Snack Time and more for Linda

Linda D's quilt made in Kelly's Snack Time workshop at HRQ

Snack Time is a pattern from Jaybird Quilts

Julie has a number of patterns published now and is doing quite well. 

A bunch of us quilters have done and are making a few of them 

plus purchasing her specialty rulers... LOVE the Hex and More!

"helping fund her retirement" says Barbara (have to agree!) lol

I recently did a Pinterest search and found a pattern I purchased years ago that is from Jaybird called Taffy, so apparently I've been contributing for quite some time!

Great Kaffe fabrics! and the backing is perfect!!!

Well done Linda :0)

Thank you

Quilted with a design called Wild Cherries 

Thread is a variegated SoFine40 from Superior

with a Omni thread called Wintergreen for the back.  

Batting is a newer 100% cotton from Quilter's Dream

Cotton Deluxe. Love it! Again, really good alternative to W&N
note: it really IS 100% cotton! If you check out the fiber contents of Hobbs Cotton and
Warm & Natural you will find that both of their cotton bats have poly blended in.

I love how Linda combined her fabrics for her version 

of Snack Time ~ nicknamed Cheerios! 

Linda also made Modern Building Blocks which I quilted earlier this year. 

(pictured below) also a workshop with Kelly

 

Today I finished another Modern Building Blocks for Karen G

and about to start a third one for Debbie D 

pix soon

plus one more in the works by Fran

Kelly's workshops @ HRQ are pretty awesome! 

So far it's been Modern Building Blocks, Ripple, Snack Time

This is Linda's Ripple quilted with Celtic Knot
set up as a custom e2e in each of the blocks ~ blog post 

and we are two blocks into Toes in the Sand.

come join us or...
Rumor has it we may do Gravity next, altho

Sweet Tooth is looking pretty good too!!!
How about making a Tuffet? New to quilting?
Terri is teaching some great beginner quilt classes all the way to binding
Debbie teaches Free Motion Quilting
Janet has some great workshops planned on clothing construction
Goldie's sew days, lots of fun stuff! Class schedule

Thank you ladies!!!

Tot ziens, Jo

Miniature Quilts

Very happy with my Innova! Helena and I finished a few more samples today ~ miniature quilts, testing out the machine and tension at the same time. These samples will be a good visual for customers to see patterns, designs, threads and battings as well. 

Each sample is quilted on fat quarters or smaller pieces of fabric with each design scaled down on Auto Pilot. It was also nice to try out a few patterns that came on Auto Pilot that I haven't used at the same time adjusting tension. I kept a log of each pattern, tension settings, the type and color of thread and the batting that it was quilted on. Here are some close ups of each design... fyi QD = Quilter's Dream, a brand of batting.

Strawberry Fields quilted with Omni on QD wool batting

 Starburst quilted with Omni on QD Select cotton

Keukenhof quilted with SoFine #707 on QD Select cotton

Keukenhof translated is Dutch for Kitchen Garden :0)

Woven Wind quilted with Signature cotton on Hobbs 80/20 on a homespun

 Woodland Path quilted with Fantiastico on QD wool

 Raindrops quilted with Omni on QD Puff

 Center is New Wave quilted with Omni on QD poly

(The FQ's have two to three designs on each of them)

Calm Water quilted with Fantastico on QD poly

 Flamingo Sunset quilted with Fantastico on QD cotton layered with Dream Blend

Wild Cherries quilted with Omni on QD wool

Very happy with the tension, it was consistent and no shredding!

Tomorrow it will be back to quilting customer quilts. The samples were a nice way to test and adjust tension and not have to pull out any more stitches!

Last week I was only able to finish the one quilt for Pam. This is going to delay each and every quilt in line to be quilted. I have and will do my best to make up some time. Looking forward to some days with cooler temps. With the exception of the quilts on "the list" new quilts that come this month will be scheduled for December. Thank you!

Hope you all had a great holiday weekend. Enjoy your week!

Groetjes, Jo