Donna's Linda Ballard quilt plus a few more...

You Need a Rita! ~ pattern and another workshop by Linda Ballard 

This is Donna's quilt

Cool colors in brown/gray and teal prints

Donna and I both attended this workshop with Linda Ballard.

My top is finished however, not quilted! 

Donna's quilt is

quilted with Quilter's Dream Wool batting 

  Kim Diamond digital pattern 

with an Omni thread in teal. 

Thank you Donna

A couple more to catch up on that I don't believe pix were posted...

Another quilt for Tina 

And a bargello for Goldie. I may have posted this one, 

however am thinking of Goldie as she has not been feeling well. 

Get better soon Goldie, your girls miss you!!! 

Enjoy the weekend 

and don't forget to Fall Back on Sunday! 

Tot ziens, Jo

Christmas Catchup and Friends

 Saturday Morning Post with quilts from the end of the year

A quilt made by Donna L

for a grandson at Christmas

A fun quilting design for a fun quilt!

Crazy Swirls by Donna Kleinke

Quilted with a bright green Magnifico thread from Superior

Batting is Quilter's Dream Wool

Two quilts were finished in December for Beckie. One was in Christmas prints with Cardinals in snow covered Pine Trees that was custom quilted and apparently I neglected to get any pix. Bummer, it's really pretty! Beckie made that quilt for herself, she loves birds. Beckie also made this second quilt for a family member for Christmas. This one features a wolf print with some Stonehenge fabrics.  

Quilted with a pine tree and pine cones quilting design by Thomas Schick

Thomas has really great wildlife and outdoor type designs available

on Jessica Schick's website ~ Digi-tech. It's a great site with lots of designers to pick from.

One of my go to sites for designs and Jessica is really helpful to fix format issues

Wool batting from Quilter's Dream. LOVE the loft!

One more, this quilt is made by Kathryn,

a Christmas gift for her mother

Shenandoah is the pattern, Kathryn picked some great fabrics

Quilted with a design I refer to as Hummers 

It has small leaves with humming birds. Worked really well with the small leaf prints,

especially the backing. Quilted with a Fantastico variegated thread from Superior

with, guess what... Quilter's Dream Wool :0) Love the loft!

Here is a close up of a humming bird...

Thank you Kathryn! Donna and Beckie too!!!

I am so pleased to call each of you friends, there are five of us that meet for lunch every Monday, Nancy too. Not a quilter per say, I have quilted a vintage Dresden Plate quilt for Nancy that was made by a member of her family. Some days we are joined by more quilters, Karen and Kathy W, customers as well. I have the best customers!

Donna, Beckie and I have known each other from Cathy's, before Honey Run made the move, many moons ago ;0) Kathryn, is new to the group and the 'office'. What is really amazing, Kathryn is also new to quilting! Karen loaned her one of her sewing machines, Beckie started supplying her with fabric from her stash and she has taken off from there. She made a second quilt as a Christmas gift for her MIL and quilted it herself! We are all pretty impressed by this very talented young woman! 

There are more quilts to catch up on. Between the holidays, a bug I caught and just trying to keep up with life. There are more quilts to post, for another day, some quilts in the works right now. Getting used to a new to me camera, a point and shoot of Michael's that is working out for now. Another challenge is taking pix indoors. We are getting rain... lots of it, which is a good thing, but not for taking pix outdoors. All good, we need the rain! Yea!!!

Enjoy your weekend!

Tot ziens, Jo

Hot Air Balloons

quilted on a baby quilt made by Donna

A fun design by Dave Hudson

available from Digi-tech

The perfect choice requested by Donna for this quilt

Quilted with wool batting using an Omni thread

Love how the quilting shows on the Radiance fabric Donna used for the inner border

The backing is a dark brown minkee which is why I chose to use a darker thread color in Gray Slate. I also added a layer of thin cotton batting over the wool because the dark backing was shadowing thru to the top. Donna was happy with this little baby. Thank you Donna!

It's a good thing last week was productive as I can't say the same for this week. I finished a quilt last night for Janie and will post pix later with today's daylight. That makes two quilts finished this week. I do have lots more in the wings including 2 really cute Snowman quilts that I have been working on. Lots of applique and hand embroidery so they are being hand guided which takes more time to finish and fun to do! There are three more applique quilts waiting their turns, one for Linda D, Judy J and Sandy. Plus more booked until August! Annie's Star Quilt Guild's show is in November this year and everyone is busy getting quilts ready for the show.

