Quilts from My Past

So I was rambling through the disk from my old computer and I saw some of my quilt pictures.  I do not have these quilts any more, so here are my memories.

This one is The Tie Quilt. It was a commission from a friend whose husband does not need to wear a tie to work.  He had a wonderful tie collection and this would be a way to enjoy the artwork on the ties rather than have them sitting in a closet.

I used black batting because I had noticed in a quilt with a burgundy top, the white batting would sometimes show through and it looked like fuzz all over. I think Timna Tarr quilted this.  Whoever did it, she had a bear of a time going over the appliqued ties (bumpy).

The back of the Tie Quilt has part of his tee shirt collection.  They are pretty special too.

Here is the more of the back in progress.

Here's a small shot of The Free Spirit of Massachusetts.  It is part of the Pentagon 9/11 Quilt Collection.  A year ago, with the help of local politicians, it was donated to the Women in Military History Museum which is at the gates of Arlington National Cemetery.  Most visitors to the Cemetery do not know the Museum is there.  It is privately operated and is desperate need of funds.  Its mission is to honor and identify female WW II veterans (and others).  They need a fundraiser!!

The Purple Quilt is now belongs to my sister, Sherylann.  She LOVES purple and as soon as I got it back from Jeanne Harlow who machine quilted it for me, I gave it to Sherylann.  She was hinting around that she wanted one in purple and I had to give her an estimate of the costs to discourage her commissioning one so I could get this one to her!

Another commission and labor of love was for a new little boy who lives in LaGrange, Illinois.  It's The Aquarium, which the proud grandparents dubbed The Shedd (the Chicago Aquarium). It's rows of mini aquaria, so the picture is in pieces.  Jeanne Harlow did the machine quilting.

This is a Maplefish.  (I totally made up the fish and the name.)

And here's my friend, Petey ...

(He's a hand made applique.)


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Colonel Vinskey is long gone to Heaven.  His granddaughter took his quilt.  On the back, there is a drawing that I did of a B50 bomber which he flew in the Air Force.  There's also some blueberry fabric to commemorate his wonderful cultivated blueberry bushes in his backyard.  I added an Ohio star, because one of  his sons lives in Ohio. There is also some bee fabric on the back -- he had bee hives in the backyard too. I still the miss the Colonel's voice booming, "Good morning!!" when I would walk the dog before work.

It is not meant to be ... the only image I have is pasted into a Word document and I can't convert it to a graphic.  The top is a series of squares with burgundy, tan, greens in plaids (he often wore plaid shirts).  The quilt squares are separated by burgundy borders.
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Finally, here's a boot in progress.  I have finished the applique of this men's dress boot.  There is supposed to be another applique of a very feminine high heeled shoe on its side nuzzled to the boot.  There's a long story and a reason (besides sloth) that this wall hanging is unfinished.

That's it so far.  I have made many more quilts, but the pics must be in other dead computers ...