Category Archives: Quilts

Apr5

Yellow, Pink and Purple Butterflies

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Yellow, Pink and Purple Butterflies

Candy spoils her granddaughters!  She has made 3 quilts using the Buggy Barn “Butterflies”  pattern each with it’s own color palette.  The last one was yellow and even though I tried to quilt them all the same, each one is slightly different than the previous.  Because I’ve only recently started to take quilting pictures I had to get finished pictures from Candy to help me remember how to quilt them.  I keep a diary with quilting notes about thread, batting and design but a picture is better!

Butterflies
Butterfly and ribbon borders
Quilting view from back
Butterfly and border detail
Butterflies
Butterflies
Apr5

Candy’s Twisted Nickel

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Candy’s Twisted Nickel

Candy’s created another great quilt for her Double Nickel Quilt Challenge called Twisted Nickel.  It was a fun quilt to develop a quilting design to bring out the flower elements created with the blocks.  I used pink thread throughout which provided a nice contrast on the darker fabrics without being bold.

Twisted Nickel
Woopy flowers and leaves
Pink thread
Quilting detail back
Mar24

Crazy Christmas Cats!

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Crazy Christmas Cats!

Here’s a fun applique, buttons and bells quilt made by Linda.  This quilt  jingled as I quilted along!  To keep the quilt soft and cuddly we decided on a medium meander for the backgrounds and some outlining and detail quilting around or through the applique.  Won’t this be a fun quilt to have for the Christmas holidays?!

Linda’s applique plus quilt
Buttons and bells
Tree outline and detail adds dimension
Applique Cat with bell on hat
Outline and detail stitching
Outline quilting detail
Mar21

Wavy Wedges

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Wavy Wedges

Jill has created a wonderful quilt for her lucky granddaughter using a multitude of fabrics and colors.  The center of the block is six little wedges coming together which benefits from the quilting to keep it flat.  This very simple design, Wavy Wedges, compliments the quilt and creates a great secondary design, especially from the back.

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Feb28

Two-sided quilt with African fabrics

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Two-sided quilt with African fabrics

Sheri has created an incredible two-sided quilt using fabric her daughter got in Tanzania.  We decided black thread and an overall pantograph, Fern Meander, were the best elements for the quilting.   This pantograph adds movement and texture with a very organic feel.  To insure the batting would not shadow through, we used Quilter’s Dream Poly Black.

Sheri’s quilt front
Focus applique
Great fabrics!
Detail front
2 Obama panels on back
Detail back

On a side note, in Tanzania, the Obama panels are worn as wraps or skirts.

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