Linda's Painted Forest

Linda's Painted Forest

Freshly quilted with Mid-Century by Patricia Ritter available at Digi-Tech 

Thread is Superior's SoFine40 in a variegated green 

Batting is Quilter's Dream Cotton  

Every leaf section is a different fabric with lots of critters too! 

Linda's goal was to make it a sort of 'I Spy' for the kids :0) 

Fun backing that has pretty much every color and she matched the 

pattern in the center seam beautifully! Not an easy task with circles! 

Linda made this quilt top in my Painted Forest workshop at Cathy's Honey Run Quilters 

Thank you Linda :0) for taking the class and being one of my favorite customers!

Painted Forest is a pattern by Scott Hansen of Blue Nickle Studios

Here are more trees in progress during the first workshop... 

Donna's trees in batiks with a dramatic dark background! 

Really makes the color pop!!!

Ronda's trees in Kaffe

 Lisa's trees (center) 

Grace's trees ~ love the gradient background! 

 Pam's trees made in Aboriginal fabrics

Pam made 5 trees to be made into a wall hanging 

 Karen's trees also in Aboriginal 

Lisa's trees in batik with a light background. 

Love how the fabrics makes each of these quilts unique!!! 

Sew much fun and more to come! 

There was a waiting list for the first workshop that filled up right away!
2 new ones are set up for March & April.

Sign up at Honey Run Quilters 

Two days and times to choose from...

Saturday workshops ~ March 11, 25 & April 8 ~ 5 pm to 9 pm 

Tuesday workshops ~ March 21, April 4 & 18 ~ 10 am to 2 pm

My sample quilt is hanging up inside Honey Run Quilters. 

Below is Scott's Painted Forest pictured on his pattern.

Pattern is available at Honey Run Quilters and as always, 

20% discount on supplies/fabrics purchased for workshops!

Perfect for your scraps too ;0)
As you can see from the first workshop pics, there are lots of ways to make this quilt fun!

Come join us and plant some trees this Spring!!! 

Tot ziens, Jo

Kathryn's Labyrinth quilt

Wow, 10 days since my last post! Time flies when you are having fun quilting ;0) With a new month starting just as I got back from Sandy, Utah many quilts came in since the 6th, following the holiday weekend. Several are quilted and ready to be trimmed. Have allot of pix and posting to catch up on as all my time has been spent quilting.

Loving all the little tricks and details I learned from Renae at Quilts On the Corner. It's made my experience with my longarm sew much better and I am getting lots of customer quilts completed! 

Kathryn's Labyrinth is the first quilt I finished as soon as I got back to work in the studio. Already delivered, Kathryn was very happy with the outcome and I hear that Ryan loved it as well! Yea! 

This is the center of Kathryn's quilt... it's big :0)

Sorry about the out of focus pix, I am using a borrowed camera and didn't notice that the settings were changed until after the quilt was picked up :0( 

The quilt laying across my frame after quilting...

Quilted with a design named Peacock Feathers 

using a variegated thread from Superior that went from green to dark teal. 

Batting is Quilter's Dream Wool... love that loft! 

 The quilting pattern was chosen to pick up the shapes in the fabrics 

mimicking the same texture but using curves to add softness to the hard lines. 

For an all over pattern it worked pretty well and was a good option for a big quilt. 

I neglected to get a picture of the backing... it was a navy blue solid.
Using that bright green color in a solid thread really popped!

Thank you Kathryn :0)

I'll try and get more pix posted but for now, getting caught up is a priority...

as well as buying a new camera. Sew much to do!

Enjoy your weekend :0)

Tot ziens, Jo

4 for Carol!

Carol is the queen of "Gwennie" style free form piecing! 

Quilted with Humming Birds 

using a blue variegated SoFine 40 thread by, of course, Superior  

All four of these quilts are made from scraps from Carol's mother. There are orphan blocks and cut off pieces from quilts Carol's mom made through out her life. Carol combines them with her mom's stash plus fabric from her own collection, many from Hawaii :0) She has been working on this for some time and I've had the pleasure of quilting several. If you click on Carol F from the Search by Customer box on my sidebar, all of the blog posts with quilts Carol made will come up :0) Her goal is to give each of these quilts to family members, very cool!!!

