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

Back in the Saddle

...literally ;0) I've been looking into saddle chair/stools to use at my longarm for awhile. None of the big box stores carry them, so I had to rely on the internet to find one without being able to try it out. This one is OK but not exactly what I am looking for so my search continues. Hoping to find one with a smaller saddle so I can reach the floor easily and scoot around while I am quilting at my longarm.

Happy to be feeling better and back to quilting customer quilts this week following our trip to Texas, spending Thanksgiving with Michael's family. Came home with a wonderful head cold and plugged ears for almost a week. Can't say flying is fun anymore for lots of reasons! 

This is one of the quilts recently quilted that Karen will be putting under her tree for someone special! LOVE the fussy cutting! Lots of animals and all sorts of fun things to find...

Deer, racoon and fox

a cat and a butterfly

Love the bear!

This is the whole quilt... It's from Patchwork City by Elizabeth Hartman. Every block is different. Really cool! Karen did a fantastic job of piecing and choosing fabrics.

 Quilted with Cool Beans using an Omni thread in a green that matches the border fabric.

Great quilt. This is one I would love to make! 

Thank you Karen!

Tot ziens, Jo

"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave"

ASQG 2015 wrap up

It's Finished! by Karen G

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Wrapping up with a few more customer quilts

 displayed at Annie's Star Quilt Guild 2015 quilt show.

This is Karen's quilt, started in a Linda Ballard workshop/retreat.

The pattern is Cathedral Square from Let's Quilt

Karen's fabric choices were crying out for feathers,

so feathers it has! :0) 

Here is a blog post with more details and close up pix when it was quilted.

Thank you Karen! I loved that it was located right next to our little vendor area behind Fat Quarters. Everyone appreciated your quilt all weekend! 

Stars and Bars by Betty D

 Betty's Stars and Bars quilted earlier this year

Here is the blog post with more pix of Betty's quilt.

I will see Betty tonight at our quilt show wrap up meeting plus have a new quilt ready to return to her that was quilted this week. Betty is one of my best customers and I appreciate her and her quilting sew very much! If you go to the side bar and click on Betty D in the Search by Quilter box, you can see lots of blog posts with her quilts :0)

Thank you Betty, see you tonight 

 

Under the Sea by Frances P

This cute quilt was made by Frances and of course, it was quilted with a design called Deep Blue Sea :0) Here is the blog post with Frances' quilt. Plus a close up of...

 the quilting on the back of Under the Sea. 

This is a really fun quilt! Thank you Frances

One more post planned of the quilt show with judged quilts that earned ribbons. (If you can't wait, they are posted on my blog ~ Ramblin' Rows) One person I haven't featured yet is Kelly K. Kelly's quilts will be in this next post because both of Kelly's quilts that were quilted at Moonbear's studio won ribbons! Yea Kelly! I just turned over another quilt yesterday that Kelly made for a family friend that was so kewl! Pix soon

Time to go frost some quilts!

Wrap up meeting tonight for our quilt show committee chairs.

 

Tot ziens, Jo

"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave"

Karen's Cathedral Square

Cathedral Square

A two color pattern by Linda Ballard

Quilt made by Karen G

quilted by Jo @ Moonbear Designs & Quilting

with... feathers! feathers and more feathers!

Wonderful BIG setting triangles wide open for quilting :0) It was the dark fabric print that motivated my decision to quilt a feather design. Literally one triangle design, flipped, mirrored and linked to create all of the feathers in the center field of Karen's quilt. Have I mentioned... LOVE my Innova and Auto Pilot! The light fabric is one of the Stonehenge fabrics and really made the trilobal poly variegated thread sing! I used one of the original Fantastico variegated thread colors. Love!
 

This is the center of Karen's quilt. The same triangle linked and spiraled into a square. The triangle design is digitized by Jamie Wallen. A wonderful talented longarm quilter, now an Innovian. Yea! Jamie has done Utubes most notably on taming tension. I picked up his design, Feather Flurry on Digi-Tech. The border/corner design is from One Song Needle Arts by Donna named Sacred Journey.

 Above is a single version of Feather Flurry and below
a double mirrored version along with the Sacred Journey border design.

  

Thank you Karen

I love this quilt and enjoyed quilting it for you!

See you soon :0)

note: Linda Ballard will be teaching 2 workshops next month in Chico! May 7th at Honey Run Quilters at Cathy's and another on May 8th thru Annie's Star Quilt Guild. Two different patterns by Linda. Donna and I are signed up for one of them! Linda will also be our guest speaker at the May 7th guild meeting. Come join us!!!