). I assembled the blocks into a quilt and presented it to Mr. Anderson later that week. A reporter from the county newspaper came by to take a picture of the class and me in the library, and it appeared in the paper.		Made for Lyn Millett and Steve Bogart, wed September 2001.
	I made this quilt in one day - September 11, 2001. I spent the whole day in my nightgown, after Mike woke me to tell me a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I stitched it up using scraps from another flannel project I had recently finished, crying the whole time, and watching endless CNN coverage of the terrorist tragedy of the day. I didn't know at the time what I would do with it, but by the end of the day I had decided to put together an auction benefiting the Red Cross Emergency Relief Fund. This quilt sold on October 3, 2001 for $52.00. When all was said and done, we had raised $1150.00. Items were donated by quilt shops, book authors, and quilters alike.		After the tragedy of September 11, 2001, everyone was left with this awful feeling of powerlessness. People around the world wanted to do anything they could to get rid of that feeling. Some went to "Ground Zero" to help with the rescue and cleanup efforts. Some donated blood. Some donated money or time to causes such as the American Red Cross. I decided to organize an auction by and for quilters to raise money for the American Red Cross Emergency Relief Fund. This Rail Fence quilt is one of the two quilts I made for that auction. It raised $113.50 on eBay, and sold on September 23, 2001.
	<<This quilt pic will be added... eventually.>>		My friends Anne and Drew Campbell approached me about doing a commissioned quilt for their new bed after they moved to the Boston area from San Francisco. This is the pattern they selected, a Fons & Porter design called "Stars and Crosses." I purchased the kit for the quilt from Fons & Porter's online store. Several members of the quilt group, the Needlers, helped me lay the blocks out at one of our meetings. It was quilted by Susie Johnson of Pullman. The Campbells were thrilled with their Civil War-era reproduction piece.
	I made this simple quilt in July 2002 for the birth of John and Laura's baby, Rosanna. I just fussy-cut the fairy cats, put two borders around them, then set the blocks with sashing and border. I did some decorative stitching to accent the skirts and wings on the fairies, but otherwise the quilting was very understated.		When we were little girls, my grandmother, Virgil Marie Payne, made each of her granddaughters Dutch Doll quilts. Her colors were a lot more coordinated than the ones in this picture. I lost my quilt sometime while I was in drill team, but I never forgot the quilt. It was her inspiration that got me stared quilting. I borrowed her pattern - which she had kept over the years - and made a lap quilt for her using it. I made the quilt scrappy, using leftovers from other quilts I had made along the way (including many she would've seen that are owned by other family members). I sent her pattern back to her, along with the quilt. I wasn't there to see her open it, but I understand she was thrilled with it, and takes it with her everywhere. October 2002.
	I made this quilt for Adam for Christmas 2002. There was no pattern, I just made it up as I went along. That kind of freedom was so fun1 I started with the paper-pieced animals, which became the zoo. I then added the houses, trees, and other elements. Adam wasn't very excited about it, until I explained he could play cars on it!		Patricia Magaret and Donna Slusser gave me these hand-dyed fabrics in exchange for admission into the Mall Crawl one year. A couple of years later, when I was trying to learn curved piecing to make Candice's Double Wedding Ring quilt, Patricia taught me how to make Drunkard's Path blocks, and suggested I practice them before I started the Double Wedding Ring. I thought it only fitting that I used the hand-dyed fabrics as my practice. This quilt is the result, and was given to Kayla for a baby quilt. September 2003.