Three for Leslie

Leslie brought in three quilts in the Fall to be quilted for the holidays 

This one was gifted to a family member at Christmas 

Leslie loves to work with 30's fabrics :0) 

Blue backing, same fabric as the cornerstones. 

Second quilt pieced by Leslie quilted with a custom e2e set up :0) 

Number three below with a little different layout 

this one the nine patch is straight set while the one above is set on point. 

The blocks for the last two are the same all in 30's fabrics. 

I used a number of different designs, some I came up with. 

All of the feather designs are from One Song Needle Arts via Digi-Tech.

The beginning stitch out of the first quilt for Leslie that was done custom. 

Thank you Leslie! 

I am headed for Road to California to spend all four days at the show! 

Hope to see some friendly faces there. I will be in Innova's booth 826

answering questions and playing on the longarms!

Studio will be closed until next week Wednesday, the 25th.

Michael will be here making sure nothing floats away 

and holding down the fort with the next storm system coming in :0)

Tot ziens, Jo

Judy's Pinwheels

Judy's Pinwheel quilt hanging between the bars of my Innova

Bright crisp color against a white background 

and a simple but effective layout creating an inner border

A good example of an e2e lined up with the blocks of a quilt 

using Marci Gore's Orange Peel e2e

Batting is one that Judy likes to use... Quilter's Dream Puff 

A mid weight poly with lots of loft! 

A good alternative for customers that are not comfortable with wool. 

Thread is Omni's Bright White 

Thank you Judy! 

Quilted and picked up last week. Judy also shared the quilt she made 

in Don Linn's class at our guild's meeting last week with Don as our guest speaker. 

I took his curved piecing workshop on Friday and learned allot. 

 

Tot ziens, Jo

Kelly and Ripples

One of Kelly's Ripple quilts

Ripple is one of many quilt patterns by Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts 

This and the one below are two smaller versions Kelly made since her workshop.

 Both are quilted with two different Mola designs. 

The one above with a custom e2e and the one below with an all over e2e.

Another Ripple quilted for Linda D 

This one is set up with a custom e2e using a Celtic Knot design...

Great fabrics including the backing that Linda choose for her Ripple 

that she pieced in Kelly's workshop. Sarah has one ready that I will be quilting soon!

Kelly has done several workshops, many from Jaybird Quilts. Toes in the Sand was a BOM we recently finished. I quilted Kelly's mermaid Toes and guess what, forgot to take pix before delivering the quilt last week... I tell you, I'm loosing it! I brought the quilt with me to Kelly's newest workshop... Gravity. Yep, another BOM from Jaybird. Already have some quilting designs in mind for this one as well :0) 

A second quilt recently done for Kelly that I did remember to take pix... 

is this quilt that went to PIQF with Honey Run Quilters as a sample with Kaffe prints

A modern Dresden with great prints! 

Completely machine pieced including the inset circles...

Well done by Kelly a quilter extraordinaire! 

Fun quilting design with fun fabrics using Sun Spirit by Kim Diamond 

and a border print from Anne Bright. I took the border design and created 

a new individual element that I quilted into the center of each of the blocks. 

Quilted with Quilter's Dream Wool batting, it gave it a little dimension as well! 

Thank you Kelly! 

Tot ziens, Jo

 

Two for Tina

First of two quilts made by Tina B 

Great fabrics, especially the setting triangles 

Tina used to make this nine patch set on point. 

Quilted with a new design from Anne Bright 

Bee Haven (Love the name too!)  

Quilted with the repeat of the Cone Flower and a bee in each of the background squares!

I love to do custom e2e :0) 

Thread is Omni in Green Olive from Superior 

quilted on Quilter's Dream Machine Blend 

Love the floral fabric! 

A custom e2e for the second quilt as well... 

This purple Pluses quilt is a better example of how cool a custom e2e can be set up!

Tina made this quilt scrappy

reversing the values is always a great effect :0) 

 

This one is also quilted with a design from Anne Bright 

This is Echo b2b

and a better example of how an e2e or b2b can be used in blocks

for a custom look without all the starts and stops! Yea!!! 

First time I tried out this design was on a quilt made by Claudia ~ link

 

Quilted with a purple Omni named Royalty 

Batting is a newer cotton from Quilter's Dream 

This is Deluxe, which is a little thicker than Select 

and a really nice alternative to W&N 

 

Bordered with a Grunge (love :0) as well as the backing.

I was able to trim the quilting design and use it in the border, worked great! 

Thank you Tina! 

More quilts were finished for Carol and Kelly 

Thankful for the cooler weather ! 

Enjoy your weekend 

Tot ziens, Jo

Linda's Ripple Quilt

Ripple made by Linda D

 Not for the faint of heart, all of the blocks are on bias.

Linda did an amazing job of keeping her piecing flat and square! 

