Quilts for JoAnn

JoAnn decided early this year to make a quilt for each of her grandchildren for Christmas this year. I was honored that she asked me to quilt these special quilts for her family. Following are pix of the quilts she made...

This quilt has wonderful colors, the circles are done with applique. This one was so nice she made it twice! JoAnn made a few fabric changes however, they are almost the same. We quilted the same design on both, curves and bubbles ~ Deep Blue Sea.

This is the backing fabric on both quilts. Beautiful

This quilt is named Garden Maze. For a grand daughter who loves pink and purple!

quilted with Just Roses

This is the magazine pic which gives a better idea of the whole quilt. It's big and with the weather I was not able to take the last quilts quilted for JoAnn outside for photos.

This is Tess Elation, also from a magazine as pictured. Two got by me without a photo.

This is the Star quilt, quilted with Meandering Feathers. 

Lots of Y seams, JoAnn did an amazing job piecing this quilt. 

Love the applique that JoAnn added to this quilt

 Bright colors, quilted with an all over leaf quilting design.

And the first quilt is...

 one of my favorites ~ Civil War reproduction fabrics with lots of nine patches :0)

 One last photo with the binding attached. JoAnn had me sew on the binding on all of the quilt tops. She finished the bindings, all of them sewn down by hand. JoAnn labeled all of the quilts, added a small pocket and included a small photo album of each quilt in progress. Very thoughtful!
She put all of her heart into this.

 Her family owns a business ~ Z's Bees in Orland CA close to Chico. 

Here is a picture of the grand kids and family from their web page...

The boxes stacked on pallets are called nucks and are used for the bees. Love the colors, they look like 3D quilts! It's nice to know that they will all be together soon with JoAnn and her DH. The grandkids will have their quilts to cuddle up in for Christmas.

Wishing everyone a wonderful Holiday Season!

Four more went out the door

Four more quilts completed this week and picked up today...

Two for JoAnn

I love this quilt! It's very happy :0) I wanted to share it again

Quilted last week, this week I put on the binding, 

quilted her Star quilt and added the binding this morning...

Quilted with my Meandering Feathers pattern. 

Look at ALL of these Y seams! JoAnn did an amazing job of piecing!!!

Also picked up today... two quilts made by Barbara H...

I loved quilting this one!!!

This is a hard one to shoot pics and show the quilting

Barbara made this for her grandson, it's modern with LOTS of stitching!

(these pics are the quilt on it's side)

It's a quilt from a Fons and Porter magazine, Spring issue of this year. 

Designed by Tony Jacobson. Here is a link to this quilt

Barbara brought the magazine along with the quilt and I followed the quilting design

quilting spiral squares and rectangles, straight lines in the stripes

 and some diagonal stitching in the 16 patches.

 LOVE the effect, it even looked great on the back! (pics did not do it justice)

And Marty's Stars...

In keeping with the garden theme, I quilted an all over panto design

called Dancing Tulip Garden, Designs by Deb

Thank you ladies, it's a pleasure to quilt for you! 

This was first time quilting for Barbara. Thank you to Goldie :0)

I am fortunate to live in an area of Northern California filled with some incredible quilters!!!

Enjoy the weekend!

Kathy W, Sandy and more added!

Kathy picked up her Bento Box quilt yesterday...

Quilted with large swirls in a variegated teal thread.

Kathy will add a teal binding to her quilt.

I met her SIL Peggy, a quilter from Bakersfield, CA. The two of them plus another family member made a wedding quilt together earlier this year that I had the pleasure of quilting. I was happy to hear that Peggy is thinking of moving to this area! 

Sandy K picked up the baby quilt she made...

 with the cutest mix of fabrics!

Quilted with an all over of butterflies in a soft teal thread

Sally Jo Smith picked up her Kim McLean applique quilt. I have pics but I am not going to share them right now as this quilt will be in ASQG quilt show next month. I'll be posting pics from the show. There are allot of really amazing quilters here in the Chico area! 

Pam is picking up her quilt for Carmen today. I'll take some pics and post again later today. Let's see, oh, there are two more quilts almost ready. One for Beckie, a cute custom baby quilt and one for JoAnn. Yep, more pics ...
Hopefully along with some progress on my UFOs for August posted on my blog. 

UPDATE with new pics!
Pam's quilt...

JoAnn's quilt...

And a pre-print panel Beckie added borders to and I got to play! 

More on these quilts later. I have dinner to finish preparing. Making an eggplant dish with veggies from our garden. Then back to UFOs. Added borders to my June Jelly Roll and it's ready to quilt. 

Pics posted on my blog, Ramblin' Rows.

Have a great weekend, enjoy the day stitching away!

August quilts

Progress on customer quilts...

 Two more for Sandra E, Horses quilted with Lassos...

Stars and Stripes quilted on this patriotic quilt

 Love Sandra's applique hearts

 This is her backing pieced with extra blocks, the background fabric is called American Pie!

Sandra brought in two more when she picked these up :0)

A modern quilt for Claudia quilted with oval swirls...

A traditional one in 19th Century colors, also for Claudia...

Quilted with a new pattern called Williamsburg by Kim Diamond

Claudia has a third one that is still on the longarm. I'll show better pics next week once they are trimmed and I get photos of whole quilts.

This is a quilt top made and quilted for JoAnn with binding added that she will hand stitch. Lots of nine patches in the borders! JoAnn brought 2 more quilts for quilting yesterday :0)

A custom quilt with applique for Linda

and a second quilt for Linda with owls. Sew cute! 

She will add eyes now that it's quilted

Beckie brought in another when she picked up her quilts from last week. Theresa, Marna and Heidi finished two quilts that will be quilted for the shop, Honey Run Quilters. And a new customer brought in a quilt today.

More quilts came in than went out. Actually, there are two more I quilted this week that are not trimmed or photos taken, so the count may be even? I've lost count! 

Good thing it's Friday afternoon and time to wrap up the week.

Have a wonderful weekend. I will be working on my August UFO's and finishing the quilting on my Medallion quilt (Click to see) using the new table. Yea! 

Thank you to all of my wonderful customers and thank you for stopping by for a visit :0)