gannyrosie's Gallery : 100% Cotton

Liam's & Caiden's Choo Choo Quilt

Mary Wrigley — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:43:25 GMT

I used the choo choo pattern from Patrick Loses's Special Delivery Quilts Book. Patrick had on train and under they had row's of Pinwheel's.. Well, I had to be different. I wanted just trains, so I put 3 rows of trains in bright colors. This was all machine done so it could go through the roughness of the boys ( my Grandson's). I love working with bright colors so most of my children quilts will be bright.

Lucas's Dragons

Mary Wrigley — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:31:01 GMT

Made this quilt for my son-n-law's twin brothers 1st son. My grandson loves dragons, so i took this as a practice. Pattern is from coloring books. All machined quilted since I figured it would need to be washed alot.

New Project in process

Mary Wrigley — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:32:50 GMT

My new project. Haven't quilted in a while, but I finally cleaned up my junk room and now Ganny has her Toy room back. So I'm finishing an unfinished project. My Aunt who taught me to quilt gave me these six panels, so I crossed stitched them probably 5 years ago and never knew what to do with them. So now that I have my room back, I decided to do something with it. However I have a question. I traced the designs using pencil (very lightly) cause that's how my Aunt always did them. The question is , what is the best thing to use to remove them once I've finished the quilt. Since it's all hand done I don't want to lighten up the threads.

Hand Quilted, Hand Stitched, Granny's Quilt

Mary Wrigley — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:09:39 GMT

I made this quilt for my daughter who will probably never get married. So I called it "Something Old, Something New, Somtthing Borrowed, But no Blue" Quilt. I love reusing old Clothes and pieces. She is now 29 and some of the fabric is from her clothes when she was in her teens, and some was from my high school dress's. I did have to buy some new fabric. I had always wanted to make one of these since I was 18, so now that I'm retired, I can sit and sew. Took me 9 months to finish doing about 1-3 hours a day.