Monthly Archives: June 2011

Drew and Abby’s Wedding quilt

Drew and Abby’s Wedding quilt

When Drew and Abby set their wedding date a year and half ago, I was very excited because that would give me lots of time to make a very special quilt for them!   I did not want to make a king size quilt so opted for a lap size knowing that it was doable.  Abby is so artistic and creative which inspired me to start making  “wonky” or irregular log cabin blocks with all the batik scraps left over from many other quilts.  I sorted the fabrics into color groups to organize for sewing the logs from the same color family.  I should have taken a picture while I was sewing, my whole sewing room was covered with little piles of fabric!!  I wanted to quilt it with back and forth feathers which works best set on point.  And then decided to leave off the corner setting triangles leaving the non traditional shape.   Even though I had all this time to sew, I still was finishing the blocks a couple weeks before the wedding and if my sister, Patty, had not encouraged me to keep at it, it would probably still be unfinished!!  So, I stopped sewing blocks and the quilt became the size out of necessity.  The small blocks that where left ended up in the pieced back.  Enjoy the pictures, let me know what you think!

 

Kyle’s Photo Grad Quilt

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.

New Firebird Pantograph

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?

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