Bed Quilt in Blues

Mary Jo and her husband brought this quilt over. I know Mary Jo from the Port Townsend guild, Cabin Fever Quilters, but this was the first time I'd met her husband. I love having people to the house to drop off their quilts. It gives me a chance to get to know them better and sometimes, I even get to meet the husband!

In fact, Mary Jo and her husband collaborated on this one. If I remember correctly, he helped with the color choices. I really love the color on this one and I so wanted to play. However, Mary Jo asked for an allover, so that's what I did.  Have a look:

Yep, another big one that didn't fit when I hung it for a pic. 

A couple close-ups below. I did my heatwave pattern on most of the quilt, but I added a bit of linework to the inner border along with some loops in the outer sashing just to spice things up.

Here's a couple shots of the backing to show the pattern of the linework in that outer border.

Hope you're enjoying the more frequent posts!

Dory

A Lemon Quilt

This unique quilt belongs to a new customer of mine, Diane. If this one is any indication of her piecing and color choices, I hope she comes back with more. I really liked this one.

 A couple close-ups to make the quilting easier to see. I tried to add a little design element into the white diagonal frames.

And a closer close-up. Linework and pebbles, oh my!

Because Diane gave me an almost solid fabric for the back, here's a pic of it as well.

Wow, two posts in a row...I'm on a roll.

Dory

Really Big Applique Quilt

Attempting, once again, to get caught up.  I'm hoping I don't repeat myself and show you a quilt for a second time; however, since I've been posting so infrequently, I doubt you'll remember anyway!!

This is Anna's big, beautiful applique quilt. Its so big, it won't even fit on my hanging bar! In fact, in the future there will be a hanging bar in my living room. The ceilings are much higher, so my quilt pics will (hopefully) look better.

Let's start in the middle.  I love the tree and really wanted it to stand out, so I did a little quilt framing (is that even a thing??) Here are a couple close-ups.

And closer yet...

Moving outward to one of the main blocks...feathers and CC in those blocks.

 And this is one of the cute little bird appliques

And finally, the border. Or, better known as where I got my "quilt framing" idea for the center tree.

Thanks for having a look!!!!!

Dory

My Apologies and the Quincy Crazy Quilters' Raffle Quilt

Five Months! Wow, five months since my last post.  Its not that I don't have quilts to show you, its just that my life has gotten away from me.

Dennis and I started a health challenge in January and by June/July, we'd both lost over 35 pounds each and were avidly riding our bicycles, including attending some events on Lopez and San Juan Islands, as well as participating in the Tour de Lavender here in Sequim. Then we took a trip to Caldwell, ID, to adopt a female Border Collie, because you can't have just two dogs it seems. Of course, this girl has epilepsy, so managing that has been challenging. We also took a trip to Las Vegas recently to pick up a 13' Casita travel trailer and then drove home via California and visited with grand kids, including baby Ethan who was only a week old at that point. Oh, and we purchased a "tiny home" that was supposed to be delivered complete and "move-in" ready (no, we have no plans to live in it). The tiny home company went bankrupt and we barely got our bare-bones structure out of there. Consequently, many summer days were spent at our Lake Crescent property painting siding. Dennis is still our there three-four days a week working on it. He's loving that, so its all good. Hopefully, I'll find some pics and post a bit more about our summer adventures.

Through all this I have been quilting, but I am so far behind.  Today's pics will be of one of my favorite quilts that I just finished.  Its the raffle quilt for Quincy Crazy Quilters.

Isn't it pretty?  Its a Kim Diehl pattern and I just love how country it looks.  It was sent to me with the instruction to "fancy it up." However, I really didn't want to make it fancy with my quilting, I wanted to make the piecing and colors stand out.

First, the border.  I did a pattern that was a combo of some others that I'd seen. It was easy to mark, using the checkerboards in the inner sashing, but it still took three passes to complete. I do love how it turned out though.

For the star blocks, I improvised an Angela Walters design, and because I didn't want the thread to tell the story, there were lots of thread changes for each block. I did "fancy up" the cream background a bit with feathers in the star corners.  Below are a few shots.

I decided to do circles in the cream checkerboard squares, leaving the colored squares to puff up a bit.

And last, but not least, a couple shots of the back.

Thanks for your patience! I hope these pics made it worth the wait a little bit.

Dory

A Beautiful Kaffe Quilt

This is the first quilt I've done for Judy and what an honor. She loves this quilt and I was very pleased she trusted me with it. Isn't it gorgeous???

Unfortunately, my stupid lighting and camera really washes out the colors. However, Judy showed me some new lighting she'd just put in her studio and I'm going to give that a try. The colors in this quilt are truly stunning...I'm so sad about the lack of clarity in the pic.

But...here are some closeups.  They turned out a bit better. In the two below, you can see more of the detail in the 16-patch and the surrounding triangles. I looked through many books for the 16-patch, trying to come up with something more unique than just continuous curve.  The line-work in the triangles is all Angela Walters--I love her designs.

This one shows the detail in the sashing/border squares.  Its such a fun design and I love the spiral effect.

Finally, here's a pic of the center. The quilting doesn't show up as much as I'd hoped, but you can see some detail in the middle of you click on the pic to make it bigger.

Best news was that I delivered this to Judy yesterday and she loved it! That's always the biggest compliment.

Dory