If you look closely, you will notice that I alternated two different patterns. One with honey pots and one with buzzing bees. If you look even closer, you will notice all the novelty fabrics in this stunning layout. Simply BEE-utiful!

This quilt was made in loving memory for a daughter. I was asked to make the memory block different from the flower blocks. What an honor to be part of this project.

The dancing daisies in aqua thread almost look like drawing on a chalk board. Love the texture it gives the back!

Fuzzy flannels, and pine cones quilted in brown thread will make this a very cozy cabin quilt.

Bright jewel tone fabrics straight from the island look great with the lime and black fabrics. The variegated thread looks magnificent and brightens up the black. I wonder if this is how Hawaii looks at night?

Variegated black and white thread quilted a curly design in the pieced center of the quilt. The red flange was spared any quilting. The border was treated with a complimentary design with black thread. My favorite is the sprinkle of red in the quilt.

A few years ago I was asked to take antique blocks from a cedar chest and make a bed runner. My customer came back and asked me to make matching pillow shams to complete the set. While the feathers in the diamond shape between the patchwork is computerized, the feathers in the border are uniquely my own free hand feathers. The feathers in the half diamond are also free hand. I just love how it turned out.

This great quilt is off to college! Texas tech themed fabrics in a block design go perfect with the red and black backing. I was able to find a Texas Tech quilting design and it was the perfect addition to the quilt.

Pull this quilt out in September and you don’t have to pack it away until January. One side is Halloween themed fabrics in orange and black and the other is Christmas fabrics in reds and greens. I used a metallic red, green and silver thread on the Christmas side and a gray thread on the Halloween side to quilt spider webs that remarkably look great no matter which side you are looking at.

This rail quilt top made from bright batiks is the perfect compliment to the backing that just happened to be in this piecer’s stash. It would have been wonderful if I would have realized that it was upside down when I took the picture, but you get the idea.

These printed blocks are illustrations from a children’s book that will be given with the quilt. What a terrific idea! Little curls bring some whimsy to the block layout/

Sometimes I am glad that I am the quilter and not the piecer. Keeping track of the fabrics on this one would have driven me crazy but I love the color placement. Dense quilting adds texture to the fractals.

Sweet dreams little one. This cloud and star design looks great on this flannel baby quilt and is sure to put baby to sleep! If not, there is plenty in the fabrics to stay occupied!

This geometric quilt is stunning and complex. I added whirly gig quilting designs that could interlock. My yin to her yang.

Here is the second of the Urban Grid quilts. My backing is one of the busy fabrics from the quilt top. The design is for texture and stands out well on the creamy background fabric. From the leftovers, I made a pillow case to go with the quilt. My favorite part of the quilt is the layout which worked great for this sampler.

My girlfriend and I did a block of the month together so our quilt tops look very similar. However, with different backings and different quilting designs, they are totally distinctive. She has a gold backing that shows off the spikey quilting design. Looks amazing. Stay tuned for tomorrows blog post to see the other quilt.

Sprinkled across the curved blocks is machine embroidered lettering characterizing the sounds that barnyard animals make, such as MOO or QUACK-QUACK. What a unique embellishment. The backing is blue minke and it was perfect to show off my barnyard quilting design.

Digital panel prints combined with an attic window layout makes this a beautiful wall hanging front and back. Lavender thread looks like twilight and was perfect for the quilting.

Vivid and bright colors frame the center block of butterflies. Just to tempt them to fly away, I quilted a cloud pattern across the quilt.

I wish I could have captured the excitement from this brand new quilter when she dropped off her quilt top. It was surpassed with her euphoria when she picked up the finished product.

What do you do with left over blocks??? Why, make a matching table runner, of course. I matched the quilting designs to the quilt and this would make a beautiful dresser runner in the same room that the quilt is in.

Pictures did not do this quilt justice. I used a peachy gold thread for the curls in the sashing and for the feathers in the pink border. I used a black thread to outline the scrollwork in the border and the hand appliqued blocks. I finished with a background fill in the black fabric that let everything else pop up. Just gorgeous!

I loved the lime green, white and royal blue color combination so much I found a variegated thread in the same colors. This three leaf design was the perfect texture through out the quilt.

The colors in this quilt reminds me of the blue china dishes that my grandmother used to have. The blues are beautiful and I would have kept this quilt if I could.

Cute woodland animals on front and back are joined with quilted animals for a toddler quilt that is sure to please! I see tigers and giraffes all quilted with gold thread.