Category Archives: Quilts

Dec5

Moira’s Journey

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Moira’s Journey

Moira's Journey   I love how creative my customers are!  Marilyn designed Moira’s Journey by enlarging a block called Kakuyose (Parquetry angles) from the book Japanese Taupe Quilts. The quilt is perfect for her sister-in-law’s Japanese inspired home.  Center quilting detail front    The quilting is a large echoed flower with bamboo and flower leis encircling. The background is quilted with a water motif accented with floating flowers. The thread is Wonderfil InvisaFil, matching the thread to the fabric.  The beige, green and red threads look great from the back, too!Center quilting detail backJust keep sewing!!! 🙂 Linda

Nov23

Blue and Yellow, Front and Back

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Blue and Yellow, Front and Back

Lois' blue and yellow quiltLots of quilting here!  The outside border is quilted with blue thread, the center area is quilted with yellow thread.  In most cases, I match the needle and bobbin thread.backing detail yellow and blue threadLois used a solid light backing, therefore, the back of the quilt is blue and yellow, too!  What do you think about using contrasting thread against a light backing fabric?  When planning your fabric for the backing, consider the thread!four patch borderHere’s a detail of the quilting designs.  I love how the yellow and blue areas are defined and the 4-patches pop!

The middle is stitched with my Cockscomb meander and the border is a floral meander with Terry Twist in the four patches.  By using freehand designs, I can shrink or enlarge the stitching to fit the space.  I just have to remember which one I’m stitching!

Thanks!  Linda 🙂

 

Nov17

Logan’s Quilt

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Logan’s Quilt

Logan's Memory QuiltAudrey designed a fun quilt for her son with fun novelty fabrics and fun block patterns.  To compliment her design process created a unique quiting design for each block.block detail

every block is different

quilting detailWhat a fun idea!  This is a great project for collecting novelty fabrics that have meaning and then practice making different blocks.  Put them all together and you have a memory quilt!  The challenge would be knowing when to quit collecting fabrics!

As you can see, I had fun making a unique quilting design for each block.  Fellow longarmers will know what I mean by stand and stare!

Thanks!  Linda 🙂

 

Nov12

Back to quilting & Spring Fever

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Back to quilting & Spring Fever

Buggy Barn Spring FeverWhen I got back from Houston and started looking at all my great pictures, I realized how far behind I was on posting customer quilts!  Here’s the latest Buggy Barn quilt by Candace of Double Nickel Quilt Challenge.  This is a fun pattern that uses 30 fat quarters, a great stash buster.  And in honor of our first snow of the season, an appropriate title, Spring Fever.quilting detailEach flower has a “feather branch” with a meander throughout the background.  Candace wanted minimal quilting but left the design up to me and I love how it looks.  It’s exactly what I would do if it was my quilt.backing detailThe backing view shows off the quilting.  Candace improved the quilt by washing and drying it to achieve the antique wrinkled look.

It seems like a lot of quilting but it’s still soft and flexible especially with washing and drying.

 

Deadlines are looming!  Thanks for looking!

🙂 Linda

 

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