Carol's Gravity

Wow, it's been over a month since I posted! Yikes 

Years ago my cousin told me that time goes by faster as one gets older. 

Never knew what she meant then... I sure get it now! 

Anyway a little catsup 

This is Gravity, a quilt by Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts 

Made by Carol F 

Carol pieced her Gravity from gold, cream and white on white fabrics :0) 

Very different and I love it! 

Beginning of the stitch out

The inspiration design ~ Feather Diamond by Jessica Schick of Digi-Tech 

stitched out in the center star. 

and then framed by 2 different sets of designs by Nancy Haacke of Wasatch Quilting 

This quilt is larger than the pattern. Carol added to all four sides to make it fit a King size bed 

It took up most of my 12 foot frame with just enough room for the sew head :0) 

Quilted with Quilter's Dream Wool... love the loft! 

It adds so much texture to the white on white background fabrics :0) 

Fantastico Gold variegated thread in the center stars 

with Glide Cool Grey stitched on all of the white on white background. 

I was very glad that I made this quilt (neither of us knew the other was working on the same quilt pattern :0) because it made it easier to layout a design and keep track of the diamonds. 

Can't wait to quilt my own!!!

Thank you Carol! 

In addition to the time spent on this quilt, additional quilts have been completed as well.

 Still spending more time quilting than posting trying to keep up 

with all of my customers! 

I do believe with all the rain this year, everyone is indoors piecing and finishing tops!

Tot ziens, Jo

 

Linda's Painted Forest

Linda's Painted Forest

Freshly quilted with Mid-Century by Patricia Ritter available at Digi-Tech 

Thread is Superior's SoFine40 in a variegated green 

Batting is Quilter's Dream Cotton  

Every leaf section is a different fabric with lots of critters too! 

Linda's goal was to make it a sort of 'I Spy' for the kids :0) 

Fun backing that has pretty much every color and she matched the 

pattern in the center seam beautifully! Not an easy task with circles! 

Linda made this quilt top in my Painted Forest workshop at Cathy's Honey Run Quilters 

Thank you Linda :0) for taking the class and being one of my favorite customers!

Painted Forest is a pattern by Scott Hansen of Blue Nickle Studios

Here are more trees in progress during the first workshop... 

Donna's trees in batiks with a dramatic dark background! 

Really makes the color pop!!!

Ronda's trees in Kaffe

 Lisa's trees (center) 

Grace's trees ~ love the gradient background! 

 Pam's trees made in Aboriginal fabrics

Pam made 5 trees to be made into a wall hanging 

 Karen's trees also in Aboriginal 

Lisa's trees in batik with a light background. 

Love how the fabrics makes each of these quilts unique!!! 

Sew much fun and more to come! 

There was a waiting list for the first workshop that filled up right away!
2 new ones are set up for March & April.

Sign up at Honey Run Quilters 

Two days and times to choose from...

Saturday workshops ~ March 11, 25 & April 8 ~ 5 pm to 9 pm 

Tuesday workshops ~ March 21, April 4 & 18 ~ 10 am to 2 pm

My sample quilt is hanging up inside Honey Run Quilters. 

Below is Scott's Painted Forest pictured on his pattern.

Pattern is available at Honey Run Quilters and as always, 

20% discount on supplies/fabrics purchased for workshops!

Perfect for your scraps too ;0)
As you can see from the first workshop pics, there are lots of ways to make this quilt fun!

Come join us and plant some trees this Spring!!! 

Tot ziens, Jo

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

Serendipity in Fall ~ Tina

This beauty is made by Tina B

Pieced pattern is Serendipity by Linda Ballard 

Tina pieced this quilt at a workshop with Linda at Honey Run Quilters in Chico

Quilting design is Fall Flurry by Bethanne Nemesh 

It's a new design by Bethanne available on Digi-Tech 

This center block is what drew me in to choosing this design for Tina's quilt

and then used the same design as a p2p to fill into the inner border  

and added a single motif/element to the corner space. 

Block design quilted in the center/corner blocks

also shown below with another element added between them

in this photo of the center of the quilt

A leaf in a circle for the sashing with leaves added in the cornerstones 

Thread is Omni in Pine Shadow / Batting is Quilter's Dream Machine Blend

This quilt is made with just two fabrics, the Fall leaf batik fabric with a 

light green fabric that had gold dots for the background fabric. 

My camera is not doing justice to the beautiful color of this quilt! 

A border and corner design was added to the outer border

which the camera didn't pick it up on the batik print

Here you can see a portion of the border at the bottom of this photo of the back.

Backing fabric is the same fabric as the background
The photos absolutely do not capture the gorgeous fabrics that make this quilt!!! :0(

Thank you Tina! 

It was the perfect time of year and weather for this beauty :0) 

Tot ziens, Jo

Claudia

Well now, it official, I am loosing it! Not only behind in posting pix here on the blog, but taking pix altogether! It happens once in awhile, but now it is happening allot :0( Too much to do and running out of time to get it done.

Claudia brought in 3 quilts... all are quilted, binding attached... and picked up too! That of course is always the best part... getting to share finished quilts with customers. Thank you Claudia, you are the best! btw, I also forgot to give you the cut-offs from your quilts, they are safely stored away until I see you again. 

I did get these pix of one of the three... 

 This is a flannel quilt Claudia made from Woolies. 

Really nice and soft! Picked a thin cotton batting because 

these fabrics are fairly heavy themselves, The backing is a Woolie flannel as well. 

Quilted with Malachite by Patricia Ritter from Digi-Tech

It added a nice texture to the flannels and worked with the border print. 

Claudia's intention was a masculine quilt and I think she nailed it :0) 

Binding has been added since this photo along with the other two quilts for Claudia. One was Kansas Troubles which I, of course, absolutely loved! Great colors, prints and pieced pattern, just my style too. The third quilt was quilted custom and so pretty. I am pretty sad I didn't get pix of both of these beauties ;0( Thank you Claudia, you are very much appreciated.  

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 the Goldie Girls

This beauty is made by Sandra E

Another scrappy treasure, love how Sandy pieced the border :0)

This second quilt made by, none other... Goldie!

It's been awhile since I've frosted one for Goldie. We have another in the works plus a third that I will be picking up this week. Goldie's Stash Buster is coming up this Thursday 10 to 4 in the classroom at Cathy's and Honey Run Quilters. To see more of Goldie's work... Goldie as our featured quilter at one of our guild's past quilt shows.

 Goldie's is quilted with New Wave, my favorite design to stitch out on a Bargello

 Quilted with a cotton thread from Signature

Close ups of Sandy's...

Quilted with a new 2015 design by Jessica Schick at Digi-Tech named Ornamental Webs. I love how she sets up her designs as point to points. It makes using the designs so versatile. They can be flipped, mirrored and then linked together to run like an e2e. Once laid out on the computer and lined up with the blocks, it's a great option to give a custom look, especially when coupled with a border design. 

This pic without the flash shows the quilting better. The very first pic with flash is a better example of the true colors. Beautiful Sandy, I love this one! Didn't get a pic with the backing, it's the same fabric at the inner border. Batting is Quilter's Dream Wool. Love the loft! Note: Good that we are getting lots of rain here in Northern California. Not good is that I have not been able to take pix outdoors. That is OK, we will take the much needed rain!

Thank you Sandy and Goldie

and all of the Goldie Girls who pitched in with a gift certificate for Goldie.

Very nice! See you Thursday :0)

Tot Ziens, Jo

"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave"

Native American proverb