Tiny HST Runner

Katie also made this little runner with lots of TINY HSTs. 

I quilted all over swirls on it in a gold thread. 

Lego Elsa is there for scale. :) 

The bottom of Elsa's skirt is 5/8 of an inch wide. So Each HST is maybe 3/4 of an inch wide! The whole thing measures 19 by 39 inches. 

Thanks Katie! Keep stitching up those little bits and pieces!

Applique Courage Eagle

Katie made these awesome applique 'courage' eagles. Three of them!

They are just small wallhanging sized. I outlined the applique and did a simple meander background fill.

Around the little star blocks I did a simple loop.  In a red thread I outlined the applique 5 point stars and a simple c2c inside the others. 

The eagle needed something, but not much. I did a little internet searching for ideas, and ended up doing this super simple design. 

So glad I could put these all on the same backing and batting and quilt them all at once. Saves soo much time from loading them onto the machine, thread color changes, doing the same design across the top and bottom. Bing bang boom.  Thanks Katie!

A fancy T-shirt quilt

Katie made this T-shirt quilt for a friend. It has lots of extra pieced bits to it. This could be the fanciest t-shirt quilt I've ever quilted.

I custom quilted it somewhat by going around the tshirt designs and words and a few of the pieced units. Not all of them, just the important ones. ;)

I quilted the borders with a feather, ribbon candy, and then a concentric box design.

Love how she framed each shirt out with the same brown, even when they are all different sizes.

Pretty sure most of these HST's were leftovers from her other projects, but still--it's a lot of extra design work!

The back.

Thanks Katie! 

Carol's tiny rail fences

Carol is a scrap quilt queen! She made this large quilt with little 3 or 3.5 inch rail fence blocks.

I felt this was a perfect opportunity to a custom design with all those little blocks.

I zig-zagged my way across the quilt and back with a loop design.

The border was marked perfectly for a triple scallop.

The back is quite lovely.

Thanks Carol!

Lois's blue wave

Lois made this really neat bargello quilt. It reminded me a lot of waves on a beach. 

So I went with that idea and quilted it in undulating wave sections with swirls, bubbles, feathers and curves.

I went with a variegated thread that had shades of blues and a cream in it.

I love it when my quilters say 'Just do whatever' to their quilts. So this is 'whatever'! lol

And what's even better is when they still love their quilt after 'whatever' happens to it! lol!

Thanks Lois!

Child's apron, Red flannel Quilt

I made this adorable apron for my niece this past Christmas. It is a super simple pattern that sews up super quick. Especially if you bought some double folded binding!

And it is reversible! What little girl does not like unicorns these days?? And a shimmery tulle ruffle?  The pattern is a bit simplified from this.  Happy baking Mariah!

Cindy made this super cozy flannel quilt.

I quilted it up with a gender neutral paisley swirl design all over.

The back is super soft 'fireside'.

Thanks Cindy!

Welcome Winter! Snowman panel

Linda had me quilt up this adorable 'Welcome Winter' panel wallhanging. 

I custom quilted the panel with swirls and snowflakes and outlined the two snowmen.

The borders got more snowflakes and icy cold swooshes. 

Thanks Linda! But I think it is safe to say that winter is no longer welcome at this time :)

Katie's Drunkard's path

Katie made this amazing quilt with drunkard's path and extra rectangle blocks. An original pattern! Super neat!

The creative juices were flowing when I quilted this one up for sure! I stayed in the wavy paths made from the piecing.

Lots of curves, big pebbles and circular feathered shapes.

The borders got special treatment too.

My son makes a great quilt model. At least his socks don't have any holes in them! (yet)

I should photograph all my quilts outside! The natural sunlight shows the quilting off the best by far. Can you feel the warm sun on this coooold winter day today??

Her back. Holy cow.

Obviously this photo was taken a long time ago because where this lush green grass once was, is now a 4 foot drift of snow and ice. And subzero temps.

Using up lots of leftover bits.

Thanks Katie! I wonder what pattern she will come up with next?