2018 recap - Martha H's quilt

Continuing on with my 2018 recap - here's Martha H's applique quilt (my Mom!) called Marmalade.

 

 

 

Mom's Marmalade Quilt

This is Faye Hagan's quilt - my Mom! She did a block of the month from a pattern called "Marmalade". Mom decided to do something different than the pattern and used a black background and bright Kaffe Fassett fabric. She entered it in the Sauder Village Quilt Show - unfortunately she didn't win anything. But we love it and it's now a family heirloom.

CityScapes modern quilt

Tammy B asked me to quilt her modern quilt, which she calls "CityScapes". This is a modern quilt, which needed custom quilting. Custom quilting means that instead of doing the same pattern from edge to edge of the quilt, I did different quilting and thread colors within each area of the quilt. The last picture is one that Tammy sent me of her quilt hanging up in her home stairwell.

Handkerchief quilt

Marianne C made a quilt using her mother's handkerchiefs. I did custom quilting on this - which means I did different freehand quilting motifs around each handkerchief. It turned out to be a beautiful quilt. The last 2 pictures are what the quilting looked like on the back of the quilt.

Cross Stitched Quilt

Toni B brought in this absolutely beautiful cross stitch quilt. It was cross stitched by her grandmother-in-law. Toni put the panels together to make the quilt and then brought it to me to do custom quilting. Custom quilting means that instead of a pantograph pattern (same pattern from edge to edge), we quilt following the quilt piecing on the quilt top. As a rule, I almost never do custom quilting. However, in this case, the quilting lines were already pre-printed onto the quilt top. I included a photo of the pink back of the quilt - you can really see the quilting on that. The quilt was presented to Toni's mother-in-law for Christmas. What a wonderful legacy!

Wedding quilt

Kathie D made this beautiful photo wedding quilt. She pieced it beautifully with special photos printed onto fabric. These photo quilts can be hard to quilt. As a quilter, you don't want to quilt through the pictures, yet, if you don't quilt them enough, they will "puff up" after washing. So I did a pantograph (edge to edge) pattern "wave" on most of the quilt. But around the pictures I did ruler work to stitch in the ditch along the edges of the pictures. Then I also did some freehand pebbles quilting on the white area around the pictures.

Retirement quilt

This is Cathy F's quilt that she made for her husband's retirement. She had people sign fabric squares and put those into the quilt. Then she also added special photographs printed onto printable fabric and put those into the quilt as well. We picked a quilting pattern that is a freehand meander version of dots and circles. Freehand means that instead of following a set pattern, I quilted around each item as was needed. So in the quilting picture, you'll see that I did not quilt through the photograph and accent quilted the signature block.

Snow Days quilt

Here's a quilt that Karen R made. She used a pattern from Crab-apple Hill called "Snow Days". The pattern called for beiges and browns, but Karen re-imagined it in blues. Perfect for snow days! I quilted it by doing a freehand swirl around the embroidery or doing accent quilting in parts of the embroidery. I think it's a beautiful quilt.

Tree of Life Quilt

Ellie B made this Tree of Life quilt for a wedding gift. She took a Tree of Life panel and then added additional borders to it. She added a great touch to the quilt by doing trapunto all around the flowers and birds in the panel. Very pretty! To quilt it, I did a freehand meander all around the trapunto inner panel. Then I did a pantograph pattern called Curvy Viney Leaves on the borders. Turned out great!

Soccer quilt

My Mom and I made a quilt for my nephew for Christmas. He wanted a quilt with soccer balls on it - and that's what he got. He picked out the colors, too. He loves the quilt and notice the cool soccer ball pillowcases I made to go along with the quilt!

Art Quilt 2

Here's a modern art quilt that my client Tammy B did. The quilt is irregularly shaped and she will bind it and finish it that way. The first two pictures below are pictures of her current quilt - Art Quilt 2. I have also added a picture of Art Quilt 1 that's been finished and is hanging in her home.

Farmhouse Stars

Kathy did this wonderfully pieced miniature quilt. She called it "Farmhouse Stars". The pieces are so tiny that the only way we figured it could be quilted was for me to "quilt in the ditch". That means that the quilting goes in between the seams. Had I tried to quilt over the pieces, there would have been puckers and wrinkles. So there's 3 pictures here: one of the finished quilt, one of the quilt on the frame and then a closeup of one of the squares, after it was quilted (even though you can't tell).

Bird Applique Quilt

Here's my Mom's quilt that's going into the Sauder Village Quilt Show in a week. She does hand applique and so this quilt is all different birds. She did a beautiful job on it. I think she's furiously working on the binding, as I write this.

I did custom quilting on it for her - I did silhouette quilting around each of the bird groups...

Then did some other specialty quilting for the border. I hope she wins a ribbon!

Arcadia Avenue

This quilt is called "Arcadia Avenue". I quilted it for Pam at Sonflower Quilts. This is one of their new blocks of the months. It's paper pieced and absolutely beautiful. There are two colorways and you'll be able to pick out your own background fabric - Pam chose light green in hers. This picture of the quilt was taken at the shop - the lighting was better and the green photographed really well. Call the shop for more info. 419-885-4438.

Christmas applique quilt

I quilted a beautiful Christmas applique quilt for one of my clients. We chose a freehand poinsettia leaf design to go around the appliques. There is one photo of the complete quilt (It's a large king size quilt, so it doesn't fit entirely in the picture) and there's another photo of one of the squares - a cute sunbonnet sue quilt block.