Carole's Long Quilt

Carole made this quilt and I think it may be a bed runner, or maybe a very long table runner. The size is about 40 x 90.

Custom quilting with Meandering Magic feathers, molar feathers and that curl, feather, leaf inner border design.

 Omni lite tan thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting.

Carole's Nursing Quilt

When Carole arrived in Lafayette a few weeks ago on her way to Paducah, she dropped off a quilt that she really wanted to take back to Maryland with her less than a week later. I have lots of quilts waiting, but I was able to work her quilt in and took it to her at Janet.s the night before they left.

I must say that I have never quilted a quilt that had plastic tubing on it before!

Or a stuffed felt heart!

There are some very creative and pretty blocks in this quilt made by nurses. It will be on display at her local hospital.

The quilting is just SID and a meander in the red border fabrics. I quilted around some of the center designs even though she said the blocks didn't need any quilting. I thought it should have some since the blocks were so large.

Carole's Chinese Coins

Carole is coming through town next week on her way to Paducah, the lucky dog! She made this quilt to give to the person who's house they are staying at. It sounds like a win-win situation to me. They get homey accommodations and the homeowner gets a quilt.

She said to make it pretty, so that's what I tried to do. Diagonal crosshatching in the coins, bumpy feathers in the sashing and big border and a feather swirl in the outer border.

The back looks pretty good too!

Carole's Los Dias de los Muentos

Carole called me a few weeks ago and asked if I could do a quilt that she needed back by the end of November. I said sure! she wanted a saying embroidered on one of the borders and I said sure! She said be prepared, it's not like anything I've ever made before and she wasn't kidding!



Well, when the quilt arrived I got the saying embroidered and then did a google search to see what it meant since I don't know Spanish. Day of the Dead is what it means.



I decided that there was SO much going on that I would do a panto. I choose Ribbon Twirl to represent the celebration and I imagine them as ribbons being twirled about.



I believe this is for a guild challenge and maybe she drew this one and had to come up with something. Hope she likes it. I do love this Lava Colorburst thread on the backing fabric.

Back to my Regularly Scheduled Quilting

I quilted these 2 quilts for Carole this week.

First up was her flying geese.



Bountiful Feathers panto, Pearl White Omni thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting.



And the back:


Then I quilted this cheater panel with borders that's just lovely.

Daisy Swirl panto,and again Pearl White Omni thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting.



Look how cute this panto is on this quilt!



And the backing:

Carole's Coffee Quilt

It's good to be back to quilting!

I loaded this one last night and finished the quilting tonight.



I chose WaterWorld by Willow Leaf Studios because the swirls reminded me of the steam coming off a cup of coffee.



PermaCore Dyed Natural thread and I'm not sure of the batting. It's something that Carol gave me and I think it will make a nice wall hanging.



I love the panel pieces she used!



And here is the back. It's another quilt!

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.

Carole's Quilts

I quilted 3 quilts for Carole this week. She will be returning to Maryland on Saturday and I have enjoyed spending some time with her this week. I always enjoy quilting for her and this week was no exception.

First is a quilt for her daughter who collects gnomes. She put this together at our retreat last weekend and I'll admit when she first started putting up fabric on the design wall, I wasn't so sure about it. But, not to worry it turned out great.



Just a simple meander over most of it and a wiggly echo around the big gnome.



Hobbs 80/20 batting and Omni taupe thread. I am pretty happy with this new thread by Superior. It's very similar to PermaCore, which has been my standard thread. A little cheaper than PermaCore, which is good.

The backing is as wonderful as the front.



The next one is just 100" of African fabric.



I quilted it with a panto, Lime Tree, after trying to outline the ribbons. Over an hour got me only 2/3 of the way across the short side of this one. I spent 2 hours taking that stitching out and then another 2 hours quilting the entire thing.



The back has 2 different fabrics.


Tonight I did some quilting on this Oriental quilt. She only wanted parts of it quilted and so that's what I did. The sky, the volcano, the trees and the grass. I really like the sky and the grass. The other parts, so-so.

Carole's Sunbonnet Sue

I finished this beautiful quilt made by Carole. She had some of the crosshatching marked as she was planning to hand quilt it.



She requested echo quilting around the trapunto'd Sunbonnet Sue and the bunnies. I quilted Continuous curves in the colored squares and added a little spineless feather in the outer borders.



And the back: