"Medallion" by Pat

 

Pat tells me that this quilt is circa 1990's a Jenny Byer pattern made with templates.  Pat pointed out to me that this is a medallion quilt and then pretty much turned me loose.  I did suggest wool batting to allow the quilting to really show,

I started out by basting the entire quilt together so that I could move it back and forth on the machine without risk of wrinkles.  Then I SID around each block.  Once that was done I quilted different designs in the blocks, but still had all that background to fill.  I ended up taking several photos and had them blown up by a blueprint company, so that I could draw my ideas on a much larger scale.  Once I knew what I wanted to do, I got one more large paper pattern made of the star block below.  Then traced that onto the quilt top, and quilted the "star" using rulers  Each section of the star was quilted individually with feathers, and the background of the quilt was quilted with rulers and meandering feathers.

Clearly pat was pleased when she picked it up, and then sent me a text stating that the quilt was "out of this world."  I'm so pleased!  I had such a good time working on this quilt!

"Meg's baby quilt" by Pat

Pat is going to be a grandma!  So of course the new baby to be needs a quilt.  Pat's daughter Meg chose the pattern, and liked the quilting on the pattern so much that this is what she requested for her quilt  So, parallel lines around every other block  Very geometric.

 

"Hexagons" by Leigh

I love English Paper Piecing, and that is how this quilt is constructed.  But what really makes this quilt is Leigh's exquisite fussy cutting of fabrics!  The peacock feather motif above is my personal favorite, but they are all stunning.  I sid around the center circle, then quilted continuous curves in the hexagons.  Finally used a circle ruler to quilt a circle at the outside corner of each block.

 

3 from Michael

I love to see what Michael has each time he drops off quilt tops.  This one, the sweet bear, is my speed.  No paper piecing, but you get a darling quilt top out of it.  And so versatile!  It's a brown bear, but why not a polar bear, or a panda bear?  So many different ideas!

This is not my speed.  Paper piecing, but so well done!  Love the metallic fabrics in the dragon.  The quilt is called "Bookwrym", and we quilted it with a design of a single book laying open as though it was being read.

Amazing!  I'm sure we all recognize Buddha, and in such vibrant colors!  This one just glows. Quilted with a design of a Lotus leaf.

 

"Julie's Star blocks"

Julie's piecing on this quilt is impeccable!  You can roll it onto the machine, and the sides are perfectly straight!  What a thrill to quilt this..  Quilted with an edge to edge design of leaves, and so soft and pretty.

 

Michael's "Ladies of Fashion"

Michael is at it again with his tiny little pieces.  These are mostly queens from history, Queen Elizabeth, Marie Antoinette, but also Isadora Duncan in top left corner.

What really astounds me is the different types of fabrics that he incorporated.   In addition to traditional quilting.  cottons, there are lames, a few other types of metallics and even a home dec fabric or two.  But it all worked out beautifully, and with my amazing APQS Lenni we sailed right through it all.  Quilted with a pattern called "Juliet" which seemed appro. as well.

 

"Cross-stitching" by Emily

This quilt is not out of focus, but the piecing is all made from roughly 2.5" finished squares to give the effect of crosstitch..  Emily had made a matching quilt and quilted it on her DSM, and did straight line quilting at about 1/4" apart.  This is what she asked for on this quilt as well so that they would match.  I was sure that since the fabrics were made from a heavier linen type of fabric, both front and backing, that quilted that densely would result in a very stiff quilt.  It appear that Emily was correct and I believe that she is pleased with how it all turned out.