Judy, Beckie and Merry Merry Snowmen

Yea it's Friday! 

It feels like an extra busy week because I've been catching up on posting pix of quilts all of this week. I am working on custom quilts that will be posted when finished. Today's post are all quilts that were finished the first week of June...

This very cute wall hanging is made and hand embroidered by Judy P

1930s prints and colors

Custom quilted with a Daisy border and corner design

Daisies added to the centers of the alternate or corner blocks
depending on how you look at the layout

The border/corner design worked really well with Judy's quilt

The stems of the Daisies filling the negative space 

that connected with the off white border fabric.

A heart with scroll design was added in what became the pieced inner border.

SID around the embroidered blocks

Each basket is different, beautiful embroidery work by Judy!

Maybe not to period but Daisies are a nice complement to the 1930s prints, IMHO.

Thank you Judy

Your wall hanging is beautiful! 

This is a quilt made by Beckie, her first with batiks! 

 Love the batik border fabric :0)

Quilted design is Autumn Fancy by One Song Needle Arts

An e2e that I sized and laid out to repeat with the blocks
with the goal of adding texture to this quilt.

 The fabric in this block is also the backing fabric

Quilted with a variegated Fantastico thread 

that had all the colors of the batiks in this quilt top. 

Thank you Beckie

Last, but certainly not least, is the last quilting finished on the 2nd

Merry Merry Snowman quilt

The first one is Karen's and this second one finished is made by Dottye

 Friends, they both did this BOM from Bunny Hill Designs

Close ups of Dottye's blocks

Beads, ribbon embellishments and a little more embroidery will be added

to finish these two in plenty of time for Christmas!

Well done ladies! Thank you

I'm pretty sure that catches us up with quilts 

quilted in April, May and the first week of June

Thank you for your patience, including customers that have quilts waiting to be quilted as well. Due to recent events my schedule and turn around time has fallen even further behind. If anyone is not able to wait and would like to take their name off my list, it's OK! I totally understand and I am fine with it because at this point making up time is pretty much impossible. I do ask that you let me know. Life is too short to stress over getting a quilt finished :0) TIA ~ New quilting work orders will be scheduled for January 2016.

Have a wonderful weekend, take some stitches!

Tot Ziens, Jo

"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave."
Native American Proverb

Graduation Quilts

The Sunbonnet Sue quilt that I was working on and finished last week...

On my frame where you can see some definition with the back light

Ribbon Candy is the design in the sashing

Daisies are added to Sue's hat and the cornerstones

with a Daisy border design

The backing is pieced by Melissa, the graduate

receiving this quilt. It's a group project, each block and blanket stitching done by different stitchers. The fabrics are all from Melissa's grandmother's 1930s stash of fabrics and Sunbonnet Sue was her favorite quilt. Lesa brought this project into my studio along with Debbie with a goal of having this finished to give to Melissa for graduation. Picked up a week ago, Lesa has the binding planned in the multi color solids used for the block frames. A special label is made by an artist for this project. Wish I could see the finished quilt!

It was the perfect quilt to work on while I was working thru the loss of my Mom. It got me going because of the deadline along with this quilt for Kelly, also a graduation quilt for a member in Kelly's family...

Great fabrics, of course  ;0)

with a Shabby Chic look backing Yes!
This is Jeweled Wanderer

Quilted with the design ~ Rapunzel by Anne Bright

It's a wonderful fun design with good coverage.

Thread is a Fantastico variegated blend of teal, grey and pink. LOVE!

with Omni Light Rose on the back, both threads from Superior.

 Batting is Quilter's Dream Machine Blend

(NQR) Today was a better day for me, largely due to last night's guild meeting. Kelly had allot to do with that as well. I agonized about going, not sure how I would feel or react. We are not a society well equipped to deal with loss. People don't know what to say or say the cliche's that people say like "They are in a better place". I found myself saying that one, mostly because I want it to be true. We really don't know what happens. Is there an afterlife? Is it better? 

First thing Pam B greeting me with a hug and then Joyce came up to me with the biggest hug and said... "There are no words" Perfect! Thank you! That broke the ice. Last night's meeting was our community service meeting. Being the guild's treasurer and Vendor Chair for our quilt show coming up I had business that needed to be attended to. Did that and checked in with Kelly, our VP standing in for our Pres who is out of town to let her know I was not staying and was not up to sewing. Kelly had a table set up for everyone that was not in a small group (that would be me too) and had a project planned. Nice! Thank you Kelly, now I am sorry that I didn't plan to stay! Everyone was gracious and wonderful.

