It was a great game!

We watched the World Cup final yesterday and I have to say ... it was a great  game!  Love that team! 

So I'm just taking a moment to share some of the quilts I've been working on.

 This is a quilt for a customer's daughter.  It's a beautiful shade of coral and white.  Her piecing was impeccable which made my job easier.

 This is a closeup of those beautiful coral baskets!

You've heard of the Missouri Star Quilt Company Disappearing Hour Glass, right?  This is the result of all that cutting, switching around, cutting ... absolutely love this bright batik quilt.  Again, piecing was spot on...

I'm thinking that I have a wonderful and talented group of piecers!  Great work everyone!

 And this is a Snowman quilt that was a great theme to work on during those hot summer days!

1. And this is an Autumn quilt that was fun to do.  Can you see those cute pumpkins in there?  

I'm on Instagram ... finally ...

Don't you think it's about time?  

Go over to the right and you'll see the instagram button.  

Follow me and we'll see where we will go ... 

I'm still going to try to keep up with the blog, but Instagram is very interesting, also.

A Gifted Quilt

In August 2012 I had the bright idea to "gift" a LQS Mystery quilt to my friend of 45+ years, Tina.  I paid for the quilt up front and the shop would send Tina a block each month ... at the same time I'm also doing the mystery quilt.  Doncha know how much I love mysteries?  This was Tina's Christmas and birthday gift all rolled into one.

So the following year, 2013, after the mystery is all done I told Tina to send her quilt top to me and I would quilt it for her - as that year's Christmas and birthday quilt...

Fast forward to April 2015 ... I have had that blessed quilt on and off my machine a dozen times - thank goodness I have zippers.  Every time I would get a good start on it, a customer quilt emergency would come along.  So off it would come until another day.  This past April I knew that I would be seeing Tina in May, so like a mad woman I finished up that quilt!  And gave it to her last week and I think she likes it.  I have never been so glad to get one huge project done.  So now the question is:  What do I "gift" Tina for this Christmas and her birthday?  LOL!  And don't you know ... I still have my own mystery quilt in the Waiting for Sylvia to Quilt Someday pile!!

Here's a couple of pics to enjoy.

Spring is here

We do believe that spring has finally arrived...maybe...again it's cool and damp outside but we have had a couple of beautiful days.

Here is a wonderful spring quilt that I finished a couple of weeks ago and it is now with it's rightful owner.  I really wanted to adopt this one ...  I love Kaffe Fassett fabrics and this one is a beautiful KF hexagon quilt.  

This one is a HUGE quilt for a customer's son.  I used a spikey swirl panto on it.  Carol said she just went to her scraps and pulled the colors.  Isn't it gorgeous?  

Asian Quilt done!

I just took this one off Max ... it was a fun Asian quilt/wall-hanging.  I used ClamShell design on it.  Good job, Patsy Ruth!

Playing catch-up part 2

These are quilts that are here in 2015.  

the first pictures are of a pattern called By My Hand, using machine embroidery and applique.  Nice job!

These next few pictures are of Cathy's Christmas Cactus pattern.  Not Christmas-y at all, but absolutely stunning.  Love love love this quilt!

This is a vintage red background quilt that Cheryl's family member made years ago and she just "wanted it done".  I used Baptist fan on this one.

This is a Jacqueline de Jonge Curling Colors.  First picture is it being blocked and second picture is a close-up of some of the hidden blocks.  Very precise paper piecing.

It's time to play catch-up

It's been a while, hasn't it?  The last part of last year just got away from me.  

So let's play catch up ... I'm going to post some pictures of quilts that came through my studio.  We'll just start there and see how it goes.  This post is last half of 2014.