Handmade Holiday 2025

Now that Christmas gifts have been opened, I can share two mini quilts I made for family members!

My husband runs in a park early (like it is still dark early) each morning and often encounters various wildlife. Recently, he and a coyote met up on the trail and the coyote just walked right on by him! Each year, I make him a mini quilt to commemorate some animal encounter. (See the 2024 version.) The coyote pattern came from Quilt & Dagger Designs and the alphabet is from Carolyn Friedlander.

My second mini was to celebrate my daughter who finds delight in so many things!

Have a wonderful day! Patty

Happy Dance

Happy Dance was a joy to create from beginning to end. I sketched out the beginning of the design in Procreate one day when I was just playing around. It excited me so I decided to play with the design further but with fabric.

The quilting was a combination of both walking foot and hand quilting, both done in a very organic way - just playing around with thread.

This quilt is 49" wide x 32" tall.

Happy Dance was one of my 4 entries to the QuiltCon 2026 show. I am extremely happy and honored that 2 of my quilts will be in the show. However, this particular this quilt is a QuiltCon reject. (My second reject is 1 1 2 3 5 8.)

I would have loved to see this quilt hanging in Raleigh and will likely submit it again in the future for consideration by another jury.

Until then, more soon on the two quilts that were accepted.

Have a wonderful day! Patty

1 1 2 3 5 8

1 1 2 3 5 8 was my entry for the QuiltCon 2026 fabric challenge. Emails went out yesterday announcing which quilts were juried into the show. I am honored that 2 of my quilts will be in the show. However, this particular this quilt is a QuiltCon reject.

While this is an original design, this is not the first time I made this quilt. The original version was featured in Make Modern magazine. When I was trying to come up with a design for the fabric challenge, I kept coming back to this one and thought the design gave me a chance to explore how the fabrics worked together.

This was the first QuiltCon entry that I completely hand-quilted - that process was so fun and I hope to do it again.

In the show or not, I am really proud of how this quilt turned out!

Have a wonderful day! Patty