"Love Notes" by Sue

How sweet is this!?  Take a variety of heart fabrics, and then make little envelopes out of them, and you've got a "Love Notes" quilt!

 

Which, obviously, had to had hearts in the quilting, so this is Hearts and Bubbles.  Wouldn't you love to be Sue's valentine? 

Kaffee Fassett and florals from Trudy

Trudy brought me this lovely quilt full of different floral prints, and I love the rainbow effect that her fabric placement choices make.

 Quilted with a simple geometric design in white thread.  Lovely.

"Trellis" by Gerry

Gerry is a new to me customer, referred from Feather Your Nest.This quilt is called "Trellis".  I love the white sashing that sets it off. 

Gerry's only instructions were to make it "simple but elegant", so feathers in all the triangles, and different ones in the border.  I really thought about doing something in the white, but decided to let it stand on it's own, and give the eye a place to rest.

 

Two more from Louie

Last year, Louie brought me a quilt a blanket that meant a lot to him from his studies in Japan.  It needed some help and love, so here is another 2 from Louie.  

This time, it started as a comforter from his childhood that holds special memories, and I took it apart to make 2 quilts for him.

Both are the same
fabric on top, and backing, quilted with wool batt and a gold thread.  The only difference is the quilting design used.  I believe that these will be Christmas gifts for his brother and nephew.    What a great way to pass on memories.

 

Another DWR star from Carol

Carol does the most amazing and precise piecing.  I stand in awe of her piecing skills.  This quilt will be a wedding gift for her nephew and his bride to be.

Quilted in an edge to edge design of feathers.
 

T-shirts for Wendy's daughter

Wendy had planned on making this quilt for her daughter as she heads off to college,
but I think became overwhelmed.  She had cut down and fused many of the shirts, and her mother had chosen the fabrics used in the sashing.  The shirts were cut to many different sizes, so some were built out to size, other rows had large pieces of sashing added to make the entire top square.

 As always, where do these kids find the time?  She plays soccer, LaCrosse, sings in the choir, travels, does student leadership, to name a few.  Well done to the graduate

Modern Baby quilt by Luci

Luci brought me this sweet baby quilt to finish and wanted a modern design for quilting.  I believe the design is called "Modern Squares".  I think it's perfect.

 

"Horses" by Karen

This quilt is huge!  I think I measured it at 120" square, and king batting only comes in 120" square.  Thankfully, batting 120" is slightly larger than 120" of quilt top.  As you can see in the mostly full quilt, there was just barely enough batting at the bottom!

Karen purchased all of these wonderful Laurel Burch panels, and then set them with batik squares.  She asked that I SID around the horses, and then feathers in the sashing, and more SID on the borders.  All SID was done with monopoly thread, which made it easier for me.  Not so stressful if I didn't stay exactly in the ditch.  All of the feathers are quilted with "Viking" purple thread.    I think well worth the effort, and Karen seemed pleased as well.

 

Mary Beth's most recent "bar quilt"

I love how Mary Beth makes these quilts.  Things I would never think of doing
, but then they work out so well!  

This is the 2nd quilt that I used the Simple Simon pattern on, and a soft gold thread.  Mary Beth let me choose both, which caused some anxiety, but I think it turned out great!

 

Another one for Sandy

I got to know Sandy because her daughter lives in Portland, and she comes to visit on occasion.  This quilt is a twin to one that she had pieced before and wanted the same quilting design on it.  With some research on her part, she was able to find out that it is called "Simple Simon".  I liked it so much, I've used it again already on at least 1 other quilt.  So versatile, so thanks Sandy for that suggestion!

 

Sherri's quilt for her grand-daughter

Sherri pieced this quilt for her lucky granddaughter.  I love the soft colors.  Quilted with pale green thread and the "bean Sprout" panto.  Sherri will finish the binding by hand.  Nice work!

 

Several from Julie

This is so cute!  I believe that Julie told me that they were a layer cake pack to begin with.  Quilted with glow in the dark thread (of course!)

And a bright green in the bobbin to show up on the black backing.

This quilt is called "Wish Quilt".  Made for a lucky young girl, and quilted with stars

 And finally, two log cabin throws from a friend of Julie's that she brought with her.  So pretty!

"National Parks" by me

I started this quilt with a visit to my favorite quilt shop, Feather Your Nest.  I purchased this panel, and then built it out from there.  The design is traditional blocks chosen by me with a plan to make the finished quilt reminiscent of a Pendleton Blanket.

I Flying Geese with the feathers pointing in opposite directions on opposing sides of the quilt.

This block is called "Constellation"

How to quilt this?  I ended up outlining all of the states.

Arrows?  Don't know the name of the actual block.

A couple of photos of the back showing the quilting.  Yes, I chose a solid backing so that the quilting could be seen.

Each individual park was simply stitched in the ditch to highlight it.

 

"Shop Hop Blocks" by me.

 This quilt has been worked on by many people.  My friend Shirley went on a shop hop, and gave me a bunch of blocks (unsewn) that she collected.  I think there were 12 or so. Not nearly enough to make a quilt, so I started to pull from my stash and made a bunch more 6" squares.  Since they are all different designs and often different fabrics, they needed setting squares to be more attractive.  The quilt finally ended up being about twin sized.

I had every intention of taking photos of it, but it just never happened before I took to my friend Lee.  Lee is the surviving brother to our police friend Tom, so I asked Lee to give it to an officer who needed it.  

When I arrived home, the above photo, and following text showed up on my Facebook feed.  With permission from Lee and the officer in the photo, here's the text.

At work today, the receptionist said that there was a Dr. Rand here to see me. I went out in the lobby and there was the wonderful Beth Durand. Beth delivered a beautiful quilt that she had made and asked me to give it to a deserving law enforcement officer. Pictured is Deputy Mike Reiter who is very deserving. Mike will be retiring soon and he knew my brother Tom.