Hi, Here is a picture of the king Sized Double Irish Chain quilt that I made last summer. I made this for my parents 50th wedding anniversary gift. You can see they were thrilled. Their friends were amazed that I made this entirely on people powered machines. I pieced it using a White VSIII treadle, White VSIIa treadle, and a Nelson's No. 45 HC. I quilted it on the Singer 115 treadle that I picked up in Paducah while attending the AQS quilt show. Pat Nordmark, Linda Scholten, and Di have all seen this treadle. I showed the machine off in the back of my van. I was thrilled with that find. This was my 1st full sized quilt. I consulted on a technical points with onion June Revelle in NY.

I donated this quilt for my son's pre-k class to raise money at his school's PTA/PTF annual fundraising auction. The quilt is tied and the panels were colored with crayons. Completed the quilt January 2005 on my 1920, Singer Redeye. Discovered Ruby sitting pretty and very dignified at a local flea market. After a good cleaning and oiling, Ruby sews smoothly and the decals are over 95%. For fun, I've included a year old snap of my son cranking away on a 1919 Sphinx 127.

This is my Triple Star crib quilt that I started at the Seattle TOGA on Captain Dick's little 99 parlour treadle. I finished the top and quilted it on my Wheeler and Wilson D9 Treadle this year for my great granddaughter, Eva

I made an outfit with all the underpinnings for our blackpowder club's primitive rendezvous. The Jones picture is of two petticoats and an apron made on my 1929 Jones CB handcrank. The MinnieA picture is of the dress, bonnet, and camisole (which you can barely see, looks kind of ghostly in the picture) made on my 1920 Minnesota A treadle. I made bloomers, too, but they aren't for public consumption :)

I have completed this quilt which will be donated to the Coats & Tails Dressage Society for sale in their Silent Auction and Cowboy Poetry Reading April 1, 2005.  It is 90x99, with the blocks being 9" square.  My DH and cat really like this quilt and I am having to wrench it out of their hands and paws!

I have completed another quilt to give away.  This one is to raffle for the Alturas Garden Club.  Yes, it is the same pattern as the one I sent in Spring!  Different fabrics though, I am really getting into the browns, greys and so forth

Greetings from Wisconsin! I participated in the attachment exchange this year and decided to use my 24 blocks in a Christmas tree skirt. The skirt is about 36 inches round. I drafted the pattern myself and set 6 groups of 4 patch blocks into each leg of the star shape. I used my Western Electric two spool for the piecing. I used a needle spring for quilting with a Singer 31-15 and it worked great. Hot fix crystals were added to the blocks for a little extra sparkle. The blocks were all lovely, thank you to all who participated.

Here is a picture of the quilt I made for my niece’s graduation from high school last May.  I pieced it on a 15-88 treadle and quilted it on a newer Davis VF.  The quilt is full size and made from 20 different Batik’s.  The pattern is called Jewel Box and it was made using the instructions from “Quilt in a Day”

This quilt had its roots in a long-ago TO swap of reproduction fabrics, which gave birth to one of my previous Challenge entries, which eventually spawned this entry. A while back, I needed a project to work on while demonstrating hand crank sewing machines at the local quilt show. Not having time to prepare something new, I started some blocks using leftover 4" squares from the other quilt. As projects do, it grew and developed a life of its own, until it was finally finished in February of 2005. It was pieced on various hand cranks and machinequilted on a Davis VF treadle, with free motion on the border done on a 201K treadle. I like the back of this quilt just as much as the front. ny, my Jack Russell Terrier, joins me in the photo of the Davis VF treadle.

Here is my entry for the full size quilts. I appliqued the dragons on my Singer 66 HC and quilted on my Davis Vertical Feed.

This is an appliqued heart lap quilt that is for my Mom for Christmas. I sewed the blocks together on my Singer 28 treadle and then machine quilted on my Davis VF.

This is the exchange block quilt and this is my Model 28 that I pieced the 2 quilts on.