With perfectly matched intersections. Well done Linda!!!

We choose a repeating quilting design that would work well in the blocks,

another great design that works really well for a custom e2e.

Celtic Cross by Jessica Schick, designer and owner of Digi-Tech 

 Batting is Quilter's Dream Machine

Thread is an Omni by Superior Thread 

Colonial Gray which matched perfectly with Linda's background fabric

I was surprised to learn from Linda that her backing fabric was not from the same collection of fabric. The colors were absolutely a perfect match! Love how Linda pieced the backing with one narrow strip of a solid. From the perspective of a longarmer, very much appreciated because it reduced the bulk when I lined up the center seam of the quilt top with the backing. Yea! Great fabrics and color choices by Linda. 

Linda made Ripple in one of Kelly's workshops at HRQ, plus she is finishing up Snack Time,   Kelly's most recent workshop. An encore of Snack Time workshop is coming up on March 20th plus Kelly is planing a BOM with Toes in the Sand. Lots of fun to be had at Honey Run Quilters! Kelly is coming by the studio today with one of her own quilts, can't wait to see what she brings in! I have the best customers! Thank you Linda! 

I am off to finish the quilting on Beckie's gorgeous French Braid. 

Enjoy your Leap Day! We have an extra day to play!

Tot ziens, Jo

Two for Cindy ~ SIC & Buster's quilt

A Single Irish Chain made by Cindy G

using blocks she won at our guild's BOM program

Fabrics are from the Downton Abby collection.

Quilted with an e2e set up with the repeat in each block. 

Another good example of a custom e2e 

 Quilted with Quilter's Dream Wool batting and Omni thread from Superior.

Design is Adora by One Song Needle Arts

The print was pretty busy so I choose a thread color that would show up

nicely on the backing

In this case, the design also worked well as it carried out into the outer borders.
An elegant feather and pearl design to complement the fabrics
with a little whimsy with a hint of a face in the design.

Last year Cindy and I both lost a furry family member.

Cindy was working on the following quilt during a Linda Ballard class/retreat

when Cindy received news that her dog, Buster passed

so Cindy named this quilt Buster Brown's Day on the Green

 

One of the prints had text that all ends with 'ful'

One being Playful which described Buster

and the reason for the playful quilting design 

Not a design I offer often as the density is pretty high 

however, decided it fit since Buster was a star in Cindy's life :0)
Lonestar by Kim Diamond
Thread is one of the new variegated threads from Superior ~ Omni V
 

 Cindy pieced the backing with some of the same fabrics from the top

to complete this fun quilt. Thank you Cindy!

Enjoy your Sunday 

Tot ziens, Jo

Custom e2e for Claudia's Jelly Roll

One of my favorite ways to use e2e designs is to line them up with the blocks or pattern of a quilt. I look for designs that work well with either straight set, alternating or set on point blocks. To take even a simple quilt and step it up with the quilting, Claudia's quilt is the perfect example of doing just that...

Made with a Jelly Roll with graphic fabrics and a good piecing pattern, add a graphic quilting design with texture and wool batting for loft, it's a recipe for a fun quilt! 

I love quilting on my Innova. Having the capability of laying out the design on my computer, loading the quilt on my frame, lining up the computer screen to the blocks of the quilt and then stitching it out. Easy enough with individual block designs. In this case, the design is a b2b. Echo by Anne Bright. 

What I refer to as a 'custom e2e' when lined up with the blocks on a quilt. Once set up, it is stitched out in one continuous row just like an e2e or b2b. Depending on the size, rows can be linked together as well. A design can also be flipped and/or mirrored, then linked back together and still stitched out as an e2e. It offers my customers something in between a random all over and custom.

  

Above is the design from the back side of the quilt. Just like a quilt block pattern, it's great to see secondary designs created once they are stitched together. 

Claudia has a great sense of color, fabrics and texture. The combination works well in this quilt along with it's backing. She is hands on when we are choosing a quilting design for her quilts. This new one worked out great Claudia, good choices! Thank you

Recently quilted is a quilt that Linda made, her Farmer's Wife quilt, posted here. It's a good example of what can be done using an e2e for set on point blocks.

A custom e2e takes a little more time to set up, however not as much time as it would to quilt each block individually with a bazillion tie offs. Sometimes it's a little 'thinking outside of the box' by not stitching sashing individually or adding allot of SID.

Semi custom, as was done on Linda's quilt, is another option. It works as a b2b design that is only quilted in the center field. It can be a design lined up to blocks or a random all over, then framed with a border/corner quilted in the outer border. In this case I took another e2e, cut it apart, divided the ends to make it a repeated border and then added a block design for the corner.

With the recent technology in longarm quilting, it's great to offer customers more options and good choices which often times comes down to price.  

On to a new week...

Tot ziens, Jo