"Whales" by Pat

There's a new baby coming to Pat's family, and the family requested a "Nautical themed" quilt.  Pat went through her stash and found whales, shells, fish and some other coordinates to come up with this great design.  Quilted with the "Whales" panto, which ties it all together perfectly.

 

"Fish!" by Leigh

So many times I would like to find the time that Leigh does to complete all these quilts!  This is the first of at least 3 more that I still have at my house.

I love the bright colors and the addition of the buttons as "bubbles" on a couple of blocks couldn't be more perfect!

 

"Scrappy squares with embroidery" by Pam

What a great idea to use an orphan block as a focal point.  I don't know what type of embroidery this is, but Pam did it all by hand.  Then made scrappy squares that all finish at about 3" squares

Quilted with an edge to edge design of sunflowers and it incorporated the flowers beautifully.
 

"Squares on Point" by Kas

 Kas is a new to me customer, but when she picked up this quilt today, she asked about another that she is piecing, so I hope we'll work together again soon.

A simple design, but so very effective!

"Emma's Sunflower quilt" by Mary Beth

 This quilt has been patiently waiting it's turn for quilting.  I was loading it up, and realized that it was too large to put on my computerized machine!  Oh no!  So, reach out to Mary Beth to choose a different design, then wait until the current quilt was finished on the larger machine. 

All made from probably fabrics from Liberty of London, so very soft to the touch, and the wool batting inside will make it warm and cozy.

"For Kelise" by me

 When you have friend's who are graduating, you, make them a quilt.  Kelise likes pinks and blues ,and this is a pattern that I had made many years ago, and wanted to do again.

I pulled all of the fabrics from my stash, and there are a lot of memories in the fabrics.  Bike rides with friends, leftovers from other quilts, my blouse made with fabric gifted to me from mom.  Hope she enjoys it as much as I did making it.

"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

 

Two from Betty

This stunning Treble Clef quilt is for one of her grandsons who plays the saxophone

Quilted with a edge to edge design of music

 symbols in a grey thread that would blend well on both the black and white fabrics.

And a lovely log cabin quilt, but I'm not sure who will receive this one.  Lovely batiks and white tone on tone

 

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.

 

"Baby's Star" by me

We have a new baby on the way in our family!  My husband's nephew and his wife are expecting their first baby, and I don't know if it's a boy or a girl.  So, I opted for "neutral" colors.  The background is actually seam foam green, but I ran out of dye and it's not as deep of a color as I had hoped.  I still like it though.  This next photo is of the backing, also seafoam, but a darker shade.  All of the fabrics started out as white, but I hand dyed them all.  So much fun and a new addiction for me to be involved with!

 

Panel quilt by Pam

Pam found this panel and liked it so much that she used the same panel for the backing!  Added a border to both and sent it to me.  I'm not sure if there is a baby to receive this or not, but it'll be ready when there is.

Since Pam mails her quilts to me, I get to choose the quilting designs.  This is called "Windy Woods", and when I found it in my book, it leapt out at me and said "use me!" I hope Pam loves it as much as I do.

 

"Merman #2" by Michael

Okay, here's a Merman I'd like to meet!  What a stunner!

Quilted with "Intersteallar" panto  Gorgeous!

 

Vintage Dresden Plates from Ann

This quilt has quite a story.

Ann contacted me about quilting a vintage quilt of hers, and in the course of our conversation, mentioned that she had a second quilt top that she did not want to finish, but did I know of anyone who would like to finish it and donate it?  Clearly, I told her my story of charity quilts, and she gifted me the quilt.

These are all the pictures of the quilt that I took in process.  Either when it was loaded on the quilt, or after I've finished it.  

The quilt top was completely hand pieced, and appliqued to the background muslin, and the quilting lines had clearly been marked in pencil.  I followed these lines throughout, then purchased new fabric for the binding, and finished that by hand.

This quilt's next destination is to go to the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show and hopefully it will be sold there.  All proceeds from the sale of this quilt will go to C.O.P.S. https://www.concernsofpolicesurvivors.org/

These are one of about 3 pieces of the plates that are clearly taken from a garment, you can see the seam that appears to be from a shirt yoke, and then top stitched by machine. 

In progress