April in review

What a month of beautiful quilts!  I know, almost every quilt I receive from a customer is beautiful, but this month was no exception!

We'll start with Pat's Timeless Treasures peacocks.  This is an awesome fabric line, such vibrant colors!

Then on to Mary's Blooming 9-Patch... again, beautiful!

Then Sallie's embroidered beauty.

Here is Shay's embroidered quilt that she made for her 90-year-old Mother for Mother's Day.

and the back.  As a longarm quilter I absolutely love when my customers bring solid/mottled backs.  It is such a surprise when you unload the quilt to see yet another quilt on the back!

Then Norma brought me two quilts, exactly the same.  My goal was to quilt them similar but different... here is "Twin" Quilt #1

And here is "Twin" Quilt #2 (no, you're not seeing double, look closely)

So that was pretty much April.  No, really, a lot of other things happened, but I couldn't possible bore you with those details!   Oh, wait, I did participate in a photo challenge, I posted the pics and info on my other blog, you can view it here.  That was loads of fun, I've already started the May Challenge also (it's addicting)!

Family Reunion Quilt

Here is Judy's latest quilt.  Just like the title says, it is a family reunion quilt -- 35 blocks made by everyone in the family.  HOW COOL IS THAT!  I absolutely love the idea behind this quilt and was excited from day one to work on this - trying to using varying quilting styles to keep all the blocks similar but different and yet to keep the density levels balanced - fun! 

Judy emailed pictures to everyone and I'm going to use her pictures because they turned out better than mine -- I'll just blame it on really bad lighting at my house that day, okay?!! 

So here we go -- there are a lot of them.

March... over?

March is already over?  I just don't understand where time is going nor do I understand my lack of updating this blog... I have set an alarm on the phone for a weekly reminder, now I'm just hoping that I don't ignore it!

So March quilts go kind of like this:

Sally's Florida Quilt -- super duper cute!  It totally says "Florida" -- she wanted something cute and simple, I think we conquered that!  After I shipped this quilt back to Sally she sent me a note that simply said "perfect" -- that made my day!

Then on to Linda's oriental fabrics -- this is a gift for her daughter, lucky lucky!  She wanted bamboo everywhere.  Again, I think we conquered that one too.  Linda was more than happy and hopefully her daughter will be too!

 

Ellen had a kaleidoscope quilt.  I absolutely LOVE these colors -- I think grey and yellow are big this year, or maybe it's just me...  either way this quilt turned out fantastic!

Then on to Joyce's two color quilt.  Another one I LOVE.  I adore monochromatic quilts, sometimes I think it is harder to achieve awesome results when using just tones and values.  The back of her quilt looks fantastic too!



 

So that was March... I still can't believe it is April.  Sooooo many crazy things going on in my life right now, more details on the other blog.

Until next time, Happy Quilting!