This quilt was begun in 1995, and the star blocks were hand pieced while I sat next to my Mom's hospital bed.  She had a quad bypass that summer, then got an infection, had to have her sternum removed, and in short, the summer was horrid.  After piecing the blocks under those circumstances, I just couldn't do anything more with them until the last year.  I appliqued the blocks onto the background fabric, then used my Singer 319 treadle to freemotion some feathers around the background portion of the block using water-soluble thread, as a way to mark the quilting.  I sewed the sashing and put the blocks together using my Davis VF treadle, and did some straight-line quilting on the sashing, but then took the quilt up to Lorraine Karl's place and she did some longarm quilting on it, so it is really a hybrid.  If it doesn't make it into the challenge, that's okay, but most of it was done either by hand or using my beloved treadles.  Pics of them are on my Webshots site, below

This quilt was pieced on a nice old Singer VS hand crank using the paper foundation piecing method.  I had drawn the slanty blocks on graph paper, and printed out the patterns for the other blocks using EQ 5.  The blocks were sewn together with my Davis VF treadle, and quilted with it, also.  I marked the quilting on the back with a spiral template, then used the quilting guide to continue quilting the spiral out to the edges of the quilt.  The binding was also put on with the Davis, and is piped.  The fabrics are reproduction shirtings, some of which I tea dyed for the slanty blocks to help foster the 3-D illusion, and the blue fabrics are all indigo fabrics from South Africa, which I think look very much like the late 1800's blues

spider web purse with handle and button closure: Black velvet exterior with red velvet interior. Coats Silver rayon machine embroidery thread, 12 stitches per inch, size #2 W&G needle. NO stabilzer was used. This is very heavy velvet meant for furniture, it didn't need stabilizing.

velvet bat coffin purse: Size 3 needle, 16 stitches per inch, Coats rayon decorative sewing thread 40wt. Made in 2005 on a W&G treadle

purple bat purse: black velvet purse, purple satin interior, purple rayon stitching. Custom made as b-day present for a friend. Made in 2005 on a W&G treadle

coffin shaped vampire bat pack: This was done completely on Willcox & Gibbs auto tension treadle. I even sewed in the zipper with the W&G using it's standard presser foot

This photo is Richard pictured in costume for Dr. Daly, Vicar of Ploverleigh, in the University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society's recent production of _The Sorcerer_. The costume consists of black slacks (a Burda pattern), black jacket (Historical Society of Wisconsin 1878 Men's Sack Suit pattern) and a sleeveless shirt front with clerical collar (drafted by me). The entire costume was sewn on this Singer 15-30 treadle, dating from 1921.

I had so much fun making bow-ties for the block exchange I continured making them 6 inches and in 30's reproduction prints. I pieced the blocks on various machines. I have some of the blocks done on my Wilcox and Gibbs chain stitch machine, 1867. I did in the dtich quilting on my Davis VF, circa 1895 and free motion on my Singer 15, 1952. I got all the quilting done at a UFO retreat with onions in attendence, Sheryl Fogel, Donna Kohler, and Sandy Mann. This was great fun and has become an annual event. This is a picture of me with my girls and two of my grandchildren.

This is the treadleonian triple star quilt I put together with exchange blocks. I am very happy with it and love exchanges. I joined the blocks on my Singer 27, 1889. I did in the ditch quilting on my Davis VF circa 1895 and free motion quilted on my Singer 15, 1952 treadle. I used variegated thread and did meadering leaves in the muslin area. I put the binding on in time to share it with you in this years challenge. My Davis VF is my favorite machine for sewing and straight line quilting

Just finished this - full size, christmas fabrics - assembled on the white FR in the parlor cabinet i found on ebay.  Time's runnin short, so my friend Apsy Brooks quilted it for me.  I just finished the binding.

Title:  “Come, Said My Soul”. Dimensions:  39x39 inches. Machines used:  1941 Singer 99hc, 1921 Singer Red Eye in parlor cab., back clamper. Totally pieced by machine. Totally hand quilted using 2 strand embroidery floss. This quilt was begun in an art quilt class taught by quilt artist Susan Webb-Lee.  This quilt “freed my soul” to pursue my own style of quilting.” 

Title:   “A Chicken in Every Plot”: Dimensions:  16 x 16 inches. Machine used:   1921 Singer Red Eye in parlor cabinet (back clamper). Machine work:    Pieced and quilted—free-motion work plus machine trapunto. Other techniques:  Hand applique’, Hand quilting, Hand embroidery, bead work. This quilt was inspired by my chickens.  This quilt features the chicken, Gwyneth ( Amerucana breed).  She loves to get into the garden (plot).  The words written by my sewing machine on the top and right-hand side read:  “Gwyneth hid from the fowl flock in the jumble of plants called a garden.

Title:  “A Fowl Tale”. Dimensions:  16x16 inches. Machine used:  1921 Singer Red Eye in parlor cabinet, back clamper. Machine techniques:  pieced, free-motion quilting, machine trapunto. Other techniques:  Hand appliqué, Hand quilting, Hand embroidery, beading. This quilt features another one of my chickens, “Kang”, also an Amerucana. (My children named all the chickens.)  Kang is a chicken with character.  The machine embroidered words read:  “Kang is the Poultry Queen.  She rules the Pecking Order with her fowl beak.”