Quilting photos from this past weeks work

Lets get right to the quilt shall we….

First up are a number of =quit made by Linda G. I have been working on these over the past few weeks but saved the photos until they were all finished and ready to go..
Here is a Block of the Month sampler, i have more closeups of this quilt in my WebShots album, if you want to see them just click on the photo below and you will go to the correct page… I hope!
I used a light Olive thread to blend in as much as possible and a cotton batting was also used.

Her is Linda’s Eagle Medallion quilt, the fabrics reminded me of Civil War reproduction prints but i am not positive.

This is a small wall hanging size quilt with Lillie’s The background does not show up in its true bright white color, but the quilting shows up well so i didn’t try to fix the photo. There are a few other views of this quilt in my WebShots album. If you look close you will see that the flowers are versions of a  Stack n’ Whack block

This Wild Goose Chase in blue & white was quilting with lots of swirls. Linda requested feathers but i just could not figure out were to add them in at. I hope she likes it ok.

Linda’s final quit, Sunbonnet Sue & Sam was made with 20′s reproduction prints, the appliques are all hand stitched into place. I can only imagine how long this one took! Quilted with waves and stippling. Man i hate a stipple! It seems to take me fore er when i use it on a quilt. So why did i pick something else? Because stippling is a very popular design, and it does look pretty good on this pattern. A more modern fill would have looked very much out of place!

Mary H. made this Lovers Knot quilt, simple quilting was in store for the busy pattern, nothing to fancy, separate borders and some swirls with a allover double ribbon meander for the main body of the quilt.

And last but not least is a Sampler Quilt, made by Barb G. Some of these blocks were a bit tricky to quilt. They had some build up in some of the spot were the seams cam together, so i had to come up with some quilting designs to try and stay away from these spots, i didn;t want to break anther needle this week!

Are the holidays over yet?!

Well of course not, but at least I finally got all my “have to be done by Christmas” quilts finished and nearly all are out the door! It was a busy week in my quilting studio, I spent more time there than i did in any other room of the house! not that this is bad or anything but i have started to notice all the dust and webs in the corners of the room that have obviously been there for some time. Something tells me next week may be my week off but i will be working hard to get everything nice and clean… and hopefully in some sort of order!

Before I get to the quilts let me show you a little something… have you ever wondered what happens when a quilting machine has to quilt threw the knot of fabric that is created by a number of pieces  coming together at one point? Nope, me either, but this week I was blessed with finding out. I was quilting one of the quilts I will show you bellow and hit a nice thick spot in the quilt top that I wasn’t expecting and this is what happened!

No, this was not fun a all! It messed up a couple of different things that I am not going to go into, let just say that tiny little piece in the middle had to be dug out of the bobbin case with a pair of needle nose pliers because it was stuck big time!

OK, now on to the quilts! Remember if you want to see a better view of the photos just click on them to go to my WebShots Album!

Fist off  are two quilts made by Pat H. They are both made from flannel and have Quilters Dream Poly batting. The star of the quilts are the same design but she has mixed up the borders so they are not exact copies!

Now we have a guild sampler made by Kay W. This quilt is made from blocks that were lessons at her quilt guild. This quilt took me a lot longer than I had first expected, lots of stops and starts and thread changes. There are Red Roses with Green Leaves in the larger open areas of the quilt. Black thread was also used in a number of places on the quilt. The center medallion was quilted with both red and green thread to outline the leaves and roses, and it has a Star Poly Batting. There are many, many more photos of this one at WebShots!

Here are three quilts made by Vickie F. The first one is made from embroidered heart blocks, the second is a Irish Chain, and the third is a Tennessee Waltz quilt. All three contain Quilt King poly batting.

This quilt was made by Helen M. It was made using a fabric charm pack given to her by her secret sister so she named the quilt after her!. The name is Sharon’s Roses, and let me just say the photos do not do this quilt justice as it is way more beautiful in real life!

The next quilt called Simply Sweet, was made by Becky H. and contains Quilt King Poly batting.

Lastly a Thangles Sampler in Blue and Brown made by Lisa K. This would be the infamous quilt that broke my needle! The block that gave me the problem is in the Second row, first block on the left! Even after the needle issue, I still think this one turned out great! I hope she likes it!

Well thats all for now, Next week is my normal week for me but don’t be surprised if you see a few quilt photos next week as I tend to get the itch to quilt! Talk to you all again soon!

OK so for some reason the photos are not clickable, strange I posted them the same way as I have. Of well life goes on as does the blog! The photos above are in my December WebShots album and they start on Page 3!

Another productive week!

Well here it is, Friday night and I am once again setting in front of the TV watching reruns of Iron Chef, typing up the post for my blog, and waiting for the rain to stop so i can even get online! ( satellite internet doesn’t work very well in rain like this!) The rain has been a nearly constant downpour this afternoon and throughout the night causing flooding all around. I have heard that a number of funnel cloud rotations were also spotted but luckily nothing touched down, at least not that I know of. My aunt and I were out in the first rush of the storm this afternoon, on the way home from taking the dog to the vet we were oh so lucky to get caught in the rain and wind. It was odd really, we could see what looked like from a distance possible dust flying across the road ahead of us and a tractor rushing to get out of the field but it didn’t look anything like rain. It was so heavy and thick, then combined with he rain it was like driving directly into a white out snow storm. It hit so fast we really didn’t have anyplace to go so there we set, in her SUV, in rain so heavy we couldn’t see two inches beyond the window, really it was that bad. In-between rushes we inched forward, we knew there was a private drive very close by but finding it took some time but at least we were off the road. We were stuck there for nearly 20 minutes, we waited a bit longer than we needed to but decided we really should make sure it was al over before we headed back out. The country road we were one was flooded in a few places and was getting worse as the water that was pouring off the fields and was no longer being held in the ditches. We got home without a problem and decided we were staying there! It has rained most all night, simple showers, to more downpours. And some major wind. Reports have come across the radio and the local phone gossip line of some nasty wind damage. Some hail was reported but we never saw any at home. It’s been a long night and its still not over!

Ok enough about the weather! It was a very productive week, quilting wise. I actually feellike i got some work done!

First we have a burgundy Brick ( rail fence? ) quilt made by Loretta T. Quilting wise i just used some swirls and some C.C. in the bricks with a cream thread

Then we have a Boston Commons Quilt owned by Diane D. She actually purchased this quilt top at a garage sale for only $5.00! Can you believe that! Someone really didn’t know what they had! The quilt top itself was pretty well put together, Boston commons are know to be a bit wonky with all that bias to deal with but this one was pretty darn good. The quilt had been marked already but the marks are all in chalk so she said to go ahead and quilt it however. Bostons normally have a lot of C.C., Stitch in the Ditch, and or a lot of Ruler work. Oh and a lot of feathers. I wanted to be able to get the quilt done in a timely manner so using white thread, i went with wavy lines instead of straight lines (the would take me way longer as i have to use a ruler to help guide the machine!) and feathers in the white common area.

And now we have the Dolores M. quilt show! Yap she’s been at it again!….
A Kaleidoscope quilt, quilted with swirls, loops, and C.C. I used a puffy batt to help hid a bit of fullness that some of the pieces had

A Bear Paw in Blue & Yellow quilted with Swirls, leaves and such

A Sampler with some feather as well as some Stipple and Swirls

And last but not least, a T-shirt Quilt… Gotta love The White Squirrel!