Block Sampler

This is Jean's first quilt.  She did a block of the month sampler with big blue borders.

It was hard to get a photo of the designs in the borders and sashings.  They are big feather mofits

 I quilted each of the sampler block with lines or feathers.

 

Medallion Star Sampler

This quilt was pieced by Janet K's mother.  I need to get her name because she was a very good piecer and very prolific.  These quilts are being quilted and finished in her memory.  I wish I could have met her.  She was not afraid of difficult blocks and Y-seams!  She made a feathered star for the center.  The surrounding blocks are all star sampler blocks, and not easy ones either.  She choose a few coordinating colors from a floral focus fabric, which she used in the border.

 

I followed the floral theme and quilted large flowers peaking out from each corner of the medallion center.

Feathers were quilted in the dark pink sashing.

 Small flowers were quilted in the triangle areas.  I did a small stipple in the white background areas that were smaller to make the stars pop.  I didn't quilt over the stars, only some stitch in the ditch, to keep them flat and help define the piecing.

I had planned to quilt a complicated floral design in the border and realized I wouldn't be able to see it.  So I quilted a piano key border (straight lines).  No photo, but it finished it off nicely.  

Quilts

Some of the last quilts for 2011.  I try to schedule edge-to-edge quilts in December.  I usually don't have time for intricate custom quilting in the XMas rush.  I had to take pictures in my quilt studio because the Christmas tree was taking up all the room upstairs.  The ceiling is lower, so pictures look a little different. 

This first quilt was pieced by Pat Cobb.  So bright and cheerful - made for a wedding present.

The quilting pattern is Flower Twirl. 

 

This two-color quilt was pieced by Marcia Obman-Gray.  A big bed-szie quilt - 105x x 105.  The pattern is Rapid Hunter Star.

The quilting pattern is Fiddlehead.  

 

A view from the back.

This next quilt was pieced by Joan Dolinar.  She made a sampler in autumn colors and added appliqued leaves. 

The quilting pattern is Woodlands.

Star Quilt

This quilt top was made by Janet K's mother, who passed away.  She found several pieced tops in her mother's sewing room.  Now they are getting quilted and bound.  They are a great memory of her mom and cherished by the family!

Star Sampler

 

Marge's Sampler

This lovely sampler was pieced by Marge M.  She wanted something with feathers.

 These blocks are "in process" - all the quilting had not been finished yet.

  Here are some finished blocks, with more quilting. 

Borders and the back of the quilt.