Halloween

 

 

Here is a really cool Halloween quilt.

 

 

The fabric had a number of really swirly types of shapes, so I quilted it up with swirls!

 

There was definitely some great fabrics left over, so what better way is there to showcase them then to put them on the back!  It is like two quilts in one!

Modern Quilt

 

Here is a great quilt that is made from a Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle pattern.  It was really pretty in the teals and grays!  Yummy!

 

 

Up close you can see that a Wildflower pattern was quilted into it.

 

It has a nice soft teal thread color.

Here's some real eye candy!

The first quilt is a hand pieced hexagon quilt that took around 15 years to complete, I believe!  It is gorgeous!  I must admit that I was a little nervous to touch it!

 

 

The design is so neat and it is about a queen size!  That is a lot of hexagons!

 

I wish I had taken a picture of the entire quilt!  It was so neat!

 

You can see that inside each flower I did a double continuous curve.  In the flowers themselves I just did a freehand hook feather.  The white areas have a nice swirl.

 

The next quilt is for a sweet baby!

 

 

This quilt was made with many reproduction fabrics. 

 

I just did a small feather meander all over it.  It gives it a great textured look!

 

New Year! Still behind!

     Well, I was really in hopes that once the hub-bub of the Holidays were over, I would be able to breathe a little better.  Well, not yet!  I have a quick sneak peak of a quilt I finished for our guild raffle quilt!  It is made of beautiful batiks and took about 9-10 people to piece!

 

You can see that there are A LOT of pieces to this quilt!  There is also a lot going on, so...what to quilt on it?

 

 

 

Well, in the border, I decided to do just a little curve with a leaf.  Then I treated the square on point as one block and added a continuous curved design from Pam Clarke.  Then I added a line around the gold triangles with a hook type feather inside. 

 

I did a feather in the blue part of the one block and a swirl in the orange part.  The green triangles will eventually get feathers and the blocks bordering it will get a curved cross-hatching.

 

Here you can see one of the border areas that has a feather with pebbles around it and more cross-hatching blocks.

 

Here is the same type of picture, but different angle.

 

     I am in hopes of getting some more close-up pictures with more texture showing.  I used Gold Metallic thread that was super cool in how it sparkles in the sunlight!  Maybe I can find a way to capture that too!  If not, you will have to just imagine it!  Anyway, it is one quilt that I am glad to be done with!  All in all, it took about 70 + hours to quilt plus all the designing I did and marking beforehand which makes it well over 100 hours!  Needless to say, I am behind!  Anyway, I will be back soon with many more quilts that need to be blogged!

Pretty Pink Fan quilt!

This quilt was designed by my client for her granddaughter.  It sure is pretty!

 

The colors aren't nearly as pretty in the pictures as in real life!

 

You can see the first border has some curly cues and the second border has some soft flowers.

 

The fans have a tear drop design and the white areas a flowing feather!

 

This is a picture of the corner.

 

 

The back just has some nice texture.

More quilts for Quilter's General

 

So, first of all we have a sweet little wool wall hanging.

 

 

Here is a picture of the outer border with some yummy swirls for texture.

 

The center has some continuous curved lines.

 

The red corners have a feather design that I freehanded.

 

A picture of the red little corner leaves.

 

Sorry about the lighting here...too much light in the studio and my iphone camera didn't do well!

 

The stars have freehand feathers all around and them.

 

The inside of the stars has a continuous line design.

 

A few more stars.

 

The last quilt is beautiful mauves and grays...so rich!

I believe the pattern is Fire Escape.

 

I used a dusty feathery design that worked well with the fabrics.

AUGUST!

     Oh my goodness!  It has been since AUGUST that I last posted!  Oh boy! Life is just out of control busy, so something has to give, and it was the blog!  Sorry!

     I will try to work on catching up...I have gotten a new phone, and new computer since the last post, so all my pictures are scattered everywhere, so bear with me!

     (My oldest also turned 11, and the other two will be another year older in a month!)

     Ok, so here is a quilt that I made from scratch for a very special bride that got married the first weekend of September.  It is made from Connecting Threads fabrics in browns and grays and it was gorgeous!

 

It is made up of 27 different fabrics!

Each block has a set of lights and darks.  It was quilted in a paisley pattern.

 



 

Here you can see the paisley better!

 

And of course a picture of the backing!

 

Now I will add some pictures of the quilts I did for Quilter's General in Rockford.  The first is a Christmas quilt in greens and reds.





 

The corners in black were going to have a holly leaf design with berries.

 

 

The squares have a hook design and swirls in the rest of the black areas.

 

And another angle along the side.

 

 

 

The black being heavier quilted makes the red and green pop more.

 

Lots of movement in the black!

 

I will show more that from Quilter's General next time!