Fish swimming in the Deep Blue Sea for Sandra

Fishiness quilted for Sandy with Deep Blue Sea 

using the set by Kim Diamond that includes the borders, corners and e2e 

Cute fish swimming in the Deep Blue Sea! 

 Great prints to go with the great piecing and fabric choices by Sandra E.

Love the graphic piecing pattern as well... well done Sandy! 

A second graphic quilt made by Sandra, this one with cat prints...

quilted with Catrina, a design by Apricot Moon

This is the backing!... just as graphic as the front :0) 

Another for Sandy... these girls keep me busy! 

This one is quilted with a new design by Patricia Ritter named Malachite. 

Chosen for the stone look of the background fabric 

and a nice texture with the loft of the wool batting.

There was one more quilt that Sandy brought in with musical instruments 

made for a young man from her church (it left the studio before pix) 

Thank you Sandy. 

Good to see all your pix of the Grand Canyon and that you and Mo 

had a fun and safe trip to Arizona. Welcome home :0) 

Tot ziens, Jo

Happy Valentine's Day

Good to have a sweet Sunday Valentine's Day! 

following a productive week of quilting customer quilts for Leslie, Claudia, two for Carol, two for Cindy, plus quilts for the Goldie Girls including a new class quilt Goldie will be teaching at HRQ. They will be ready for pick up soon!

Among the quilts picked up this week...  

Peggy's family photo quilt 

It was pieced by her daughter, for a first quilt

she did a really good job! 

 Interesting was that this same block design

quilted on 2 different fabrics 

in the same thread looked different

Quilted with black Omni except on the white photo blocks 

with Quilter's Dream Cotton Select

Mostly using a p2p leaf design by Apricot Moon

plus a block design for the alternate blocks.

Thank you Peggy!

Also picked up were two quilts by Rose and Gloria

made to give to grands for Valentine's Day, sweet!

Thomas the Train panel and border print quilt made by Rose

 Quilted with Catrina e2e also by Apricot Moon

A second panel quilt with alphabets and animals

made by Gloria

Quilted with Animal Crackers e2e design by Patricia Ritter

Both with Omni thread and Quilter's Dream Green batting

Finished for Gloria with machine stitched binding

Cute backing fabrics too, this co-coordinating print for Gloria's

and a bright stripe on the back of Thomas the Train. Perfect!

Thank you Rose and Gloria

Fun little quilts and how perfect to give to grand kids! 

Enjoy your Valentine's Day with your family

Tot ziens, Jo

A Quilter's Mixology

VERY NICE!

Wonderful perfect curved piecing by Linda D

from a quilt in A Quilter's Mixology

by Angela Pingel

We both zeroed in on this quilting design

Mid-Century by Patricia Ritter

I changed it up a little for Linda's quilt by elongating the design and making the circles oval instead of perfectly round. Quilted with Superior's So Fine #50 thread in a medium gray. Just the right value to add texture to Linda's quilt but not interfere with the prints and graphic nature of this quilt. Batting is Quilter's Dream Blend. I recently tried So Fine #50 and like it much better than Bottomline. Both have their advantages, the latter if you want the thread to disappear the most, it's as thin as hair! 

It curves at the bottom only because of how it is hanging here.

Linda's plans for this quilt is a wall hanging in her living room. I was very careful with the direction of the warp in the backing and batting to make sure this will hang nicely :0)
Yes, most batting has a warp just like fabric as well as a front and back!

Kelly fell in love with this top when Linda brought it into Honey Run Quilters for backing, which I just discovered I forgot to take pix of, will have to add that.
Added is a pic of Linda's quilt with the backing folded over the top...

It's a great fabric, perfect for this quilt. If you are interested in the book, Kelly ordered it and it will be IS available at Honey Run. Linda's top has some of the same fabrics, from Moda's Persimmon from Basic Grey that Kelly used in The Big Wedding quilt she made. This is Kelly's quilt hanging up at the store...

completed with binding. Kelly does the best binding!
If you are looking for someone to bind your quilt, Kelly is your go to person!
Looking forward to seeing Kelly's next quilt and it will be a class at Honey Run!

Thank you Linda :0)

Make the time to take some stitches because...

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

Enjoy your weekend, tot ziens, Jo

Scrappy Kaffe!

Three quilts for Cheryl are quilted and ready for trimming. Cheryl loves Kaffe Fassett prints and has been using them for some time. She used lots of her scraps to make these guys... 

Wonderful way to make a scrappy Kaffe!

Quilted with a modern geometric design ~ Mid Century by Patricia Ritter. I followed the flow of the triangles to line up to the flow of the circles in the quilting. Lots of circles on the back too. Quilted with two Fantastico variegated threads (love!) Rainbow on the front and a pink to coral variegated on the back, with Quilter's Dream Blend batting.

More printelicious fabrics...

 Another fun scrappy quilt Cheryl made with one of Theresa Wright's patterns

 Quilted with a new to me pattern with lots of swirl and pearls

Rapunzel is a design by Anne Bright

 Quilted with three different Fantastico threads from Superior :0) Fun

and the wonderful backing! Yumm

The third is a great mix of color and fabrics. The deep gold, magenta and dark brown all played well together. I had the perfect Fantastico variegated magenta thread but opted for an Omni thread ~ Vanilla Wafer. There was so much print going on, a dark thread would have only gotten in the way! The gold thread was only quilted in the center field. In the dark brown border I used a light variegated thread, Lava, another thread from Superior. It's a thread they are discontinuing. It takes a larger needle for the 3 ply and a bit of fussing with the tension but it was well worth it! Love my Innova!

Quilting design in the center field is Quill b2b, also from Anne Bright

 and a border design ~ Quill with Flower that is part of a set 

(there are 4 different borders designed to frame her Quill b2b)

 The two fabric backing is folded against the front altho hard to see. 

There are allot of prints going on in this beauty!

Thank you Cheryl!

Make the time to take some stitches because...

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

Tot ziens, Jo