Welcome to JTQUILT

  See what we are working on!

We took at break from new patterns to play in a new direction. Here are a few of our new pieces.

What fun, making fabric with all those bits that you collected or threw away.

This garden still has come growing to do before the butterflies will join the flowers.

And Life Goes On. A piece can take on a life of it’s own. This was intended as an optical design but became a statement of life. Each symbol and color represents a stage and event in our lives.

Our latest Guild challenge was ‘Color inside the box’. I was given a crayon and could only add black, white and one additional color. My crayon was ‘flesh’, a definite challenge.

This piece was made from left over 2 ½” strips and will be donated to the family shelter.

Various prints were used of each color. The new pattern will be a 4 block quilt with the borders repeating the pattern around the quilt. What a perfect place for your favorite little boy to drive his cars.

July 8-9, 2011 Ankeny Area Quilt Guild will have their annual show. Come see this new quilt and 300 others, vendors, speakers, and a spectacular raffle quilt from exhibit at the Des Moines AQS show 2010. Visit aaqg.net for details.

Presenting our beginning line of original quilt patterns. We have something fun, something easy, something unique, something challenging and something to show off your quilting skills. These patterns grew out of a challenges to us to take a quilt design that we liked, add the ‘aha!’ element to it and find a simpler way to make the same quilt.

Please take an expanded view of each quilt. Each quilt pattern includes drawings of all layouts suggestions, step by step directions of the 3-D flowers, curved border stencils and quilting designs. We would be happy to answer any questions by email.

Directions are given for more than one method and color combination that we hope will better fit your purpose and allow you to repeat the quilt pattern. Although, my preference is hand appliqué and hand quilting, many times I want a quick gift or use a special thread embellishment and machine appliqué or piecing is the better technique. The fun is making a quilt that looks much harder than it is and quickly get on to that next ‘must-do' project.

 ADDITIONAL DIRECTIONS FOR BLACK & WHITE OPTICAL AVAILABLE. STEP BY STEP PICTURES AND FREE updated instructions with proof of puchase. Email us for  information.

Fabric and materials to complete the quilts can be found among our Friends and Favorites.

Please send pictures of your completed quilts for our Gallery of Quilts.

Tips and Topics of Interest will offer ideas and discussions on what ever quilt or sewing topic that we find of interest. Ideas and comments and tips are welcome. We ask that we be able to print your comments, but not your full name or any addresses.

Wholesale inquiries are welcome. Please email us for the information or contact the commercial link in our Friends and Favorites.

The ideas are endless. Other patterns are in the planning stages and partials completed.

We hope that this site will be much like an evening with a group of your quilting friends.

And, that you will like our patterns, and recommend us to your friends.