Here's another beauty from Joanne ... didn't she do a great job piecing? Quilting it was like knife through soft butter ... so smooth!
You have to click on the pic to get a close-up view. I used a beautiful pantograph that hopefully replicated those beautiful swirls in the fabric. And I want to call this a Moda quilt ... it is Moda fabric, isn't it?
So on to the next project!
Oh, I finally decided on what I'm going to do border-wise on my Easy Street quilt. I absolutely LOVE living in this age of technology ... I went to my two fav fabric stores looking for a particular fabric and didn't find it, so came home and found in on the internet. I like spending my fabric $$$ locally, but I also knew that I really really wanted this particular fabric. So glad I finally found it! So I'm waiting for this fabric to be delivered, and then I'll finish up the borders, and maybe in February I'll be able to get it on Max for quilting. "The cobbler's children have no shoes ..." and "The quilters quilts seldom get quilted ..." LOL! But we'll work it in somehow.
And next up is the Cowboy quilt that I finished piecing this past fall, while Max was off for his spa treatment. So maybe the quilter does get some quilts quilted after all! This one is about 1 year old. It's a big ol' cowboy quilt and I started it in Panama City in January 2012 ... I'm slow ... reaaaaaallll slow ...
I've been singing Christmas carols this week! LOL! Don't you just love being your own boss and being able to sing as you waltz with your long-arm machine? Max and I had a great time quilting Joanne's and her friend's two Christmas quilts! Those quilts are twins ... and being that I have twin daughters (Hi Em! Hi Liz!) this task was really a fun task.
Joanne told me that she and her friend wouldn't mind if the quilts were quilted the same, but I decided (and don't you love that YOU get to make a few decision?) that these two sweet quilts deserved their own individual quilting.
So on Quilt #1, which is Joann's, I used the Swinging on a Star pantograph. BTW, working with Patricia Ritter out of Urban Elementz (www.urbanelementz.com) where I get my pantographs is a real joy. Thanks, Patricia, for answering all my questions and helping me make good quilting decisions! Ok, so Swinging on a Star was used on Joanne's quilt ... and on her friend's quilt I used Winter Wonderland #1. On both quilts I used Magna-Glide thread from www.bobbincentral.com. That Glide thread is so good. And on these sparkly quilts the sheen of the Glide thread is over-the-moon! And both quilts look fabulous! What a great time I had!
Thanks, Joanne, for letting me play with these two sweet quilts. Good job piecing, both of you. Makes my job soooooo much easier when the piecing is so good.
So here they are:
