Marty's flying geese baby quilt

Marty made this baby quilt with some bright turquoise and some fun purple prints.

I did an all-over with swirls and flowers and leaf shapes.

The back. Batting used was a woven cotton blanket, so it has a nice drapey-ness to it.

Thanks Marty!

Becki's charm quare quilt #2

Becki made this fun not-exactly Iowa Hawkeye (but really kinda is) quilt with some charm squares.  This is the second quilt she has made with this pattern. The first is here.

I quilted an all-over paisley feathered swirl design.

It turned out pretty nice!

Thanks Becki!

Jelly roll and Cross quilt

Marilyn made this road trip themed jelly roll quilt. 

She requested a large meander to go along with the road map theme, and I threw in some stars and circles to make things more interesting.

Linda made this amazing cross wallhanging and wanted it custom quilted. We found some inspiration on the internet and went from there. I marked the straight lines and quilted those in white thread first. 

Then I did the blue cross in section in a matching blue thread.

Thanks Linda and Marilyn!

Lost City

Teresa made this fun quilt called 'Lost City' and wanted me to do some fancy custom quilting on it. 

I started first with some super sized swirls with paisley feathers in a purple thread.

Ribbon candy in the center strip. I changed to pink thread for the bright prints and did a simple paisley swirl there.  

The last thread change was to light gray for the pebbles in the background fill.  It was at this point I remembered Teresa's request to quilt the recipient's name- Adrianna- into it. So I squeezed it in there :)

This was a really fun quilt to do! And I just love how it turned out.

Thanks Teresa!!

Becki's Framed Hexagons

Becki finally completed this quilt top she had started 40 years ago!!

She used white sheets and scraps of fabric and started hand sewing them together. At some point all those partial seams got too daunting and life got busy, and in a box is where it went for a looong time.

Until she retired and made a point to get this one done!  This time by machine.

Loading this on the longarm was a bit tricky. I pinned them onto my zipper leaders as best I could, leaving gaps between the blocks. I pinned and stitched the sides down as I quilted along. It actually didn't turn out too bad! It was pretty square to start with so that really helped.

It was fun looking at all the different fabrics from the 60's and 70's. I imagine most were left from various handmade clothing items. Some were cottons, flannel and polyesters.

I quilted a flowery geometric shape in each hexagon, ribbon candy in the prints, and c2c'd the little triangles. I made a little triangle template out of cardboard to help mark the hexagon centers with a water soluble marker.

There really was not much stopping and starting with these designs, but there was much traveling in the ditch to get around to where I needed to quilt next.

I really love how this one turned out!

The back! 

Thanks Becki (aka Mom!). I am happy to report that she already has the binding on and this quilt is DONE and DONE. Finally :)

What is your oldest UFO?  Mine is 9 years old--a row challenge I did and still needs to be quilted! Maybe this will be the year??

Mystery and a Christmas quilt

Lois made these quilts- this one being a mystery quilt from our quilt guild. Instructions for a new block were handed out each month. Turned out really nice!

A swirly narrow border and feathers in the wider black border.

Swirls and feathers all-over in the blocks.

Here is a sweet Christmas quilt.

Curls, holly leaves and a few stars in this one.  Thanks Lois!

Baby quilt for Angus

My sister had a little boy last summer and of course I had to make him a quilt! I used a few of my 10 inch improv pieced red squares and made them into a large churn-dash block. 

And I got all fancy-pants with the quilting. Much like these two I made before. Only this time I doubled up on the batting. Two layers of Hobbs 80/20.

One block had a couple white pieces in it so I quilted in his baby stats.

As I was doing the last bit of quilting, my son (6) wanted to 'help'.  So I let him quilt the red blocks.  I was nervous that he would venture out into the white areas, and he did a tiny bit a couple times, but I ripped those parts out and all is good.

I am happy to report that baby Angus likes his quilt and lays on it frequently. 

If you like the scrappy improv blocks in this quilt, you can check out more baby quilt adventures:

Gretta's (my fave)

Flying geese variation

Maddy's

boy/girl twins

Briggam's

Happy scrappy

Rya's

Jessica's gray and yellow

Jessica made this baby quilt with some gray and yellow 5 inch charm squares. 

I kept it gender neutral with lots of swirls and rows of large pebbles. 

Thanks Jessica!

Pat's Child Artwork Quilt

How sweet is this??  Pat made this adorable quilt with printed photos on fabric of her granddaughter's artwork. 

I filled in the orange background with flowers and swirls and leaves and whatnot.

I outlined SID each picture and quilted around each drawing and filled backgrounds in where it needed a bit more quilting.

I think the penguin is my favorite :)  Such a neat idea to showcase a child's favorite artwork! 

 Thanks Pat!