This first quilt is by Peggy. She bought the fun center block fabrics on a trip to some foreign country (I neglected to write down where - but it was some place in Europe.) Rather than cut them up into little pieces she left the fabric pieces large, a good call because now you can see the flavor of the fabric much better. What a terrific memory from a fun trip. I used "Fascination" as the all-over quilting design.
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| Agnes, one of my prolific quilters, made this next quilt. I love this quilt - what a great design for using up scraps! I just noticed that I used "Fascination" on this one as well .... interesting - I have so many different design patterns that it's rare I use the same pattern so closely together :) |
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| The next 5 quilts were made by Diane Freston - a new customer that has kept me busy! |
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| Diane wanted hearts on this quilt...I have a beautiful panto with hearts in it...but it's kind of hard to tell they are hearts (was kind of disappointed when I realized that.) So when she really wanted the hearts to show, I designed this all over design myself. Think it fills the bill. |
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| These next two are the same pattern but different fabrics. Diane actually taught the technique for making this quilt at our local guild meeting this past month. |
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| ""Scalloped Grass" design |
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| ""Bayside" design |
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| This is a fun one. Look at those funky chickens! Diane had requested all over quilting, but with this one having the little picot points before the outside border, I had to treat the border as custom - but did do the inside as an all-over. |
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| Here is the backing - if you look close (maybe the next picture shows it better) you hopefully can see that I duplicated the little chickens from the front of the quilt. I DO NOT have a computerized system on my LA (I wish - maybe sometime in the future!) so I had to draw these out myself and hand guide my machine - like I do all my quilting. Luckily I am artistic and have that ability. |
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| "Chantilly Lace" design |
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| Sweet little girls baby blanket by Gina. "Popcorn" quilting design. |
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| The local quilt store had me pick this up from one of their customers, so I don't know the name of who made this one. Isn't it pretty :) "Scalloped Grass quilting pattern....again another one I've used more than once this month. I bought a number of new patterns the end of last year especially for male themed quilts...I needed to fill a gap in my design collection and make sure I had options for non-girly quilts, they have been useful already! |
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| My pictures here are out of order, sorry. These next two quilts are by Louise - another one of my best customers who is one of our area's well know quilters. If you get an opportunity to take a quilting class from Louse, do it! Louise is well known for her love of pink and green quilts, so these are out of her norm - but the local fabric store requested she make some quilts out of their fabric lines to sell in the store, and these are two of them. Fun fabrics! I used "Knots and Loops" for the quilting design. |
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| Since these fabrics were full of ladybugs, dragonflies, bees and flowers, I designed a pantograph with ladybugs, dragonflies, bees and flowers in it! |
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| This next one is one I made for our ward at church. One of our R.S. Presidency gave me some quite "interesting" fabric someone had donated to be used in a quilt. Our ward needed another quilt for their closet, so they delegated the job to me. I used the donated fabric for the backing and used a pattern I had to make this 'I Spy' type quilt It isn't a lovely thing, but fun enough that hopefully some child in need will enjoy it. Looks like I neglected to turn the picture back when I should have, won't turn for me now. |
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| "Popcorn" panto pattern. |
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| Baby quilts are being so unique these days - I'm always impressed with what the young, upcoming quilters turn out. This is by Tenisha, and it's only her 2nd quilt....I believe I posted her first one in my last posting of quilts. I used "Water World" as the quilt design....all the curves and swirls seemed to compliment the straight lines in the quilt. |
