Move Over 2

 This is Colleen's Move Over quilt.    It got the Modern Maze#2 pantograph on it.  It's an intricate panto, perfect on this quilt. 

 

 It's funny (to me, because I don't know much about photography) how minkee photographs.  This is a lovely charcoal minkee on the back. 

Lori's quilt - Move Over

 This is Lori's quilt.  I don't know the name of the pattern--it is a kit she bought somewhere, and so I didn't really know what else to call this post.    The kid is from Connecting Threads and the pattern is called Move Over.  I've been told if you're careful with the cutting you can get two quilts from one kit.

  I don't often choose to put a pantograph a quilt, but this top (and it's luscious backing) was asking for something interesting and varied, and so I chose to put Modern Maze#2 on it. 

 It adds nice movement and interest, lots of variation, and modern, which suits the top nicely.   I also know that this top will belong to a man, so this panto suits that as well.

 And this lovely grey Shannon Cuddle backing, this I know came from All Stitched Up in Olds.  It was a wide back, so no piecing required!  Love it when I'm not having to deal with a backing seam in minkee.

I hadn't told Lori it was ready, and was going to her place for a day of quilting....she had found this and unpacked it and was fully admiring before I'd made my second trip back from the vehicle.  I think it was a hit!! 

Modern Maze #2

I had the chance to quilt up two of my own quilts in the past few months.  The first was made for someone special and given away.

The pattern is Fat Quarter Frolic, however I called mine Fat Quarter Frenzy, because I was in such a 'frenzy'  cutting the fabric before going to retreat last fall that I made errors, and had to add in new fabrics. 

 Most of the fabrics came from a FQ pack I bought when we were on a family vacation in Oregon a few summers ago.  And the rest came from my stash and scrap bin.

 The colors are so bright and cheery.  The recipient of the quilt is a teen, so I went with a very modern pantograph (plus, I wanted to use this pantograph).

 The minkee backing is so soft and plush, and shows the quilting so wonderfully.

You can see other variations on this same quilt Patty's here made with Ty Pennington fabrics and Marilyn's--I forget the name of the fabric collection she used.

And, since I've been teaching classes, I've discovered I don't have a quilt in my house that has been pantographed, to take along for show and tell, and I since I loved how this pantograph stitched up and looks, I used the same design on this next quilt, which I will keep, for now.

 This quilt was made from an Indigo Sushi-roll (which is a small jelly roll), and a turquoise batik.  It was very hard to match those indigos to anything, so I was quite pleased when I found this quilt pattern, which was a bali-pop tutorial at 2nd Avenue Studio.

 Nancy's version of this quilt can be seen here, she used an alternate block setting and changed up that wider rectangle.

 I used a navy minkee on this one. 

I recently saw Krista Wither's Modern Maze #1 stitched out as well, and its also yummy.  Not your Grandma's pantograph, that's for sure ;)

And now I have a sample for when I teach my next class, which is scheduled for June 7.  If you want in, give Lucie a call at Chinook Fabrics.