Donna's String Quilt

 This is Donna's string quilt, and I love how she graded the colors from dark to light.    It has just occurred to me now, though, that perhaps she meant it to be light at the top and dark at the bottom.  I apologize if I've got your quilt upside down Donna.

 Donna knew that she wanted the Flamingo Sunset pantograph, so the only decision I had to make was thread color.  Which was so fine 509, denim. 

Lisa's quilt

 I realized as I was starting to write this post that I've thought of this as a Bear's Paw quilt--but it isn't.  So now I don't know what to call it.  Other than a lovely quilt made by Lisa for her own use. 

 She said it went together really quickly, which is sometimes such a treat after working on an intricate or detailed quilt.   The paisley fabrics are beautiful.

 Lisa picked out the flamingo sunset panto by Anne Bright. 

Flamingo Sunset

Here's another Yellow Brick Road quilt.  I've been quilting this pattern for almost 8 years now, I'm sure more than 30 of them...I've quilted them each differently too, I think.  They've all been freehand except for this quilt makes the 3rd pantograph.

The pantograph on this is Anne Bright's Flamingo Sunset.  I bought 5 pantographs from Anne at MQX West last October, and this is the 2nd one I've used.  I chose this one because it doesn't feel gender specific (no flowers), and we don't know who the recipient of this quilt will be yet.   I don't usually quilt this openly, so it's good to practice a more open stitching pattern, and it stitched up nicely.  I think quilting more densely came from only having 5-6" of quilting space before with my other setup...

If the word flamingo wasn't in the name of the pantograph, I wouldn't be able to pick that shape out at all.