Friday Finishes - Eye Candy Friday

I am getting my whoop on today!  Doing the Happy Dance!  I have completed all the quilting on quilts for Christmas.  The last one goes home this afternoon.  So let's see those pictures, please.....

 

First up, is a baby quilt with dimensional geese.  The customer requested all over stippling.  She had been turned down by several longarmers as their hopping feet would get caught in the flying geese.  I knew the Glide foot would float right over the edges of the dimensional geese, so I said yes to quilting it.

The video doesn't work below, but it gives a view of the Glide foot that is cupped so there is nothing to catch on quilt as it is stitched.  The picture also gives a better view of the dimensional geese.

 

 

My wonderful hubby is the official quilt holder.

 

Second is this lovely modern quilt by Bekah. 

 I really like her color choices.

This is Bekah's mother's Christmas quilt.  Mom just recovered from breast cancer so they are having a very blessed Christmas.

 

Below is the last quilt to go home for the Christmas season.  This lovely quilt will be keeping Sylvia's granddaughter warm.

A view of the texture on the back.

The thread is Omni Mulberry. 

The quilting pattern is Ginger Snap by Apricot Moon, purchased through Intelligent Quilting. 

 

Below is the best quilt I have worked on all year.  It is the second totally custom quilted quilt I have done.  This year Handi Quilter released an update to their Pro Stitcher software and I had to learn to run my machine all over again.  After working with the program through the summer and early fall, I loaded this quilt and worked on it for six weeks.

 

 

 

 

Threads used on this quilt were Signature Graystone (in gray areas), Omni Cream and Omni Banana. 

Thank you to my customer, Anita, for her patience.  Anita has been such a blessing to my longarm business.  She has gently pushed me to keep trying out my skills on her quilts.  Also, I received long distance assistance from Elaine Gilmore in Georgia and Melissa Kruschwitz in Florida. Elaine is the Handi Quilter National Educator that trained me to use the new Pro Stitcher update as well as providing on-going support.  Melissa took the layout of the bottom border that I sent to her by email, put it in Art N Stitch and connected the corners and emailed it back.  I will be taking some online training with Melissa in the near future to learn how to manipulate the patterns and layout a whole quilt on the computer before stitching.  My goal for 2016 will be learning Art N Stitch to improve and expand my quilting skills.

 

Today I am linking up with.....Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Link a Finish Friday, Freedom Fridays, and Crazy Mom Quilts.  

 

Enjoy your weekend and do your happy dance!

 

Yours in quilting,

Terry

 

 

 

 

Friday Finishes

Hello everyone!  I haven't written for you since Feb.25th due to being sick with a nasty virus.  I finally had to give into being sick.  I went back to bed several days, talked to the doctor again, took additional medicine and just slowed down.  It was a bummer because I am not good at slowly down and each day I couldn't do my daily activities I continued to fall far behind. This is my fourth week with the virus and finally can say I am getting well.

I have been working a queen size quilt for about three weeks.  It took so long because it was bitterly cold in the studio some days, my illness and the size of the quilt.  Its hard to get it all in the picture because its so long.

 Close up of the borders.

Spinning pinwheel quilting in each pinwheel block and stippling in the background of each flower block.

 There are feathers in each triangle block.

 Swags and piano keys in outer border, feathers and curls in in off-white border.

Cone flowers in filler blocks along with double curls in sashings.  All this was accomplished with my Pro-stitcher computer on my Handi Quilter Avante.  I did do free motion stippling in the flower blocks and a small amount of ruler work in the corners of the blue large borders. This is only the second quilt I have custom quilted.  This quilt was a block of the month at Quilter's Garden.

 

Next I loaded a wall quilt that was also a short term block of the month designed by Quilter's Garden.

 Here is a close up of several of the blocks.

 This was my third custom quilt.  In the green borders there are leaves, but they blend so well you can't get it to show up in the picture.

 

Next I loaded this quilt called Somerset.

 

Here's a close-up of a block.

 I used  Glide thread and an edge to edge pattern called Feathered Paisley.

 

I have been working on quilting 8 memory quilts since before Christmas.  Here is #7

 The challenge with these quilts have been the pockets or snaps left on the strips.

All quilts have been quilted in navy Omni thread and the pattern is called Ocean Froth. 

#8 Memory Quilt had no pockets or snaps.  It quilted up like a dream.

 

 

I have a Washington Tornado quilt donation on my longarm right now.  I didn't get it finished so will have to save it for next Friday.  Finishing five quilts this week is nothing to sneeze at.  So glad to feel better and able to be productive this week.  The weatherman just said 52 degrees by Monday!  Hopefully, Spring is just around the corner.

 

Today I will be meeting with Chris Lynn Kirsch from Wisconsin.  She will be our guest speaker at Covered Bridge Quilt Guild tonight.  She will be giving a trunk show of all her Mariner Compass quilts and tomorrow's class will be drafting your own Mariner's Compass and then paper piecing it!

 

Today, we are hooking up with……Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Link a Finish Friday, Freedom Fridays, and Crazy Mom Quilts.  Have a great weekend.

 

Yours in quilting,

Terry

Design Wall -Custom Quilting and Feb BOM 2014

Brrr.....is chilly out this morning. Its at least -4 this morning suppose to be a high of 16 degrees. Tomorrow we are expecting more snow, hopefully no more than 4 inches. We already have over a foot of snow on the ground after getting 6 inches on Saturday. My husband and son were out first thing Saturday morning shoveling and then a snow plow came pushed the rest out of the way.

Friday morning I went grocery shopping and planned a menu for two weeks. My friends who went grocery shopping after work found the grocery stores cleaned out. We usually eat out on the weekends but we stayed pretty close to home and I cooked. Saturday night everyone was home and we played dominoes.  We had some help.  Rascal, the Yorkie, would hop from lap to lap to help. 

 Then he would get warm and nap. 

 Then back at it helping the next person.  So glad he can't talk.....

This weekend I have been working on a queen size quilt that was a Block of the Month at Quilter's Garden  a few years back. This is a customer's quilt. This is one of the few that I am custom quilting. It has blocks of appliqued flowers, 12” pieced blocks, and pieced borders.

 

I have my 10" block completed for January 2014 Country Threads BOM.

 

Having a little trouble with my 20" block as I cut some fabric wrong and don't have 8 1/2" blocks left for the corners.  I am going to have to make-do by piecing where the 8 1/2" blocks were suppose to go.  I may have to put four patches in or ....(stay tuned) for what the finished block looks like.

Below is the link for the February block.  Will be pulling fabrics for these blocks out of my stash this week.

http://www.countrythreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/February-BOM.pdf

 

My January blocks are done for the Quilt Doodle Designs BOM.  The Cozy Cabin block came out for Feb.  I will need to pick out fabric for this also.  Only one block for this BOM for Feb.  The link is below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-UGYD12TSr-WXRvWU91NXVxSDg/edit?usp=sharing

I am linking up with Judy at Patchwork Times. 

Yours in quilting,
Terry