Becki's big Disappearing 16 Patch quilt

Becki made this huge quilt--lots of pieces to this one!

I quilted an all-over 'Feathers in a halfshell' on it. Do you ever find a design that you really like and it seems to work with the next 8 quilts? Well, that's what happened with this one.

I figure it's OK, because these 8 quilts are going in 8 different directions/people. Noone will ever know I got into a quilting design rut!

I used a light brown thread to blend in with all the colors.

The back. I did a little searching to see what this block is called and I found it! Disappearing 16 patch. And now I know how she did it--it's not as hard as it looks.

Thanks Becki!

Mary's hot air balloons

Mary made this cute baby quilt with a 'sky' theme. 

Hot air balloons and airplanes. She requested to quilt the baby's name and birth date into it. 

I do my best...

Everything else got clouds. And swirls.

The back. Thanks Mary!

Lois's Rail Fence Variation

Lois made this fun Rail-fence variation. 

I quilted all-over feathered swirls, but did some c2c in the black diamonds.

More feathered swirls in the black border.

And around the corner.

The black diamonds stood out, so I thought they needed some special treatment.

The back.

Thanks Lois!

Marty's Memory T-shirt quilt

Marty made this T-shirt quilt in memory of her nephew. I custom quilted the shirt decals and filled in the rest with a paisley design.

The black and white shirt was tricky because it has little bitty sparkly rhinestones all over it. I outlined the design and quilted minimally into it, and it turned out fine! phew!  As for Tupac, I decided to outline his head and bandanna.  I didn't want to stitch through his face at all. Same for the 'Gone but not forgotten' picture on the top row. I just outlined the face and went around the ball cap and bill, and that was just enough.

Outlined Superman's chest.

Thanks Marty for letting me work on this very special quilt!

Cindy's flannel squares

Cindy made this cozy flannel quilt. 

I quilted more 'feathers on the halfshell' with curls and leaves to help fill in the empty gaps.

The back. Thanks Cindy!

Julie's embroidered baby quilt

Julie commissioned me to put together and finish her baby quilt blocks she hand embroidered. It's full of cute animals and the ABC's.

She wanted a simple star and loop design for the quilting. Not too dense, not too loose.

I bound it as well, but I honestly can't recall if I did it by hand or machine. It was 5 months ago that I did it, I'm that far behind on the blogging...

The back is dinosaurs. Thanks Julie!

Lois's Christmas table topper

Lois made a whole bunch of Christmas table runners and wall-hangings as gifts, so this is just one of many to come. 

I quilted feathers in a half-shell, with some holly leaves and swirls in the mix.

I used a cream colored thread on the top and bottom. This here is the bottom.

Stay tuned for more from Lois.

Norene's HST quilt/DGS Oct. scrappy block

This was our block for do.Good stitches back in October. (!) Love these scrappy blocks! Not sure of the name of it, but here are the cutting instructions. Hopefully you can figure out how it goes together by the picture. There are so many ways you could arrange these blocks for a totally different look.  The longarm-er in me loves the white negative space with it too. ;)

For each block you need to cut:

Low volume - (2) 3.5x6.5", (2) 3.5x3.5"

"Happy" colored Scraps - (40) 2" square

Norene made this fun sampler out of a layer cake kit.

I quilted it with a simple swirl with a few lines of big bubbles. Kind of goes along with all those polka dots...

I used a gray thread to blend in with the black and all those different colors.

Thanks Norene!