Maia's Christmas Present - Octagonal Table Runner

For this coming Christmas, I give to my brother and his wife in our gift giving rotation. One of the things Maia said she wanted was a table runner like some of the other ones I have made, that doubles as a hot pad. However, they have a 36" octagonal table, so the space for the runner was limited to about 12" and I wanted to make those few inches count. Here's the front and back. I stitched in the ditch and quilted an 8-pointed star in the center octagon.

 

Fat Quarter Throw Quilt - Bingo Quilt #2

This charity quilt is made using the rest of the fat quarters I won at our guild's bingo night, and then adding black and a couple other fabrics to make a nice sized quilt. After cutting it out, I gave it to my mother to finish piecing.

 

I quilted it in Glide Military Gold thread in a few alternating designs, some freehand, some with rulers.

The back is scrappy and unique enough to make the quilt reversible.

Dane's Labyrinth Star Percussion Quilt

This quilt I made for the percussion teacher at our HS that had been there forever. He taught my brother and was teaching my son. For some reason, he decided to retire and I wanted to do something nice for him. I knew he would appreciate it because his wife is a quilter. I found a fabric that had drums and other percussion instruments and based the colors around that.

I chose a more simple pattern (I've seen it called Labyrinth and Labyrinth Star, maybe has some other names as well) so I could get it ready to quilt sooner than later. I then designed a pantograph that was based on the border percussion fabric, but when I tested it, it needed an overhaul. I debated spending another week on remaking the pantograph or spending that time on quilting it, so I opted for really time consuming (at least 52 hours) quilting.

It's a mixture of ruler and free-motion quilting. Lots of marking and going for it.

I can't even tell you how much I LOVE the way it turned out. I debated redoing the center star, but those I asked, said I should keep it.

It's a shame that the feather quilting on the border is not very visible, I was super proud of what I did.

All in all, I was very proud of the way this turned out. So glad I did custom work instead of a pantograph, even if the panto would have been percussion instruments.

Gayle's Charity/Refugee Quilt

This quilt top was made and donated by Gayle. 

I quilted it with pink Glide thread on the top and  Bottom Line It's a Girl thread on the bottom using the Urban Elementz Bourbon Street Baby pantograph.

 

Pat's T-Shirt Quilt

This t-shirt quilt I finished with a simple freehand loop design.

I used MonoPoly Smoke on the top and Glide 60 navy on the back.