5 quilts + gift

Do you have trouble with your sewing scissors? Someone uses them to cut paper (or a cardboard box, groan!) For years I used the orange handled Fiskars, they were fine, and if someone broke the rules and used them for something other than fabric, it wasn't a huge disaster....once they were dull enough that I wanted to swear whenever I tried to cut fabric with them, they got relegated to the craft box and I gritted my teeth as I shelled out money for a new pair for my fabric. It's been less of an issue since my kids are out of the house, and hubby has learned to ask if he's using the correct scissors. But...it was beginning to be time to invest in a new pair. My sister has a reputation for being a great gift giver, she lived up to it this year with a pair of Gingher scissors showing up for my birthday. I've never owned such a nice pair, and never really thought I would - I used them for the first time a couple of days ago and they slid through the fabric like a hot knife through butter.....what a dream :) Thank you, Carole, and if anyone even looks at a piece of paper with these in their hands - the consequences will be drastic!
Quilt by Louise

I love doing quilting like this, it's so beautiful.

Quilt by Kassie.

Quilt by Agnes

Two quilts by Devona

Quilt by Jone

3 quilts

3 quilts

Table runner.

2 Quilts

5 quilts

Playing catch-up here. A number of quilts have gone through that I didn't take photos of (shame on me), but I did have these on my camera - so time to post them and get my book work caught up. This first one is a halloween quilt with fun halloween words quilted all around the outside in the yellow border. This is the ..... 4th? one like this I've quilted for Nancy. I'd really like to make one of these for myself some year, very fun!

These other 4 quilts are pretty self explanatory.

Quilts and excuses

I really have been quilting this summer - not that you can tell by my blog! If you don't know, we have been building a new house and that has really occupied my attention, then add to it that, yes it is summer and yard work now has to be done, and getting our old home sold (done!), I'm afraid that documenting the quilts that have come through hasn't taken high priority - I've even had a number go through that I didn't even take pictures of. We're supposed to move into the new house the end of this month, so hopefully after we get settled, fall hits and yard work goes away, and my attention can refocus on the really important things of life (one being quilts!), I'll do a better job posting here! (BTW, I'm going to have a lovely new quilting room at the new house, I'll be sure to do a posting on it when I'm up and running there !)

I didn't take the time to try and get pictures of these quilts that show the quilting well. That sometimes takes me awhile and I just didn't have the time to do it. This is a really nice quilt that a gal made for her father who was just retiring. (I just noticed that if you click on this picture for a close up - you can see some of the wording I quilted into it.)

A very fun and colorful quilt for a wedding gift. The edges of all the inside squares are raw so I had to do custom so I could make sure not to fold over any of those edges accidentally.

Look at this - an actual picture where you can see some of the quilting!

Another quilt for a wedding gift (tis the season!)