Sinnissippi Quilt Guild Show

This weekend was our quilt guilds bi-annual show. I quilted 3 customer quilts and the raffle quilt.

The first one was appliqued by my friend Barb and won Best Appliqued quilt. It is Baltimore Autumn from P3 designs.

It is custom quilted. I used Superior SoFine and Bottom Line threads. It has a lot of pebbles and ruler work.

This next one is called Confetti. This quilt took a 3rd place in the pieced category.  It is a Judy Neidmeir pattern. Again it was custom quilted. It has a lot of ruler work and ditch quilting. Thread is Superior SoFine and Superior Monopoly.

 

 

I don't know the name of this quilt. It was quilted with a Poinsettia pantograph, again I used Superior SoFine thread. It was not judged so no ribbon.

 

 This last one is the guild raffle quilt. I posted it before. Again this one is custom quilted with pebbles and a lot of ruler work. I don't know the name of this quilt. I used Superior SoFine,
 Bottom Line and Monopoly on this one.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by,
Coleen

Guild Raffle Quilt

It took me two months to finish this one but I do also work another job.

 

     We used to battings, Hobbs Wool and Hobbs 80/20.

                            

                      

                                   
                                        Fil-Tec Glide and Superior Bottom Line Threads

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking!!

Coleen

 

Just So You Don't Think I've Been Slacking

As usual, I haven't kept up with my blog but just to let you know that I've been working:

This quilt was for a soldier that was wounded in Afghanistan.  He is a native of Rockford, Illinois. It was made by my customer Alice. I quilted stars in white SoFine thread.

Gena sent me this cute little sailboat to quilt. I used a panto called Thistle and a light variegated blue thread.  

This next quilt was done by my former boss, Julia. It was a Christmas for her nephew and his wife. She did a beautiful job piecing it. I used Surf's Up and Lt. green Wonderfil thread.

I was commissioned to make this tee shirt quilt as a present for my customers grandson. The tee shirts belong to the boy and his deceased grandpa. It was an adventure as I'd never made one before. It ended up being a queen size. I used my go to panto - Surf's Up and a light grey thread. After seeing the finished quilt, Grandma couldn't decide if she wanted to give it away or keep it. In the end, one happy boy got the quilt.

This isn't the greatest picture of this beautiful quilt. It was pieced so perfectly by one of my customers. She wanted Surf's Up and a teal variegated King Tut thread.

 Next is another nice one from Ruth. I love doing her quilts. She claims not to be very good, but she fibs.She likes doing scrap quilts and her color choices are always pretty.

 

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Another cute baby quilt. I love the bright colors. Laura wanted a variegated thread in primary colors. The panto is Thistle.

 

This last one is my guilds' raffle quilt. It took me 150 hours to quilt it. Most of the time was spent doing all of the ditch work. It has pebbles and feathers as a filler in the applique blocks, ropes and feathers in the borders. The threads are SoFine and Bottom Line in black. While the quilting doesn't show in the pictures, you can see it on the quilt. The applique work is stunning. Hopefully, this quilt will raise a lot of money for the guild. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that maybe I'll win it!!

Sorry this post was so long but since I'm so great at blogging, I figured I'd better show all now.

Thanks for looking!

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Catching up

It's been a while since my last post as usual so I'm going to play catch up.

Here is a quilt that I quilted as a raffle quilt for the Girl Scouts

 The back is Girl Scout fabric.

I used a panto called Swirly Gig and a lime green thread. It turned out very nice, the pictures don't really do it justice.
I have more quilts to share but I'll save them for another day.

Thanks for looking!

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Raffle Tickets

Raffle Tickets for Isla's Quilt are officially on sale......there is even a chance to get a free ticket. Hop on over to Bren's blog to find out how.

Thank you for stopping bye and happy quilting.

New Quilts to Share

A few months ago I got a new machine......A Prodigy. I love this machine, did I say I LOVE, LOVE my new machine. I've been quilting up a storm since I got her.She has a 14ft. table so I can now quilt any size quilt that I want. The stitch regulation is perfect and she handles wonderfully.

My husband says that she looks like a spider. What do you think? I think she's beautiful!!

The first quilt to get on the new machine was made by my customer, Alice, for her son and daughter-in-law. I did a pantograph on it called Surfs Up. She loved it. I love the texture that the panto gave to this quilt.

 Here's the back.....

 Next one is Ruth's Quilt. She is a self taught piecer and she's done a very good job. The panto that she chose for this one is Variegated Shells.  She hasn't seen it yet so I hope she'll like it.

Now that my friend Bren has posted about it, I can share the one that I'm the most happy about. This quilt will be raffled to help with the medical bills for a darling little girl who has Cystic Fibrosis. I was so happy to be able to be a part of this worthy cause. This quilt is custom quilted. It took me three weeks to finish it. A lot of ruler work and feathers but I had fun doing it. I'm just so grateful that it turned out well.

   I matched the bobbin thread to the top so that the back looks  sort of like a whole cloth quilt.

When Bren gets the information out about how to purchase tickets I'll share the link on my blog so stay tuned.

Thanks so much for visiting and please come back again,