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May I just mention, again, that I hate computers :)  Froze up on me while loading the pictures and when I resumed, it put them all out of order.  (I hate cars too, but since I don't want to be without either, I'll just deal with it.) 

Here are a portion of the blocks from Louise's quilt (the rest are scattered later in the post).  This quilt just screamed to be quilted this way...it's a bit of work, but I really enjoyed it.

Crystal's quilt

I really like how the border turned out.

Connie's quilt

the rest of Louise's quilt

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A custom treatment on a quilt by Crystal.

And here's 4 more quilts for grand kids from Sarah.

My creations

This does happen once in a while - I actually make something myself.  My niece, Landen, was married yesterday (it was completely wonderful and lovely) and I said I'd make her a quilt - she asked for something in black and white.  I didn't have a lot of time to get one done and I ran across this pattern.  It was originally a scrappy quilt with many colors, but I thought it might look really awesome in B&W.  I love it!  I would like to make another one, it was quite fun to put together. 

My next creation is a shelving unit to put on top of one of my sewing tables.  I had all kinds of junk piling up there, unorganized, drove me nuts -- and there was more stuff I was wanting in handier reach when I'm working there.  A shelf of some kind was an obvious solution.  Thought I might have to build one myself to get what I wanted....but then had a little flash of inspiration to check out D.I. to see if there was something cheap there that would work.  Ta-da, the head board of a waterbed!

 It's perfect - completely love it!  Think I'll add another shelf in the middle of that center section, then it'll be finished.  Much easier than building one from scratch and it completely meets my needs :)

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Playing catch up again

Next two photos are Sheri's quilt.  She was asked to put this together for a male family member, it's made from shirts of his and she had sayings and images embroidered on some of the blocks of things he says and enjoys.  She was wise to stabilize the backs of the blocks since most of the fabrics are knits, so that helped tons, but some were quite bulky and the intersecting seams were hard to quilt over in areas.  She asked for simple and masculine, think it turned out nicely.

The next 6 photos are of 3 quilts that Louise was commissioned to put together for someone.  They will all be wall hanging.  Louise didn't care how they were quilted, so this first one I used a leaf panto on.

The second I did a pine tree panto.

The last, and larger one, had a farm motif and I didn't have any pantographs with that theme, so I ended up doing a simple custom on it.

Crystal is fairly new to quilting and I'm excited she asked me to quilt this since she kind of runs one of our local fabric stores.  She wanted bear claws quilted as an all-over.

I looked on line and couldn't find a panto that I could buy with bear claws that I liked, so I had to be creative and invent my own.  I'll have to do a posting sometime on what I did here, I'm quite excited about my little 'invention'.

The next two quilts are Sarah's - future Christmas gifts for grandchildren.  Someone is being organized and planning for the holidays already!  Did whirlys on the first...

and Chantilly lace on the second.

A wedding quilt for a daughter-in-law by Sue. 

Did 'Water world' panto in the center and custom treatment on the two outside borders.

the back, you can see the border treatments better here.

the center panto pattern.

I keep thinking I need to keep up better with posting, but I never seem to.  It finally reaches the stage where I'm afraid I'm going to forget who made each quilt (since I need these pictures to put on  my customer's work-orders).  So this blog is kind of feast or famine ----nothing, nothing, nothing, then many.

Actually piece a top?

Having a dandy thunder storm.  We're not supposed to plug in our longarm machine during thunderstorms, fear of power surges that could really mess up these expensive pieces of equipment.  So, maybe I'll actually have some free time to work on a quilt top for my niece's wedding.  Don't get much time these days to work on that end of a quilt, looking forward to it :)

Charity Quilt

That time of year again when the fund raising quilts for cancer research which is hosted by the Utah state quilters are being finished up in preparation to be turned in. I donate my services and quilt up these quilts for my customers who participate in this. This one was assembled by Louise.

It's inventive how they work this whole thing. Every year some pink fabric is chosen and at the annual state meeting they sell fat quarters to those who are willing to make a block of their choice out of it. Since it is a fund raiser this fabric is not cheap. The following year these blocks are turned in and people vote for their favorite blocks. I'm not sure this is right, but I THINK the ladies have to pay for their votes - thus more income. Then these blocks are assembled into groups and handed out to ladies who are then willing to make sampler type quilts out of them. Then these quilts are turned in the next year and are auctioned off. All the proceeds going towards a cure for cancer.

I'm not a member of this state quilters guild. I did attend one afternoon a few years ago just to see what it was like - but decided my money was better spent attending the machine quilters convention each year. But there are a number of women in our local quilt guild that are faithful attenders.

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two baby quilts that customer just wanted done up quick and cheap - so meander it was.

A whole cloth with an oriental feel to it. Another quilt that needed to be done quickly in order to be ready for a wedding.

Used Asian Ginkgo panto. This is the 2nd time I've used this design and I've liked it both times, just has a nice look I think.

Some times it feels really nice to have several all over designs, something repetitious that doesn't take much thought once it's up and going. My next two quilts to go on are both involved custom jobs -- so a lot more work. But I enjoy those too.