quilting

Carol's quilt: feathers, feathers, feathers!

Concentric Circles with a yellow/gold thread.

I do love this pattern-love the texture.

Nancy's T-shirt quilt. 

Lois' 2 picnic quilts.  

She made them just to use of the fabric and will be used for summer picnics with her family.

All-over loops, squiggles and stars.

I quilted this one with a swirl hook and flames.

(The Pajama quilter calls it 'woodgrain')

Heather's quilt. I did E's and 3's on it. 

And two identical baby panel quilts.  I quilted each differently.

This one has swirls.

This one little loops.

And another one of Nancy's. 

I did the wood grain all-over on this one too and a C-hook in the border.

In addition to all these. I finished Happy Jack (see previous post). And quilted and finished, yes even the dreaded binding, on these two baby quilts; finished the binding yesterday as a matter of fact.

I have a customer baby quilt loaded now and halfway done. I'm going to finish it today and then I can say. 

I'm all caught up! 

whew!

Except for the 7-8 personal quilt tops that are waiting to be done....

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Meg and I got season tickets for the Pittsburgh CLO's summer series. 

It starts tonight with Singin' in the Rain-can't wait. 

I finished the Winter Welcome runner this weekend and just love it-hated to put it away until Christmas decorating time. 
Today it was nice out, cloudy but warm-I didn't even need a jacket- so I got out in the flower beds and pulled out and cut off all the dead stuff, it looks much better and I feel much better being able to get that off 'the list'. 

Yesterday and today I sat out on my empty deck (had to drag a chair out) and cut out the logos on all the t-shirts.....a much more managable pile to work with now.  And it takes up much less room.  There are about 50 t-shirts!  Just getting this much done makes me breathe a little easier, now that I've started I'm getting a little excited about the process. I've never made a t-shirt quilt before and probably never would if my sister-in-law hadn't asked.  I'm only going to work on one quilt at a time and am hoping to have the pieces fused  and a layout started by this time next week.  hmmmm, crossing fingers, legs and eyes that I can do this.  I bought 9 yards of woven interfacing. I don't think that will be enough, but it will be a start. 

My other goal for this week is to load and quilt my Black, White and Red Circles quilt that I pieced a few months ago.  I have the backing ready and waiting....

Today I finished the little trivet that was our gift from visiting Calico Gals quilt shop on the bus tour last week. In back of it is a bag I made today as well, I'm going to keep my GPS in it in my car....disguised as a cosmetic bag...in-genius!

Oh, one more picture.  My friend Libby asked me to quilt a baby quilt for her.  It's an adorable Mother Goose quilt.  My photography skills are crappola so my apologies.  I just had a ball quilting it.
A good friend of hers hand appliqued the center and then Libby assembled it.  I only did a little quilting on the appliques, most of it was background stuff to help set off the design. She was very happy with it, so that makes me happy too.

A few fall quilts

I've always taken pictures of my finished quilts. I'm getting close to 200 quilts in my 20+ years of quilting. (I'm counting everything here--anything quilted).  And I'll bet there are only 1 or 2 that I didn't snap a photo of.   Now before our house joined the digital camera age, and that was only a few years ago; I would take some pictures of a completed quilt with my 35mm, have to wait until they were developed and then sometimes the results weren't so hot and I'd either say 'oh well' or do it over again. How wonderful it is to take a picture and get to immediately delete a bad shot.  I have 2 photo albums with all my quilts and a little description along with each quilt.  But now I'm trying to get them all in the computer.  I've tried scanning them in but they are so grainy I've never been happy with the results and I don't know if it's my pictures, my scanner, my computer....and frankly I don't have the patience to figure it out.  So what I've been doing is as the seasons change and I rotate the quilts I'm taking new pictures,  I thought I'd just post a little fall quilt show here. I think most were made in the last 8-10 years. This first one is a Little Quilts design.  I think is was called For the Bears.

All the little triangle squares that were cut off from the flying geese on the pumpkin runner I used in the pinwheels topper.  I just couldn't throw them away.

This is from Little Quilts. It's one of my favorite quilts. The colors in the photo are a little washed out.

This is a Pat Sloan "tall and skinny"

This is a Little Quilt as well.

This is a Thimbleberries design. 
I could look at quilts all day.  Not just mine, anybody's!  But I think it's time to start this day.  I'm taking my in-laws to a doctor appointment this afternoon.  I have twin nieces who are graduating from high school in the spring.  They are both excellent swimmers. Their mom gave me all their swimming t-shirts.  They would like quilts.  Just "generous twin-size".  Their mom doesn't want a traditional t-shirt quilt. She's thinking something that looks more like a collage. That's a good thing since there are 2 boxes for each girl and 50+ t-shirts each.  (They've been swimming since birth, well not quite but dang early).  I want these done before Christmas.  I'm very bad at putting projects like this off.