Fun tools for quilting

Sherry Boren took a picture of a quilt she loved and then re-created it.  We talked about just doing cross-hatching but that would put the quilt back on the square and take away the diagonal look. I finally got to use the cool cable tool I bought for the border. It gives it a very traditional look for the traditional fabrics. I didn't try to go around the corner, I did a stop at the seam line.






This is just a fun quilt with a fun border. The inside is just an over-all floral pattern I free-handed.

This is a great flag quilt that will have the piecing corners trimmed so it will be a curved quilt. I pebbled the white stripes and used the zig-zag in the red to inspire my quilting there.

On the blue field I quilted stars that nestled together and also nested inside each other. There were several different sizes of stars. I used variegated thread in stippling

Distractions from quilting.- in other words don't ever let anyone know you can sew

 I got distracted from quilting when someone thought I was a costume designer. She actually asked my 16 year old daughter to do this and she said yes because she was desperate for $$$. We were given this pattern and the picture and some fabric and said to re-create it. I haven't sewn clothing for ages and then to modify it was a stretch - a big stretch.  She and her guy wanted to match a national Color guard team and so she wore this to Homecoming and then to the big Marching band dance at the final competition. He wore the guy costume. It drove me crazy but they loved it. (Yes Mom did it - it was way beyond my daughter's ability) 

 Then my darling daughter volunteered me to sew color guard costumes. Yay me! It was OK other than the coach was more concerned about cost and color than about fabric quality (aka a pain to work with).  Yes they were supposed to be aliens and yes that is toilet paper rolls in her hair. They later got green twirly antenna to complete the hair-do. I'm swearing off sewing costumes for a while, thank goodness they bought the flags and didn't sew them this time.

Quilts, quilts, quilts

Sydney Haglund- Syd has made a special quilt for each one of her kids.  This is the last I quilted for her. This is for her daughter Heidi- thus all the "H's" around the border. Syd found a little booklet Heidi had made as a young child (approx 1st grade) that was a story about "The Dog". She recreated the book on this quilt using applique and embroidery using the exact shapes and lettering of the original.  It was entertaining to quilt this and read the "book".  

Sydney Haglund

Sydney Haglund- notice the stick figure of the little girl, this is a copy of a picture Heidi drew. Syd has no fear of mixing fabrics and styles and it makes her quilts lot of fun to quilt and see up close and personal.

I was at the American Fork quilt show this summer and loved this quilt, no wonder it looked so familiar- I quilted it a while ago.  The laughs on me. I love the fabric and color selection that Bambi Collins used

The judges loved it too - it got best of division. woohoo!
Bambi Collins

Bambi Collins

Bambi Collins

Carolyn Hermanson 2013 She brought this quilt to me very upset.  This is a difficult pattern and when she made the outside pieced border to fit, the inside was "Puffy".  I quilted the log cabins and the fruit trees down and there was extra fabric in the background, through lots and lots of background quilting the background pulled in and looks great.  These pictures were actually taken with the quilt hanging in a show- something she never  thought possible. 

Carolyn Hermanson 2013

Carolyn Hermanson 2013

                                             

some of my past quilts

Laural VerHaaren- She is one of my favorite piecers- she is precise  and it is a joy to quilt her quilts. This is for a store sample for Broadbents in Lehi, UT. 2012

Laural VerHaaren

Laural VerHaaren

Laural VerHaaren

Back of a Log Cabin/Oak Leaf quilt
LuJean Busk

LuJean Busk 2013

LuJean Busk
This is the front view

Lujean Busk

Detail of an opportunity quilt for New Friends Quilt Circle 2013
American Fork UT

Opportunity quilt New Friends 2013

Opportunity quilt 2013
They wanted hearts in the quilting

Debbie Bozung- her applique is amazing, loved doing this for her
2013

Debbie Bozung - full quilt, 

JoAnn Abel - Christmas block exchange

JoAnn Abel - Christmas block exchange

WooHoo We are finally live!

Here's my new look! How do you like it?  I am finally being pulled pushing and screaming into the blogosphere.  It's going to be lots of fun. I will be showing quilts I am working on, talking about quilty things, giving tips and showing quilt activities that are around and about.

Last Summer  my good friend Vonda Proctor was asked to make a quilt for the Mormon Trails Visitor Center in Omaha Nebraska.  I quilted it for her.  It was on display for several months there. It then won an Honorable Mention at HMQS this year. 

Exciting News

Hey ladies I decided to start a blog to show off all the awesome quilts I have done!