First there is the baby quilt I made back in the US for my god child who will be turning 2 years next month. By now the quilt already looks a little loved but the picture shows it brand new up on the wall in a small exhibition. There are some appliqued animals. The quilting shows the family animals, chess figurs for the dad, lots of books for his mom, ships for his grandpa and cooking equipment for the grandma. Also there are lots of hearts, stars and bumblebees. The brown fabric has lots of cats and dogs in it.
Next is a christmas table runner I made in a quilt class here in Germany. It's the Hunter's Star pattern. The star has two different fabrics in it. On the runner you can see a German christmas tradition: The Adventskranz (Advent=the 4 weeks before christmas, Kranz=wreath). It has four candles for the four sundays before christmas. On each sunday you light one more candle, so by christmas day all the four candles are lit. It was introduced in an orphanage in the beginning of the 19th century to show the children how much longer they will have to wait for christmas to come. I love this tradition and make the wreath myself every year.
And finally we have B's baby quilt. I chose churn dashs in greens and browns. There is a 'flutterby' and a teddy bear in applique. The quilting shows lots of family related things. I tried to incorporate symbols for all the grandparents and great-grandparents. There are animals (dachhounds, horses,...), physical and mathematical symbols, cars, sail boats and trains, needles and thread, the lighthouse we got married on, the Bremen town musicians and many, many other things.
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