Trip Around the World by Sharyle

 I love Trip Around the World quilts.  Such a simple design of squares, but the placement of the fabrics makes such an amazing design.  Sharyle's reminds me of a watercolor with the way the colors fade from lights to darks.

Quilted with King Tut thread and a panto of dragonflies and ginkgo leaves, wool batting.  Hmm.  May have to make myself one of these.

Carpenter's Star by Jillianne

Here's a portion of the outer border, all done in piano keys., but pieced with different fabrics from the quilt.  The outer border is about 10" wide.

Oh wow.  Here's a beauty.  The photo above shows as much of the whole quilt as  I could get to show.  I think our eyes naturally stop at the white border.

 A narrow cream border filled with feathers that wind between the seams, then a feather that goes out on both sides in the pieced border.  Leaves on a vine in the red border.

The center star with feathers that radiate out from the center.  All of the above is done with Glide Military Gold thread.

For the background fill, a Peacock Feather meander in Glide Cream

Trying to get a shot of the backing with the center star.  Squint.  You can see it.

Here's a better shot of the back of the quilt.  Love all that texture! 

 Jillianne chose Hobbs wool batting, and I love the loft that it gives to the quilt.  Also very light.  Lovely work Jillianne.

Skiing at Altenmarkt by me.

Oh so many years ago when I was in high school, I was lucky enough to meet and become friends with Ursula.  She was an exchange student from Modling, Austria who was staying with another family that we were very close to.  At the time, I knew how to knit only the most basic, unattractive slippers in two colors.  It was the 1970's, so you can imagine how bad they were.  Ursi and I were taking a weaving class, and she decided to knit a sweater for her brother at home, Georg.  I wanted to learn to do that!   Hence my love of knitting was born, even before it was cool.

When I saw this quilt pattern, I knew that I had to make it, but didn't know where it would end up.  I just saved the pattern for a while.  Meanwhile, Ursi writes to share that she's going to be a grandma!  This was the perfect excuse to make this quilt.  When Ursi was pregnant with her oldest son, I knitted a little blanket and sleep sack for him.  Now I'm just continuing the tradition.

Quilted with an edge to edge design called "Tangles" which is what my yarn would do when knitting with multiple yarns until I learned Fair Isle knitting.  Much better!
This quilt is approx. twin sized, really too big for a "baby quilt", but I hope that it's something they'll use as the baby grows.

Because every child needs a little blankie, and because I had so many extra 2.5" squares cut from the quilt, I put them together to make this random small quilt.  It's maybe 30" square, and quilted edge to edge with continuous curves.  

I will admit the "Humility block" in the larger quilt, and have fun looking for it.  I was finishing the quilting on the last row of the quilt when I happened to look at it from another angle and realized that something was out of place.  Drat!  At least when I hung up the quilt to photograph it took me a while to find it again, so maybe it's not as bad as I thought.  Besides, only God is perfect, so I've included a mistake in my quilt.  (Like I have to purposefully make a mistake!)

Leanna's Browns

This one is for a grandson, so we quilted it with free hand flames in a variegated thread with red and orange.

3 T-shirt quilts for dad, made by Micahel.

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If I am remembering the story correctly, the father of one of Michael's coworkers passed away and she asked him to make 3 memory quilts for her out her father's clothes.  So we've got t-shirts, dress shirts, denim shirts, swim trunks and even socks.  I think there is a pair of pajama bottoms in there too, but I'm only guessing on those.  I initially thought boxers, but there's too much fabric for just boxers.

One of the swim trunks with pocket intact.

All of the quilts use many of the same blocks, but different fabrics.  There's a snails trail in all, a tulip block, churn dash and spinning star to mention a few.

Yes, socks.  One pair per quilt.  Oh yes, and handkerchiefs.  See the green in the left side of the sock block?

 Towels?

The border on each is a velour, like maybe from a track suit. 

Squares by Heidi

This is about the biggest quilt I've ever quilted, and I've been referring to it as "Big Bertha" in my head.  It measures 114"x108", so yes, it's pretty darn good sized.  Also very heavy, so no hanging pictures because I couldn't get it to stay up even on my clamps.

This quilt was a commissioned guilt made by Heidi of "Handmade by Hilda"  Here's her website http://www.handmadebyhilda.com/

A very simple quilt made up of squares, and then quilted with a  grid design approx. 1/2" from each seam allowance. 

