Category Archives: Quilts

Jun3

Kyle’s Photo Grad Quilt

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Kyle’s Photo Grad Quilt

If you can believe it, this is Lisa’s first quilt!!!  She did have a good teacher, Barb at Rainbows and Calico Things Quilt Shop to guide her along on her first venture into quilting.  This was a very fun project to quilt with some considerations.  Most photo quilts I just stitch right through the photo disregarding the picture or I outline the photo with SID, but the featured portrait photos were so large  that I decided to quilt a vignette frame for each one spacing each one slightly different because of the blocking of the picture.  Here’s a few photos, let me know what you think.

Lots of photos and fun fabric
School Letters
Photos and fun fabric
Portrait Photo detail
Terry Twist, meander, 8 point star, SID
Terry Twist detail
Back detail view
Jun1

New Firebird Pantograph

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New Firebird Pantograph

I love it when I try a new pantograph “hoping” that it will look great and “loving” it when it does!  I felt this way about Joanie’s recent wedding quilt.  Her granddaughter had picked out the Valori Wells quilt kit and it’s so modern and fresh that I wanted the quilting to compliment that.  The pantograph, Firebird by Meadow Lyon is fairly small which is nice for the very large blocks and the thread is a Superior Threads So Fine putty which is slightly darker than the lightest fabric.  The result is awesome!!  As I hung this quilt for photographing, several family members commented on it.  The “younger” members loved it and the “older” did not!  What do you think?

May22

Freehand stylized shell

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Freehand stylized shell

Here’s a perfect quilt for an edge to edge design.  A freehand shell design adds lots of movement and texture to the batik fabrics.  The thread is a King Tut variegated by Superior Threads and the batting is Quilter’s Dream Poly select.

Mary’s Batik quilt
stylized shell meander
May20

Nickel Gumball by Double Nickel Quilt Challenge

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Nickel Gumball by Double Nickel Quilt Challenge

Here’s another fun quilt from Candace of The Double Nickel Quilt Challenge called Nickel Gumball.  The pantograph Double Bubble is a perfect compliment to the polka dot border fabric, carrying the circular theme throughout the quilt.  The thread is So Fine by Superior Threads and the batting is Quilter’s Dream Poly select.

May10

Girl Talk by Rainbows and Calico Things

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Girl Talk by Rainbows and Calico Things

What girl wouldn’t want a quilt like this?!  The kit is available at Rainbows and Calico Things, online or in the store.  To compliment the squares we decided on a freehand edge to edge (E2E) spiral design using white thread.  The quilting adds lots of great texture and movement.  The batting is Quilter’s Dream Poly select, which is white and guarantees the white fabric to stay white looking.

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