Time To Return

I have definitely been missing around here. Christmas preparations just took over along with customer quilts and suddenly here we are at the middle of January. Since one of the family Christmas get togethers wasn’t until Jan 8th, I was still sewing gifts until then. Combine that with 2 laptop computers going down and I’m surprised I still have a mind to think at all. I can’t access any pictures I saved to disk since I don’t have a working laptop. This post is being done on the IPad. Si I do have a couple of pictures I took after everything went haywire.

This is a double size quilt which my husband and I made for a teenage grandson. The lighter gray areas have drawings he drew. They are lightly colored so they really don’t show in this picture. The pictures are of a ninja man, gun, monster, snake, soldiers, etc. the outside border is Army fabric. The pieced block is called “musket ball.”. Thought that was appropriate given the type of drawings. Not an exciting quilt to me but our Grandson was pleased.

Also made 2 of these totes for ladies in the family.

Hopefully I’ll make a decision about a laptop and be able to post more recent quilt pics.

Thanks for stopping by.

Linda

Some Lovely Customer Quilts

Time for another mini-show of my customer’s quilts.

Andrea’s cats.

Andrea used a purple fabric pen to color some areas of the cats purple to coordinate with the border.

Diana’s string quilt in vibrant black, white, and fuchsia.

Simplicity pantograph

Jeanne’s Blooming Nine Patch with Whirlygig pantograph.

Mary’s Tennessee Star (I think that’s the name.)  I would love to have this quilt on my bed.

Rosie pantograph.

Lovely border.

The back.

Lastly, Marilyn’s applique quilt with custom quilting-feathers, pebbles, morphing (my kind of McTavishing), and sid.

Glad you stopped by to see these quilts.

Thanksgiving is just 2 days away.  I pray that even if you have challenges  or heartache in your life that you can find at least 5 things/people/situations to be thankful for.

I am Sew Grateful.

Linda

 

 

Bloggers Quilt Festival-Fall 2011

It’s always so much fun to look at all the quilts posted in the Bloggers Quilt Festival.  This year I thought I would post a quilt of mine.

This is a linen, wholecloth quilt.  I learned how to make this kind of quilt from a class by Cindy Needham.  The bridge tablecloth had embroidery on it so I design the quilting to enhance the embroidery.  I stitched it to a lovely piece of blue fabric and then quilted it.  I wanted it to have a pretty name and my husband suggested his grandmother’s name, Anna LaFrance.  The label is an old cocktail napkin and has a picture of her.  The hanging sleeve is a piece of lace.

This was the first quilt I’ve done of this type.  It was a trial run before I do a tablecloth that my Mom cross stitched.  I didn’t want to start with hers because I was so afraid I would ruin it.  Now I have the confidence to quilt her tablecloth.  It will be wonderful to be able to have something Mom made to snuggle in.

The Bloggers Quilt Festival can be found here

http://amyscreativeside.com/

 

If you need a longarm quilter, please don’t hesitate to contact me through the comments section.

Thanks for stopping by.

Linda

Fall Is Soccer Season

I have many, many pictures of grandkids playing soccer but as far as this grandma is concerned, you just can’t have too many!  Here’s the latest pics of Ethan playing soccer and his brothers playing around.

 

 

 

 

 

Brothers Evan and Collin playing around.

Ethan is a good athlete at the age of 6!

Thanks for stopping by.

Linda

Customer Quilt Show

Just a small quilt show of some recent customer quilts.

Barbara’s Batik Stars with Frisky Feathers Pantograph.  I love how these stars float.

Marian’s Snail Trail.  That might be Rosie Pantograph.

Marilyn’s Baby Pinwheels with Popcorn Pantograph using Sew Fine Thread.

 

 

Sandy’s Modern Blue/Grey Quilt with Bayside Pantograph

Vicky’s Bookcase quilt was a Round Robin that some friends made for her.  Custom quilting-feathers, flower background fill, wood meander, sid.

And Vicky’s Bird Quilt which has some embroidered blocks.

Pantograph in the center with custom in the border.

I love it when a customer picks up a quilt and I see delight in their eyes.  It makes my job so rewarding.

Thanks for stopping by.

Linda

Customer Quilts

Here’s 2 more customer quilts.  The first is Marian’s Shadow Box quilt with oriental fabrics.  I’m fascinated by the 3-D effect the black creates.  Love it.

Quilted with Along The Way pantograph.

 

 

The next quilt is Linda’s own design with William Morris fabrics.

Lush Leaves pantograph

Thanks for stopping by to visit.

Linda

Companion

My online dictionary is inaccurate.  It defines “companion” as “a person who is frequently in the company of”.  What’s wrong with that?  A person is defined as “a human being, whether man, woman, or child.”  There is no greater companion than the faithful, always accepting and desiring love, constantly there, dog.  Here’s Beau.  When I’m working on my Gammill quilting machine, he lies on an old practice piece under the Gammill.  On this day, he came out from behind the quilt to see if I was leaving the room or not.  I was still working so he went back under the machine to finish his nap.

He is my companion.

Thanks for stopping by to visit.

Linda

Some Beautiful Quilts

I’ve been forgetting to post pictures of the quilts I’ve quilted for customers.  Unfortunately there have been quite a few that I just didn’t take a picture of.  But here’s a couple of the most recent.

Jean’s Basketweave with Wildflower pantograph.

Pauli’s Patriotic quilt with Patriot pantograph.

Nancy’s Baby Quilt with Camellia pantograph.

Diana’s Shadow Box Quilt with Lush Leaves pantograph.

Hope you enjoyed the quilt show.  Thanks for stopping by.

Linda

Fourth of July

I love the 4th of July.  Perhaps it’s my favorite holiday.  This year the picnic and fireworks were rained out and I missed it terribly.  But earlier in the day Craig and I went out in our kayaks and had some relaxing fun.  For some however, it’s also a day of work.  Here’s Chris, son of my friend Joan,  burying a pipe.

Flags on bulkheads.

Craig and I fishing from our kayaks.

Craig is using his t-shirt as a sail!!!  It actually worked-a bit.

He’d love a small sailboat.  Don’t think this qualifies.

Thanks for stopping by.  Next post will be some customer quilts.

Linda

Heart Quilt and Inspiration

The pic below is of a heart quilt before binding.  This one was made by quilters who go to the West End Presbyterian church.  The pastor’s wife has a health issue and even though she is not a member of the Sandhills Quilters Guild, the quilters in the church decided to make one for her to let her know that we love and care for her.

I took these photos as inspiration for a future quilt.  The birds dump sunflower seed on the ground and the seeds grow sunflowers which we will let go to seed.  The birds will sit on them to feed.  I hope to get some pics of that.  I also had some beautiful hydrangeas this year.

Thanks for stopping by.

Linda