When my niece, Megan, let me know she was expecting another boy, I decided to make the new arrival a a close copy of his older brother's I Spy... quilt. Tommy's was done in grey. Danny's is done in blue. Most of the image blocks are different between the two quilts with just a couple exceptions.

I particularly liked the backing fabric I found for this quilt with all the undersea creatures - one more place where I Spy can be played.

Fabrics: 100% cotton
Batting: 2 layers Dream Cotton
​Thread: TuttiFrutti & Aurifil 50

This is a comfort quilt. The blocks were made by a variety of quilters. My friend, Carolyn, assembled them into a quilt top. I did the quilting.

In September, I took a class online with Bethanne Nemesh called "Freehand Florals." This quilt was my chance to practice some of what I learned in the class. Look closely at the sashing and you will see the flowers, leaves and swirls that I freehand quilted there. The daisies on the block points were also freehand quilted, but these were not from Bethanne's class.

I really loved this cheerful quilt and had lots of fun working on it.

I volunteer at Flower City Habitat for Humanity. The person I've been working most closely with and his wife are expecting a baby girl. That leftover piece from the Cotton Candy quilts may be just the ticket for a baby quilt!

I had no more of the exact lilac fabric in my stash from the original borders, but I had something similar. So, I cut off the remaining two original borders, then added white sashing and new lilac borders.

Yesterday my brother's oldest child, Megan, gave birth to a baby boy - Thomas! He is my brother and his wife's first grandchild - very exciting!

Today I finished this "I Spy" quilt for him. Actually, it has been mostly finished since March. I've just been waiting to learn the baby's name so I could make the label and sew on the binding.

This is the first "I Spy" quilt I've made. I again worked only from fabrics in my stash. The block design was inspired by a quilt I saw online, but I changed it up to work for this project. I decided to alternate rows of large blocks with four-patch blocks in order to use the various focus fabrics optimally. 

I made the surrounding blocks in gray and white because I know that gray is the trendy color for babies right now. After the quilt was almost done, I was pleased when I saw that Megan and Eamonn's registry included many items in gray. I actually went shopping for gray fabric, but didn't find anything I liked, so I used one of the black and white fabrics from my stash that reads as gray.

This quilt, like my previous couple of quilts, has a slight wobble along the edges after sewing on the binding. I did some research today, and I think I will try stay stitching the quilt edge before sewing binding to the next quilt I make.

One of my best friends, Marsha, who also happens to be married to the brother of my first husband, has a daughter Sara (my niece) who gave birth to a daughter, Eve, in 2013 (making me a great-aunt for the first time).

My friend, Carolyn, and I decided to make Eve a quilt. Knowing that Sara is a lover of bunnies and hedgehogs, we went online in search of fabrics featuring either of those critters. We found some really cute options which we ordered (I think they were my first-ever online fabric purchases) and ended up using most of them in this quilt. Too bad you can't really see them in this photo. But I guess that seeing that really cute baby makes up for that!

In the fall of 2002, our friend Sherry, adopted her first child, a daughter, Holly Lin. This quilt was made for her using a pattern from Stargazey Quilts named Spikey Stars. It is more of a technique than a pattern since, as you can see, it results in every block having a unique look.

I think I started this in a class, possibly held at Village Quilt Shop, which was owned by two members of the Show & Tell Quilters, Kathleen and Dorothy.

I made this quilt from a pattern. It was made for a good friend at work's first baby. Beth was a very talented graphic design who I worked with at Saatchi & Saatchi. This quilt was made for her son, David. 

This is my first and only ​Stack-n-Whack quilt.  I made it for my newly adopted nephew, Russell, son of my husband's brother, Peter, and his wife, Lynn.

Stack-n-Whack is an easy way to create quilt blocks with unique kaleidoscope designs. You cut and layer a set of identical print rectangles from a print fabric into a stack. 

Each triangle or wedge cut from the stack produces a block kit, a set of identical pieces that will create the kaleidoscope effect for one block.

This is made from a cute novelty print covered in dinosaurs. But, once I had applied the stack-n-whack method, it was almost impossible to find the dinosaurs in the resulting blocks. So, I ended up cutting out individual dinosaurs from the print fabric and appliqueing one of them onto four of the blocks. 

I had an alphabet print fabric in both a white background and a black background that I used for the sashing. I also cut the letters of Russell's name from one of those fabrics to applique onto the back.

I wish I had a better photograph of this quilt. I've always liked this pattern and was happy to have someone to make it for when my husband's younger brother Peter and his wife Lynn adopted their daughter, Brianna, in 1997.

This deceptively simple quilt was made for Hannah, daughter of my dear friend from Wellsville, Katie, who resides in Alaska. I incorporated a novelty print in primary colors full of boats, cars, trucks, and airplanes. I used them to draft quilting patterns that I stitched into the white squares of the quilt. (See detail shots in the Quilts gallery.)