Two customer quilts finished this week for Beckie and Judy P. Again... lots of pix to catch up on. The next 5 quilts are all custom which will give me a chance to catch up with posting pix. Next up is a quilt for Lori, it's up on my design wall right now while I get design ideas rolling around in my head before it's loaded...

This is Lori's Flags of the American Revolution quilt, a design by Jan Patek and a QAL Lori hosted on her blog Humble Quilts in 2014. So looking forward to quilting this beauty!

Have a wonderful weekend, take some stitches!

Tot Ziens, Jo

"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave."
Native American Proverb

A couple of Finishes

The stars on Linda E's quilt shine!!! 

Perfect piecing in great batiks, 

dark to light neutrals with a splash of deep red and purple

Quilted and on my worktable. Still raining so no outdoor full view pix :0(

Linda's quilt has a great layout. It is 87 x 87 square.

What you can see on the table is a mirror image of the other side

The backing. Top and bottom thread is Glide in Viking, a medium purple

The same thread quilted on Pam's Swoon, different look but just as effective!

Quilted with a Swirl and Feather block design repeated

creating a secondary design at the intersections of the blocks

Love Linda's pops of red and purple and gold

Thank you Linda! 

For a big change of pace...

Check out this fun cat fabric Cindy G put togther

with this fun cat border fabric. 

If this quilt doesn't make you smile... well!!!

 Quilted with a design from Apricot Moon
named Catrina, cats and curly swirls!

Fun quilt! 

A second for Cindy

 A cozy flannel quilt in all sorts of flannel prints!

 Scrappy!!! with a leaf print flannel backing

 Leaf e2e quilting with a cotton thread from Signature called Wheat

These two went home with Cindy after our guild meeting last night.

Cindy is a fellow Annie's Star Quilt Guild member and made one of the 

Challenge quilts displayed at our December meeting

Cindy's is the arm chair with the Golden Book

in the upper right corner

The theme was reading and Cindy's is great! 

More about the Challenge here on my blog ~ Ramblin' Rows

One more quilt for Cindy G quilted on my Innova
 last week, this beauty is all batiks including the back

 With allot of ocean and water inspired prints 

Cindy choose Under the Deep Blue Sea e2e by Sweet Dreams Studio

 The movement of the pattern with swirls and pearls

just works really well with batiks

Thread used is a lime green variegated thread, Fantastico by Superior

Love this thread as well as Cindy's quilt and choices! Well done :0)

Thank you Cindy!

One more done previously. It's been in the hands of Goldie for binding

and is now back in my studio ready for it's maker, Faye

 Goldie did a beautiful job of binding!

As discussed with Faye, I kept the quilting very simple. Faye requested a 1/4 inch stitch which is perfect for this era of quilt style and the fabrics. Her Baseball blocks, she calls them, also known as Apple Core, are all hand pieced by Faye since she was a young girl. She kept adding to it over the years and is now (I believe) in her 80s. Her daughter drove her to meet with me and recognized many of the fabrics from dresses Faye made for her as a child. So these fabrics are the real deal, no repros! Here are some close ups of a few...

This last one is an example of one of the 'newer' fabrics

Faye added in more recent years :0)

Thank you Faye for trusting your well loved quilt 

to Goldie and I to finish for you! 

We are getting more rain! All good but a little break would be OK too! 

Our parched soils are starting to slide and all of the leaves are wet and gooey

The upside is that my truck is clean! :0)

Enjoy your weekend. Make some time to take some stitches!

I will be working on Frozen Quilts for a pair of sisters

Here is a link to the start and layout

Groetjes, Jo

 "We will be known forever by the tracks we leave."
Native American Proverb

Vintage family quilt for Phoebe

This is a large quilt, made of blocks made by members of Phoebe's family. A few were made by hand, most were machine pieced. Lots of Y seams and bias edges in this one. Very unusual block and some wonderful vintage fabrics. No repros here...

This is one of my favorite fabrics with little Bambies :0) The variety of fabrics were incredible. All of the blocks were assembled and sashed by Phoebe's mother late in her lifetime of sewing. Blocks were made by aunts, cousins and mom, each one of them different. There were several family quilt tops and this is one that Phoebe chose. She is very happy to have this very special quilt quilted.

 Close ups of a few of the blocks and fabrics...

Quilted with a feather block design from One Song Needle Arts in a natural cream thread. I received an extra hug from Phoebe for this one! Thank you Phoebe :0)