End Game

Donna made this awesome quilt called 'End Game' for her daughter as a wedding present.

I outlined each shape and free-motion filled inside each color with a different design.

I even matched the thread colors!

Lots of back and forth advancing the quilt on this one. But it had to be done. I started with the white areas, then the next largest color area, working my way down to the last couple colored areas.

Love how this one turned out! 

Beep. Boop.

Game Over.

Thanks Donna!

Carol's Red Tractors

Carol's husband embroidered/cross stitched these red Case tractor blocks, and she pieced the quilt together. What teamwork!

I kept it simple with an all over design, with the exception of the red cornerstones.

I used a white thread throughout.

Thanks Carol!

Katie's Cool Cabins

Katie made this scrappy log cabin quilt with bright greens, turquoise and golds. With little hints of hot pink and oranges.

I just love these colors so much!

I quilted an all-over design of an echoed paisley/leaf shape combo.

I used a dark cream thread color.

The solid cream back.

Thanks Katie!

Norene's Embroidered Hearts

Norene pieced together this beautiful little quilt after the embroidered heart wreath blocks were completed by others.

This was a fun one to quilt! I just outlined the embroidery and filled in the background with curls and little hearts.

Curls and feathers in the sashing.

The wreath centers were already marked this way, and thought it was easier to quilt it than to come up with another design.

A peek at the back.

Thanks Norene!

Glowing Green Stacked Coins

Here is another one of Becki's stacked coins quilts. This one is in a bright emerald green.

I went with a leafy theme this time, filling in the strips with grassy feathers, and a wheat grass border for the outside.

I kept the quilting simple in the stacked coins with loops and leaves, but kicked it up a notch by using Luminary glow-in-the-dark thread in green. It comes in five different colors- blue, pink, white, yellow and green.

This was my first time using this kind of quilting thread, and I was excited to try it. Becki (aka. my Mom) makes a good guinea pig! Well, my machine really struggled with this thread, and I had to slow it waay down in order to keep it from breaking every 8 inches or so. I love to go fast when in non-stitch regulated mode, so it was almost painful how slow I had to go to keep the thread from breaking.

In the end, slow and steady wins the race, and the next time I use Luminary thread, it's going in the bobbin! Has anyone else tried Luminary glow-in-the-dark thread? How did it work for you?

Thanks for being my guinea pig Becki!

A T-shirt Quilt Resume

My sister Katie was asked by our cousin to make a T-shirt quilt for him. This guy has been wrestling since he was 4 years old, was state champion in high school, wrestled with the NCAA National championship team at Iowa, and has moved up the ranks from assistant coaching at high schools, various small colleges, and is now a collegiate head coach. 

So this quilt is basically his wrestling resume!

This was an 'in progress' shot that I posted on my Instagram page. (jenny.schechinger if you are interested.) I sometimes post what I'm working on and other quilty things there.

The background fabric is this really cool black with metallic gold oil spill looking print on it.

I custom quilted a few areas in the pieced bits.

A little ruler work on the flying geese.

I think Katie used up a lot of little scrappy bits, orphan blocks, and leftover units she had laying around. They really make the quilt special though!

A peek at the solid black back. 

Hope you love your amazing quilt cousin! We sure had fun making and quilting it! Something about quilting a quilt for family makes it a little bit extra special for me. 

Hexagon Panel/ Fox Faces

Jessica "made" this baby quilt--its really just a printed fabric-no hexagons were sewn together for this one!

But you might not know that by looking at it! I outlined each hexagon with a ruler.

Then, I went back and quilted all-over swirls.

Turned out pretty cool!

Here's another fox quilt.

This time I quilted all-over paisleys.

Thanks Jessica! Click the link to see both of these amazing quilts in her shop. And many others too!