A Cheery Little Quilt

This is a store sample for Karen's Quilt Shop in Sequim.  If you haven't been there, you need to go. She's recently moved her shop across 7th Street, behind the paint store, where she has tons more room.

Anyway...I tried something new and I think it worked.  Initially, I was thinking a light gray thread, but once I got a good look at the quilt and the fabric, I really wanted to do something brighter.  So I quilted with a pale yellow.  Here's a close-up:

What do you think?  And a shot of the back...the woman who pieced this actually serged all the seams.  Man, is that nice!!!

Karen has this fabric line in her shop! I just love how cheery it is.

Thanks for having a look!

Dory

Bellingham Retreat 2015

Since moving to Washington and meeting my good friend Shirley at (where else?) a retreat, I've been to many retreats. She invited me to join her and 10 other friends at an annual retreat in Poulsbo that then moved to Bellingham.  I'm just home from this lovely week long event where we sewed and watched movies all day long. It was incredible!

Here's what I accomplished:

First up:  Two of these Aiming for Accuracy quilts that I started some time ago. They were BOMs with lots of instruction so that you could work on accuracy with your piecing. Not only did I participate, but I was privileged to quilt one for a lady that won my quilting as a grand prize. (Click here if you want to see that one)

Christmas fabrics here...(colors are much brighter than they appear here)

 

Same quilt; different fabric and border.  I decided it was too busy, so opted for a plain border instead.

 

This is one of those Schnibbles patterns.  I love little houses; I especially love quilting houses!!!

 This is the start of Dennis' Christmas present--his own Seahawks quilt. He really wants a Mariner's Compass quilt; I'm hoping he can't tell the difference!! This one still needs sashing and borders. Another photo coming when its finished.

I started a Winding Ways quilt for my step-daughter and got going on yet another Christmas quilt.  Not enough done on either of those to warrant photos yet.  

Great retreat with a group of great women!

Dory

Ginny's Beautiful Stack-n-Whack

This is the most unique and gorgeous setting I've ever seen for a Stack-n-Whack! In fact, I'm going to steal it for mine. (Shhhhhhh, don't tell!) 

 

I just think that those alternating blocks keep this quilt from being so busy that you can't even see the cool designs made by the S&W fabric.  One of the best part about quilting for others is all the designs I see. They're amazing!

I did my heatwave allover on the majority of this quilt with bamboo in the inner border.

All the S&W blocks and the bamboo inner border were quilted with Military Gold thread to pick up the gold in the S&W blocks. I'm loving how that turned out. Super simple design to not take away from the beauty of the blocks, themselves.

 

The back...such care in piecing it. She basically has a reversible quilt!

 

Center back to try and show some of the quilting. (I think you're going to have to click on the pic if you really want to see it...sorry)

Next up are pics of what I accomplished at my retreat!

Dory

Project Quilting -- Log Cabin

This is what happens when you have EQ7 and no imagination...

This month's block was Log Cabin and since I couldn't think of anything else to do, I kept it simple. I do like the black fabrics I chose to set off the red, but really....this one is nothing to write home about.

Here's a shot of the back that shows the quilting. That at least took a little thought and fun design elements with the curved crosshatch and the feathers.

Here's the biggest problem. It needs a name...HELP! What do I call it??  "Unimaginative" comes to mind! <smirk>

Dory

 

Karen's Quilt Shop Sampler

Karen called the other day and wanted this "sampler" quilted for the shop.  This top is completely imprinted...not a seam to be found. She wanted an allover, but gave me permission to play--Yippee!!

The best thing about stitching in the ditch is when there really isn't a "ditch"! So much easier without a seam to follow. I did SID all over the place on this one.

Nice and easy geometric border

 

Heatwave meander with some more line work in the outer triangles. Some fun design work in the middle.

 

And a shot of the back...

Dory