The Bali Flowers for My Wedding Ring is done!

Whew ... it's been a while.  I've had my head down over this quilt for quite a few days.  I love this working from home bit, by the way ... I would work for a while then come to the computer and check e-mail, news sites, quilting sites, etc.  It makes for a comfortable work day!  


Anyway, this is done.  Barb did the piecing and Mindy did the applique.  Isn't it absolutely gorgeous?!!  These two ladies whip out these beautiful quilts like nobody's business.  

This quilt got really playful on me ... I kept looking at the bright batiks and just couldn't do anything too structured on it, except for the melons and the insides of the rings.  The borders became my playground and I had me some fun!  It's interesting to just let my fingers guide the machine and see what happens.  There are plenty of 'goofs' but I won't tell if you won't tell ... but the goofs just let me know that I was concentrating much too hard.  I think this is my venue ... playful quilting.

Bright Batiks for the Birthday Boy!

I'm in the midst of building a T-shirt quilt from scratch (more later) and while waiting for customer to respond to a question about the t-shirts, I threw this on Max and away we went!!  

This is for Pam's grandson who will be 5 soon.  I didn't get a picture of the back (bad bad bad me!) but it is a diagonal multi-colored "rainbow" flannel ... and since Birthday Boy requested a Rainbow Quilt, Grandma Pam came through!  

I love the bright colors on this quilt and Pam's piecing is so good, that again ... made my job easy.  

The name of the pattern is Confetti.  Stunning quilts, but then again, I'm not afraid of COLOR!    

I used the pantograph Fossil on this one.  Love that Urban Elementz!  Thanks, Patricia!

All the Pretty Pumpkins Sitting in a Row!!!

Booooooo .....

It's my favorite time of the year ... and I was given these cute pumpkins to quilt.  Aren't they the coolest thing ever?  Pam did these in batiks and her color selection is spot-on.  I just love these little fellas.

I used Magna-Glide thread on top and bottom and it just popped.  Meandering pumpkins and vines and loops around the pumpkins and then more pumpkins in the outer border ... vines and loops on the smaller border.  
 
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Thanks, Pam!