Graduations - and quilts to celebrate the occasion

Two special high schoolers that I know through very different channels, were graduating in 2018 from the same school.

I made two very different quilts for them:

One student had chosen the quilt "Icy Water" from the book Paper Pieced Modern by Amy Garro. The instructions were given for paper-piecing, but - I don't like traditional paper-piecing and used freezer paper to piece the quilt. That way instead of making all the those paper copies, I get by just drawing it out once, stacking 10 block sized freezer papers and using the untreaded sewing machine to copy the pattern.

The other quilt for my two year assistent at the German Saturday School. I chose a Bonnie Hunter quilt for him. My adaptation of "Virginia Bound" from her book "Scrap & Shirttails: Reuse, Re-purpose, Recycle. the Art of "Quilting Green"". I designed a different border using a newsprint fabric and his name and other words in the border. That block too was pieced with freezer paper and not traditionally paper-pieced.