My best friend forever (well, since we were 7) found this quilt top at an estate sale and paid $.25 for it!!! That's 25 CENTS! I talked her into letting me quilt the top......It was a challenge. The quilter had handpieced it and wasn't too accurate with seams, etc. But I think it came out great!!!! Thank you, Diane, for trusting me with this!!!

I had the honor of longarming 4 quilts for a customer. The quilts were pieced by her late mother-in-law. It was fun to do some of the traditional designs........and have free reign for the quilting. Thank you Pattie, for trusting me with these treasures!

Quilt #2

Quilt #3

Quilt #4

Red White, and Blue Star Quilt

This beautiful quilt was made by my fellow quilter, Marie. It's an absolutely stunning quilt to begin with! The pattern is called Eldon in a book called Laundry Basket Quilts. This quilt measures 90 x 100"!!!

2012 Southwestern Quilt for the Shriners

It's been a while since I posted!!! This quilt is called SOUTHWESTERN --- the pattern for the quilt is called Midnight in Santa Fe by J. Michelle Watts. My friend, Patrick pieced the quilt and I quilted it for the Yuma Shriner's to raffle off this winter! The total size is 97" x 100". There are so many components to it....all freemotion quilted. (CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO ENLARGE)

This was a fun quilt to make! YES, I actually found time to piece this quilt -- I actually designed, pieced AND quilted it. It's a special quilt for my hairdresser :) We bartered -- I won't be paying for hair cuts for a lONG time to come. :) I got the patterns for the blocks from various places ---internet, books, magazines AND one block is my own design. CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO ENLARGE IT

And here's ANOTHER Stack and Whack for customer, Cathy. This has more detail - more custom quilting. Notice the McTavishing on the white inner border and the pebbles in the squares and triangles in each block. These designs take a long time but are SO impressive!

This is a beautiful quilt for customer, Sheila. The pattern of the quilt is called "Stack and Whack".

Texas Star quilt

The owner of this quilt and I lovingly call this quilt "the Monster".  It's 100" x 110" and seem HUGE compared to others!  It's paper pieced!  The block is called Texas Star from the book "50 Fabulous Paper Pieced Stars" by Carol Doak.  The owner, Cathy, wanted LOTS of feathers and McTavishing (the background filler by the stars).  I used invisible thread around the stars and on the 'teepees' on the border.  The rest was quilted with Superior's King Tut thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting.  To say I enjoyed doing the feathers and McTavishing is putting it mildly -- I loved it!!!!