Wedding Guest Quilt

After short break to allow for the Holiday festivities - I can't imagine how hectic it is to go through Christmas with three pre-schoolers and then I found out the owner of this quilt also sings and is responsible for a number of performances during the holidays; busy busy busy! Anyway, we got together this week along with the Long-arm quilter and got this quilt in line for some custom quilting. the quilting will go around the writing in a vine/leaf pattern. Should be really beautiful. It is a long queue so won't get it back until late-February or March so the quilt should be ready for Easter.

Wedding Patchwork Quilt

I can't say that I've enjoyed this quilt top but I certainly have learned a lot by doing it. I got together with the owner last week to show her what I'd gotten done so far and much to my relief, she really liked it. Since it isn't my favorite style of quilting, I was really nervous that she wouldn't like it either. Thank goodness we all have different taste.

We picked out the material for the border - a beautiful medium grey - and I replaced several of the blocks in the top with this grey so it would look like that was the plan all along. Then, to make the quilt long enough to fit on top a queen sized bed, we added a couple rows that are mostly the grey with a few of the small squares along the row.

The border will be 10 inches - a little much for just one color given that the top is so busy so I'm suggesting we place the rest of the material squares around the border at random; sort'a make it look like they are floating.

Here are a few pictures that probably tell the story better than I do:

The last section - bottom

Top is finally done

Hard to see the details but here it all is

To the Manor Grown Quilt

While I was waiting to get together with these customers to move their projects to the next step, I had a little time to work on something I'd put together several months ago. I knew I didn't have enough material to make the quilt as large as the pattern - it was for a double bed and I had enough material for a Nap-quilt. And I was so captivated by the material and pattern, I forgot to take pictures along the way.

So here is what I ended up with. I found a great piece of material for the back and plan to do the quilting myself - something really simple so it doesn't distract from the material.

Lava Meets Sky Quilt

My photographer gets paid in quilts - no surprise there. She and her daughter have been working on collecting material for a quilt for her daughter (who's just graduated from college and has moved to California to live with her boyfriend and continue her path toward being a doctor). She found a picture on my Beautiful Material board and asked if I'd make that quilt for her. Of course the stuff on that board is what I like to look at but never intended to make so I had to give myself a little pep talk before accepting the challenge.

Now I have the material - all Robert Kaufman solids - and the blog which isn't really a pattern but gives me enough so I can make it happen. Once the decks are cleared of a few other projects, I'll start cutting. This one has several hundred half-triangle squares so it might take a little while to get it just right. Something tells me, my husband and his sharp eye for color and design is going to be involved in this project.

It's always better when I have a project just waiting to get started - helps me focus and get the nearly done ones done!