Saturday Morning Post ~ Delores

It's been a productive month in Moonbear's studio! The first part of August's quilting time was devoted to Delores who brought along 6 quilts and 4 pillow shams from Arizona. Five of those quilts were king size and one queen. Delores doesn't make little quilts! She comes to Chico to visit her sister and brings along her completed tops which get quilted while she visits and then she heads back home with her quilts. Here are a few pix...

This quilt has a panel that she pieced into the top, loved the colors and here, how the early morning sun caught the flowers as I was taking pics. Quilting design is Pearls and Feathers. All of Delores' quilts are quilted with Poly Puff, a batting from Quilter's Dream that she loves for the loft... and it has allot of loft! Quilted with a purple Glide thread. 

This was a fun quilt, a Broken Rail which we found worked perfect for a quilting design by Jessica at Digi-Tech called Bubble Weave. Again, the Poly Puff bat and a Glide thread in Marine.

These are the pillow shams on my frame, loaded side by side worked really well...

There were two king quilts made with the Poppy fabrics and a third king made with the teal and black fabrics with a black and white print. I didn't put up all of the quilts for pix because of their size, but here are the first five with shams stacked on my table while I worked on the last quilt...

No.6 is a quilt that was made by another sister who has since passed away, so this was a special one. Each block is the same layout, 16 total all made with allot of machine applique detail. Both sisters were happy to see it quilted.

Quilted with allot of outlining and a border/corner set for the outer borders as well as added along the sashing. The backing Delores brought was a beautiful batik wide back in aqua greens. It was perfect! Quilted with several threads, Glide for the borders and So Fine #50 which has become my favorite thread from Superior Threads for outlining and custom stitching. 

Thank you Delores and Alice! Next visit is scheduled in March 2016

Seven more quilts completed this week, yep it's been a good month for catching up! One is in the last post, the Christmas quilt for Beckie. Another posted this morning on the new Facebook page, also a sample for Honey Run Quilters made by Kelly that will be going to PIQF in October. The pic was taken yesterday at the beginning of the stitch out, it's finished now along with two for Betty D, two for Phoebe and one for Claudia.

Enjoy your weekend

I am headed into the studio to take pix of and trim this week's beauties

and then spend the rest of the weekend on my quilts! 

Very happy with some cooler temps...

You know you live in the North Valley when the low 90's are cool temps!!!

Tot Ziens, Jo

Dresden Plates, Pumpkins and more

Linda D made this beautiful Dresden Plate quilt 

Made with machine and hand applique with a gold sashing

Lots of color in 30's repros!

Great backing fabric, an Alexander Henry

Gina block is a digital quilting design from Sweet Dream Studios

A fun spiral design in the center with feather and swirl designs

quilted on the Dresden Plates

framed with a petite flower frame that complemented the 30's repro prints

and created a secondary design in the sashing and corners of the plates

Thank you Linda!

Finished in October, the second Halloween print quilt for Donna

Same prints as the first but we quilted this one very different

In place of the scull and crossbones, this one is more about the pumpkins!

 with a pumpkin border design in black thread

That spider web backing glows in the dark!

 1/4 inch outline stitches in the sashing

 and a big pumpkin with a carved face in each of the nine crazy quilt blocks.

Hard to see from a photo, it showed up really well quilted on wool batting

A few more finished and back in the hands of their creators recently...

A Photo Memory quilt made by Betty D

Pam and I love the star border Betty came up with surrounding the blocks

Quilted with a Star Banner in the outer border and SID around the blocks

This quilt is made by Melanie for her son. 

All organic cottons, cotton batting and cotton thread :0)
Quilted design is Flamingo Sunset by Anne Bright

Quilts for Delores... four of them!

Delores brings her quilts with her from Arizona

when she comes to visit her sister here in Chico!

These are Stack and Whacks! One of three, this one did not have borders

 The back of the quilt with a floral e3e quilted on Quilter's Dream Puff Poly batting

 A second, also in purples with a bright yellow and green border

 Fun to see the floral fabrics make a different kaleidoscope design in each block

Quilted with a different floral e2e, this one is called Escargot from Anne Bright

#3 in a hot pink floral fabric set in green

This one will catch someone's attention!

 Quilted with an e2e of Hibiscus flowers by Sweet Dreams

Quilt #4 for Delores was different from the first three

 Delores requested a design with borders
to make it special for a family member

We choose this floral pattern, also from Sweet Dreams

All four were quilted with Puff Poly

There are a few more but I'll save them for a new post.

One for Beckie that I just loved and had fun doing a custom design

Two finished for Cheryl P and one for Phoebe

and one with curved edges for Faye B that is in Goldie's hands for binding

I have another quilt for Beckie with the cutest birds waiting it's turn 

as well as one just finished for Debbie D, a sneak peek...

 of Debbie's baskets. Pam's Swoon is on the frame right now

Busy busy busy ~ Thank you, thank you, thank you

Love the diversity of all the quilts I get to 'frost' is amazing

Frosting, a term Mary uses

That would be Mary of Quilt Hallow, a longarmer that does amazing work

frosting (quilting) customer quilts on her longarm machine :0)

Check out her work as well

Thanks for stopping by :0)

Groetjes, Jo

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