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

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

Kelly and Ripples

One of Kelly's Ripple quilts

Ripple is one of many quilt patterns by Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts 

This and the one below are two smaller versions Kelly made since her workshop.

 Both are quilted with two different Mola designs. 

The one above with a custom e2e and the one below with an all over e2e.

Another Ripple quilted for Linda D 

This one is set up with a custom e2e using a Celtic Knot design...

Great fabrics including the backing that Linda choose for her Ripple 

that she pieced in Kelly's workshop. Sarah has one ready that I will be quilting soon!

Kelly has done several workshops, many from Jaybird Quilts. Toes in the Sand was a BOM we recently finished. I quilted Kelly's mermaid Toes and guess what, forgot to take pix before delivering the quilt last week... I tell you, I'm loosing it! I brought the quilt with me to Kelly's newest workshop... Gravity. Yep, another BOM from Jaybird. Already have some quilting designs in mind for this one as well :0) 

A second quilt recently done for Kelly that I did remember to take pix... 

is this quilt that went to PIQF with Honey Run Quilters as a sample with Kaffe prints

A modern Dresden with great prints! 

Completely machine pieced including the inset circles...

Well done by Kelly a quilter extraordinaire! 

Fun quilting design with fun fabrics using Sun Spirit by Kim Diamond 

and a border print from Anne Bright. I took the border design and created 

a new individual element that I quilted into the center of each of the blocks. 

Quilted with Quilter's Dream Wool batting, it gave it a little dimension as well! 

Thank you Kelly! 

Tot ziens, Jo

 

Pam's Pacific Crest

Pacific Crest 

made by Pam B 

pattern by John Q Adams aka Quilt Dad

Flock Together fabrics by Kathy Doughty of Material Obsession

 plus Kaffe Fassett and silks added

Gorgeous fabrics and a great pattern from John's book Beyond Neutral  

 Flock Together fabrics

 Kaffe and silk sparrows. The background fabric is also a Kaffe

 Love the backing  too!!!

Pam pieced together Kathy's fabric with Grunge for the backing...

Quilting design is Quill 

A feather design that worked well with the fabrics! 

Top is quilted with a Fantastico thread with an Omni on the back in Indian Paintbrush 

my favorite red thread :0) Batting is Quilters Dream Cotton Deluxe

 Honey Run Quilters is putting the fabrics Pam selected together as a kit 

and will be available at Pacific International Quilt Festival

and the shop soon! Also signed copies of John's book Beyond Neutral

Pam's quilt will be traveling to PIQF as a sample quilt at Honey Run Quilters booth

Thank you Pam, you are the bestest! 

 Enjoy your Sunday

Tot Ziens, Jo

Mermaids swimming in Seaweed

Great fabric from Heather Ross, this is her Mendocino collection

Pattern is Wonton from our favorite triangle girl

Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts

Made by Kelly, GREAT fussy cutting!!! 

 Quilted on my Innova with Seaweed from Anne Bright

 The perfect choice for this quilt :0)

 Kelly used a blue background

Batting is Quilter's Dream Wool with a thin layer of cotton 

to keep the light fabrics nice and bright
Thread is Apricot Blossom, an Omni from Superior
with Natural White on the back

Seaweed is one of my favorite designs, love how it flows!
Anne did a great job of interlocking the rows, great design

Head on over to Honey Run Quilters to get a real life look.

Kelly is putting on the binding and it will be up as a store sample very soon! 

If you like it, you will have to make one of your own

because this quilt has been claimed! 

Snack Time and more for Linda

Linda D's quilt made in Kelly's Snack Time workshop at HRQ

Snack Time is a pattern from Jaybird Quilts

Julie has a number of patterns published now and is doing quite well. 

A bunch of us quilters have done and are making a few of them 

plus purchasing her specialty rulers... LOVE the Hex and More!

"helping fund her retirement" says Barbara (have to agree!) lol

I recently did a Pinterest search and found a pattern I purchased years ago that is from Jaybird called Taffy, so apparently I've been contributing for quite some time!

Great Kaffe fabrics! and the backing is perfect!!!

Well done Linda :0)

Thank you

Quilted with a design called Wild Cherries 

Thread is a variegated SoFine40 from Superior

with a Omni thread called Wintergreen for the back.  

Batting is a newer 100% cotton from Quilter's Dream

Cotton Deluxe. Love it! Again, really good alternative to W&N
note: it really IS 100% cotton! If you check out the fiber contents of Hobbs Cotton and
Warm & Natural you will find that both of their cotton bats have poly blended in.

I love how Linda combined her fabrics for her version 

of Snack Time ~ nicknamed Cheerios! 

Linda also made Modern Building Blocks which I quilted earlier this year. 

(pictured below) also a workshop with Kelly

 

Today I finished another Modern Building Blocks for Karen G

and about to start a third one for Debbie D 

pix soon

plus one more in the works by Fran

Kelly's workshops @ HRQ are pretty awesome! 

So far it's been Modern Building Blocks, Ripple, Snack Time

This is Linda's Ripple quilted with Celtic Knot
set up as a custom e2e in each of the blocks ~ blog post 

and we are two blocks into Toes in the Sand.

come join us or...
Rumor has it we may do Gravity next, altho

Sweet Tooth is looking pretty good too!!!
How about making a Tuffet? New to quilting?
Terri is teaching some great beginner quilt classes all the way to binding
Debbie teaches Free Motion Quilting
Janet has some great workshops planned on clothing construction
Goldie's sew days, lots of fun stuff! Class schedule

Thank you ladies!!!

Tot ziens, Jo

Cat Lady Quilt

Cat Lady Quilt made by Pam B

How cute is this! Pam pulled together several fabrics from the 

Cotton + Steel Cat Lady collection by Sarah Watts, 

also the designer of the pattern.

 Fabrics and pattern are available at Honey Run Quilters :0)
update, the pattern in FREE and you can download it from here

 This sample quilt is up at the store. Come by for a look, but don't wait too long, 

this quilt will be traveling to shows and is going to Sister's in July!
 The quilt has already traveled to a show in Redding

Honey Run Quilter's booth set up in Redding this weekend
It will be back in the store soon and then it goes to Sisters
Pam has it posted on her blog as well :0)

btw, if you click on the link for HRQ's Facebook page you will also see

 some of the new Kaffe fabrics that Kelly just put up on the shelves.

 30 new bolts!!!  

Some close ups of Pam's Cat Lady Quilt...

Quilted with Mid-Century Modern only in the background.
The appliqued cats are outlined plus some 1/4 inch stitching.
I added some wool batting behind the balls of yarn
as well as the cat's embroidered faces for a little dimension.

HRQ had the purrfect fabric that Pam choose for the backing!
Well done!!! Thank you Pam :0)

Studio is open again. Micheal is making great progress each day. Last night I was out at Honey Run for Kelly's Toes in the Sand BOM. Felt really good to get in some girl time working on a quilt project! Back to work on the longarm with some catching up to do because Mach 3 is out and I can't wait to get that loaded onto my system! 

Tot ziens, Jo