Orange and Brown Web Quilt for Adam and Jen

My good friends acquired some quilt tops from a great aunt who had passed away. They brought me 3 to quilt with a lot of latitude on how I did them. This one was not a finished top. It was simply the squares, but they were all irregular in shape. It was decided to trim them to square, even though we knew the piecing would not necessarily match up as they should. In this case, finished was better than perfect.

As I looked at the bright orange in multiple hues, I kept seeing pumpkins. Maybe this was influenced by the fall season that I was finishing it in, but I was just going to do one of the pantographs that I had and had not yet used. However, my daughter said I had to do pumpkins, so I did. After it was done and I posted the picture on Facebook, I had several people say they thought poppies would have been a good quilting pattern. I agree. That would have been a good option, too.

Quilting Lori's Block of the Month Quilt - Scriptures on Home

 

Beautiful quilt top with hand appliqué. What a charming quilt! I love the scriptures!

I finished it up with quilting, binding, and hanging sleeve. The pantograph quilt pattern I used was "Duet" by Urban Elementz. 

Keith's 8-year old Quilt - Americana, Star

For each of my children, I have made a baby blanket/quilt and a matching queen/king size that I give to them when they turn 8 and are old enough not to drag it around the house like they do their baby one. I'm doing the same thing for my grandchildren. 

Lighting's not good here, but you can see the full quilt.

The quilting is custom with lots of stitch in the ditch and geometric lines. Simple, but I didn't want the quilting to take away from the piecing, just accentuate it.

The borders are quilted as an extension to the central part of the quilt, rather than something different.

The best way to store a quilt is wrapped in an sheet that will allow air circulation, yet keep the dust off. I heard someone say they used old pillowcases.  I thought that was brilliant, but in this case I made a new pillowcase that matched. That way, you know what quilt is in that pillowcase.

Many people have asked for the pattern I used. Well, I made it up, but I was inspired by this quilt I saw in an AQS catalog. 

Quilt of Valor - Labyrinth

This is the second of two Quilt of Valor quilts commissioned for a lady's husband and brother who both served in Viet Nam. After 3 weeks of consulting and shopping I was able to begin. This one was for her brother. The pattern is based off Calico Carriage Quilt Design's "Labyrinth."

 

The quilting is a pantograph by Urban Elementz called "Duet." When I first saw this pantograph, I was not a fan, but the client really wanted it, so I bought it. I really liked the way it turned out and realized the design could go well with a multitude of quilts.  I really like it now.

Quilt of Valor - Central Scrappy Star

I was contacted by a lady who needed 2 Quilts of Valor made for her husband and brother, both veterans of Viet Nam. After 3 weeks of consulting and shopping, I began. This one is for her husband. The pattern is based off Primitive Gatherings' Outlander Star but I just zoomed in on the center portion.

The quilting pantograph is called "From the Heart" by Urban Elementz which have the words, "Honor, bravery, courage, valor" repeated all over.

She gave me her leftover fabric, which had enough to put together another star, so at some point, I'll have another quilt with a similar central star.

 

Nate's Memory T-shirt Quilt for Brenda

Brenda has competed in races for about 40 years. Her husband ask me to make a special reversible T-shirt quilt with these shirts from her races. The quilt is about 116" x 120."

It is quilted with an all-over large meander with MonoPoly thread.

This center shirt is from the race where she ran past him, caught, not only his eye, but his heart as well.

One side of the quilt has 40 years of racing shirts, the other has a wedding ring printed panel fabric, with multiple coordinating colors for borders.

Just a note: With longarm quilting, it is next to impossible to center a design on both the front and back. Side to side, yes, but top to bottom, no. This looks pretty good from far away, but it's not perfect.  I marked matching points all along the sides of front and back to try to make them line up. But in the end, it was about an inch off (which is pretty good, considering).

Amy's College Throw

Amy made this quilt years ago when she was in college and tied it, but the ties were spaced too far apart for the batting and also started falling off.  The batting had shifted over the years and she wanted it quilted to keep it from shifting more. She chose the "Flirty Feathers & Curls" pantograph from Urban Elementz and in short order, it was done.

Adam & Jen's Kaleidoscope Quilt

This is one of 3 quilts my friends, Adam and Jennifer, asked me to quilt for them. They were made by a great-aunt that passed away. She did beautiful work - the piecing was precise, the pattern eye catching and the colors, spot-on.

This quilt pattern is often called Kaleidoscope. It was quilted with So Fine and Bottom Line threads in gray using the Andi's Ribbon Heart pantograph by Urban Elementz.