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"Double Chevron" by Carol

Carol is a new to me customer, and she is delightful to work with. This quilt from batiks will go to her son and daughter in law. Lots of leaves in the design to go with the fall colors, and then something simple to hold down the background.

"Shimmer Fabrics" by Rhonda

Drat. The first photo isn't great, but the close up worked well. Lots of lovely leaves in rich fall colors. Quilted with "Honey" thread that also has a sheen, and oak leaves.

"Patty's Log Cabin Stars"

Another stunner from Pat, and it's scrappy. What's not to love?

We've got a piano key border, quilted with a leafy vine. The leaves are repeated in the log cabin blocks.


The star blocks got continuous curves on one half, and the white half was treated to the same feathers in the rest of the white sections of the quilt. Fun times for me in terms of quilting.

"Gingko Leaves in red and black" by Carla

Another lovely Asian fabric quilt from Carla.

This is the backing of her quilt. Just as lovely as the front!

Flying geese and trees by Carla

Ahh, cozy flannels. Hard to think about those when it's 80 degrees out, but it's going to get cold and wet soon. Carla made some lovely tiny trees and flying geese to snuggle under. Then quilted with leaves. Almost (but not quite) makes me wish for a rainy day to cuddle under it and eat soup.

"Leigh's Leaves" or "Collage #2 by LeighAnoth

Leigh is another of those amazing people who do hand embroidery. Then to take all these little fiddly bits from your stash and to create something like this. Astounding.

Wool yarn couched down into a flower.

Flowers embroidered

Buttons and lace bits. Quilted all over with a leafy meander

"Yukata" fabrics from Carla

I had never heard of Yukata fabrics before, but they are very lightweight cotton, usually used to make summer Kimonos in Japan.

White backgrounds with indigo blue dye on all, and various Asian motifs. Very pretty. Quilted with Gingko leaves panto

"Autumn Leaves" and "Funky Monkey Rail Fence" by Michael

I have forgotten a good portion of the story, but Michael's friend offered him so fabrics, and this is a portion of what he found. I know that I took more photos of both quilts but these are all I can find. (Why I don't work with computers). Autumn leaves is quilted with a lovely leaf panto, and has a black backing making the gold thread really stand out.

"Funky Monkey Rail Fence" because that's the name of the panto he chose to have done on this rail fence quilt top. Why not? It's really fun to do something off beat like that.

Grandmother's Flower Garden for Lisa and Rachel

Shamefully, I don't recall who gave them this quilt top, but it's all hand pieced. I do love English Paper Piecing. Quilted with an edge to edge design of leaves and vines in a pale cream thread. Just enough to blend into the background.

Sunset on the Garden by Judy

Isn't this lovely? All batik backgrounds that transition from lighter to darker, with leaves in the squares. Quilted with an overall leaf design and a variegated thread in shades of greens and browns. Well done Judy!

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.

Bedspread for Janet's customer

Janet is an upholsterer who found me online. She has a customer who wanted a bedspread made from this great black and cream fabric.

Quilted with an edge to edge design of leaves, using wool batting for warmth and loft.

Marelle's quilt from Aunt Joy

This is an old family quilt that no one seems to know where it started.

Back in August of 2014, my niece, through my husband, Marielle received this quilt from their Aunt Joy. Randall's mother's sister. Marielle washed the quilt, and sadly the original quilting fell apart. She took the whole quilt apart, and we added new batting, and backing to it.

The story that we pieced together from Joy is that the quilt was found in a relative's home, and no one seems to know who made it or why.

The blocks are all hand embroidered, and the person who made it was great at embroidery, not so great at piecing. Blocks were wonky and few corners matched, but you'll never notice from 3 feet away on a galloping horse. That's a rule I learned from my friend Wendy. "If you can't see if from 3 feet on a galloping horse, it doesn't show." Excellent rule! I used Glide thread, quilted it with vines and leaves to go with the flower theme in the embroidery. Wool batting to give it loft. The original backing wasn't large enough to use again, so it became the label on the back, and the new binding. Now I hope it will have a new and long life with Marielle.

"Library" by Becci

Ack! She's never sent a quilt out for quilting before! The pressure! I love the quilt! Becci has a friend who is a librarian, and will be receiving this lovely quilt. Haven't you always wanted to do this yourself? Gotta love that it looks just like a set of book shelves. Mostly they are standing upright, but there are a few that are stacked, or leaning against others. The vase in the middle is a perfect addition.


All the books are SID, and every once in a while I quilted a design in the "spine" of the book. The grey with the diagonal lines, and the yellow with the birds both have quilting. All quilted with monopoly thread to give texture, but not distract from the piecing. Becci also chose great fabrics, so many of them really looked like the spines of classic leather bound books. The background was quilted with a vine and leaf design to tie in with the fact that books are made with paper which comes from trees.

Harvest shop hop

I love sampler quilts. I feel I must explain the chalk line down the center of the quilt. Diana wanted me to use 2 different colors of thread, and one was to go on one side of the quilt, and other other on the opposite. The chalk line was to remind me to not get carried away.

Irish Chain #2

Same quilt, but a completely different look! This one is done in greens with a vine and leaves meander. The backing is scrappy, just large squares pieced together. Very fun!

Fig Tree Quilt

Don't you just love the softness of the colors of this quilt? The pattern is by Fig Tree Designs, but I don't know the name of the quilt pattern. Laura chose to have leaves across the body of the quilt, and in the border, then a tight meander in the green border and setting pieces. Very nicely done, Laura!