Mermaids swimming in Seaweed

Great fabric from Heather Ross, this is her Mendocino collection

Pattern is Wonton from our favorite triangle girl

Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts

Made by Kelly, GREAT fussy cutting!!! 

 Quilted on my Innova with Seaweed from Anne Bright

 The perfect choice for this quilt :0)

 Kelly used a blue background

Batting is Quilter's Dream Wool with a thin layer of cotton 

to keep the light fabrics nice and bright
Thread is Apricot Blossom, an Omni from Superior
with Natural White on the back

Seaweed is one of my favorite designs, love how it flows!
Anne did a great job of interlocking the rows, great design

Head on over to Honey Run Quilters to get a real life look.

Kelly is putting on the binding and it will be up as a store sample very soon! 

If you like it, you will have to make one of your own

because this quilt has been claimed! 

Saturday Morning Post ~ Two for Claudia

I really have been working on customer quilts in between all of the other 

'stuff' that took over my life... temporarily. Posting pix has not been a priority :0( 

Finished on my Innova are these two quilts for Claudia...

This one was a fun quilt altho, it's the one I kept cutting the batting too small!

Thankfully it was batting from my rolls and not my customer's batting.

We layered two, thin cotton on the bottom against the backing 

with wool batting on top for loft. The background fabric is pure white 

and the only thing I found problematic with Quilter's Dream Wool 

is that the backing fabric shows thru to the top with light fabrics.

The seam allowances stand out against the shadow of the backing. 

To fix this problem, I add a very thin layer of cotton batting 

like QD cotton request. Too thin by itself on a longarm frame
unless you float tops but for layering... it's great!

Below you can see a little bit of the backing, a great bird fabric

 pieced into the backing rolled onto my take up bar.

Custom quilted with a simple motif repeated in each block 

with a single version in the small blocks. Bright White Omni.

The yellow was all ruler work done with 1/4 inch stitching in Omni Banana. 

Quilt two is semi custom ~ an edge to edge with a border 

set inside of the center field instead of a border on the outside. 

 I achieved it using the Mask function altho, not something I will do again

 until ABM comes up with a better version, hopefully it will be addressed 

in the new Mach 3 format that just came out. Way too many tie offs!!! 

A get around would be to connect the ends using Art and Stitch.

 Made with a Charm Pack with fabrics from American Jane

Perfect for this baby quilt, my favorite fabric/block...

is the DOG. Very cute!

Quilting pattern is a new set by Anne Bright named Pickup Sticks

 Wool batting and Omni thread in white and Banana in the inner border

with Pearl White on the back. 

As usual, Claudia's backing is pieced... love it!!!

Well done Claudia, thank you

Enjoy your weekend

Tot ziens, Jo

Quilting Tutorial: How to Fold a Quilt to Reduce Creases

Mach 3 ~ Background Photo and Draw

Innova Video: What To Do When Your Thread Breaks

Modern Building Blocks

 3 Modern Building Blocks quilts have come thru my studio

First one was for Linda D and this week I quilted two more... this is Debbie's

Quilted with Woven Wind, a digital design from Apricot Moon

Thread is a Glide in Cool Grey

Batting is Quilter's Dream Wool

and this is Karen's

Quilting design is Lonestar by Kim Diamond 

We choose a variegated thread from Superior called Great Barrier Reef 

A SoFine40 with lots of teal, blue, greens and a bright lime yellow/green

Batting is Quilter's Dream Cotton Select

This shows the quilting as well as how the thread sparkled on Karen's!

and below, the sparkle of Glide on Debbie's

Love how she personalized her quilt too!

It's always so much fun to see the same pattern made sew different 

depending on fabrics and choices by each quilter :0)

Below is Linda D's Modern Building Blocks quilted with Rapunzel 

original post for Linda's quilt 

Proving that great minds think alike... check out the backings...

Karen's 

and this is Debbie's 

 How cool is that! I used the Cool Grey Glide on the back of Debbie's

quilt as well, it really sparkled on the Tula Pink backing fabric :0)

A couple of close ups of Karen's blocks with great fabric choices...

and a few of Debbie's... a different 

feel with the crispness of the white background fabric.

Karen has her quilt and Debbie's is quilted, trimmed and 

ready for it's binding... will be completed soon! 

I have fallen behind schedule again this month with unforeseen events, 

one being Michael's surgery. I am very happy to report that he is doing great! 

(and I won't have to mow the lawn again ;0) 

Have a wonderful weekend!

I am ready to get going on the longarm today to make up some time.

Tricky thing is time when you work in production, hard to make it up! 

Thanks for everyone's patience

Tot ziens, Jo

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