Center Ice

I've gotten permission to share this quilt now...actually, I received the permission about a month ago, but ALL of my computer time in the past month was spent on non-quilty things, so now I'm catching up here.   

Vicki made this quilt for her son, the pattern is Center Ice by Gendora's Girl (Jacque Riddlemoser), and I cannot find a link for it that isn't Pinterest, so I didn't link to the pattern.  Vicki altered the pattern to suit herself. 

If you look closely you can see Vicki embroidered some facial details.

The colors, are, of course, the team her son played on, and his number.   I love love love the laces on the skates. 

This is an example of light custom quilting--it pays attention to the piecing, but doesn't involve rulers or other very time intense quilting.  The center ice is jagged straight lines--like the ice surface looks after the game is in progress.

The black edges got loopys -the hockey players spin a lot too, moving the puck around, avoiding the other team.  Some ribbon candy in that inner border--like skating around pylons during drills.

and some jagged continuous curve in the 'boards' 

I echoed around the hockey player, and did some contour stitching within, he was too large to leave unquilted.....it shows better from the back.  The backing is a lovely navy cuddle. 

Her son now has this quilt on his bed in the dorm at University.  

Horses and Alligators and Dinosaurs

I made this quilt for a special little guy who was born this summer.   It is a Yellow Brick Road  (green and blue road?)   This quilt is really about the animal fabrics.   Baby's Mom and Grandma are horse riders, so this fabric bundle from Carola's Quilt Shop was pretty much a given.  I added a blue from my stash. 

 The alligators make me think of my 2 year old nephew, who spent a weekend with us recently .  He puts his arms together and hinges from the elbows to make the alligators snap snap snap.  :)

 He also enjoys the dinosaurs we have around the house, pointing at them and trying to say pterodactyl  (ter -dac), so I imagine the baby who owns this quilt might someday really enjoy these critters.

 A baby blue fireside fleece on the back (color didn't photo well).

 Our resident dinosaurs---from a welding camp my son took at SAIT many years ago.  The pterodactyl looks a lot less menacing in real life than in the photo, truly. 

Quarter Sections for BJB

It's summer, and I get to quilt my own!!  This is a quilt I made for a dear friend.  It is the Quarter Sections pattern by Highway 10 designs.

  

It's a great Fat Quarter pattern, very little waste, adaptable to the size of quilt/number of fat quarters you want.  I used 12 FQ for this generous lap/throw/napping quilt.  I needed a long quilt for a long lady.

 I love the variety of fabrics in this one, and the lovely brown tones. And, as a prairie dweller, I love how the design looks like the land from the air.  Farm land in the Canadian prairies is divided into sections (square mile) and quarter sections (1/2 mile x 1/2 mile) and then further divided into homesteads, smaller fields and pastures.  Now, of course, the fields are getting larger - fewer divisions, but the imagery still holds.   

 My friend came to visit, and asked if I ever sold quilts.  I said no, and we looked at my longarm and talked about the quilts I had hanging in my house and so many other things, a great, too short visit.   But before she left that day, I handed her this quilt, in a gift bag, and said "I don't sell my quilts but I do give them away".   There may have been tears--from both of us :) 

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Herringbone Pillow

I had made eldest an un-Broken Herringbone quilt ( see it here) a few years ago, and had some left over fabrics from that quilt.  I decided to make her a pillow, and was going to use Woodberry Way's quilted braid pillow tutorial, but when I pulled out the fabrics, I decided I'd rather make one large herringbone, similar to the quilt.

 That made the piecing very simple, and so I had lots of fun with the quilting.

 

The three panels before quilting   I used the same 3 panel pillow construction method from Elizabeth Hartman's patterns that I used in making the Yeti Pillow. 

 And that has used every bit of that fabric!  

Medallion Quilt

Isn't this a gorgeous photo of a gorgeous quilt?   I totally stole the photo from QuiltKat's insta.  I think she took the quilt on a road trip before gifting it.

The mariners compass is a Petra Prins design, and the other rounds Katherine picked from a variety of sources.  I love quilting for Katherine, because I love the variety of fabrics she uses, and the designs she picks

 I'm sure you can see why I stole, borrowed, repurposed Katherine's photo, as these are the best whole quilt photos I got.

The rest of the photos can just speak for themselves

Pinwheel

Linda brought me this giant pinwheel quilt and wanted to have some fun with the quilting on the large grey triangles, much as I had done with my Elephant Abstractions and Abilene


I was happy to oblige

 I repeated elements in each quarter, so there would be some constancy across the quilting. 

 I was adding lots of texture in the large triangles, the smaller pinwheels got a very constant texture--u turns in the blue-grey, and herringbones in the print. 

Thanks for letting me play Linda!

Triangles

Dana made this quilt for her nieces wedding.   I loved looking at all the fabrics she used as I quilted. 

 Dana wanted wavy lines for the quilting--something very organic. 

 And she brought this wideback grunge dot for the backing. 

Kaffe Fish

 Margo brought me this Kaffe Fish quilt, and she wanted wavy lines.  I decided to, as much as possible, echo and follow the shape of the fish.

Aren't these fish fun?   And the polka dots checkerboard and sashing finish it off nicely. 

 The minkee backing shows the quilting nicely, although the photo doesn't show the true color.  It was a lovely dark purple, you can see a bit of it in the first photo.. 

A bright and cuddly quilt for some lucky baby. 

The Butterfly Quilt

 Marilyn made this gorgeous version of  Tula Pinks The Butterfly Quilt

 These two peacocks got a little bit of custom treatment, and the rest of the quilt was stitched in an edge to edge E's and 3's.  

 Marilyn reported that she had a lot of fun making this quilt.  It was her winter project.

 It was certainly fun to quilt, seeing all the little blocks she had made, and the fabric choices.

 I think the E's and 3's represent the breeze, or the Butterfly's path as it wings about.