Each one is quilted with different threads, this one with a coral Omni 

quilted with Quilter's Dream Pink batting

 Love all the borders Carol added to this one!

  
and her backings are often pieced as well! 

This one has some of those Hawaiian fabrics.

A third... love how Carol changes up each of these quilts 

with all sorts of borer treatments and free form layouts!

This one backed with the same blue fabric as the first

And one more for four...

with similar fabrics as the first one with all pinwheel orphan blocks

btw all are quilted with the same Humming Bird design 

at Carols request because hummers were her mom's favorite bird :0)

Thank you Carol, you are awesome!!! 

Up early today, finished a quilt for Linda D, pix another day :0)

Stopped for breakfast and a blog break and now it's back to quilting 

before it gets too hot... again... 

we are going back into triple digits this week and next :0( 

That's Chico summers and THIS is the last summer I am quilting full time! 

Tot ziens, Jo

Two for Tina

First of two quilts made by Tina B 

Great fabrics, especially the setting triangles 

Tina used to make this nine patch set on point. 

Quilted with a new design from Anne Bright 

Bee Haven (Love the name too!)  

Quilted with the repeat of the Cone Flower and a bee in each of the background squares!

I love to do custom e2e :0) 

Thread is Omni in Green Olive from Superior 

quilted on Quilter's Dream Machine Blend 

Love the floral fabric! 

A custom e2e for the second quilt as well... 

This purple Pluses quilt is a better example of how cool a custom e2e can be set up!

Tina made this quilt scrappy

reversing the values is always a great effect :0) 

 

This one is also quilted with a design from Anne Bright 

This is Echo b2b

and a better example of how an e2e or b2b can be used in blocks

for a custom look without all the starts and stops! Yea!!! 

First time I tried out this design was on a quilt made by Claudia ~ link

 

Quilted with a purple Omni named Royalty 

Batting is a newer cotton from Quilter's Dream 

This is Deluxe, which is a little thicker than Select 

and a really nice alternative to W&N 

 

Bordered with a Grunge (love :0) as well as the backing.

I was able to trim the quilting design and use it in the border, worked great! 

Thank you Tina! 

More quilts were finished for Carol and Kelly 

Thankful for the cooler weather ! 

Enjoy your weekend 

Tot ziens, Jo

Custom for Janie using new longarm tools!

Janie made this cute little applique quilt

With lots of little HSTs! Great fabric choices and color :0)

Simply quilted with Garden Party in the borders and corner stones. 

Scrolls added in the sashing and cross hatch with outlining in the blocks.  

Love the loft with wool batting from Quilter's Dream :0) 

Threads are from Superior.

Got a chance to use my new crosshatch ruler for this quilt 

as well as for Judy's applique quilt.

The ruler is attached to a new dead bar with a groove in it 

so I can move the ruler from side to side.
And... my zero center tape fits on it!!! Yea

Here the angle is set at 45 degrees. There are more options. 

It's really nice and stable to have the long ruler that is anchored at the dead bar 

and long enough to rest on the belly bar. 

Here you can see my new extension bars as well! These are the new ones from Innova 

that have the power buttons added to each handle. Big improvement over using 

my mountain bike climbing handle bars!!! 

It's good to have new toys tools :0) 

Thank you Janie 

Tot ziens, Jo

Two little quilts for Carol

Carol is a free form quilter using up stash! 

She picked up these two cute little guys 

Both are quilted with Quilter's Dream wool. 

The top below has a layer of cotton under the wool to keep the whites bright.

Quilted with Music Mania, a new design from Anne Bright 

using a SoFine40 variegated thread from Superior. 

Carol made this baby quilt for a friend that loves music :0)

Pieced backing with a touch of Hawaii!
This one is quilted with the new Omni V from Superior. Love!

Close up of the geometric print quilt with a great geometric design! 

Another Hawaiian print for the backing! 

There are 4 more quilts to go for this round. 

Many are made with fabrics that belonged to Carol's mom

with a goal of making quilts to share with family.
Quilters are best!!! Thank you Carol. See you soon! 

Tot ziens, Jo