EOCQ-Gallery: April 2016

T-shirts for Julie's son

It's graduation time, so bring out the t-shirts to be made into a quilt! Don't get me wrong, I had a wonderful childhood, but I want this kids! Disney cruise, Hawaii, spring training. Sounds like a hoot!

My oldest brother, who is a spy, (seriously) needs this shirt.

Here's a bad sort of pun for middle brother.

And my personal favorite!

"Team Liz" memory quilts by Michael

Memory quilts are wonderful, but also hard to do. Made in memory of a loved one who has passed, and here are 3. The one above is for mom, the two below for her siblings.

Nice job on the shirts and cutting the butterfly one apart, and then framing the Team Liz with it.

All quilted with the Modern Squares pantograph and Glide cream thread.

All are made with the same block design, but due to the colors, many of the blocks look quit different from one another. All of the fabrics are either t-shirts, or scrub tops that belonged to Liz.

Hand quilted by Kristine

First let me say, that I only finished the binding on this quilt. Kristine hand quilted all of this large quilt. Oh my!

Tons of little pieces, and you can see the stitches in the black. All of her stitches were done truly in the ditch. As a hand quilter, I usually stitch out about 1/4" from the seam that way I'm not trying to stitch through the quilt top, 2 layers of seams in the fabric, the batting and the backing.

Kristine shared that she has been working on this quilt for a long time, and just wants to be done with it. However, she made a commitment to her son that she would enter it into the Sisters Outdoor Quilt show this year, so it needed to be finished. That's where I entered the picture.

When she came to drop off the quilt, she started to look at some of my other projects around the house, and found one of my English Paper Pieced quilts. When she came to pick up this quilt, she had already purchased and started her on EPP project. It's an addiction, but a really good one!

Irish Chain by Maria

Combine several of my favorite things. Scrappy quilt, open space for quilting, feathers and stir. Not to mention an incredibly trusting new customer.

Maria lives in NY state. She found me online, and shipped her lovely quilt top and backing clear across the country to have me quilt it for her! Wow am I lucky!

We communicated via e-mail, to discuss how she wanted her quilt finished, thread choices etc.

Here's a shot of the back. The fabric really is bright white, but hard to tell that in the light in the basement. Should have taken it outside. The weather was lovely!

Continuous curves in the border, feathers in the borders. Modified continuous curves in the chains. Similar to the one I did for the wonderful Aunt and Uncle who live in Hawaii. Hey! I've got 2 coast lines of the US covered!

"Snowf - Ike" by me.

I just love it when I find a pattern and know that I have to make the quilt, but don't have a plan on who will receive the quilt "yet" This is one of those quilt. Found the pattern in American Quilter magazine in November. "Must make this!" A month or so later, my friend Anne informs me that her first grandchild will be born to son Chase and daugher in law Erica. This is their quilt! You see, Chase is a rescue skier and works with his avalanche rescue dog "Ike", a yellow lab.

Quilted with the pantograph of "Flopsy", even though this is more of retriever dog, I still think it works. Such fun!

Flower Fairies by Kristin

What a lucky baby. Kristin's friend is having a baby, and this is her gift to the baby and family.

I assume that Kristin started with a panel of the flower fairies, then cut those apart, and sashed them.

Quilted with freehand leaves and vines to go with the garden, flower theme.

One for each letter of the alphabet. "L" is for Lily of the Valley.

Tom's strings

More string quilts! I decided to try my hand at making one that was a little more organized. Went with a color theme in each block, then cut those down to 6" finished squares.

Quilted with a panto called "His Reflection" since I use to tease Tom about the profile of his nose reminding me of "Woodstock's" beak (from the Peanuts comic strip).

Now I just need to find a police officer to give it to.

South African mystery by me. Diamond mines.

This quilt is also known as "Dad's Feathers"

One of those mystery quilt tops that we made at Heart to Hand oh so many, many years ago.

My dad would have been 84 on March 24, 2016 had he lived, so I quilted this quilt in his honor. Gave me an opportunity to play with feathers , but the outer border with the plaid background screamed to have cross hatching done in it.