Judy's Pinwheels

Judy's Pinwheel quilt hanging between the bars of my Innova

Bright crisp color against a white background 

and a simple but effective layout creating an inner border

A good example of an e2e lined up with the blocks of a quilt 

using Marci Gore's Orange Peel e2e

Batting is one that Judy likes to use... Quilter's Dream Puff 

A mid weight poly with lots of loft! 

A good alternative for customers that are not comfortable with wool. 

Thread is Omni's Bright White 

Thank you Judy! 

Quilted and picked up last week. Judy also shared the quilt she made 

in Don Linn's class at our guild's meeting last week with Don as our guest speaker. 

I took his curved piecing workshop on Friday and learned allot. 

 

Tot ziens, Jo

Material Girls at ASQG 2015 quilt show

Love this quilt designed and made by Pam B.

The inspiration began with the center bird fabric. Pam pulled together wonderful fabrics. We kept the quilting simple with a design called Peacock Palm 

Material Girls is one of the small groups in Annie's Star Quilt Guild made up with an incredibly talented group of quilters. Starting out with Pam's quilts recently shown at our guild's quilt show.

Swoon for Pam

The blocks in this Swoon quilt were made by each member in Material Girls for Pam. The first Swoon Pam made was displayed and sold at Sisters show in Oregon a few years ago. I had the pleasure of quilting both of them, each one getting better! Custom quilted with a wool batting. Thank you Pam! You are the best!

Cannery Row by Bev. A

Bev is a wonderful artist, our featured quilter at our last quilt show and does most of her own quilting. Once in awhile she asks me to quilt for her. This is one Bev had the vision, I simply guided the machine with her artwork ;0) Beautiful. It certainly took me out of my box! Thank you Bev

Missie's wildlife quilt

Wildlife and paw prints were quilted in the borders like this bear's face plus more throughout the quilt. It makes it fun to find the hidden animals both in the prints and the quilting. Thank you Missie

 Adding Missie's Quail Trails, quilted by Missie. Beautiful! Missie also does most of her own quilting and is quite the artist. Well done!

Judy with her A to Z

Judy is also a Material Girl :0) Both of her quilts that she asked me to quilt for her are already posted here on the blog. Thank you Judy

Donna Greenwald, also a member of the group was this year's featured quilter. Her work is amazing and I will feature more of her quilts in a separate post. For now, one of my favs as it depicts Tahoe, my sanctuary and favorite place in the world.

Donna Greenwald

Donna does all of her own quilting which is part of her art. One of my goals for the new year is to take one of her classes, or better yet, attend her Tahoe retreat! 

A few more pix from the Material Girl's quilts at the show

(not quilted at Moonbear, I love to see quilter's that do their own :0)

Sally Jo's, I did baste this one for her, it is completely hand done by Sally Jo!

Tot Ziens, Jo

Judy Johnson ~ ASQG 2015 show

Starting off with quilts made by Judith Johnson

Quilted at Moonbear Designs by Jo

Shown at Annie's Star Quilt Guild's Harvest of Quilts 2015 quilt show

Stars Float everywhere on the Quilt from A-Z

Second place, which is really good considering there were 21 quilts in this category,

one of which was juried (Grace's) into PIQF!

I had so much fun quilting this for Judy! 

Each block is different, the design, piecing and the quilting, sew much fun!

Applique is done by machine with a button hole stitch by Judy

 The trees, sheep and the borders were so much fun to quilt.

It was the first time that I did a background fill with McTavishing

in all of the borders on a customer's quilt.

Thank you Judy for letting me play on your quilts :0)

Viewing the Meadow From on High by Judy J
 was just as much fun to quilt! This second quilt Judy exhibited
(not judged). Thank you Judy for your kind words :0)

 The purple fabrics in the mountains are silk

 See the bear walking along the forest?

I've quilted many quilts for Judy over the years, these two have been the most fun

by far! and we have more planned for the future. Thank you Judy.

You are an incredible quilter!

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

4th of July weekend

Totally missed posting the July moon on the 1st! As my friend Donna reminds me these daze, I'm not plugged in... and it's true. It's kind of getting better and then, it's not. I miss my Mom. It's a very big hole, Grand Canyon big as I said to another friend. Good to have friends :0) and especially friends and customers that quilt because it's also good to have wonderful quilts to play with! Working on Lori's quilt felt really good and this week I finished quilting another beauty for Judy J. 

Judy is up in the mountains right now and plans to pick up her quilt after the weekend. Good place to be in this heat. Way too hot with triple digits here in the valley. Judy emailed yesterday afternoon they were having mountain thunderstorms and rain. I miss that after leaving the mountains a few years ago. We sure could use some rain down here in the North Valley. 

Which brings this blog post to the July Moon or Thunder Moon. Thunderstorms are frequent during this month. Also known as the Full Buck Moon. 

A cycle of nature however, it's very scarey this year following years of drought combined with dry lightning. It was reported yesterday that with yesterday's thunderstorms, it's so dry right now fires started despite the rain. So not good. 

A pic of this week's quilt that I sent along for Judy to see. Will blog more about Judy's quilt after she sees it in real life after the weekend. The picture of Judy's quilt has been removed for now. She asked that her quilt be kept private until it is shown in upcoming quilt shows. Pics will be posted after Annie's Star Quilt Guild show in November.

I am so grateful to have these two beautiful quilts to work on right now, quilting is definitely good therapy!

Enjoy your 4th of July weekend! Please, take care to be safe.

 Tot Ziens, Jo

August Quilts

Lots of quilts that came in 2's were quilted in August...

This is a baby quilt made by Betty D

Fun summer project!

Quilted with an all over pattern of clouds

The back was fun too with hot air balloons and flying geese blocks.
Very colorful :0)

Two quilts for Judy J

This one is quilted with a Dogwood pattern

and this large quilt with a really nice layout and colors

 Quilted with a paisley e2e design from Sweet Dreams

Thank you Judy! You are in our thoughts and hearts right now

praying for the best and sending bear hugs

This quilt is made by Tina B for a very good friend

that is going thru breast cancer treatment right now

A very pretty panel with great colors and a great bird. 

Quilted with humming birds in the outer area

and FMQing in the center panel

A very special quilt! 

This very cool little quilt with itty bitty log cabins is made by Carol F

Made of scraps from family members, this quilt is for a baby

 lots of fabrics, very scrappy!

lots of SID with a border design called Love Doodle

A second quilt Carol made, also from scraps

for another family member

Definitely a sports theme going on with this quilt

Quilted with stars for her sports star :0)

Quite the variety! My job is rarely dull and always filled with lots of color!

More to be posted. Two for Sarah, as well as two more for Beckie

One of them is a surprise for a friend so I will hold off on posting those.

Another flip quilt for Donna, this one with numbers but it got by me

along with a really cute quilt for Judy P 

that were quilted and picked up without pix :0(

Two more samples for PIQF that Theresa made

Two Christmas quilts, one for Sandy E

A quilt for Phoebe, one for Rosie and a baby quilt for Pam P

The last four were delivered today

I have a quilt for Janie C on my frame right now

Happy that my machine is up and running again

after three days of down time this week!

I will share one of the Christmas quilts... 

This is a Christmas Tree Bargello, made by Goldie and is a class

coming up in September at Cathy's Honey Run Quilters

Here is a pic of the quilt hanging up right now

at Honey Run Quilter's

 Stop by and take a look

Better yet, sign up for Goldie's class! 

Hope you find some time to take a few stitches!