13 Quilts

 

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.

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 :)

The next 5 quilts were made by Diane Freston - a new customer that has kept me busy! 

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. 

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.

""Scalloped Grass" design

""Bayside" design

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. 

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. 

"Chantilly Lace" design

Sweet little girls baby blanket by Gina.  "Popcorn" quilting design.

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!

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.

Since these fabrics were full of ladybugs, dragonflies, bees and flowers, I designed a pantograph with ladybugs, dragonflies, bees  and flowers in it!

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.

"Popcorn" panto pattern.

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. 

2012..new quilts for the new year - we're off and running

Colleen's quilt.  Every time she brings me a quilt she swears it will be her last one, she claims she's just too old to keep making them. But, here she is again, with a very fun quilt for a granddaughter.  The only directions she gave me was to make it really nice and pretty.

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A whole cloth from Debbie.  Used "Bayside" panto

 

Louise's quilt.  This is a charity quilt that will go to one of the children of a policeman who was in the fatal shootings here in Utah a couple of months ago.  

 

Shelley's baby quilt

 

Next 3 photos are Sheri's quilts.

 

The quilt above is Nancy's - the fabric is too busy to really see the pine tree panto I used.

The above quilt is Tenisha's with a square spiral panto pattern.

Sarah's quilts, used two new pantos on these:  Plaza and Fascination

Last two quilts of the year

I'm in the process of downloading a kazillion pictures off my camera onto the computer, and found the last two quilts I finished up before christmas.....which will have me all caught up for 2011!

This first quilt was an unbelieveably detailed quilt that was paper pieced by Vicki.  She made it up using various other quilt patterns, and kind of "mashed" them together (using a musical term).  She had been working on it most of the year and was sick of it - been there myself!  But what a beautiful result.

sorry, these little stockings kind of jumped into here - they were supposed to be at the top.  I have a customer's husband who calls each Christmas and buys his wife a gift certificate for her for quilting services.  I try to come up with some fun little thing to put the certificate into each year, this is what I made this time around.

Back of Vicki's quilt

I thought I was all done, and a cute little gal called asking if I could possibly quilt an easy baby quilt before Christmas....ooookkkaayyyy.  Luckily it was simple, and she was happy :)

20 quilts

My gosh, I was surprised how many quilts I was behind on posting about...I thought my last posting of 13 quilts was a lot!  Well, here we go:

These first 3 quilts are Devonna's

This Bear Claw is a custom quilting job that I think turned out really nicely.

Four quilts by Sarah:

Because of all the pictures I had to post this time I didn't include many close ups, especially if it was an all-over design, so if you want to see the quilting design better, click on the photo and it will enlarge it for better viewing. 

A cute quilt by Gloria:

A custom quilting job for Agnes:

the back - almost looks like a panto pattern, but it's not.

2 quilts by Nancy:

this first is a semi-custom job that was fun.  Panto of elk, deer and bears in the center - then custom words sewn into the first border, and custom leaves on the last border.

A sweet little baby quilt by a secret quilter :)

This next quilt was a whole cloth that was pieced together by a college guy (good for him!)  He's a friend of my son and was finding it very expensive trying to get it quilted in Provo.  Blake said he thought I would cut him a deal and help him out - which I did.

The next one is a  unique quilt that I refer to as the "Beer Quilt". The center monogrammed squares are off of beer bottles (that came wrapped in fabric?  don't ask me!)  The woman who pieced it made it for a family member and she herself doesn't drink.  She said it took her two years, asking every drunk she knew, to save these monogrammed fabric pieces for her.  It was kind of cute, she was almost embarrassed to ask me to quilt it - kept saying that I might not want to do it!  It's a beautiful quilt and I had no issues with quilting it for her :)

These last 6 quilts were made by me for a friend who lost her husband 2 years ago.  She asked me if I would make her a memory quilt out of his shirts for her -- I told her she might as well bring me enough shirts that I could make one for each of her 5 kids as well - so here they are.  I really had to push to get them finished by Christmas, but I made it. 

this one had a bunch of pockets off the shirts:

She realized I was having problems keeping up with my work load, and said she'd like to finish the hand binding on the ones I hadn't already done.  So 2 of the pictures here have the final binding finished, but the other 4 I managed to get it sewn on for her - then she'll finish the hand stitching part.  Handed them over to her this past weekend.  I'd like to be a fly on the wall Christmas day to see these given to her children :)