Five in Five

Five quilts quilted this week!

First up is a quilt Betty D made in a guild workshop

Batik Blast with Judy Sisneros

Wonderful paisley batik quilted with a Paisley design

with a Rainbow variegated Fantastico thread

The black fabric are strips folded and pieced into cut blocks

A challenge for many longarm machines but the Innova did just fine :0)

Same applied to the set in folded fabric Cindy G added to this quilt

 The stripe with stars fabric is the folded flange set into the inner border

This is a quilt Cindy made for the Wounded Warrior project posted on Facebook

with Morning Star Quilt Shop in Paradise, CA

Pattern is Steppin' Up the Squares by Mary Kay Davis

Also made in a guild workshop this month

Quilted with Star Spangled Banner e2e with a Red thread

matching the red backing

This is another quilt made by Betty D

Quilted with Raindrops

that played with the water drops in these cute duck prints

and check out the yellow duck backing :0) ...

A wedding gift quilt made by Alice C

Hawaiian prints for a couple that love Hawaii

 Quilted with an e2e of Hibiscus Flowers

by Sweet Dreams Studio

The fifth quilt finished up this week is completely different

This is a vintage quilt made with 1930's prints

Real ones, not repros. 

I consider myself honored to see and work with a few vintage quilt tops. As much as I would love to see all hand pieced quilt tops hand quilted, it's not always affordable and maybe not every old quilt top should be rescued. This top was not in the best shape with many of the blocks falling apart that had been repaired by machine. Parts of the quilt were faded and the piecing was very puckered. Linda D brought this quilt in to be quilted. Rescued from a neighbor whose wife had passed away, Linda and I decided to use a wool batting for two reasons. It's a natural product and it would help fill in the puckered areas of the piecing. 

When Linda came in to pick up this quilt she brought me another top she finished. I can't wait to quilt it! Modern, we already settled on a great design from Digi-tech. Really nice quilt, very similar to Kelly's style. Love it! and so did Kelly! 

Rose, a customer brought an old quilt into my studio this afternoon. Made by a family member it had red and white nine patches alternating with white squares and it had a pink border and cornerstones. It was hand quilted with a cotton batting. The backing was made from some sort of feed bag or flour sack fabric. Well worn and loved, it was really special to see an old red and white quilt. (didn't think to take pix :0( it was a long day)

Thank you Betty, Linda, Cindy and Alice!

My quilting time is donated for as many Community Service quilts for the guild as I am able as well as Quilts of Honor and the quilt above that Cindy made will be donated to the Wounded Warriors project.

This is a Community Service quilt for Annie's Star Quilt Guild

Pieced by a guild member, now quilted and will go to another member for binding

 Quilted with Feathered Leaf e2e

 Wonderful backing!

The Houses Quilt was submitted to KIXE for their auction
Link with pic on ASQG website

One more, also quilted for the guild is a small quilt

made in like fabrics as our Opportunity Quilt

Brandie organized this project, purchased the fabrics and worked with volunteers to piece and applique the blocks. This little guy will be given to the person who sells the most Opportunity Quilt tickets. Quilted on the Innova as close to the same quilting done on the big quilt, I made one change and used a wool batting along with a layer of cotton to add loft.

 Brandie did allot of the applique, love her fussy cutting!
The quilt is back in her hands for binding and will be presented to the guild soon :0)

Even the little corner blocks were quilted as the big quilt

pictured here...

Happy I was able to make good progress

Today is also the one year anniversary for Helena and I

The day my Innova arrived and was set up in my studio

It doesn't feel like a year, but it also feels like I've always quilted on this machine.

Enjoy your weekend

Tot Ziens, Jo

Modern Clamshell for Kathy's quilt

This pieced beauty is made by Kathy W

 Quilted with a Modern Clamshell design by Jessica Schick
The design is flipped for the second row
and then lined up for a mirror image to create this stitched design.

  Stitched with a grey/brown Omni thread
Batting is Warm and Natural

 The piecing is done very well making a beautifully square and flat quilt.

Thank you Kathy

Enjoy your week

Groetjes van Jo

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

Happy Valentine's Day

Valentine's greetings for a lovely long weekend

Take the time to take some stitches

with lots of time to spend quilting or a project you love

and a Happy Valentine's Day

to spend with the person you love :0)

Groetjes van Jo

Quilting is a work of Heart ~ made by Gail H

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

Phoebe, Leslie and Donna's Quilts

Phoebe's graphic quilt

 Quilted with Crazy Swirls lined up with each block
LOVE my Innova!

using a gold Magnifico thread from Superior Threads

The backing, a hand dye with just the right colors :0)

It's bright!

