On this page are quilts that have either been pieced and quilted by us or pieced in anonymity and restored and quilted by us. Either way you are investing in a family heirloom that you can pass on to your children or give to someone special in your heart. Click on any picture for a larger view and should you have any questions please contact us - we’d love to hear from you.

DNA

87” x 80”

$1,195.00

This is indeed a scrappy quilt - some scraps were smaller than 1” and irregularly shaped!  It was an exciting quilt to build because each & every little piece presented a challenge of how and where to place it.

Colour took the lead running up 5 very different crooked strands. How to bond together these wobbly elements was the next challenge. A black band was cut and added to emulate the wavering edges of each strand to contain the energy. The real glue came when I found a dotty fabric; not only did it reiterate the colours of the strands, albeit more subtly, but it was also black based. Bingo! And if you know anything about sewing, you know how difficult it was to join this “Bingo” fabric to that curvy black strip. The relative “calm” was restored when this dotty border ended with a straight edge, to which broad yellow sashes were added. Lets not get boring, after all!

The name of this quilt is DNA  because these 5 different strips, once black and dotty bordered, reminded me of DNA strands. Also, this quilt reminds me of family and that old quilt saying:

“Families are like quilts, lives pieced together stitched with smiles and tears

coloured with memories and bound by love”.