Thread Play

This is a small piece of a customer wall hanging. Each wild flower of the batik is outlined by quilting. The thread used is dark green to blend with the background. The other half of the square is 1/4" echo quilting with tan thread.

The black batting is wonderful - no bearding and easy to needle.

Geese

Over a year ago I completed a double size quilt from geese square made during the 1930's by a twelve year old girl from a NH farm. The squares were calico geese button stitched on heavy muslin. I enjoyed finishing the piece for the sewer who lives in a nearby assisted living home and her family.
I have worked on many antique animal motif quilts before - butterflies, scottie dogs- but this was the first goose quilt. SO I made a little plastic template of one of the geese.
This baby quilt is made from the template. I choose a favorite yellow print on a heavy muslin. For quilting I outlined the geese and echoed 1/4" inside the geese, outlined the seams and started to crosshatch. The muslin was so heavy I cut the crosshatching short. It was like quilting through cardboard.
I plan to make more of these animal baby quilts.

Plaid Quilt

I have always loved plaids. Making a plaid quilt has been on my idea list for a couple decades. This is the beginning.

10" squares with the solid navy appliqued by hand. Each square is different - primarily plaids with a few stripes. Color ranges in blues, maroons and dark tans.

Not sure yet how big this project will be. I'll go until I run out of fabric. It will probably be lap size.

Progress with Rob's creation

During a few days off from my day job, I worked on adding more layers to this wall hanging. The white horseshoe crabs will have black eyes and shell details.

The center quilting has begun with ditch and 1/4" lines quilting. The dark blue will have wave quilting lines.

The only layer left to add is a ring of sail boats on the dark blue ring.

Fish baby quilt top

Another quilt top finished and waiting for autumn weather quilting. Quilting lines will be clam shell design to look like ocean waves on the aqua. Fish will be quilted in the ditch and scale designs on fish.

Each of the four large fish is being followed by three or four smaller fish.

Tee-shirt quilt

This is the third tee-shirt quilt I've made. It is tied in each corner and quilted in the sashing and border. There is 25 tee shirt squares. The mottled batik tan border was added to give height (the owner is over 6'). It is quilted with cross hatching.
Batting used is cotton. This is a very heavy quilt.
It is finished with a month to spare.

Color in the garden

Finally some color in the garden.
After what seems like weeks of rain, the day lilies are blooming. This garden has a yellow/ pink/ white palette. I'm considering removing the coneflowers to the back purple/blue garden.
No rain forecast for today. I'll be weeding, removing thousands of slugs and snails, and generally helping that beaten down look of the gardens.