I call this quilt my safari quilt. It was so much fun to make because I used up a lot of my stash and I love the colors. The animals are machine embroidered.

Here is a quilt for one of the newest additions to my extended family, Tyghe.  I asked my sister-in-law what color scheme she would like and she said rainbow.  I love vibrant colors and had a "rainbow" already in my fabric stash, but also wanted to keep the pattern geometric for a more masculine look for a little boy.  The backing is a lovely flannel with rainbow ladybugs ... definitely not your sister's quilt!

I made this 20 x 32" hanging wall quilt for my friend's 50th birthday surprise party!  She LOVES the Wizard of Oz so much, her email screen name reflects that - and she has a huge OZ collection - but no fabric item until this.  I searched online for pics, and combined a few to make my own pattern.  The Emerald Castle has two shades and sizes of green sequins, and the Yellow Brick Road is outlined in clear pearlized sequins.  The picture doesn't do it justice!  It sequins sparkle and make the road and castle POP.  The Shoes are made from metallic fabric, and the mesh border from the fabric, is used to shade the inside of the shoes.  The bows are tacked on and give it a wonderful 3-dimensional look. 

I LOVED making this for her -and she was adores it!  (It IS square, but the picture doesn't reflect that)

I made this quilt for my youngest daughter Amber, she loves Fairies.  Since I have around 6 other fans who would like the same quilt.  It was longed armed to add the finishing touches.

This is a quilt that I made as a going away gift for my friends/neighbors.  They spent 2 years living in Africa, and are now in the UK for 2 years.  Hopefully they will come back to New England

After a year of watching Kaye's Quilting Friends and other quilt shows, I just HAD to try my hand at quilting. Here's a picture of my first quilt. I made it for a friends little girl for Xmas this year.... It was fun and a learning experience.  I wanted to start out with something simple, so the 4 patch was it.  I alternated it with a plain square, then framed it with sashing..... It's backed with fleece in pretty pastel colors. I used a fancy stitch to then outline around the edge, as I just sewed and turned it inside out..I found a cute Icecream cone fabric, so ironed on interfacing to back,  embroidered a cute tag ,cut it out,, then hand stitched it to back.

just wanted to share the scottie dog wall hanging done for a baby. I hope it comes through.  I browsed for men's tartan cotton shirts to get the fabric for the little dog coats.

I made it for my niece Brianna. She loves Angels.   The blocks are framed with the garden maze.  I used scraps of satin for dress,left over from a brides maid dress I made. The wings are scraps of wide lace and the gold wings I'm not sure. The over lay on angel dress and sleeves is flat lace

My 81 year old mother I take care of drew the faces for me. They look Oriental, I think.The back of the quilt I used a white satin sheet I thought would be pretty.And it is but it fussed up a little sliding it around under the quilting frame. 

This was my first quilt to quilt using John Flynn's quilt frame.I love the frame. I always quilted using my sewing machine.

I just meandered it with invisible thread. I call it scribbling. Like we did in school, cut, paste and scribble- draw.

One friend of mine said she couldn't do that, after looking at the quilt. I asked her if she learned to cut and paste and draw in school. She said yes. Well then you can do it.

I used Fons and Porters angel pattern out of their book, Quilter Complete Guide.

I made these quilts for both my daughters.. Michele's is a framed with red, white, and blue because she is in the Army.  I made the pillow and bullitin board also to match.  I used T-shirts, iron on fabric with pictures I added and printable fabric to make pictures and copies of certificates she had gotten over the years. The wall hanging for Michele is made from printable fabric with pictures from her basic training. Stephanie's is framed in Florida State University colors.  At the bottom, the panel on the left is when she first started college and the one on the right is for her graduation.  I used the same techniques as on Michele's. They really cherish these quilts.

Now saving my son's T-shirts for his quilt.

After pacing the floors for the first year and a half of retirement, a friend introduced me to piecing and away I went. My family has recieved many interesting quilts as I continue to teach myself.  This is my first on-point quilt, let alone diamonds, made for my future daughter in law. 

Here's pictures of my First quilt I ever attempted, and am so proud that it turned out so well for my Grandson Ben & Kristin for their wedding May 3,2008--quite a challenge, took me a year to complete.
The pattern is GRANDMA'S  FLOWER GARDEN--Flowers were made dimensional and stand up, padded with cotton batting.

After I sewed down all the pieces with a straight stitch, I used a zig-zag stitch over black yarn to get the stained glass effect.  It was easy and forgiving.  Just make sure the pieces are butted up against each other.  The yarn covers the straight stitch.  You can use any thickness of yarn, whatever it takes to cover the straight stitches.

This quilt was a joint effort between my daughter Kerrie and myself. She was expecting a new baby girl and since I live clear across the United States from her she sent me the fabric and emailed me the design she wanted to use. It was a fun project to do.

These three quilts are what we call “medallion” quilts.  They are Peter’s own design.  Each top was completed as a weekend project.  You can see all of our 50-60 quilts on our website djmercer.com/Peters quilts.

I made these t-shirt quilts for my niece and nephew in Georgia.  I had never made a t-shirt quilt before, and I think they came out pretty awesome!

Since it seems like quilted bags are in style at the moment, I decided to make quilted bags as gifts for my kids teachers.  These were a lot of fun to make and it was a nice break from making the standard quilts and throws.  Each bag took about a week to make and I used a pattern with some of my own customization.

banner/wall hanging I made for my grandson's first birthday.  I adapted  the design from Kaye's Children's Alphabet disk using my Husqvarna Viking software. Other than removing the kite from the second K, there were no changes to the designs.  After combining it, it stitched out beautifully with Mettler polyester embroidery thread..  The quilting was done with a Sulky blendable thread.

This quilt was made in memory of my sister who died of breast cancer.  I’m going to be in the Relay for Life cancer walk this weekend and I made this quilt for our team to raffle off to make money for cancer research.  The quilter quilted hearts on it and did a superb job!  

This is a quilt I recently made for my great grand nephew. 

I made this wall hanging for my daughter, Katherine for her first apartment when she finished University. It was something different than I had made before and I was very happy with the results.

This quilt I made for my daughter's MomsForMarines picnic she holds every year for families of a Marine either going to boot camp or deployed.  It gives the parents a chance to ask questions or chat with other families that are going through the same stress factors as themselves.  The quilt was raffled off and a 17 yr old boy won it and was thrilled.