"Garden Picnic" by Carol

Carol and I have quilted together for many years now, and I hope I'll get to see more of her now that she has retired.  Although this is a Block of the Month, where you usually complete one block per month for a year, Carol finished hers in something like 2 weeks to one month.

 A BIG quilt at 100"x101", but a lovely Hydrangea panto to finish it with a soft pink thread.  Well done

101 Maple Street by Laura for her neice

What a great quilt!  I can't believe that Laura not only appliqued the entire thing, but that she turned under the raw edges before machine stitching them!  Wow!!

Quilted with the Leafy Vine design.

My favorite block.  The fox on the swing with stitching lines for the swing ropes!

 

Baby quilt in batiks by Susan

Lots of new babies in the world!  Susan is a new to me customer who made this sweet one out of batiks, and another minky backing.  Quilted with the Wildwood panto, so flowers and feathers and swirls.  I hope that she and I will get to partner again in the future!

 

Red Riding Hood Panel by Pam

 Pam has made several Red Riding Hood quilts, and this one is specifically for her newest grand baby.  Quilted with an edge to edge "wood grain" design, and she provided minky fabric for the backing to make it extra cozy.

Two Mickey quilts from Janice

These two quilts are both made from Mickey Mouse fabrics for the mouse ears.  Love the Friendship star blocks that are also "tossed" around the edges, and a checkerboard border to finish it off

Clearly they had to have Mickey and Minnie for the quiltling to continue the theme, and I thought this deisgn was perfect.

So much fun that she made a second one with a different border!  I've also drafted out the design so that I can make one of my own in the future. 

 

The rest of Michael's

I don't do well with technology, so it took a couple of tries to get these.  Michael does love his Bigfoot, this is one of several that we've worked on together.  This one is a panel of different types of Bigfoot, Like the abominable Snowman, who would of course be in white fur

Quilted with a freehand leaf and vine design.

I love how this guy is waving "Hi!"

I'm not sure when Michael completed this quilt, but he had quilted it himself before bringing it to me.  I simply added some more quilting.  Mostly a background fill of a stipple in the yellow gingham.

Also feathers in the outer border

And in the dark blue background

 

Photo dump #1 of Michaels

Right before I left on my bike trip, Michael dropped off about 6 quilts. Here are a few.  Van Gogh's "starry night"

Quilted with an edge to edge freehand design of spirals to mimic the swirls in the painting.

"Lord of the Rings"  I read the Hobbit as a kid, just never fell in love with the rest of the story. 

I can still recognize a couple of characters at least.

"Farm Fresh", and I was just talking to a friend about 2 color quilts.  Here's a great example!

Michael and his amazing paper piecing are at it again.  This beautiful lion, quilted with free hand flames.

And the Gladiator which received an art deco design.

 

Two from me for the police

I have decided to call this one "Sometimes a lack of math skills can be a blessing."  For those who don't know me, "Beth Math" is a common joke.  Yes, you'd think a quilter and musician would have better math skills, but no.   The name of this quilt comes from the fact that I pulled fabrics to start a quilt with  a plan to use up large quantities of a leftover piece of fabric, as well as make one for the police.  That turned into the initial quilt and a one made of leftovers.  Then there were STILL fabrics left that were cut to size, so I put them up on the design wall to come up with a pleasing arrangement.  I also got to dig through my stash of batting to find enough leftover bits to pull enough for these two quilts.  Quilted with continuous curves and a leaf meander in the border to hold it all togerher.

 This is called "An Out of this World Vacation."  I was about 3 days from leaving on a 3.5 week bike trip, but needed to finish a quilt on my computerized machine, with no other quilts to work on with my freehand machine.  Finally decided to pull a panel from the stash, add borders and quilt it for the police.  This panel was probably purchased on a bike ride as well.  

I quilted the path of the planetary rings, around each planet and astronaut.  Again, leftover batting and the same backing that was already loaded from the quilt above.  Dig through the binding bag and now it's complete and ready to give to an officer.

"100 Acre Wood" by Michael

One more from Michael.  AA Milne and his Winnie the Pooh characters on a blustery day.  Quilted with a panto called "Natural Music", and it took me a long time to realize that the "wind" makes the lines of a music staff.

My favorite part of this quilt is Christopher Robin's socks where one isn't fully pulled up.  So dang cute!

Yes, Pooh is flying with a mylar balloon, made from a satiny fabric

 

Michael's "Halloweener Dogs", "Vintage Hallowen" and "Rooftop View"

As always, Michael has been busy.  This one is my favorite though!  All the little Dachshunds in Halloween Costumes, but the ones in the pumpkins are the best

check out his fangs!

Vintage Halloween seems to have been a panel or at least all from the same fabric line.  Such fun to try to read all of the "newspaper advertisements"

Rooftop view (either sunrise or sunset, I've forgotten)  I think that this is one of two that Micheal will create and quilted with a strong diagonal design to mimic the rooflines

 

"It all started with Andy" by me

 I got to know our neighbor Andy through a brief conversation in the winter.  We got to know one another better and by summer she had shared that she had ice dyed several garments.  I immediately saw the potential for fabric and that's where this all started.  All of the fabrics started as solid white, some were tone on tone.  So when the dye reacts, many of the white print doesn't absorb the dye.  

This is a baby quilt for a future great grandbaby of a biking friend, and grandbaby of her son. 

For Julie Ann's niece

I wish I'd asked for the name of this pattern.  I love the striking graphic design.  Quilted as well with a strong diagonal design to mirror that.

 

For grandson by Judy

I lived next door to Judy when I was a kid, and even babysat her sons at some point.  She made this quilt for her grandson who is starting college in the fall.  He will wrestle for school, so a part of the quilting design were circles to represent the wrestling mats.  Another hobby is fishing, so the fishing lures in the cornerstones are perfect!