Quilts for Betty

Lately I am quilting faster than I am taking pix! Which is a good thing with PIQF and the holidays coming up in the all too near future :0) At the beginning of this month Betty brought in 4 quilts, all of which she has picked up. Love her work and especially love quilting for her, one of my favs :0)

Check out this cute baby quilt...

This is the row print mixed in with other fabrics that Betty used to make this cutie

and the kangaroo quilting design that worked perfectly for this quilt!

LOVE my Innova!

Above is the backing, a pretty ribbed knit similar to Minkee... very soft and cuddly

and ever so stretchy!!! again, love my Innova!

 lots of cute Aussie Babies :0)

A 2nd quilt Betty brought in was actually pieced by her small group part of our quilt guild.
It's a quilt top they started during our guild's community service night this summer.
(Just as many longarmer's do... my quilting time is donated to community service)

Also guild related... this was a guild's recent block of the month
Betty won all of these blocks made by guild members...

and now they are Bee Haven!
That's the design from Anne Bright I used to line up to each of the blocks
 to finish off this fun quilt

and last is a quilt Betty made... I believe the name is Maisie Daisy

Very graphic and very scrappy!

 Quilted with Echo b2b also by Anne Bright

Definitely some very fun quilts!
Thank you Betty :0)

These were finished a week or so ago... many more have come and gone
some with pix and some without
Having a hard time keeping up!

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

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