Carole's Chinese Coins

Saturday afternoon I loaded and quilted this one for Carole. Every time I quilt one of these coin quilts, I think of all the leftovers I have from projects and how cute they would be made up like this.



I picked the panto Daisy Swirl, Permacore Canary thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting.



And the back:


I knew I had to finish it up on Saturday because Adrienne was coming to quilt Sunday at 9:30. She quilted this very cute baby quilt, using Ribbon Twirl Panto. The baby is almost 4 months old and will love the bright colors.

Design Wall Monday

My design wall is empty but check out the other design walls at Judys.

I have just 2 more quilts to load and quilt and then I can take a break and get something up on my wall.

Carol's Snowflake Quilt

I LOVE this quilt!!



The fabrics are so fun and the pattern looks to be fairly easy, maybe made up of strips cut into 2 different sizes and stitched together.

She wanted an allover design and I told her I would find something Christmasy. I found the panto Winter White by Dave Hudson, which I had never used and it was perfect. I do have to say that making these snowflakes got a little monotonous. I generally love to do pantos, but I guess because there was such a quick repetition on this one. Anyway, I love how it turned out.



The Moda Marble on the back look great!

Stashbusting 2011 - #34

Fabric Added this week - 0 yards
Fabric Added Year to Date - 93.125 yards

Fabric Used this week - 0 yards
Fabric Used Year to Date - 162.625 yards

YEAR TO DATE STASH USED: 69.5 yards

Nothing in or out this week. I did so much customer quilting I didn't have time for anything of mine. This coming week should bring more of the same, although I do have to quilt a donation quilt, so I'll be using some backing and binding fabric.

Is there a frog in my studio?

Finally, this quilt is finished. I haven't had a chance to take a photo of the entire quilt, but will do that today. I can't believe this took me all week. I loaded it on Sunday and quilted part of the first border. I stopped because I didn't think it was going to work. Left it for a couple hours and came back and finished that border, quilting feathers into the setting triangles. My machine has an 18" throat and I couldn't get from the border edge of the feathers into the setting triangle withough advancing the quilt. Oh, I should have stopped when I had to do that the first time. But, oh no, not me, I kept on quilting and it wasn't until I got to the end and advanced the quilt only to find out that I was going to have to advance the quilt in each of the blocks also. So, after a call to my customer, I started clipping stitches on the backing. Dan couldn't believe that I was going to do that. I was on a mission and I thought that I could take out all the stitches and reload the quilt and quilt it with a panto in as much time as it would take me to continue the way I was, with all that back and forth advancing...........I was wrong, it took me about 13 hours of frogging Sunday and Monday. Tuesday we had relatives from out of town, so I didn't quilt much. Wednesday was quilt guild and I did quilt after guild a bit, but was in bed before 10pm. Last night I finished it and I think it looks great.
The whole quilt:

Design Wall Monday

The design wall is empty right now, but I wanted to show the status of what was on there last Monday.





All finished!

Angie's Turning Twenty

Angie made this great quilt with some fat quarts that Julie bought for her at Always In titches. They have this great sale where you can get 25 FQs for $30. She bought a set for herself and one for Angie.



Angie did a great job at distributing the colors and I love the Square Spiral pantograph on it.



Hobbs 80/20 batting and PermaCore Eggshell thread.