The last customer quilts for July

The end of July is finally here, it really seemed to me that this month dragged on forever! Yesterday was the annual School Clothes outing with my nieces, Britni and Sydnee. You see mom can’t take them shopping… apparently she has no taste! And today is the official opening of the Local Effingham County Fair. i have five quilts entered this year, something i haven’t done in some time, but thought i would see how tings went. I have entered my Broken Star, my quilt from last years Harvest of Quilts show titled, Quilted to Death, and three miniature quilts, orchid Garden, Tiny Turning 20 ( a copy of my Quilted to Death quilt, and my Broken Star Mini (a copy of my larger broken star) The winners will be announced this afternoon so i won’t know anything until later. Something ells me today will be a very long day! i will take my camera along tonight and get a few photos, so be looking for another post tonight!

OK, enough chit chat, time for the quilts! Just remember if you want to see more photos, just click on the quilt you want to see and you will go to my Webshots album were you can find more photos and close ups!

First up is a applique quilt made by Irma, Quilted with feathers, swirls, and a small stipple around the applique (as requested by the customer) with a red & white thread that matched the applique colors.

Here is another Irish Chain made by Mary H. This is her favorite pattern to make, this one is off to a wedding next week. Feather Wreaths and a ribbon stipple was quilted with white thread, with a polyester patting. not my favorite way to quilt this quilt, but it is how she likes it best.

This quilt is a star quilt (sorry i am not sure of the correct name of the pattern!) made by Chresta E. I used So Fine thread to quilt lots of CC, Swirls, and Waves over this quilt made from dark red, dark blue, and cream prints.

And finally the last quilt off the machine in July is a Tennessee Waltz quilt made by Marlene H. Swirls and CC were quilted with a cream thread and a puffy Polyester batting.

Now to get started on August’s quilts!

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!

Lots of photos… and boy do i mean lots!

OK, so i have not been keeping up my new years resolution to post about quilting once every week. But hopefully this will make up for the lack of updates!

First off are two quilts made by Georgia B. The first is a embroidery block quilt. i used a white thread to quilt a double ribbon on the borders and sashing and to outline the embroidery using most the pre-printed quilting lines on the blocks and improvising in a couple of spots. Next is a Calla Lilly wall quilt. Sorry there is no close up of this one, but the quilting did not show up on any of the photos. I use a matching green thread to quilt feathers in the outer area and a cream thread to quilt a small stipple around the applique.

Next are quilts made by Mary H. The first she calls this one Baby Hearts I use a white thread for the quilting that includes a lot of continuous curve quilting. The second is a Tennessee Waltz quilt.

Here are two quilts made by Martha S. I am not sure of the names of these patterns so i made some up, forgive me if they are wrong! First off is the Asian Squares, The quilting is very simple, using a cream thread I quilted a bamboo design on the border and simple X’s in the Squares The second one i call Asian Screen as it reminds me of a room divider screen! The quilting is again fairly simple Jist a spider web design and some X’s in the blocks along with a swirl border, all using Black thread.

Next is a green star made by Ann S. Quilted using a lot of Continuous Curves and a Variegated Green thread

Now we have a Jacob’s ladder quilt made by Theresa N. Lots of stitch in the ditch quilting as well as some feathers in the background using a white thread

Here is a Irish Chain quilt made by Sue G.

This quilt called First monday was made for a church raffle, lots of swirls quilted in white thread are quilting over this quilt.

Here are two embroidery quilts made by Norma S. Both were quilted using white thread. The Green quilt has some feathering and the deer quilt is more simply quilted with stipple and swirls

And last but not least are two quilts made by Gerry T. The first is a small Log Cabin wall hanging, quilted using cream thread, ruler work x’s cover the border and some feathers hide in the cream areas. Gery’s second quilt, Marrakesh Chain is quilted with a dark Tan thread, with feathers in the background, some curves in the small squares and a Double Ribbon design int he border and large print squares that are in the main body of the quilt. The fabric in this quilt is from Blank Quilting’s Marrakesh fabric collection.

Hope this makes up for everything!

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!

Busy Work Week!

Well this week has been very busy here, trying to get the last of the Christmas Quilts finished and out of the studio! I haven’t had much time for anything but quilting, I even had to crank up the DVR to record my favorite TV programs! OK, enough about that, on to the quilts!

First off was a simple sports theme quilt made by Janice H.
Sorry but I have no photos of this one! I swear I took some but I can’t find them anywhere!

The next two were made by Lisa K. The First is made from Reproduction Prints, not sure of the name of the pattern so I have been calling it a Repro Stripe! Her second quilt is a Tennessee Waltz quilt.
First the back of Repro Stripes!

Now we have a first time quilt maker, Karen A. another quilt made from stripes!

This Fan Quilt was made by Theresa N. Its the first time I have seen this setting, but I think it is going to become on of my favorite!

Cheryl M. made this quilt call Colombian Puzzle. It was a bit difficult to quilt as the pieces of the star do not line up like a traditional star quilt would!

And last, but definitely not least we have a Stack N Whack quilt made by Fay R. Now I am only going to post one photo of this one as I want to make a post just about this quilt tomorrow!

Well that’s all for now, remember if you want to see a larger view of any of the quilts just click on them and you will be taken to my WebShots Album!
See you tomorrow!