Finally done!

"Star Shine" is finally finished - I was just a little sad for it to end because I enjoyed it so much!  What can I say...it's so beautiful, I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves.

Some quilting for Mom, some quilting for Me!

Mom used a panel print for the center of this quilt, then added borders.  I did all kinds of quilting on this and think it turned out rather nice!

Below are some swirls I added in irregular spaces, I stitched a large feather stitch in the wide leaf print with a funky stem and I added a meandering leafy/vine in the outer border!  A quick little figure 8 design fills in the space for the plain brown border - perfect!

And here is the quilting for Me!  I am still working (ever so slowly) on this Star Light quilt to enter in the fair this summer.  I have added quilting in the white triangular spaces surrounding the center block (well, if you look closely, I still need to finish a couple of them).  Couldn't wait to share this cuz I L O V E the quilting on this and quite frankly, I'm IMPRESSING MYSELF!  Hope you Enjoy the pics - oh, and if you'd like to see it in person, just let me know - I'd be happy to show it to you (I even allow touching which you can't do at the fair!!).  

 Thanks for stopping by...until next time...Enjoy!

Civil War Quilt

 Here is a sneak peak at another fabulous quilt made by Ann R, from North Platte and quilted by....ME!

I quilted two different motifs in the blocks - I love the quilting in the plain block and I love how you can see secondary designs appear - like the little sand dollar effect in the center of the block ( See last picture).  On the back you can see a secondary design of circles every where even though I did not quilt one single circle on this quilt.  So Fun!

 

I also love the vines on the border of the quilt - wow, what character that adds to the quilt!  I "stitched in the ditch" around all the leaves and vines, then did one row of echo quilting around them - I just love the way they turned out!  Enjoy - I'm off to work my other job now!!!

Eye Candy

This quilt is being made and quilted to enter the 2014 Nebraska State Fair.  Woot, Woot.  And even if it doesn't win a thing, I love it!!

I have two layers of batting in the middle so the quilting really stands out!

 This area is on each corner from the center, fans out and is filled with lots of circles.

The square "block" in lower right corner is the center of the quilt.

Colors are aqua, orange, purple, green and the background is actually a very pale yellow.  Love these star blocks - took lots of marking. 

More to come later  - I'm not sure how I'm quilting the rest of it, so gotta think 'bout it!

Spring is just around the corner!!

This quilt makes me think of spring with it's lively colors, pretty flower pinwheel blocks and bright yellow backing!

 

I thought a swirly design in the flower segments would give a sense of movement to the pinwheel, then I stitched swirls to fill the white space in the rest of the block.

A shot of the quilting from the back.  I added diamond shapes in the borders and quilted around the small pinwheel blocks.

Really, the backing is a beautiful bright yellow print - somewhere the colors get a little distorted (camera or computer?).

 Here is another shot of the back - now all it needs is binding to finish it off.  Thanks Ann!!!

Mom's red, white and black quilt - quilted!  Her comment "You turn simple quilts into family heirlooms!" Wow - what a nice compliment!!! You know what they say...a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are a few pics and thousands of words!

one large block

back of large block

 

border design back

border design

back of quilt

There you have it - front and back.  This stitching on the border is called braided feather and is an original design by....me!

ENJOY!

Hey, it's time for Christmas!  This is how I spent my Monday.

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