Archive for the ‘Quilted’ Category

… the balance seems off in the first photo but I don’t notice it when I’m looking at the quilt in person. Maybe the quilt looks better in this photo.

My spiderweb top is quilted — just needs binding now. I did a swirly dwirling in the blocks and then swirls in the sashing. I’m not loving how it looks in the photo but overall I’m pleased with how the quilt looks in person.

This is November’s UFO so I’m a little late but at least it’s quilted now.

Quilted with Wonky Feathers from the Pajama Quilter DVD, this is one that I worried about while I was quilting but when I took it off the machine — it just seems to work! Overall not bad….

Up close I love it!

I’m really struggling to get through my list before this next trip and today I realized I won’t get everything done I wanted to do.

I did get the 2nd top quilted for Mom, a cute baby quilt with Owls but I forgot to take a photo before packing it.

Tomorrow will probably be devoted to errands and packing but I may get some more circles appliquéd.

After piecing a back that actually fits – I got this top of Mom’s quilted today. Since the fabrics were fairly busy and the thread blendy, I used a pantograph – Frisky Feathers.

When looking at my overall goals, I tend to break them up into what I want to accomplish between trips. I’m heading out again but I was able to bind 7 quilts and quilt 3 tops so I’m happy.

This was the last one….tomorrow will be spent getting ready to leave.
One of our RWB HeartStrings quilts, pieced by me and quilted with a Swirly version of Dwirling from the Pajama Quilter DVD – one of my favorites for these quilts.

So fun to quilt!

While I love tying quilts, it’s nice to be home and back to the longarm. I’m warming up this morning with a small HeartStrings quilt pieced by AnnG during our last project.

After that it will be trimming and binding while I continue to contemplate the quilting on a top of mine that needs to get done ASAP. It’s one reason I love these HeartStrings quilts – I can quilt anything I want and they always look good.

You think I’d be a better quilter after 10+ years but I still struggle with these kinds of quilts. I’d like to blame it one the fact that I don’t do enough of this type of quilting but who knows if practice would make me any better.

This is a wallhanging of Mom’s and hopefully she won’t regret having me quilt it for her

The lighting tonight isn’t the best for showing the quilting and I always find RED hard to photograph but in this case, sharing less detailed photos are probably kinder to me the quilter!

It’s hard to see but the fern quilting in the outer border did turn out nicely – I’ll definitely do that again.

I had already completed #8 on my list so I chose one of the remaining 3 to quilt today.

I have to say that I both love and not so much love the quilting I did on this one. Overall it has kind of a loopy, random look which I’m not crazy about but as I move in closer….

I begin to like it more …. freehand butterflies from the Pajama Quilter DVD

And up close – I love the individual butterflies and they’re very fun to quilt. The piecing is my 16 Patch and Pinwheels and brief instructions can be found on my website.

It still needs binding of course, but it will soon be another UFO marked off the list!

Other than one top of my own, this is the last top I have here from our last project that is waiting for quilting.

SO pretty and pastel, pieced by Cindy and sent to me to finish and donate. I love that she used different greens for the centers!

Look how great this pantograph looks on it – Hearts in Bloom by Timeless Quilting Designs – I bought mine at Willow Leaf Studio and it’s just perfect for this quilt.

Every time I work on one of these tops pieced by someone else and pull a backing to go with it (in this case pieced by Sheree from donated fabric) I am amazed at how many people participate in the completion of our quilts.