Cross stitched blocks by Vickie

Vickie told me that this is her "last quilt", that she had given all of her supplies to charity.  I'm a bit sad about that.  Always lovely to see what she has come up with.

This quilt started as a stamped design in blue ink and then Vickie stitched over it with embroidery floss in either orange or red..  When the blocks are laid out, they make an alternating flower design in the corners, above, and this lovely design in the center of each block

My job was to quilt the remaining blue lines, so there is a bit of a scallop design that outlines and surrounds the blocks.  The blue ink will wash away the first time the quilt top is laundered, so I was not allowed to press the top before quilting.  That would have permanently set the blue ink, and that's not the look she was going for.

 

"Grandmother's Flower Garden" by Vickie

Don't you love hand pieced quilts?  This one was made some time ago, and for various reasons had to wait for quilting.  Quilted with an edge to edge design called "Tiramisu"  Makes me want to cuddle up with it.

 

"Fons and Porter" by Vickie

Vickie said that she started this, and then got overwhelmed by the pattern.  I'm not sure if she added her own blocks to it, or took what she had, but this originated with something from Fons and Porter. Quilted with Ribbon Heart panto

 

Vickie's hand pieced rail fence

 Vickie is a very petite individual, but make the biggest darn quilts!  This one is all hand pieced, I can't imagine the hours spent working on it.  Very scrappy, and then quilted with the Hearts and Bubbles design which can only be seen on the back. 

Embroidered blocks by Vickie

This quilt has been sitting in my studio for a long time waiting for it's turn for quilting, and I hope that Vickie thinks it was worth the wait.  She hand embroidered the blocks.  That alone astounds me.  Quilted with an edge to edge design of star meander, with a little swoop in the "star blocks"

Hand embroidered from Vickie

Oh my stars.  Vickie started this quilt many months ago, and then it got put away.  She had embroidered all of the blocks, and then started to hand quilt a good portion of it. 
I had to add some backing to make it fit the quilt top and my machine, then followed the marked quilting lines that had been stamped on the top.  Sadly, many of them were faded, but we did our best and got it done.