College Quilts for the nieces.

When you go off to college, you need a quilt for your dorm room.  Here are two great examples.  The girls chose the fabrics for their quilts, and I think possibly the patterns.  "Aunt Pam" quickly pieced them and we were able to get them to the girls before they left for school.  I love the log cabin that is off set, and made from leftovers of the girls clothes from when they were growing up.

This green batiks quilt is made up of lots and lots and lots of flying geese units.  Wow.  Way to go Pam.

Christmas Wall Hanging

These photos do not do justice to the finished quilt.  

After binding it, Sara add many little crystals as decorations on the tree, and to add stars to the sky behind the tree.  In addition, she was then gracious enough to allow me to borrow the quilt for display in my booth at NW Quilt Expo in September.  So many people commented on this lovely little quilt, and then went off to purchase crystals for their own projects.  The exhibitor from another booth came over at one point and commented "So, this is the quilt that everyone is buying crystals for."

Well done Sara!

AJ's Cars

AJ is a new grandson for Mary Ellen, and he gets to have a car quilt!  Quilted with the "Automotion" panto, although you can't see it too well on a busy print.  Fun quilt!

Nina's Trip Around the World

My darling sister in law Susan met Nina, the potential customer, while shopping at a local craft store.  She gave Nina my information, and this is the result.  I love scrappy quilts, and Nina has made a beautiful one here.  Just try to imagine cutting up all those little squares!

Space by Sandy

Sandy made this quilt for a special boy in her life.  I think that he chose the fabrics and then she pieced it for him.    Difficult to see, but she chose a stars and loops pattern for the quilting design.

Retro stars by Sandy

Isn't this just a soothing quilt?  I think I'm also turning more people onto the joys of wool batting because that's what Sandy chose for her quilt.  

Stars by Leslie

Because the mother of the bride has nothing else to do prior to her daughter's wedding, so she made a .quilt top for her and her husbands bed.  Leslie is truly amazing, she hosted a buffet dinner for the wedding at their home.  Wow.

Leslie and Gordon also chose wool batting for their quilt, and I love how the fans show off with this batt.

Wedding Ring Variation for Elizabeth and Jon

Family wedding #1 for the summer was between Elizabeth and Jon.  Elizabeth was the flower girl at our wedding and she made a beautiful bride.

This quilt caused me a little grief initially.  I was having a really good time suing my Accucut system to cut the pieces for the blocks and then sewing them together.  I had purchased what I thought would be plenty of fabric for the quilt, but ran short.  Dang!  Back to the store, but they don't have any more.  I was able to find it online, and finished the quilt top.  

The next problem was that I didn't know how to quilt it, so I posted some photos online for friends to offer suggestions.  I got some great ideas, but the most helpful comment was to point out that one o the blocks was turned the wrong direction!  Oh no!  Thankfully, Mrs. Sharp Eyes found it before I started to quilt it.  

 

 Once I got the top loaded and started to quilt, it just came together and I'm really thrilled with how it turned out.  This quilt also has wool batting, so I wanted to make the feathers stand out.  That's why there is fine detail quilting behind the feathers in the setting triangles.

Here are a couple of shots of the back of the quilt.

Log Cabins by Meredith

You just never know where you are going to meet a new friend.  I was out on a bike ride with friends, in the absolutely pouring down rain.  I'm talking about wringing out your gloves when you stop!  Meredith said "Beth, I hear you are a quilter too." and that was pretty much the end of that bike ride.  We gave up on riding in the rain, turned around and went back and had coffee and talked for an hour or so. 

This lovely Log Cabin quilt is destined for a baby of a co-worker of Meredith.  Lucky baby!  I surely enjoyed quilting this quilt, but I think it may have been my one and only to do for Meredith.  She says already that she knows that there is a longarm quilting machine in her future.

Christmas Star by Pat

I love stars and I think that this Christmas colors and themed quilt is a great example. Well done Pat.

Quilt for Karin's daughter

I think this might be an international quilt.  When Karin contacted me about quilting it for her, she was living in Europe, and her daughter will be taking  it with her to some other country.  (How embarrassing!  Karin told me where she was going, and I've forgotten!)  It's going to be hot there though, so we chose a cotton batting.  Karin actually mailed me the quilt top, backing and fabric for the backing, and my instructions were to do and edge to edge design, and I would also choose the thread color.  Karin seemed to like it, although she states that this was out of her usual comfort zone.  She prefers to use brights, so earth tones was hard for her.  Very pretty though!

Ocean Waves

 Another wedding quilt, and this one spans 4 generations.  Patty's daughter Lauren is soon to marry Jerry.  This quilt top was pieced by her great-grandmother Cora Riggins. The triangles are all about 2" wide at the side, and it's all stitched together by hand.  Patty says that she remembers Cora stitching, and has several of her quilt tops to be quilted.  We chose a very traditional Baptist Fan design and a cream thread to blend with the background.

Paper Pieced Starburst by (guess who!) Michael

I don't think that Michael sleeps.  How else could he possibly make all these glorious quilt tops?  Someday, I'm going to try my hand at paper piecing again, but I'm not quite there yet.  I also won't start with something this complicated.

When Michael left the quilt with me he chose a very fine turquoise thread and told me to "Have fun" for the quilting design.  So I did!  Flames and fathers and what  I call "Mimbari"  Such fun to play with.

Michael and I described this quilt as "Blue Squares", but I'm sure there's a much better name for it.  I love the optical illusion that it gives of being nearly three dimensional.

Quilted with my favorite type of thread, King Tut, in a swirl design to give it lots of movement.

Flags by Michael

The oh so prolific Michael is at it again!  He made several quilts that are all the same size, and will hang in 

a specific area in his home. They are all seasonal and can be easily changed out.  

Michael chose a variegated  red, white and blue thread for quilting, and then I quilted freehand fireworks and stars.  I love the setting triangle fabric of flags.  I think that really makes the blocks stand out.