Spoon River Christmas

Spoon River Christmas is one of my earlier machine quilted quilts and is still one of my favorites.  It has been featured in the last two editions of Harriet Hargrave’s Heirloom Machine Quilting Books.  It is quilted with a pale yellow 60wt. Cotton thread.  I have often driven through the Spoon River Valley near my home and thought in winter this peaceful valley provided a fitting title for this beautiful Christmas quilt.

· Best Machine Quilting, NQA, 1994

· Best Machine Quilting, Quilt America, 1997

· Special Exhibit, Free Motion Masterpieces, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Mass., 2004

SIMPLE ELEGANCE

Simple Elegance is a large quilt. (85x101 in.) It is invisible machine appliqué with the traditional old Ohio Blue Leaf Pattern. Machine trapunto and dense machine quilting add dimension to the quilt.  I always thought of this quilt with its simple design and intricate feather circles and borders as an elegant quilt.

· First , appliqué, Illinois State Fair

· Best Machine Quilting, NQA, 1995

· Best of Show, Mississippi Valley Show, 1996

· Featured in Great American Quilts, 1998

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