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Quilt photos!
OK, after that last “vent” of a blog post i thought i would let you all see a few photos of my machine quilting for the past month or so. Not all the quilt i have quilted during this time are posted just some of my more favorite ones! If you want to see more photos check out my WebShots Album or just click on a photo!
Snowman, machine Embroidery
Bullseye
Dragonfly’s
Day & Night
Broken Star
Broken Star
?- anyone know the name please let me know!
Victory Garden Sampler
I’m a winner at the fair!
OK, nothing major like best of show or anything but i did get a first and second place quilt in the Most Artistic machine quilted category. I haven’t entered the fair in a number of years and was very happy to see my name on the winners list! My first place winner was my miniature from 2007, a copy of my large Broken star quilt. My second place winner was my quilt titled “Quilted To Death” that i made and completed in less than a week last September. One of my customer quilts also won a first place in the Quilt made by a person over 70 category! Congratulations to all the winners at this year Effingham, Co. Fair!
A few photos to share:
My first place winner, Broken Star Mini
My Second place winner, Quilted to Death (aka a Turning Twenty)
Here is a photo of my customer’s quilt that won First place, Congrats Norma!
And here is a photo of my friend Dorothy’s first place floral arrangement in the category “Basket of flowers, six or more varieties. Congratulations Dorothy!
Here are my non-winning entries:
Broken Star (no big deal i already won with this quilt at three other shows!)
Orchid Garden (the one hanging sideways!!!) and Mini 20′s
If you would like to see what the three quilts that are fold up look like unfolded you can find them at WebShots!
Broken Star
Just wanted to high;light the quilt that i worked on today! This pattern is called a Broken Star, and it is, at least here in my area, a very popular pattern right now. i have quilted a number of quilts in this pattern and always try to make each on its own quilt. However when a customer tells me to quilt it just like so & so’s quilt, i will, but i try to get them to change up at least one part of the quilting!
This quilt was made by Gerry T. She had liked the way i had quilted another quilt of this pattern but wanted to change up the feathers a bit. So i changed the direction on the feathers, and the staring point of them as well. I am pretty happy with the bead board border, not sure if i did it the “correct way” or not but it still looks pretty good! I used a dark gold thread, and Quilters Dream Polly batting. The quilting would have popped a bit more if a puffy batting had been used but that wasn’t what Gerry wanted. She hasn’t had the chance to see this quilt yet! i hop she likes the end results!
Just remember, just click on the photo and you will go to my WebShots album were you can see a large mare close up view!
My new laptop has arrived, and a few customer quilts!
Well the new laptop has arrived, and i have almost got everything loaded that i need and a few things that i don’t need but think i want anyway! I went with a HP HDX with a 18.4″ screen. Yap it may be over kill but i do use my laptop daily to watch DVD’s why I’m working so i figured the large screen would come in handy. That my story and i am sticking to it! I also have a Blue-Ray DVD but i have no Blue-Ray disk’s to try in it. Maybe I’ll pick up a couple sometime and see if it really makes a difference but for now I’ll stick to my regular old DVD collection!
Ok i haven’t been able to post any customer quilts in some time, and i have been asked to update that part of the blog. Only problem is i have just uploaded 48 photos to my WebShots page! So what I’m going to do is post some small photos and you can click on them to go see a large view as well as other views of the same quilt. Most quilts have at least two photos but some have a lot more!
Customer quilts from June & July
Man has it been a nut house here! Things popping up time and time again that have been keeping me to busy to post anything on this blog or my crochet blog. I wouldn’t go into it right now but i promise i will sort things out for all that wish to know, sometime this weekend…. I hope!
Until then, I have updated my Webshots page with a new Album for June & July. I am not going to post all the photos, just a few faves. But if you want to take a look you can find them all here: June & July Customer Quilting!
Now here are a few favorite quilts from the past couple of months!
A Few Quilt Photos To Share
Goodness has it been over two weeks! i swear i need to tie i string on my finger to remind me to post photos on Friday night! Ok that’s not really true, i did think about doing this weeks post Friday why’ll watching some late night tv but i just couldn’t get myself up of the couch to find the laptop! Anyway…
First off is two quilt made by Sue W. The first is a memory/photo quilt in blue. Quilted with a light blue thread with a feather border and windy swirls in the center. Second is a bow tie quilt, quilted with cream and forest green thread with lots and lots of CC!
Here are three photos of a quilt made by Colette F. Sorry i do not know the name of this pattern, but i really like it! i think it would be great made in the Asian prints i have been collecting for a few years now. The quilt was quilted with Mother goose color thread (yes that really is the thread color!) each block was quilted in straight lines going up or down depending on were it fell, giving it a checkerboard effect if that would help explain what i am trying to say! This quilt will be a weeding gift and has the wedding info embroidered on the backing, sorry no photo to post of the back!
Now a couple of photos of Mary H. quilt that was donated to a raffle for a local Relay for Life event. The pattern is called Sweet Sixteen and is free on the Maywood Studio Fabric website. It was quilted with white thread, simple swirls in the nine patch swirl areas, feathered wreath’s in the open white background, a simple swirly border with a little wavy sid to hold the border down. I’m hopping they sell a lot of tickets on this one!
This quilt is a broken Star, made with half square triangles for easy piecing! it also went to a raffle for a Local Relay for Life event over the weekend. I have not heard how much money it made yet but hopflully it did ok! it was made by Geneva H. and was quilted with very simple swirl designs as it was given to me Friday morning and had to be returned that same night by 5:00! yes it was a tossed together quilt on all ends but it turned out ok. Note to my sister— next time you need a raffle quilt give us more than two weeks notice and you’ll get a much better quilt!!!
Now we have three t-shirt quilts from Dolores M. I am not sure if D.M. made them all or if she was just the one to bring them to me for quilting! I know she makes them but i also know she makes the others make there own from time to time! I am only posting close ups of each quilt, You will see some little fuzzy’s sticking around the lettering, just know i did go back and take my tweezers and pull most all of that off before retuning the quilts! I left the fuzzy’s on the photos so the names would stand out more, other wise they tend to blend in and you can not see the quilting! Hey Dolores- do you see my flub in the first photo! Yap i fixed it before i gave it back to you, look close it should stand out like a big number 8!
Well that’s all for now, i promise i will do my best to update again on Friday night!
