More DGS and an I Spy

More do.Good Stitches blocks to share---This one is for March. Courtney made up a tutorial for these blocks and requested a floral theme. No problem there.

April's blocks were another springtime floral theme with these fun tulip blocks. She had us use a pink, yellow, burgundy, peach color scheme. Can't wait to see this one all together.

And here is another project of mine--an I Spy quilt. I used 3.5 inch squares to make this baby quilt.

There is a little bit of everything in there...

Thanks Teresa for the fabric for ummm... the majority of this quilt!

Coral:: DGS January

So, way back in January, it was my month to choose a quilt for our Haven circle for Do.Good Stitches. I found this Coral quilt from Angela Walters free patterns and loved it. I wanted to quilt it! I had each of our 10 members make 3 blocks using pink or turquoise with a gray background.

My Mom helped me figure out the layout--alternating the colors diagonally. I just needed to make 2 more pink blocks to make it work.  A few gals sent some big gray squares for the end rows. Thanks so much for that!

(no quilt is complete unless a baby has crawled on it!)

And here it is all done!

I used a turquoise thread in the gray and the turquoise blocks, then switched to pink and went back to do the pink ones.

Each block is outlined with a ruler and filled with a different design.

I was doing pretty good thinking up different designs, but my creativity was starting to run thin towards the end. So, there might be a couple similar looking blocks, but they are all different.

The back featured some pretty big butterflies and our little label. The striped pink binding pulls it all together. It finished at 72 by 63 inches--a nice throw size. This is the first quilt to go to our new charity, Redeemed Ministries.

Thanks Haven-ites for making such stellar blocks--as always.

Bike ride t-shirt quilts

Well here are a couple more t-shirt quilts, as promised. Both of these are from a local community group that has organized a bike ride for the last 25 years. To commemorate they made 2 quilts with several of the shirts. One they will raffle, and the other will be put on an auction.

Outlined the designs and filled the background with paisley swirls.

Oh. And stars in the cornerstones.

The other one is quilted similarly except for swirls this time.

I've never participated in the bike ride, although I've always wanted to. It's always on Labor Day weekend and it seems like we always have other plans. Maybe this year. We'll see.

Thanks for having me quilt these special quilts, I hope they raise a lot of money!

Alyce's T-shirt and a baby quilt

Well, it's spring and you know what that means.... 

It's T-Shirt quilt time!!

The end of a school year and graduation always leads to several t-shirt quilts for me. They are so fun to quilt! I think its because each one is different and they can really tell a story about who they are and what activities they were involved in. Plus the quilting really shows up nice on knit.

Alyce made this T-shirt quilt for her client and I got to quilt it.

These high school T-shirts were from the mid to late nineties--about the time I was in high school, so it was kinda cool to see this Forrest Gump shirt. Oh man. People would call me "Jennnnnnaaay" all the time. Don't miss that!!

I wasn't sure if this was for a guy or a girl. My guess would be girl because of the running red girl in the upper right, but I decided to play it safe with some pretty gender neutral but still pretty cool looking paisley swirls. 

Susie made this adorable farm baby quilt. Sorry these are sideways.

I kept it very simple here with an all over swirl.

Thanks Alyce and Susie for the fun quilts. Stay tuned for more t-shirt quilt quilting!

Mystery Medallion

This amazing Medallion quilt was made by my sister Katie. It was a mystery quilt from Quilter's Newsletter magazine a few years ago.

Here is the center-taken by my 3 year old.

This is what happens when I try to shoot a quilt. 30 seconds ago they were nowhere near it and then as soon as they hear the camera-BOOM-there they are!

Such tiny piecing and applique! I echoed the applique and did some custom work in the little blue and yellow blocks.

Quilting this one was a bit overwhelming-so many different blocks and odd places. But I just decided on one area at a time until I ran out of places!

The center was the toughest to figure out. I used my curved rulers for the big green corners and filled it with a feather.

A couple peeks at the back.

Phew! I'm glad that one is done!

Weaver Fever

Joyce made this quilt for our local Sewing Circle to raffle this summer. The pattern is called 'Weaver Fever". Normally the sewing circle would hand quilt their raffle quilts, but due to all the small pieces in this one, thought it would be better if I quilted it. OK!

I really struggled on how to quilt this printed border fabric. I finally decided to use Angela Walter's brackets to highlight the fuschia flowers and did some lines to fill the space. 

The brackets I did freehand, but I think I should have maybe made a template to trace instead. Next time...

I did quilt inside the brackets a little, along the stems. 

Free-motion feathers in the center!

Bundle Up!

Joan made this adorable wallhanging called Bundle Up. It is wool applique on a cotton background.

She wanted it quilted it very similarly to the pattern, which was pretty simple, just some meandering and swirls in the borders and in the snowballs.

The pattern was in Amierican Patchwork Quilting February 2011. Joan loved this so much, she plans to replicate the same shelf- ice skates and all!

Lilly Pulitzer baby quilt and 2 more baby quilts

Jessica made this adorable baby quilt with Lilly Pulitzer fabrics. 

I custom quilted a geometric design in each triangle and pebbles in the white sashing.

Such fun fabrics!

And here is another cowgirl baby quilt--this one was made by Jessica's mom this time.

And this one had a minky back! This was my first time quilting with minky, and it turned out really well. I've learned from a few of my online longarm groups not to pull it too tight. So I was careful about that and didn't have any issues!

I love the quilting definition it has!

Here is another from her mom--Dick and Jane.

C2C the HST's, bubbles in the borders, and swirls everywhere else.

Pretty cute quilts Christine!

Jessica's oh deer baby quilt

Here's another one from Jessica.  A baby quilt using up her scraps from the Oh Deer line. She's only made a dozen quilts from this fabric!

I got a little more practice with my rulers.

Thanks Jess for letting me try new things on your quilts!