Katie's Red Applique Masterpiece

Katie made this red applique masterpiece.

Where to begin??

Well, put some feathers and fillers in the big border for starters.

And fillers in the background after a double outline of the applique.

I changed to red thread for the red parts.

A peek at the back.

Thanks Katie!

The kids are out of school- they cancelled Thursday, Friday and Wednesday was an early out due to some snow, but mostly because of the chilling winds and blowing snow. Minus 12 it says currently. So we are hunkered down for the rest of the Christmas holiday. 

Katie's Modern Neutral's Quilt

Katie made this beautiful quilt from the book 'Modern Neutrals' by Amy Ellis.

The back.

Thanks Katie!

 

Cindy's Dinosaur Quilt

Cindy made this adorable quilt with some fun dinosaur prints. The pattern is called 'Beaded' by Bella Rosa.

If you look closely, you can find some dinosaur footprints in the quilting.

Fireside minky for the back.

Thanks Cindy! 

Peg's Snowmen Quilts

Peg made a couple small quilts for Christmas gifts.

The back is where the quilting's at!

Another take with the same fabrics.

Thanks Peg!

 

Swell Christmas

This was my second time quilting this Moda Swell Christmas quilt made by MaryJo.

She first had me quilt up the log cabin quilt which is the background for the Santa.

She then appliqued by hand the Santa with a layer of wool batting behind him.

She wanted some custom texture elements in the beard and white fuzzy of his outfit.

Some internet research helped with ideas for the facial features. Quilting faces is always a bit nerve wracking for me. You can ruin a nice face with some awkward quilting lines for sure!

I used a new-to-me wavy ruler for the mitten.

He turned out pretty cute! Thanks for this fun project MaryJo!

Snowflake- Auction Quilt

My 'Snowflake' quilt is completely finished and ready for the live auction for my children's school.

I acquired this small UFO from my guild's scrap auction and thought it complemented the quilt perfectly.  I quilted it up and made it into a pillow.

Ruler work in progress. It was a lot of advancing the quilt back and forth. I was actually wanting to do the whole white snowflake in ruler-work, but I got two rounds into it, got impatient, and decided that was enough and filled the rest in with pebbles and called it done. :)

I loved my 'Happy Christmas' quilt for last year's auction, but went with Snowflake so it was more of an all winter use quilt, and not just the Christmas season.

I used a blue variegated thread for the blue background.

I used a lot of blues from my stash, but did have to buy a few more for variety and to keep it in the right medium to dark blue shades and getting too turquoise. I'm not sad about having to buy pretty blue fabric at all.

I used a navy flannel for the back to make it extra cozy and warm.

I loved making this pattern! I would make it again in a heartbeat, perhaps in a different color, or combination of colors like the pattern shows. All scrappy of course!

And here is the big moment at the auction! There were lots of good comments on it, people really liked the pattern. It ended up going for $350 to the same person who bought my 'Happy Christmas' quilt last year. Not too shabby.  I have already pulled fabric for next year's auction quilt- a fall color scheme this time!