Category Archives: Quilts

Feb6

Another Melrose fabric quilt!

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Another Melrose fabric quilt!

Barbara at Rainbows and Calico Things Quilt Shop used the Melrose fabric by Red Rooster  for a shop sample.  Here’s the quilt that I made with the same fabric – Bryana + Sam .

The quilting design is a freehand E2E called Overlapped Looped Spirals.

The spiral adds great texture to the squareness of the quilt and mimics the focus fabric elements.

Check out Rainbows and Calico Things for Melrose Five and Dime kits to complete this quilt.

Come to the Williamsburg area February 18 or 19 for the I-80 Quilter’s Shopping Spree at the Little Amana Clarion Inn.  Lots of vendors under one roof!

 

Thanks for looking and just keep stitchin’!

Linda

Jan31

Two more for DNQC!

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Two more for DNQC!

 

Roll of Nickels

Crosses and Dots

Here’s two more completed quilts for The Double Nickel Quilt Challenge.  The first Roll of Nickels quilt is here.  We decided to do a slightly different quilting design for the second one, Overlapping Squares Meander.  It adds great texture to the homespun fabric while staying soft and cuddly after washing.

Crosses and Dots is another E2E combining Freehand Spirals with an occasional flower.

The back is white, too!

I love the white on white stitching but what if it I had used a pale yellow or blue thread?  That could have been fun!

Can you believe we’re to the end of January?  Hope you’ve had a great start to 2012!  We’ve had a pretty exciting month, highlighted by sending our daughter to England to study abroad, going to a 3 day quilting retreat and visiting our son in Orlando.  And thankfully, I was able to finish 8 customer quilts!  I still have some Loose Ends to work on but maybe I’ll finish one next month!

Thanks for looking and just keep stitchin’

Linda

Jan16

Another DNQC, check!

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Another DNQC, check!

 

I’m back from a great 3 day quilting retreat!  The retreat was lots of fun meeting new people and reuniting with others.  I worked on some of my loose ends and yes, I started some new ones!

 

Here’s another quilt by Candace of The Double Nickel Quilt Challenge called Chevrony.  We wanted a design to fit the pattern so I created a continuous curve scroll  that travels through the triangles in the zig-zags.

 

The lavender thread compliments and contrasts the multiple fabric colors.

 

 

And the quilting creates a nice secondary pattern from the back, bonus!

 

 

 

 

Still have a few more quilts to finish for the The Double Nickel Challenge!!

 

Thanks for looking!

 

 

 

 

Jan12

Bryan and Ginny quilts

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Bryan and Ginny quilts

  Ginny’s husband has started quilting and here’s his first quilt!  Pretty ambitious!

The quilting is a freehand meander with Quilter’s Dream Puff batting and the thread is Superior OMNI.

He even created a nice pieced back.  And, I understand he’s working on another one!

Ginny picked up her quilt, too.  I love the color palette on this quilt using Amy Butler fabrics.

It’s quilted with with a freehand peacock feathers meander.  The batting is Quilter’s Dream Blend and the thread is Superior OMNI light tan.

 I love the texture created with the quilting, especially on the back.

I’ll be going to a 3 day quilting retreat this weekend.  I plan to work on some loose ends and start some new ones!  I’ll  report back later!

I entered a quilt in this week’s Quilting Blogger’s themed contest, New Beginnings.  I’ll post the link tomorrow for you to see all the quilts and vote if you like!

Thanks for looking and just keep stitching!

Linda

 

Jan8

Double Nickel Quilt Challenge

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Double Nickel Quilt Challenge

I’m back to quilting Candace’s quilts for her Double Nickel Quilt Challenge.  She was nice enough to let me try a new pantogragh, Square Spiral, on her Nickel Crosses quilt.  It’s a very striking pattern and looks really great on this plaid quilt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roll of Nickels is a freehand square loop meander.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nickel Argyle is a simple diagonal throughout completing the argyle effect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking!

Just Keep Stitching!

Linda

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