A few guild responsibilities taken care of this week, time spent on my digital files and trouble shooting some format issues with Jessica at Digi-tech for Auto Pilot. Getting the right format that will run properly on older pre-AP designs is what we worked on. Very happy with Digi-tech. There are still designers out there that do not offer .pat format. (Note to other Innova/Auto Pilot users ~ .dxf will download onto AP and the system will reformat it into .pat however, they do NOT stitch out properly! Start and End points get changed and many do not run in one continues stitch) All of the patterns that Digi-tech offer in .pat run perfectly! They offer a great selection of designs from different designers plus digitized machine embroidery designs as well. Thank you Jessica!

Anne Bright and Sweet Dreams Studio also digitize in .pat format. These two, Digi-Tech and Apricot Moon are the resources I turn to for computerized designs. If you see a design on their websites you would like quilted on your quilt top, just ask! If I don't have it in my file, downloading and making it available for you is a cinch!  
 

 Enjoy your weekend

Tot Ziens, Jo

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

Phoebe, Leslie and Donna's Quilts

Phoebe's graphic quilt

 Quilted with Crazy Swirls lined up with each block
LOVE my Innova!

using a gold Magnifico thread from Superior Threads

The backing, a hand dye with just the right colors :0)

It's bright!

Quilted during the week along with Leslie D's Star quilt

Quite the variety of quilts come thru my studio! 

This beauty is quilted with a new design I am playing with

 Another e2e design that I am able to set up to look like each block

 is quilted individually. Did I mention... LOVE my Innova!

A little hard to see the quilting especially with the busy prints

but aren't the prints gorgeous!?! Love
Lots of French General

And a toddler bed quilt Donna made
 for her firstborn grandchild

 with a very cute Pooh fabric!

 Great fabric and color selection Donna!

Quilted with Ginger Hearts that worked well with the backing too

using a Glide thread

Also finished were two community service quilts for our guild.
The houses are in the previous post and the second I haven't
taken photos of along with Kathy W's quilt which is almost finished.

Great weekend with lots of needed rain
Enjoy your Sunday, take a few stitches!
That's where I am headed for the rest of the afternoon, Jo

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

Quilting to finish out the year 2014

It's been a tough two weeks, loosing Crystal suddenly, the holidays 

and getting the last quilts finished for the year. A wrap up...

 Sandy E's quilt

A scrappy modern quilt which I did my custom e2e

Crazy Swirls

 We were both happy with how this one turned out

The texture of the design, quilted with a silver/grey Fantastico thread

brought this beautifully pieced scrappy quilt up a notch

Thank you Sandy

T-shirt quilt for Linda S

Pieced for a customer, all made of her husbands T-shirts

from years of attending the Reno Air Races

 From 70s, 80s and 90s events

 Some classics

 Quilted with Star Spangled Banner

Thank you Linda

More airplanes, these cute airplane blocks pieced by Donna

in a quilt made for a new grand baby coming soon :0)

Quilted with a cute airplane e2e

Wool batting and a teal minkee backing

Thank you Donna

Below, the wall hanging for Joyce

 now quilted with echo, crosshatch, SID

 and floral designs added to triangle and square set on point spaces
created around the large Churn Dash center

Thank you Joyce

Five for Cindy G

Loved the colors in this quilt made by Cindy

 Quilted with a Dogwood e2e

 made with a great backing too!

A scrappy flannel quilt quilted with Woven Wind e2e

Three more that were posted here

A second scrappy flannel quilt, this one quilted with a leaf e2e

The kitty quilt, quilted with Catrina, an e2e

The first one quilted for Cindy was a wedding gift for a friend

not finding the pix however it's been posted here.

Thank you Cindy!

A store sample for Honey Run Quilters

 This beauty is pieced by Anne

 A large log cabin made with great fabrics available at Honey Run Quilters!

 Quilted with pink thread in a new design

Zen Roses

Thank you Ronda, Anne, Kelly, your sample will be quilted soon!

and the whole crew at Honey Run Quilters

That does it for the year

It's been a good year, with lots of changes, some good, some not so much

Moonbear Designs and Quilting will be closed for the remainder of 2014

Thank you to my wonderful customers! 

I appreciate you so very much

Michael and I have a customer appreciation day planned for summer 2015

Enjoy your Holidays!

Merry Christmas and a Very Happy, Peaceful New Year

from Jo and Michael

In memory of Crystal who enjoyed greeting everyone

I miss my beautiful girl '0(