Janet's Auction Quilt #2

This is the second quilt top that Janet purchased on Ebay. I haven't figured out why someone would spend all the time to piece a quilt top like this and then sell it.

I chose the Jacobean panto and I'm very happy with it. See that seam running diagonally through the middle....isn't that odd?

And the backing, which shows the quilting if you click on it.:

I'm almost half finished hand stitching the binding, so that's what I'll be doing this evening. I can't wait to wash it and see it all crinkled. I just may bid on this one at the auction.

Kimmy's Bricks

Here is the first of Kimmy's 2 brick quilts. This one is flannel front and back. I was trying to figure out the pattern for these quilts. There are rows with logs sewn together with seams matching and then there is a row that is offset.

She wanted just a meander on both of these so that made for some really quick quilting. A new Omni thread for this one.

And the pieced backing:

Here's the 2nd one in yellow, gray and black. What a strikiing color combination.

This one has PermaCore canary thread and they both have Hobbs 80/20 batting.

And the backing, a gray minkee:

Snowflakes

Julieanne worked on this quilt at Shipshewana last October. It's a pretty advanced pattern for someone's 2nd quilt, but she did a wonderful job on it.

I quilted with Winter White panto, white permacore thread and Hobbs 80/20 bleached batting.

A Quilt for the Auction

Janet purchased this quilt top on Ebay a while ago and when she received it, she decided it could be one for the upcoming Common Threads Guild Auction. I offered to quilt it to add the the value of it.

The fabrics are mostly novelty/holiday and it is a bit wonky, if you know what I mean.

I was planning to do a pantograph, but that wasn't possible due to the fullness/puckers in the top.
So, a good meander is what she got.

It will make a great picnic quilt!

Design Wall Monday #2

What a difference a day makes, or even 13 hours.

This is what my design wall looks like now:

I took the red and black blocks down because I need to wait for Jeni to help and put up my Hands 2 Help challenge.
I decided to use a tutorial on JudyL's blog. It's one that she will be giving feather instructions for in June. I will go ahead and quilt it because it needs to be mailed by the end of the month.

I opted to have another quilter choose my fabric palette and I was partnered with Kathleen, who chose this as my palette:

We used Design Seeds as our inspiration for this challenge.

Design Wall Monday

I'm very excited to show this one. It's just a start, cut it's going to be a great quilt. Jeni and I will be making this quilt for our 40th Class Reunion. Our colors were red and black and we looked at lots of red and black quilt photos and chose this one. The pattern is Lacey's Way, but I'm not using the instructions for the pattern. That's a long story for another post.

The blocks are not sewn together yet, just on the design wall.

Carla's 1930's Pinwheels

What a cute quilt this is that Carla made. It's just pinwheels made from 1930's prints and WOW.

I chose Waterworld for the quilting design and used Glide white thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting.

And the pieced backing: