Quilting for Jane

These quilts belong to Jane. I quilted them for her and just got round to take pictures.

Love, love, love this one! Its my colors! And Stars!

sshhhhh ... it may get lost in my sewing room :)

I quilted it with a small all over stipple.

This one I tried something different, stitch in the ditch on either side of the sashings. Then I did a medium stipple on the outside border and setting triangles with a free form flower in the center of the pinwheels. Can't really see the quilting from the front so here is a picture from the back.

I hope Jane is happy with them. Better get them to her before they find a new home in my sewing room :)

Quilting update

This week we had Derek's car in the shop :( That means *Mom* is car-less.  Humm.
Consequently I got a lot of sewing done! So, all in all, it turned into a good thing.This is the "Chocolat" quilt with the pinwheels on the outside edge. One more round to go.
Quilters Bee Free Batik block of the month. Next week I'll go in and choose the sashing colors, with my "Color girl", Kellie. The geometric is the focus fabric and will be the outside border.

Charleston Harbor BOM through Homestead Hearth. I was waayy behind on this one, it feels good to be caught up! 

Amazing how much a person can get done at home when there is nowhere to go :)

Chocolat Progress

This is my friend Kellies "Chocolat" quilt. Its a BOM that we started a couple years ago. Where hers has churn dashes, mine has pinwheel blocks. We suspect the pattern was an EQ design from one of the people who worked at the shop we ordered it from. The directions and measuring leave ALOT to be desired. Consequently we have changed several things on the quilt from the original design. For her, thats not unusual - now for me? Well I just want to jump in and finish it, not think about it, just get it done. So I have put it away several times and restarted several months later. Usually after Kellie has figured out how to fix the problem we came up against. Thanks Kellie- your the best!!
Today I finished my pinwheel/churndash blocks. I really want to get it finished and use it on my bed. Decided to paint the bedroom one of the teal/blue-green colors in the quilt.
I had forgotten how much I love the fabrics. Both the feel and the colors! Can't wait to finish it!
Better get going Kel :)

Blocks corrected

My CrazyBet blocks are finally all corrected. Whew! Its taken all week, working on them for a couple hours a day.
The fusible bias tape maker was kind of a bust. The Clover fusible tape isn't easy to work with, and a bit too fragile. Instead I used small strips of the "steam a seam 2" and it worked much better, although it didn't fit in the little hole on the bias maker. So did the bias strips and then put the fusible on them. I'm just soooo glad I'm caught up on those blocks.

This week was Derek's last tennis matches - Wed and Thursday. They are ranked 1st in the region and Derek and his doubles partner have gone undefeated for the season. Regionals is on Saturday, I hope they do well.

Yesterday, Cindy Carroll, http://cjcarrollphotographs.blogspot.com/ did his senior pictures. The raw images are great! Can't wait to see what she does with them! The 2 older boys we took to a studio and they didn't catch the kids personalities- Cindy does such a great job of that! It was soo nice!