Delaford center

 Making progress on my Delaford quilt.   Completed the center panel, now on to the first applique border.

Quilting Hollis Quilt

 Its in the hoop and I am enjoying the process:

Using the big stitch with Coats and Clark Bold hand quilting thread.  Had a long-armer baste the quilt for me and that sure is nice way to have it sandwiched.

Hollis's Quilt progress

 This morning I completed the applique of Sun Bonnet Sue and added the embroidered bouquet of flowers.  Now all the hand work is done, and I just need to finish up the nine patches.  I am considering adding a border of flowers of some kind to the top to make a "pillow cover" as my daughter, who saw my progress this week, said Hollis will probably want it as a bed cover for her twin bed.  It will be wide enough, but right now it is going to be square, and I need to make it into a rectangle.  Sigh, so most likely more applique to do - but then I love to applique.

Americana Sampler

 I have finished my Americana Sampler quilt.  I did have Martee Patton to long arm quilt it for me and she did a beautiful job.  The following are some pictures of the finished quilt.  This quilt is designed by Fons and Porter.

Happy Independence Day!

Beginning Hollis's Big Girl Quilt

 I am having so much fun working on a quilt for my granddaughter - hoping to have it done by Christmas.  It is her Big Girl quilt (she will be 5 next month) that I make after they are out of the crib and sleeping in a big girl bed.  This is my layout design, but the flower designs and Sun Bonnet Sue are from EQ.  The Butterfly blocks are from a book called Granny Quilt Decor by Darlene Zimmerman.

Below is a picture of the center. Once I baste the applique in place, I am securing it with a small blanket stitch using 50wt thread. I do not have the SBS blanket stitched yet. The SBS is 14 inches high and the buttefly blocks are 11 1/4" square.  I will also embroider SBS some flowers  in her hand.

There will be 8 flower blocks surrounding the center, using two different flower patterns.

This is the first four blocks of the first pattern.

I am still working on the next flower pattern, doing the blanket stitch applique:

Nine-patches, measuring 3 3/4" will be the background through the quilt with solid white blocks between the nine-patches.  Thinking I might hand quilt hearts and flower on every other solid block.  Going to do big stitch quilting with a pretty soft variegated perle cotton.  So much fun! 

Two Finishes - woohoo

I have recently finished two long term projects - my Grandmother's Flower Garden and the Temperature quilt.  Thought I would share some pictures.

Before the quilt pictures, I must show another BIG finish.  My grandaughter graduated from High School!

close of EPP and hand quilting

Side borders

Border at top of quilt

Top corner

Quilt EPP Pieced, hand applique on border and hand quilted.  I think its my favorite quilt.

Temperature Quilt, quilted by Martee Patton.   She chose the pattern which I think is perfect - waves indicating highs and lows.

SCANFIL

 Recently I was approached about doing a couple small hand quilting samples by a Scanfil representative.   I enjoy doing things like this so was happy to try it out, especially since I am always on the lookout for new thread to try when hand quilting.  I think this thread has been around awhile, at least I did find it on a few sites when I did a google search, but it is definitely new to me.

 I received 100% Organic cotton fabric, bamboo batting and a very nice assortment of 30wt and 50wt Scanfil threads.  Instructions to do a pattern using the 30 wt thread and the 50 wt thread, just to compare how quilting looked different using the different threads.  I so enjoyed this project and do love the thread.  I also used the 50 wt thread in my sewing machine to sew on the binding as well as hand hemming the panel.  That also worked great.