EOCQ-Gallery: May 2020

New digital designs!

Hearts and Swilrs

Feathers and swirls (going to try this one out today!)


Cinnamon Swirl

Batik Stars by Pat

Pat does it again. Another stunner. I think that this one was on my machine for about 1.5 weeks. I hope that Pat agrees that it was worth the time.

How many feathers can I put in this quilt? It would appear that the answer is "a lot".

Quilted with white in the thread in the background, and solid one called "Adobe" in the colored blocks.

The center star, my favorite.

A shot of the backing trying to show the quilting as it's hard to see on the front. Finishing this quilt was bittersweet for me. I was having such a good time working on it, and so sad to see it end. Kind of like a really good book that you just can't put down, but that eventually comes to an end.

Tom's Harley-Davidson t-shirtsTom

Tom contacted me about making a quilt for him from a part of his collection of Harley-Davidson shirts.

There were a couple of chest pocket designs that Tom wanted included, but most of the shirt designs were too large to be able to fit those as well. I appliqued them to the sashing instead.

I think this block is my favorite, and not just because they are a local business. I love the fish too.

"Fox and Hounds" by me

The pieced blocks in this quilt top were supposed to be the border to the "Kindred Spirits" quilt. But they added nothing to the quilt, and actually made it a bit worse. I instead pulled off the pieced blocks, and made several smaller quilt tops using a larger focus fabric to alternate with the leftovers. The first one completed is called "Fox and Hounds" because the black square in the pieced blocks are all the same fox print. Then grab some large dog prints, and alternate. Quilted with the "Woof" design. Needs binding, and a police officer.

"Kindred Spirits" by me

This is one of the amazing Mystery Quilts Anonymous patterns. I believe this one was to celebrate the fact that she now has 5000 people following her on Facebook. As usual, I went with scrappy, but probably a bit too scrappy. I'm not thrilled with it up close, but it will make a great cop quilt.


Here's the backing to show the quilting. The design is called "Juliet", and below is a detail from the front of the quilt.

Jennie's batiks

Another stunner from Jennie, Very subtle coloring, and she's right about the dark grey thread. I wanted to go with gold, but that really would have been too much on this quilt.

If you look carefully at the gold you can see the dark grey "Kelpie" quilting on it.

Embroidered blocks by Vickie

This quilt has been sitting in my studio for a long time waiting for it's turn for quilting, and I hope that Vickie thinks it was worth the wait. She hand embroidered the blocks. That alone astounds me. Quilted with an edge to edge design of star meander, with a little swoop in the "star blocks"

"Feeling Crabby" by Michael

The title of this quilt is so appropriate for the quilt, but also for the times that we are living in with social distancing. I too am "Feeling Crabby". The blocks are Snails Trails and paper pieced Crabs,