I finished the quilting on this quilt yesterday.

I haven't quilted a feather border for a while.  I really enjoyed it.

The pink border  is just  a "c" hook.  The middle border I did the same as the center; an all over echo swirl.

The back is a solid pink fabric, really shows the quilting.

The weather was nice so I could take the photos outside.

Earlier in the day there was snow on the deck.  

Today it's in the high 60's.

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Quilting away

Can you spare a dime?

This is one of Libby's. She pieced this one at our Quilt Retreat.

I quilted an all over E's and 3's design. 

This is also Libby's.  

She asked me to quilt it just like the quilt on the pattern.

I couldn't really tell what was quilted in the background block of the pattern so I just micro stippled it

the back

I blogged about finishing this baby quilt here. 

But after it was washed I just wasn't happy with it--too poofy.

so I re-loaded it 

 and did a squiggly line through the grey block centers in each direction with a variegated thread.

Much better.

Three Rivers Quilters annual show was last weekend.

 This was my entry. 

I didn't take too many pictures the show was quite crowded.  They have a slide show of the winners here.  The Best of Show quilt is amazing.

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I finished this customer quilt yesterday afternoon. It's all flannels top and back.
I did a swirl echo on it (from the Pajama Quilter), it gave it really nice texture, especially with it being flannel fabric!

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I loaded my little Swoon block sample and got that quilted before I load the next customer one.
I'm going to make this into a pillow...so my first Christmas gift is about done!

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Urban Birthday is a flimsy.

On the design wall now is this one from Sunday Morning Quilts.
 I am going to try to just take my time with this
 and piece the rows s-l-o-w-l-y.
(ha-ha --I did say "try")  
I don't need another baby quilt (right this second anyway) nor do I need another flimsy.

This pattern uses the cut off triangles from piecing binding. I use 2 1/4 inch strips for binding rather than the 2 1/2 strips most people use. I didn't have enough of them so I would say a good half of these I just cut from the 2 1/2 inch strip bin. 

After I got it all arranged on the wall, I thought perhaps I should make it bigger.
And then I smacked myself and came back to reality.

Barb's quilt is finished and delivered.  This was the one I made for my co-worker. She's in rehab now and on the road to recovery. 

 She loved the quilt

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A customer quilt. I quilted it with a large paisley in pink thread.

Great texture.

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Modern baby quilt.  I'm still stitching the binding down on this one, perhaps will get it finished tonight while the Pens game is on.

 the back, I got the fabric at Jo Ann's thought the owls were so cute.

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Today I finished putting Urban Pods together.  I added an extra row to the width and length.  The pattern only called for a top and bottom border (2 1/2 inches) but I put a 3 inch border on each side as well. 

It measures 66 x 75

I can't wait to quilt this one.

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As soon as I got Urban Pods off the design wall, I had room to put the blocks for Urban Birthday up.  I do have to lay them out sideways since my wall is not high enough. But I just take a picture and rotate it to "see" how the fabric placement is. 

This looks pretty good, may move a couple.

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I did sew together and quilt the 2 panels for my Scrap Happy purse but they're still waiting patiently on the other wall. It's made with all the little leftovers from Urban Pods. 

I cannot wait to get this one made. 

Perhaps next week....

I graduated

from the "Chicago School of Fusing"! 

Several guild members spent yesterday learning the fine art of fusing with Laura Wasilowski.  It was fun! I mean it was like being a little kid again and just playing with fabric and shape and cutting free hand (which was scary for the adult me) but the kid me was brave!

I made these two pieces at the workshop.

the third one (upper right in picture below) I made after the class and before the meeting and then this morning I got up and played around for a bit.

Sadly, I realized after I fused it down, that I had fused the background piece wrong side up (with the Wonder Under side up that is).  It's not usable.  

Oh bother.

I learned my lesson: Never fuse before coffee!

Stars and Loops

3 boys; 3 quilts 

all-over Stars and Loops

One down, two to go. 

Quilting--swirls -- stylized flowers

A customer quilt. 

All over open swirls w/Caramel thread,Essential Pro from Connecting Threads on top and Bottom Line #653 in bobbin (Beach)

I really like how this one quilted up.

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A customer quilt all over Stylized Flowers (ala the Pajama Quilter)

with "McWerleying"in the ovals.The ovals have the embroidered names and birth dates of the makers 3 granddaughters.