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Thursday, May 26, 2011

2 family quilts

A cute baby quilt made by Ashley for her sister-in-law who just had a little girl after 4 boys:)

An all-over panto with flowers, leaves and swirls - seemed to go well with the fabric.





A re-do. Ashley returned this bedspread to me to put more quilting on to it. I just added more in the white, red and yellow strips. I thought it needed more initially, but she needed to see it herself before deciding the same.


Hope this is ok?

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

3 quilts

3 customer quilts that almost slipped through the cracks. This first one was an all-over feather panto.

A Triple Irish Chain that I did line dancing in the colorful squares and a feather wreath in the white open areas and a chain on the white border.



I was in such a hurry to get these photos taken that I didn't get this quilt flattened out very well. I have yet to find a good place to take pictures in our new house.

This colorful and interesting quilt had an all-over panto of swirls in the center with a custom border. She requested a varigated colored thread which was fun.


Saturday, May 14, 2011

Quilt Hanger



I recently attended HMQS which I was very excited to go since I've missed the past two years. I had a list of things I wanted to find while there...one of which was some kind of quilt hanging system that I could hang up the upcoming customer's quilt to be thinking of quilting ideas while working on the current one on my machine. There were a couple of different ones to choose from and this is the one I came home with. A metal plate that attaches to the wall with two super strong magnets. Then an inexpensive metal tension curtain rod that I just wrap the quilt top around and clamp with clothes pins and that rod sticks to those magnets great -- very strong attachment. Yippee.



Thursday, April 28, 2011

1 quilt

A very pretty quilt by Peggy. I'm not sure the pictures are going to do it justice - it was very pretty when she dropped it off, and at the risk of bragging ~ the quilting turned out great....really makes the quilt!
This is the first time I've tried this particular kind of feather, and it was fun! I'll be using this one again in the future.


Took about 2 days longer than I hoped it would, what else is new.


Thursday, April 21, 2011

2 quilts

Sheri's quilt

I tried to mimic the brown border on the very outside edge of the quilt - then ran a vine with oak leaves down the middle since the panto used in the center of the quilt had oak leaves.




Wall hanging - also by Sheri


This was made for a friend from Japan who came to visit awhile back and loved her trip to Utah. They didn't know until just recently if she was OK after all the problems in Japan...but finally heard from her and she's fine.




She didn't want a lot of excess quilting ~ so we elected to just put in a few 'fun' things like suns, clouds and birds to kind of tack down some of the larger sky areas that really needed more stitching.










Friday, April 8, 2011

4 quilts

Here is a minor miracle - this is a quilt that I actually made....don't know when the last time was I managed this! Ashley asked me to make this for Kinsey over a year ago and I finally, FINALLY got it done. (Ash threatened me that if I didn't have it done by Kinsey's birthday that she was going out and buying something!) She wanted minimal quilting, pretty much just outlining most of it...had to do more in the green area because it was too large of a space to leave unquilted - went with the crosshatching because I thought it would give a even consistency but not detract.Notice the little upside down heart - I did that on purpose....there was a secret message there :)
A stunning bed runner by Carla --- love, Love, LOVE it!
the outside border has a seaweed pattern quilted into it and the light blue border, waves. Carla bought these fabrics in Hawaii and it will be a gift for her sister who lives there.

Those little squares are less than an inch wide, we didn't want any stitching over them to detract from the beautiful fabrics, so I just SID in a stair step path following the colorways up.
These next two quilts were made by two sister-in-laws who went together on a quilting cruise -- how fun would that be??! This first one was a mystery quilt ~ I really like the fabric, so fun and colorful. She wanted a multi colored thread with an all over treatment.

the back.
See the spiderweb pieced in the center - they have a beautiful spider pin that will be attached later.

Thursday, March 31, 2011