Quilts of Christmas Past.

Here lie my first ever quilts. The beginning of all the madness that is really my pride and joy.

This one I made for my Sister, Esther. You might notice that the top row of pinwheels have a white border-ish around them.

That's because I awesomely made them too small.

Something I'm notorious for doing.

This is the backing of the above quilt. I love this fabric! I snatched it up on my very first shop hop here in Utah.

 This quilt was my first Block of the month quilt. It was only a dollar a month for each new block. I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to really learn how to quilt. But whoa-boy! This quilt almost shut me down! If it wasn't for Jaclyn coming to visit me and taking the time and love to show me some simple, necessary steps, then I wouldn't have moved forward.

 Tumbler quilt that I made for Cambria.

 This quilt is made out of Cambria's baby clothes. It was this desire to put her baby cloths into a memorable qult that got this whole thing started. And once again it was Jaclyn who showed me the ropes. She would work with me step by step. Until one day I thought I knew what the next step was and went ahead and finished the top on my own. And because of that, missing that vital, simple step (of matching seams up). It made quilting so incredibly difficult and discouraging. 

Moral of the story--never skip ahead of your instructor.

And lastly, Ian's quilt. I worked on this while I was prego with Bradley.  It was a hard pregnancy, but produced a beautiful quilt! And a beautiful boy. :)

That's it! Now all of my quilts, all that I've ever made, have been recorded on this blog.

 One more quilt before year's end. With a little help from one of my handsome helpers.

This one is for my dear nephew, William. My first nephew and the first McNeal grandchild.

Damon and I quilted this one together. I think I'm going to try and quilt more. I saved my quilting receipts from My Girlfriend's Quilt Shoppe from last December 'til November to track how much I'm spending on this fine service. And it turns it's kinda a lot. It would be nice if I could buy a sophisticated quilting machine that would allow me to do some fancy leg work.

 So far I've liked the challenge of doing it on my regular machine.

If I had more time; I would have liked to have done a lot more quilting on this quilt.

But time was of the essence.

My favorite was these lattice squares. 

Lovely; yes?

All the blocks that are of the same colors have the same quilted design.

Pieced binding again. Love doing it this way!

And to end...Bradley came out to me with his hair like this. He got it mostly this tall on his own, then I helped the rest of the way. And it's only water that's keeping it up. Love it!