Lone Star Custom

Those of you that know me, know I love love love doing freehand feathers.  Well I definitely had my chance to do feathers on this quilt. This is a full custom with 3 thread color changes.  A wonderful quilt from my customer Lisa which will be a Christmas gift for her mother-in-law. I have a few more quilts to do before I book off for Christmas so I'd better get back at it.

T Shirt Quilt - Custom Quilting

Wow - All I can say is "man it's a busy time of the year".  I just finished custom quilting this T-Shirt quilt for my friend Jane.  What an amazing labour of love for her daughter who played volleyball for a number of years.  I tried to use a number of different fill stitches and was fairly happy with the results.

"Sister's At Heart" Wins at the Calgary Stampede

I've been meaning to post a photo of my beautiful blue ribbon but quilting got in the way - go figure.  Anyways, yes "Sister's At Heart" did win a blue ribbon at the Calgary Stampede.  I think Lynn would be proud.  This is the quilt I made in memory of my best friend Lynn who passed away August 2009.

Scrappy Flannel Quilt

Well as some of you know I do try and still get a bit of piecing done in between longarm quilting for others.  This is a scrappy flannel birthday quilt for one of my grandson's. I quilted it with a pantograph called "Sea Weed" by Lorien Quilting. But the one thing I still don't understand - is how come my scrap bin is still as full as it was??????  The pattern started out being out of Judy Marin's book but ended up being my own design - those that know me shouldn't be surprised.

Glamorgan Care Centre

My friend Max (the charity coordinator for our quilt guild) and I delivered over 20 quilts to the Glamorgan Care Centre here in Calgary yesterday to be given to the residence to help keep them warm this winter.  Hopefully the quilts will put a smile on their faces and that they will enjoy them as much as we enjoyed making them.

This was the 2009/2010 charity chosen by our quilt guild. Each of the 19 members made at least one quilt - but I know for sure there were some that made more. All the ladies in our guild are so talented and so very very generous - hats off to all of them for such a job well done!

Le Jardin Won 2nd Place Ribbon - Calgary

My customer Kerry took 2nd place at the Creative Sewing Festive here in Calgary in the large wall quilt division.  Kerry did such an awesome job on this gorgeous applique quilt and yes I'm going to take a wee bit of credit for the quilting. If you're a quilter, do scrapbooking, sewing, knitting, etc. etc. and live in Calgary this show is a must to see.

Snowman Applique Quilt

Another adorable applique quilt from my customer Kerry.  This one I used 100% wool batting and Wonderfil Invisifil thread.  I did light custom quilting in the appliqued blocks, some ruler work in the pinwheel and log cabin blocks and freehand quilting in the borders.