Frist quilt by Trish and Zach

Mom always sad that life isn't fair, and she's certainly right on this quilt.  It's NOT FAIR that this is the first quilt that Trish and Zach made.  It's a wedding gift her her sister and future brother in law, so how appropriate that is a Double Wedding Ring.  The truly "not fair" part is that this is a complicated pattern with lots of bias edges and something that most quilters wait to try to take on for at least a few quilt.  These two just jumped right in from the start.  Truly amazing.

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Traditional quilt, traditional quilting.  Feathers in the background and in the pieced squares.Notice how well their points match?  Again.  No Fair!  Yes.  I am a whiner.

More feathers inside the "football" shapes, and continuous curves through all the rings. 

Quilted with Glide Thread and wool batting.  What a treasure for such a lucky couple.

Pink Squares by Claire

Isn't this a sweet one for a new grandbaby?

 Quilted with the Gingko Garden panto, so if you look closely you can see the dragonflies and gingko leaves.  

Yes, those are sheep in the pink squares.  Too cute!  The backing is the same print only in flannel so extra cuddly.

9 patch blues

 It's the mystery quilt that wouldn't end!  Way back when, I cut up a whole bunch of fabrics to make a Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt.  The Celtic Solstice Mystery.  As I worked on the quilt, I realized that I really didn't care for how it was going to turn out, and put it aside.  Then in a fit of cleaning up projects from the sewing room, I started to make charity quilts out of the pieces.  I'll have to look back and see how many this one quilt has yielded so far.  I just looked.  So far, there are 3 complete quilts, but I've got another top hanging off the ironing board right now.  I think that's the last of the pieces from the initial mystery.  I'm so glad with how things turned out.

This one took the 9 patch units in yellows and "lights" and then I alternated those with blues.  Quilted with Blue Glide thread in the "Oriental Cloud" panto.

I love how leftovers so often become something useful in quilting.  Not only are all of the fabrics in the top from previous projects, but the backing started out life as a privacy curtain for my darling Mother in Law before she passed early this year.  Dee was a prolific creator.  Seamstress, quilter, crotchet, you name it.  She is very missed.

9 patches by Kris

 The amazing Kris, strikes again.  I can hardly believe that she just mails me her quilts, we talk via e-mail about how to quilt it, and I send it back to her.  Going to have to meet this lady some day.

 Again, such a beauty!  Kris and her perfect piecing really make this a joy to quilt.  I followed her lead in stitching the on point squares in the border, then stitched diaganol lines in the setting triangles.  I'd keep forgetting where I started at, and so stitch, realize I'd made a mistake, frog that section and back to it.  I think it was worth the time though.

 Feathered wreaths in the blocks, and a feather border in the outside.

Purples by Leanna

Another one from Leanna.  She was thrilled with the first one, so it'll be fun to see her reaction to this.

Quilted with Glide hot pink thread, although it looks purple in this photo.  Also used the Hydrangea panto.

Here's a shot of the backing in an attempt to show off the panto design a little better.

Golf by Jane

Oh my!  The lovely people that you get to meet with quilting, and the amazing work that they do!

Jane is certainly one of those people.  First off, she contacts me from well out of state.  All I can think of is that surely there are other quilters near her, but you chose me?  Wow!

Then she brings this quilt for her boyfriend.  Really cool to look at, but even more so when you get closer to it.  First off, all of that amazing applique is done by hand.  I enjoy handwork, but applique is not my thing.  Then she tells me that she didn't have a pattern for these!  She created all the applique designs by herself!!  Holy cow!

 I'd also like you to notice all the embroidery.  Again, done by hand.  Wow again!

This is a shot of the hat. All that stitching is done by hand and it looks just like a baseball cap.  Or should I say "Golf cap".

It's a turtle on the fairway.  Never thought that might be an issue.

Jane lives in the Pacific Northwest where it rains.  A lot.  So of course the golfer has to have an umbrella.  I love the patch pockets on the back of his pants too.

All quilted with an edge to edge design of "Windy Sky"  Perfect to represent the breezes that you might encounter on the golf course.  Hard to make the wind all go in one direction, but like bike riding, quilting is probably the only other thing where the wind seems to come at you from all directions at the same time.

Did you notice the little heart at the top right corner?  So sweet.