Nashville and QuiltCon

So last Friday we got up early and headed to Nashville for QuiltCon 2019. What a fun weekend we had!  Not only our first trip to QuiltCon, but also it has been awhile since we had visited Nashville...like probably around 25 years! Lol!

Here are a few yummy pictures from the show!

Beautiful wool quilts!

Happy Monday! Hope your week is off to a good start! If Monday is a bummer, then let me try to uplift you with some inspirational quilts!

This quilt had a neat setting that I wanted to highlight. Lots of open background space is a great way to display some quilting designs.

Here is how the whole quilt looked when finished.

I sort of created a border for the quilt with the quilting design.

Here, you can see one side and how the design melts in with the background quilting around the wool vases.

Another view of the quilt.

Here the border is getting worked into the background.

And finally, a picture of the whole quilt finished!  It turned out quite nice!

Baby, It’s Cold Outside!

Here we are again with some really cold temperatures!  I think snow is beautiful, it is nice to have a change of seasons, however, I just don’t think I will ever be a fan of super cold weather. Anyway, let’s enjoy some more beautiful pictures of quilts!

This quilt was so cool!  All those thousands of squares!!!

In the center, I quilted some floral type of free-motion designs.

This is a picture of how I do my feathers. People often think they look complicated, but when you see how it is just a simple curve for the spine and loops it is very simple!

There was this lighter area that acted as a frame and gave your eye somewhere to land, so I decided a feather would be a soft, pleasant design to look at.

Here you can see the feather and inside floral design next to each other. Hope you are staying warm!

The past couple of years...

So, Like I said, I haven’t done a great job of keeping the blog going, so I will be adding some more pictures of the quilts I did and took pictures of. This is a beautiful wool appliqué quilt that I did for a sweet friend. Her work is wonderful and she is a master of appliqué!

Today’s quilt

This weekend I put this one on the machine. It is a beautiful customer quilt. I am super excited to see how it turns out. So far I am loving how it looks!  I don’t have the hours each day that I once did for quilting, but I do the best I can with the time I have. I love having the freedom to add to people’s works of art. I am looking forward to adding to my own quilts someday!😉

I’m BACK!!!😁

Hello again!  Sorry I have been away so long!  I have gone back to teaching school full-time, I now have two teenagers and one with a driver’s license (another in driver’s ed!)!  Oh how the time flies!  Anyway, I am still quilting on the side, though it is difficult to find the time. I haven’t pieced anything of my own in years, literally, but that is hopefully about to change!  

Since I have been living in the polar vortex all week, I decided that I needed to see something that looks more like spring!  Therefore, I put up this lovely quilt!  It’s a MODA Frivol #11!  It certainly doesn’t feel like spring outside, but I can have a little piece hanging on my wall inside!

Here is a sweet table runner that has a LOT of gorgeous hand work!

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If you LOVE purple...!!!

 

This quilt was done by a lady's grandma...it has so much character!  (Wonder if grandma did too? LOL)

 

Some flowers and feather were added and the ice cream border just received some soft wavy lines.

 

Here is the very center of the quilt...such a sweet design.

Big QUILT!!!

This quilt was BIG!  It was over 100 x 100...don't remember actual dimensions.  It is really hard to piece a big accurately and yet she did awesome!

 

 

This was a beautiful quilt made by a friend for her brother who was retiring!  What a great retirement gift!

 

I tried to keep the quilting in the same colors the same.  The red received feathers.

 

Here the tan was meandered and the blue CC's.

 

The brown was treated with ribbons.

 

More feathers on the red border and more ribbons in the brown border.

 

Another view of the borders.

Ok...I am going to try and add a ton of photos of quilts over the next few weeks.  I am totally behind and been so super busy with life, but I would like to work on getting back into posting a bunch of pictures.  Enjoy!

 

So, this was a super fun quilt made by a sweet friend for her boyfriend...for a x-mas gift (last xmas!!!).

 

 

It has some straight lines and fun swirls!!!

 

Here is a sweet baby quilt in pinks and greys!

There are feathers in the colored chevrons and fluffy swirls in the white!

Close-up.

And of course, a shot of the backing!

Here is the same quilt, in a different color way.

Close-up.

Another close-up.