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jwhittal.bsky.social
@jwhittal.bsky.social
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(She/Her) Professional CPA, wife and mother. Follower of Christ. I value: integrity, truth, justice, compassion, and beauty. #YEG 🇨🇦
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Baby quilt in pastels.
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Baby quilt with pastel colors against a white background. Various fabrics are in half-triangles and are quilted with hearts. Notice that the hearts are not the same sizes. Why did I do that? I have no idea. Quilt is unfinished as you see in the edge of the photo the edge of the quilt and batting showing.
December 17, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Kaleidoscope quilt in blue. This is also known as a strip quilt.
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Quilt draped over a railing on a summer day. Quilt is made up of strips sewn into squares in all sorts of variations of blues and turquoises. White lines create a grid pattern.
December 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Churndash, baby quilt edition.
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Baby quilt made with churndash squares. Quilt is in matching pinks and burgandys, and navy and greys. Strips of fabric are between each square and make up the border of the quilt.
December 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Star power. ⭐️
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Quilt made up of stars in various shades of blue against a while background. Between each star is a little blue square. Quilt has a thin border of blue and a wider one in white. This is hand quilted with a flower pattern over each star.
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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One of the first quilts I made, I was 18 or 19 when I made this, and that’s when my love of quilts began.
Quilt hung outside on a railing. Quilt is made of equilateral triangles stacked in groups of 9 to make larger triangles of each color. Larger triangles are matched with a triangle of the same color, except darker. This gives an effect of movement, or that the triangles are reflecting off of each other.
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Hexagons are my favorite.
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Quilt is draped, showing colorful hexagons in a cascading shower of greens and blues and neutrals. What you can’t see is the rest of the hexagons in all of the colors. Quilt is machine quilted to showcase the shapes of the appliquéd hexagons.
December 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Made with love ❤️
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A sneak peak at a baby quilt made of half-square triangles which are arranged in a rainbow pattern. Hearts are hand-quilted over each triangle.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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When you make a quilt out of wood, it’s called a Barn Quilt.
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Painted wooden square with a star inside another star. Colors used are blue, yellow, orange and maroon against a white background. This is leaning against a fence, waiting to be hung up.
December 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Ukrainian beauty. Hand quilted with love. 💙
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Quilt hung over a wooden fence. A grid of sunflowers on a background of blue squares. Close up of quilt, showing the hand stitches. The inside of the sunflowers have a grid pattern of stitches and there are stitches following the flower petals.
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Awash in purple
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Quilt is draped over a wooden fence. Quilt is an Amish design, using only solid colored fabrics. Scrappy four-patch squares are set in a nine-patch design with the background in different shades of purple. Although there is lots of purples, it is balanced out with browns and blues.
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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My favorite piece of art. ❤️
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Colorful triangles are the pattern of this quilt. The bottom left has more concentrated blue colors, and the top right has more greens. They meet in the middle with a wonderful chaos of colors with purples, yellows, and pinks. Quilt is hung on the wall using a Quilt Hanger which makes it look like framed art. This is hung in my office.
December 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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String quilt work in progress
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Squares made up of strips of scrap fabrics in a random assortment and widths. Lines of black separate each square from the next one.
December 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Scrappy quilt
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Close up of a scrap quilt made of four patch squares in a larger square. Quilt is machine quilted in straight lines which compliment the lines of the fabric seams.
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Tilted photo of a quilt on a wooden fence. Diagonal rainbow colors made with log cabin squares. Closeup of the details of the machine quilting. Pattern is called Drunken Feathers.
December 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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A little pink to start
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Pink and beiges in a broken dishes pattern (triangles). One square of quilt-as-you-go which is machine quilted in straight lines following the lines of the triangles. Square is unfinished and draped over something in order to show the details of the quilted stitches.
December 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The northern lights were great last night. I wish we didn’t have so much light pollution, because I bet they would have been so amazing to watch.
Red and green northern lights over a school ground The sky with streaks of red and green northern lights
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Until next year.
A baseball diamond in the background. The picture says Thank you Blue Jays it was quite a ride. Blue Jays logo is inside a heart.
November 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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October 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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#BlueJays
#Baseball
October 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I ❤️ public education.
I stand with our teachers.
#AB #RedForEdAB #ataLocal55
September 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Hi Mark, I have a handmade quilt that I would like to donate. Please DM me so that I can arrange to get it to you.
September 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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#YEG
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September 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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I personalized my office space. ❤️
Machine quilting was done by Monique.
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A colorful quilt made of triangles and machine quilted with loopy-loops.
September 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Quilt as you go. ❤️
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August 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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I’m happy with how it turned out.
Special thanks to Monique who did the quilting.
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Log cabin squares, done in rainbow colors. Machine quilting is done with a drunken feather pattern. Quilt is finished with black around the edges to frame it.
July 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM