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

 

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

 

Modern yet traditional for Dorrie

A Modern Maple Leaf quilt 

Made with large HST blocks which make up four maple leaves. 

We decided that the quilting needed to reflect the same... traditional yet modern. 

Sew the quilting has straight line combined with feathers 

split between the HSTs as well as the solid blocks. 

The feathers came together in a nice mirrored design in the center of the quilt 

which was one of our goals for this quilt.  

I also quilted the feathers on all of the edges of the quilt 

to create a scallop effect. It worked out great!

Great fabrics! 

A second quilt for Dorrie...

This quilt is made from a Jaybird pattern named Hugs & Kisses 

This quilt has a very different feel with a soft pallet of fabrics in pinks. 

Mostly prints with roses so...

this one is quilted with Zen Roses

Pink thread, wool batting and a pink backing.

A very sweet romantic quilt 

Thank you Dorrie! 

Dorrie and I took the same classes at Sister's this month 

for A Quilter's Affair. We had so much fun. Both classes were wonderful! 

One with Scott Hansen of Blue Nickle Studios and another from 

John Q. Adams aka Quilt Daddy

More on the quilts we made later :0) 

Enjoy your weekend 

Stay cool! 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