"Circles" from Leigh

Wish I could get a better photo, but the colors are pretty dark.  All that wonderful hand embroidery and applique.  I quilted in the ditch around each circle, then did straight lines connecting each circle.

And a partial circle evenly spaced around the borders.

 

"Silent Night" by Kristin

This is the 2nd quilt of Kristin's that I've helped with and I really hope this is the beginning of a long term relationship.  Beautifully pieced and appliqued by machine.  All pieces stitched down with metallic thread (which can't be pleasant to work with).  My job was to add dimension, and to add some background fills to the larger areas.  Namely the black sky, and the cream areas.  Then I SID around many of the pieces to add dimension with matching threads  So very pretty!

I added some stitching to the church "siding"

That is one piece of fabric cut out to spell Silent

These last 2 are photos of the Minky backing to show the textures of the quilting

 

"Zoomies" by Leigh

I called this quilt "Zoomies" after the quilting design of large and small loopy circles.  Much like when my dog spins in circles in play.  Usually on a bed, "remaking" it in his fashion.

Since this is Leigh's all hand appliqued in wool and so much fun to work with!

 

"Christmas Kissing Ball" by me

 

I have tried and tried to rotate this photo to get it upright, but the computer is not cooperative, so please ignore that.  I found this pattern in a magazine in about April of 2025, and took me until well into 2026 to get it finished.  I'm quite pleased with it, and hope to sell it at the Sisters quilt show this year.

Heirloom quilting throughout, feathers in the star points, paisley meander in the background (that took forever!)

And assorted continuous curves.

"Big Leaf Panel" by me

 This is just what it looks like.  I panel of fabric, and I bought it about 2020.  On my way to a quilting retreat/lesson.  They were quite popular at the time, and I planned on free motion quilting it.  Currently hanging in the quilt studio, with a plan for a hopeful donation at a future time.

"Cats" and "Lambs" by Leigh

Leigh is known for her amazing applique, and here she is at it again.  I love that all the kitties are polka dotted, and with their red bowties. 

Quilted with a feather meander so that they'd have something to play with.

And some sweet lambs.  Having grown up on a farm, I'm familiar with sheep and lambs, and if they were this cute in person I'd probably love them more.  Quilted with a curly meander in the background to mimic their wool, and wool batting to come full circle.

 

"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!

"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.

 

"Red Riding Hood" by Pamela

Whenever I see a panel quilt, I think "Yes cute, but what do you do with it?"  Well Pamela certainly answered that question.  You add sashing, borders, and hand applique and turn it into a stunning heirloom!

I didn't quilt too much in the panels, just added a bit of detail to give them texture.  What fun to work on this!

 

"Moose Be the Quilting Stars" by me

Anybody want to buy a quilt?

This quilt has been a long time coming, but has been fun all the same.  It started in Sept. 2023 when a copy of Quiltmaker magazine arrived in my mailbox.  I found this cute pattern and decided to make it.  Pulled fabrics from my stash similar to the pattern and dove in.  First part, make 13 pieced and appliqued moose blocks.  (I don't like to applique)  All the same, made the blocks, and then realized that this was done in installments, so waited for the next issue to make the rest of the quilt.  2 months later, the next issue gives clue #2 of 4! Dang!  I've got to wait to finish the quilt!  8 months later I'm ready to sew it all together and decide that I really don't like the fabrics I've chosen for the blocks,  Pull the 12 smaller ones into a quilt for an officer, and make the center block another cop quilt.  Start over again with hand dyed fabrics curated for this, choose different blocks since I wasn't happy with how many of the original ones turned out.  Including drafting a large center block.  NOW I'm ready to put it together!  Oh now, didn't read the directions, my center block is way too big.  Another cop quilt from that block, and make the correct size.  

Now that it's all together, and ready for quilting and I got to play.  Feathered wreaths in the pieced blocks and a feather background fill.  But how to quilt a moose?  While on a bike trip to Utah, there was a taxidermy moose at a restaurant, so I tried to mimic the fur and antlers of the moose there.

The quilt is oversized queen, a combination of hand dyed and commercially dyed fabrics, heirloom quilted, wool batting and hand finished binding.  If you are interested in this, please email me at Beth@eocquilting.com

 

Memory quilt by Liz

Liz is a "new to me" customer.  She had made this quilt out of shirts from a family member who had had passed away, but was a pilot in his lifetime.  Liz chose a Propeller block to represent his flight training, and then set the blocks on point with black setting squares.  Sadly, Liz had had the quilt quilted, but was not happy with how it turned out, so she took it completely apart and we started again.

Each propeller black was SID and a background fill added that was freehand.  Due to time constraints, a similar pattern was quilted in setting squares and a similar design in the outer border.

Exquisitely pieced, and I hope that we'll get to work together again.

 

A trip to the Farm with Leigh

 

These are actually 4 different quilts from Leigh, but I'm putting them all together here.    She dropped off 4 quilts at one time, and now tells me that there are 3 more to be dropped off.  Where does she find the time and energy?

Here are her sweet owls, clearly out in the barn, so I quilted narrow lines to mimic the barn wood in the barn from the farm where I grew up.

Cows!  Quilted with tufts of grass so that they are all out standing in the fields.

Chickens have escaped from the coop and are running free through the yard.  Meaning the eggs are being left in all sorts of strange places. 

I love the fluffy one above, and the use of the stripes on the bias to get more texture in them!

And finally the dogs to help keep the livestock under control.  I tried repeatedly to get photos that better match the colors of brown background and dark batiks for the sashing, but my camera and I are not working well together.

This fun guy is the best match for accurate colors and I love him!