Quilted during the week along with Leslie D's Star quilt

Quite the variety of quilts come thru my studio! 

This beauty is quilted with a new design I am playing with

 Another e2e design that I am able to set up to look like each block

 is quilted individually. Did I mention... LOVE my Innova!

A little hard to see the quilting especially with the busy prints

but aren't the prints gorgeous!?! Love
Lots of French General

And a toddler bed quilt Donna made
 for her firstborn grandchild

 with a very cute Pooh fabric!

 Great fabric and color selection Donna!

Quilted with Ginger Hearts that worked well with the backing too

using a Glide thread

Also finished were two community service quilts for our guild.
The houses are in the previous post and the second I haven't
taken photos of along with Kathy W's quilt which is almost finished.

Great weekend with lots of needed rain
Enjoy your Sunday, take a few stitches!
That's where I am headed for the rest of the afternoon, Jo

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

Look who lives in these houses!

Freddy Moran houses! 

Painted bright and set in black and white. Classic Freddy!

This quilt was organized by Carol G and blocks were made by her small group,

members of Annie's Star Quilt Guild as a fund raiser for KIXE our local PBS station.

There is a fish living in this house! Love the roof :0)

And Winnie the Pooh lives here!

The red one must be the dog house ;0)

The backing

Fun quilt! Carol presented the quilt at our guild's meeting Thursday. Quilted for community service, I used neon green threads, Glide on the back and a Fantastico on the front. Quilting design is Peacock Feathers by Apricot Moon. I believe it was a cotton poly blend for batting as it had more loft than the Warm and Natural community service used in the past. Speaking of batting, I just finished a customer quilt with the new Tuscany batting from Hobbs. It's a cotton and wool blend. I LOVE it!!! I haven't taken pix yet along with a couple more quilts finished this week. Next post :0) Our guest speaker at the guild meeting was Mary Kay Davis. Really good trunk show and workshop yesterday.

We are quite happy with a good rain storm that moved in yesterday. It poured and we need the water. Less wind would be better tho. Good weather to work on some quilt projects. That's what I have planned, to finish a top I started yesterday in our guild's workshop at HRQ with Mary Kay. Pix of everyone's tops posted on Ramblin' Rows.

btw... there is a Sue Spargo workshop coming up at the end of March with a few spaces still available. 5 days of classes... Honey Run Quilters for more info!

Tot Ziens! Enjoy your weekend, Jo

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

Happy Birthday Kelly!

This is the Big Wedding, it's been up on my design wall until I came up with a design for the quilting. A big part of this quilt is hand appliqued onto the back ground fabric. As a traditional quilter, stitching an all over design on a hand appliqued quilt is against the rules!!! Definitely in the eyes of the quilt police. Well, the QP do not live at my house any more :0) I'm breaking the rules!

Here is the Big Wedding draped over the frame of my longarm frame... quilted with... yes, an e2e design that IMHO fits the modern lines of this quilt. Kelly agreed :0) and that's what counts the most. What gave me the confidence to go ahead with the e2e is the original quilt in the book Adding Layers by Kathy Doughty of Material Obsession. Kathy's quilt pictured in her book is quilted with an all over pattern by Adri van der Zel. "minimalist quilting is a great way to go with contemporary-style quilts." ...a quote from the book.

The beginning of my stitch out. I probably could have scaled the size a bit larger, but other than that I like the texture that it creates, the curves and lines, how they mimic the blades. The design is called Woven Wind by Apricot Moon. Quilted with Omni in Flax on the top and Vanilla Wafer on the back, both theads from Superior...

Batting is Quilter's Dream Blend

 The center of the quilt

My pix are a little over exposed with the winter sun pouring into my studio. Taking good shots of quilts is an art in itself, which I have yet to master! Something else I really appreciated in Kathy's book are the photos and great settings. You really should check out her book! I purchased it last year and love it :0) It's great to see some very traditional quilt designs brought into the 21st century!

The fabrics Kelly chose are from Moda, Persimmon by Basicgrey. Once the binding is on, this quilt will be hanging up at Honey Run Quilters in Chico, CA. Drop by and take a look.

Thank you Kelly

Happy Birthday today!

Tot Ziens, Jo