6 quilts

 Very soft baby quilt by Lynette.  She brought a photo of this same quilt that was quilted with circles all over it that she wanted me to do something similar.  Since I prefer to use pantos for E2E on an entire quite rather than freehand (I just think the look is better in the end...more uniform) I needed to buy a new pattern.  I think it's called Curly circles or something like that.  It's cute.

 This is a fund raising quilt by Lori, so I donated the quilting.  These are blocks that were donated the previous year to the Utah State Quilt Assn. for cancer research.  The blocks are voted on the first year, then made into quilts the second year, and auctioned off.  There are several ladies in our guild who participate in this each year so I usually get to quilt a few of them. 

 Another fund raising quilt by Barbette.  I don't remember the cause this one is for.  She makes the same quilt each year for this charity and so I try to come up with a different way to quilt it each time.  She always uses different fabrics, so each year the quilt has a different feel.

 This next one is by Brenda.  She was actually my 2nd paying customer when I first started to quilt for other people!  Her quilts are always so nicely done. 

This quilt is by Tracy.  I've gotten a number of these cuddly minkee-on-both-sides quilts.  I made a bunch for the local fabric store a few months back and those have been out on display - so I'm guessing that has spurred people to make their own.  (Make is a relative term....some times the tops come in pieced like this one, sometimes it's just two big pieces of fabric.  They pay me to envelope the quilts and then quilt them.)  Everyone has asked to just have a meandering stitch, so they work up quite quickly.  It's been great!  

 This last one is by Inez.  Again, a minkee fabric on both sides.  This time I was asked to make a pillow case to match it as well - how cozy would that be!

Two customer's quilts

 Agnes's quilt.  She brought me a photo of how she wanted this

quilted....I really like it, so striking with the feathers and the straight lines.  

I'm REALLY good at this type of feather now after all this practicing!

 Isn't this a neat looking quilt?  I really like it.  There's a story here, though.  Even though

the piecer did a fantastic job of making all those points meet beautifully, there was a lot of bulk on the back

where all that fabric came together.  (I've since learned there's a method to keep that from happening -

I need to study up on that for my own piecing skill improvement).  The customer asked for an all-over

panto design, but every time my needle and hopping foot hit those bulky area, it would bounce around it,

totally messing up the design of the quilting.  After 4 rows of trying to make it work, I finally gave up and

spent 1 1/2 weeks (3-4 hours every evening) unpicking everything I'd quilted.  (Groan!)

 I ended up designing this light custom so I could completely avoid those bulky areas.

Worked much better - and I think it's a much more striking quilting

choice for this quilt.
I just learned that this block is called "Crossed Canoes". 

8 Customer Quilts

 These first two were brought to me by Virginia.  They are whole clothes that she asked me to quilt as well as bind for her.  I don't get a whole lot of requests to bind quilts, though it happens occasionally.  The bottom leaf one I enveloped so that didn't take very long, but the top one (which there were actually 2 quilts just like that) was done with a traditional binding where I hand stitched it to the back.  I make sure they realize that's pretty time consuming and that I charge by the hour for that.  No one ever complains about the price, perhaps I should raise my rates? 

 These next pictures are from a sampler quilt by Linda.  There were 30 blocks in this quilt!!  I did take pictures of all of them, but will only include several here that were unique to me...I'd never seen these blocks before, so that was kind of fun. 

 This next quilt was made by Louise...I actually did it for her some months ago but noticed that I didn't have a picture of it on her order form, so she brought it to our last quilt guild meeting so I could take a photo of it.  I didn't remember which quilt it was until I saw it, and now I think I did take photos of it at the time, not sure if I ever posted it here, wonder why it didn't make it onto my form?  I especially like the border treatment I came up with on this one.  Well, it's a pretty quilt and if this is a repeat - it's a good one to repeat. :)

 The quilt above was posted in my last group of quilts, but here Louise has now sewn on all the scout patches of her husband's into the center of the blocks....I thought that was worth including here.

The quilt under here is a "beer" quilt again.  Actually it's Royal Crown" liquor fabric bags that have been collected and sewn into a quilt.  In a small Utah town like I live in, it's almost funny that this is the 2nd one of these that I've gotten in!

 These last 2 quilts are by Sue.  I love them...the first one is just luscious with the beautiful fabrics she used, and the last one is so vibrant.  I believe they both are baby quilts, though not your typical ones for sure!  Sue always leaves it up to me how to quilt her quilts, so I did custom on the first one and an E2E on the 2nd one. 

The latest creations by customers

 These first two are by Louise.  A wall hanging and a scout quilt that she's going to sew her husband's scouting badges into the white center blocks...hope my husband doesn't see this!

 The one above and the two below are by Sue.  Some cute baby quilts.

 Wall hanging by Connie

 A family quilt by Ann.  This was challenging to figure out the quilting design...lots of empty space, and lettering that just didn't want to show up. 

 This cute strawberry minkee quilt was for my new little granddaughter, Molly.  Ashley sent me the fabric and asked me to make a simple quilt out of it. 

A number of quilts coming in for family reunions.  this one by Vicki is one of those.

 these last four photos are by Sheri.  She makes these up....has a real knack for it.  Cute!