Quilts for Pam and Alice

Quilt top made by Pam P

Great colors and the print fabric with birds is very nice. It's a large quilt and one that seen from a distance as in a photo the pattern is even better. It's made up of the same block rotated with a great layout for the center, nice!

 The print with birds is the backing, the outer border and pieced into the blocks. 

Quilted with an e2e from Sweet Dreams Studio named Williamsburg

using an Omni thread in the color Hazelnut

just the same color as the birds.

Pam and her MIL, Alice both started bringing quilts in for quilting last year. Alice made the two big star quilts made from panels that I quilted earlier. This is a third one she finished...

 Great kaleidoscope effect!

These panels depict a Japanese woman by a pond with flowers

so I quilted an e2e of purple Koi swimming in a purple pond ;0)

One more quilted for Alice, actually top made by Delores for Alice

Diamonds

Alice choose a new quilting pattern that we thought would work in the diamonds

Quilted with Sweet Peas! using a Fantastico thread from Superior named Rainbows

The swirls in the quilting design also goes well with the fabrics

Sweet Peas, a fun design from One Song Needle Arts

Will save a few more for another post. After working a Saturday to make up some time, I am ready to enjoy the rest of the weekend. Hope you do the same!

Tot Ziens, Jo

More quilts in August

Love this graphic Christmas quilt made by Sandra E

Check out these really cute fat Red Cardinals!

Quilted with the perfect Christmas e2e with gold Glide

Ornaments, stars, trees and of course another cute little bird

Not a Cardinal but both birds have cute little feathered tails!

Sandy's was one of the four delivered yesterday along with this one for Phoebe

Also quilted with birds. A different design, this one from Anne Bright

Phoebe's is made from blocks she won at our guild

Annie Star Quilt Guild's Block of the Month lets say 'some' time ago :0)

Phoebe is finishing this one for a family member

A second quilt for Rosie was picked up yesterday

Rosie is new to quilting! Loving it which is good

because she is very good! 

 Quilted with a pattern from One Song ~ Dogwood

I love this pattern and used it allot on my last longarm. After using it on both Rosie and Judy J's quilts on my new system found that it does not run correctly. It's in a .dxf format that Auto Pilot is able to convert to .pat but it doesn't read it the same. New functions I have now didn't work and the stitching path was completely different. It did allot of extra traveling that wasn't necessary so I have decided to retire this design. Not to worry, I can repurchase it in .pat or will find something new to replace it. The amount of designs available now are amazing. A note about One Song if you are a longarmer, Donna will be closing down her website in October. Her patterns are now only available thru Digi-Tech. They carry lots of designs from several different designers. Someday, when I have some extra time (ha ha) I want to play with Art N Stitch and learn to digitize my own designs and then I could redigitize patterns myself when needed.

One more of the four from yesterday was a baby quilt made by Pam P

Pam appliqued the hearts and added a chain stitch around each of them with embroidery thread. Very cute. A new to me customer, she asked for a cross hatch for the background and that I not stitch thru the hearts. I added a floral border and corner design for the outer border finished with a SID in the inner border. Quilted in a thread called Western Pink.

The backing, perfect choice for this quilt.

Thank you Pam! 

I am off to work on Janie's quilt. She is coming by the studio today to work on Amaretto Cottage as well. Looking forward to seeing her progress and new finished blocks.

Enjoy your day!