Raffle Quilt

As promised here is the link to purchase tickets for the quilt to benefit Isla  http://www.quiltforisla.blogspot.com/.
I hope we'll be able to raise a lot of money to help this family.

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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,

Root Beer and Cotton Candy

I got to quilt another Root Beer and Cotton Candy quilt.

            

 

Here's a close up of some of the blocks. This picture is more true to the color of the quilt.

I did freehand feathers in the border, ribbons and diamonds in some of the pinwheels and diagonal lines in the others. In the square in the square blocks, I did Terry Twists and I did continues curves in all the small squares surrounding  the blocks.I love doing the design in the sashing. I think it adds softness to the overall feel of the quilting.

 

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Where has a year gone?

 Hard to believe but it's gone.  I spent most of it going to school.....It's official. I have an Associates Degree! Since jobs are still not plentiful in the Rockford area I'm working at a quilt shop. Not what I went to school for but it's a great job and I'm having fun.  Next week I get to go and work at the 2011 Quilt Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. It's a large show put on by Nancy Zieman of  Nancy's Notions. Should be lost of fun.

                       I did manage to get a customer's quilt finished                                                      
                        

                                                                                                                                                                  

I used a Pantograph for the center of the quilt and did freemotion quilting in the border. I was pleased with the way it turned out and the customer liked it too.

I'm still working on the Wool Applique but I'll save that for another post.


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Customer Quilt

This may well be a record, I don't remember ever posting twice in one day but I have a customer quilt that I wanted to share. I delivered it today and the customer was pleased with it. Delivering it is always the scary part for me. I'm never sure if it's good enough.

I enjoyed working on this one because of the color contrast. 

 I used a HandyQuilter design board on it.

Close up of the design

I used this board on a baby quilt a few months ago and I still love the look. This one has more puffiness than the baby quilt because of the polyester batting in it.


Thanks for visiting and happy quilting!
           

A Look Back At Summer

I took these pictures about a month ago when the garden was in full bloom and I'm just getting around to sharing them with you.....I hope you enjoy them.


I don't know the name of these flowers but the butterflies were wild about them.

 

My Limelight put on quite a show this summer.It's still in bloom.

Niko Blue, a Hydrangea wasn't about to be out done. (Actually, Limelight is also a Hydrangea)

Poor Annabelle is so full of flowers that she's dragging the ground.

The hummingbirds are enjoying the honeysuckle now along with the trumpet vine.

 Thanks for taking a look back at some of my garden with me.

Coleen

Block 5 of the Wool Quilt

I just finished block #5 of the wool quilt. This is going faster than I thought. However, once I start the Fall Session at school......Well, you know!

I traced all the templates for block #6 but because I was at school all day today nothing was done on it. I think that I'm going to start doing the triangles that connect the blocks so I won't have them all left for the end. I feel that if I start putting them together then they won't end up a UFO like so many of my other projects end up being. The goal is to have this finished and quilted for my guild's quilt show in 2013. Think I'll make it?

My customer sent pictures of the Winnie the Pooh quilt that I did for her and forgot to take pictures of. It actually has the binding on it. I don't usually get to see them bound so I was quite pleased. As I said before, I love doing her quilts. She dropped a cute lap quilt off for me to do (yeah!). I'm starting to get a few steady customers.


I love Winnie the Pooh!



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