Modern Building Blocks

 3 Modern Building Blocks quilts have come thru my studio

First one was for Linda D and this week I quilted two more... this is Debbie's

Quilted with Woven Wind, a digital design from Apricot Moon

Thread is a Glide in Cool Grey

Batting is Quilter's Dream Wool

and this is Karen's

Quilting design is Lonestar by Kim Diamond 

We choose a variegated thread from Superior called Great Barrier Reef 

A SoFine40 with lots of teal, blue, greens and a bright lime yellow/green

Batting is Quilter's Dream Cotton Select

This shows the quilting as well as how the thread sparkled on Karen's!

and below, the sparkle of Glide on Debbie's

Love how she personalized her quilt too!

It's always so much fun to see the same pattern made sew different 

depending on fabrics and choices by each quilter :0)

Below is Linda D's Modern Building Blocks quilted with Rapunzel 

original post for Linda's quilt 

Proving that great minds think alike... check out the backings...

Karen's 

and this is Debbie's 

 How cool is that! I used the Cool Grey Glide on the back of Debbie's

quilt as well, it really sparkled on the Tula Pink backing fabric :0)

A couple of close ups of Karen's blocks with great fabric choices...

and a few of Debbie's... a different 

feel with the crispness of the white background fabric.

Karen has her quilt and Debbie's is quilted, trimmed and 

ready for it's binding... will be completed soon! 

I have fallen behind schedule again this month with unforeseen events, 

one being Michael's surgery. I am very happy to report that he is doing great! 

(and I won't have to mow the lawn again ;0) 

Have a wonderful weekend!

I am ready to get going on the longarm today to make up some time.

Tricky thing is time when you work in production, hard to make it up! 

Thanks for everyone's patience

Tot ziens, Jo

Quilting on Amaretto Cottage

Kansas Troubles block in Amaretto Cottage

and one of the setting triangles

Janie loves butterflies and the sparkle of Glide so we are quilting feathered butterflies on this beauty using three different colors ~ gold, burgundy, a lavender plus a fourth thread, a Fantastico from Superior in a dark variegated purple.
Wool batting from Quilter's Dream for that wonderful loft :0)

At day's end yesterday I am about halfway and ready to start the medallion center. Not planning to share more of this one or any of the quilts quilted for customers that will be going into the quilt show. Come to the show and see them! 

(There will be lots of pix after the show)

There was one customer quilt this week not going in the show. Karen made a quilt that will be a Christmas gift. I neglected to ask her permission to post pix. With permission I hope to post pix later because it's a wonderful quilt! I had fun looking at all the different fabrics and blocks while I was quilting it. Every block is different, just what I love to do :0)

After shutting down my longarm yesterday, I made a block for Honey Run Quilters Seasonal Block challenge. Ronda gave me a packet with the oak leaf focus fabric in September, due at the end of this month and now I can check it off my list. Way too much going on this month. 14 Birthdays!!! (I have a biggie coming up soon) all family and close friends, plus customer quilts, guild & quilt show meetings. Too much and I have noticed that I am having trouble staying focused! Doing my best, anyway here is the block I made yesterday. Thinking of cutting up the little scraps to add leaves falling from the tree.

Enjoy your Sunday

Hope you have a fun project to work on!

Tot ziens, Jo

Autumn Medallion Sampler

Perfection in Autumn batiks! 95 x 106

This quilt is made by Peggy S for an upcoming October wedding

LOVE!!!

Wonderful batiks, I believe Peggy told me this was a class

 at Morning Star Quilts in Paradise, CA.

Great choice for backing

Quilted with a Glide thread in Desert Sunset

Quilting design is Rapunzel

Batting is Quilter's Dream Cotton

Gorgeous job of piecing by Peggy!

Thank you 

This beauty definitely sets the mood for Autumn

with cool temps this week YEA!!!

and a little bit of moisture falling from the sky.

This change in the weather is good news and will help getting fires under control. Thoughts and prayers go out to many displaced families here in California effected by the worst fire season I've seen as a native Californian & survivor of three evacuations. Special prayers to those in Lake County with significant losses, including one life and many animals. Many many thanks to the women and men who put themselves in harms way in order to fight fires and help preserve as many homes as possible. Thank you and stay safe.
 

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

Finishes this week

A wall hanging made by Tess

 Tess' request was for a circular design in the blocks

 This wall hanging will go to a Mammography center.

I quilted a circle of hearts with echo stitching around them

and then repeated that design in the borders and corners.

Added a little ruler work in the HSTs

All quilted with two Glide threads in Pearl and Black

with two layers of batting ~ Wool to give it loft

with an under layer of cotton to help it hang nice. 

Thank you Tess

Tess also dropped of a wool applique quilt that I am anxious to play on.

Meanwhile got caught up on a few more...

This quilt is made by a new to me customer, Sally V

Love the fabrics!

Quilted with Williamsburg e2e

using an Omni thread from Superior Threads

on Quilter's Dream cotton Select.

Love the paisley backing fabric too!

Thank you Sally :0)

One for Claudia

 Quilted with Escargot e2e

Using Omni thread from Superior Threads

The backing fabric is the dark blue background with yellow flowers. I used two layers of batting for this quilt as well. A wool with a cotton layer. The reason for this quilt is because thru wool dark backing would shadow the light fabrics on the top. The cotton helps keep the top nice and bright white. Claudia also added some of the strips to her backing.

 Love the loft of the wool, you can see it in these pix taken early in the morning

 with a bit of sun as it rises.

Thank you Claudia!

Perfect piecing and good fabrics as always :0)

You are very much appreciated

 Christmas in July for Barbara H

Love her pieced backing altho it was a challenge 

to center the top with the backing

both horizontally as well as vertical.

Close up of the back 

with my Points and Berries e2e

Quilted with Omni in Indian Paintbrush

Its a wonderful red! 

 This baby quilt was quilted yesterday for my good friend Janie

She is so creative and loves to challenge both of us!

Top fabric is a knit, that when washed, created the crosshatch pattern

The batting is wool and the back is Minkee!

Kind of like trying to quilt three sponges together! 

Janie raw edge appliqued all of the fabric squares onto the white knit fabric

using a decorative feather stitch on her machine.

That was a challenge in and of itself :0)

Really cute fabrics with Fox, Owls, a squirrel and a hedge hog

Stitching is added to the animal block prints

with Omni and Glide threads

and an extra square of wool batting

 behind the blocks

 and this is Little Tweet on the Minkee backing...

Thank you Janie! 

Took a break this morning to post pix, now off I go to add the binding! 

See you soon! 

Enjoy your weekend

Tot Ziens, Jo

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