Quilt Maker:  Katie Gomez
Quilt Name:  When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Duck
Quilt Information:  As I work through my boxes of UFOs – I often can make something into the theme. These fall colored blocks were completed in a Linda Ballard class years ago. The block name escapes me. I chose the title cuz I’m a Duck alumni and despite many Os there are no yellow and green blocks.  I pieced them and hand quilted the Os and made a 24 x24 pillow. Pieced and hand quilted by Katie Gomez.

Quilt Maker:  Elaine Shanafelt
Quilt Name:  School Days
Quilt Information:  Made in 2011 for birth of a grand-nephew, I used block patterns from Nancy Martin’s Perpetual Calendar: 365 Quilt Blocks a Year, Vicki Thomas’s Stitch a Child’s Quilt, and a magazine article. I used triangle pieces left over from making binding, sashing and borders in other quilts to make the half/square triangles and pinwheels in this quilt.

Quilt Maker:  Elaine Shanafelt
Quilt Name:  American Eagle
Quilt Information:  I bought the fabrics in 2011 with another grand-nephew in mind, who had just attained Eagle Scout and was a big outdoor enthusiast. I finished it in 2013, for his high school graduation.

Quilt Maker:  Carole Leaverton
Quilt Name:  (no name given)
Quilt Information:  This was a mystery row quilt I made last year. Erica Borg did the quilting on it.

Quilt Maker:  Cathy Penland
Quilt Name:  Autumn in New York
Quilt Information:  I call this quilt Autumn in New York. It is a Judy Neimeyer sampler quilt I made several years ago. It was quilted by Grace Anderson.

Quilt Maker:  Terri Budesa
Quilt Name:  North by Northwest
Quilt Information:  I took a Mariner’s Compass class from Brenda Henning at Sisters Quilters Affair. I don’t remember what year. The compass blocks are all paper pieced. The setting was borrowed from a New York Beauty quilt by Toby Lishkow.

Quilt Maker:  Ellen Eastman
Quilt Name:  Cascade
Quilt Information:  Several years ago I took this class at Sew Unique in Mt. Shasta. It was a fun quilt to make. Value was important to  get the transparency on the overlapping leaves. We were encouraged to try adding dimensional pieces to the leaves and to add embellishments.

Quilt Maker:  Bertine Eastman (submitted by Ellen Eastman)
Quilt Name:  Lone Star
Quilt Information:  This quilt was made by my mother-in-law. She started it in November 1986 and completed it in July 1991. It is machine and hand pieced and hand quilted. She designed the quilt around the Lone Star pattern to fit her queen bed. She drafted all the quilting designs to fit the spaces; the grid quilting is 1/2″ squares. When some of the star triangles did not sew together correctly (the points didn’t match) she ripped them out and hand pieced them. How do I know all this? I watched her make it and I have all her hand drafted patterns that she used to construct the quilt. The quilt won two first place ribbons and one Best of Show ribbon.

Quilt Maker:  Ellen Eastman
Quilt Name:  September at Diamond 2000
Quilt Information:  This was started at my very first Mountain Stars quilt retreat at Diamond Lake in 2000. It was a mystery (!) by Jo Stuebing. We were given some basic fabric requirements (like our entire stash!) and when we arrived we were to make as many 9-patch blocks as we could from Friday afternoon until Saturday after lunch. That was the ONLY instructions we were given. I had brought some blues, greens, a couple of yards of lightly printed light fabric and a bunch of brown “fossil fern” fabric. Just after lunch Jo announced that the completion of our mystery was up to us. (WHAT!?!) After puttering around for about an hour I decided to make a bunch of snowball blocks with the fossil fern fabric. I set the 9-patch blocks “on point” with the snowballs and came up with a secondary design. I found some different fall leaf shapes and made templates to hand quilt in the snowball blocks. The quilt is hand quilted and took about two years working on and off to complete.