January Week 1 Quilting

I started the year off with a bang. 4 of my own UFOs have been quilted, have binding sewn on by machine and are awaiting hand sewing. One is in progress while we watch Frontier on Netflix.

Here's my Quilt In A Day Braid quilt, assembled in 2012, according to this blog.

Mary'l Love and Roses panel quilt with Hearts and Roses quilting.

 This is Marietta's Double Wedding Ring quilt. It has been waiting months to be done. I was feeling very intimidated by it but I told her it would be done in 2018. I was 2 days late, but I love it and I think it was worth the wait.

New granddaughter, Gracie's pink foxy quilt.

Gracie made this beautiful cancer ribbon quilt and I quilted it with Cancer Awareness Ribbon panto.

This is a tshirt quilt made by April with Turbulence quilting.

Back to Customer Quilting

Christmas vacation is over for me :(
It really wasn't a vacation because never stopped sewing/quilting, but Dan went back to work today. I loaded and quilted the first customer quilt of the year.

Phyllis made this cute 70" x 80" quilt and it was one of the flattest quilt tops I've had the pleasure of quilting.

 

 



I chose Turbulence by Apricot Moon Designs for the quilting, white thread and Quilters Dream Poly batting.

Who wouldn't be pleased to own this one?

After I finished quilting this one I tackled my tote of Christmas fabric. It's been a long time since I even looked inside this tote. I sorted and ruler folded the larger pieces.

I pulled out all the smaller than a fat quarter size to cut down to 2.5" strips 5", 2.5" and 2" squares.

Mary's Nine-Patch

Mary made this cute quilt. I don't know the name, but I'm sure it has something to do with twisted 9-patches.
I didn't take a closeup of the top and bottom borders, but if you look close you can see that the triangles that she whacked off the 9-patch blocks make up those borders. Ingenious!

I rather like how the quilting design mimics the swirly things from afar. I chose Turbulence panto, Honey PermaCore thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting.

 Some closeups.

 And the backing:

Marissa's Asterisks

Say that three times really fast....it's difficult.

Marissa taught us to make these blocks at a guild meeting and made a charity quilt with our blocks. Then she made a quilt for her daughter, Reva. The pattern is actually called Daisiez, by the Australian designer,  Jan Mullen.

I wanted to add some movement so I used Turbulence panto by ClothWerx. Good choice, don't you think?

Lave - Mauna Loa thread, which is a variegated purple and Hobbs 80/20 batting.

Here's the back, a yummy mottled purple.

More Minkee

I made these two minkee quilts for Andrew and Elizbeth and finished them just in time for Elizabeth's birthday party last Saturday.

I bought the Dr Seuss minkee in Shipshewana at the Cuddle Corner in the Davis Merchantile. The black, red, blue and white are from Joann's, bought either on sale or with a coupon.

I stitched the strips together with the serger, just like Julie did and like Calise's. It is so much easier to have that mess all contained when I loaded them on the longarm.

I used the same panto, Turbulence on both and they have Hobbs 80/20 batting.

Elizabeth's has red minkee backing and red thread

And Andrew's has blue backing and blue thread. I LOVE this Dr Seuss fabric I got at Joann's for the binding.

I just rolled them up and tied with a ribbon and Liz opened hers first. We told Andrew to open his and he said, "It's going to be just like hers!" They are very similar, I must admit.
Look at the cute Nana labels I added.