Gail O

Thanks so much.  The quilt is 114 x 100.  I wanted it big enough to drape on the sides and also to allow a little for shrinkage when it gets washed.   I did preshrink my Hobbs cotton batting but did not preshrink the batiks so we'll see how that goes someday... 
And Cagey, something that goes with my green walls was just what I was going for.  The wall color is called pale opal and I love it, but it Is not the easiest color to find coordinates for, even with all the fabric out there in the world.  Isn't it amazing how many colors of a color there are??
I love the movement on this quilt pattern, too.  I live by a huge lake and I was thinking of water with a little sand and grass when choosing my colors.  My husband's response when he saw it on the bed the first time was "it's crooked."  See what I deal with in my life everyday?  Gotta love'em.
Robin in MT

Just off my quilt frame this week, "Surf Song" bargello.  From the book Twist and Turn Bargello Quilts by Eileen Wright.  Needed a king size quilt for my bed and instead of adding borders to make a king sized "Surf Song" I kept building the bargello to the edges.  I quilted it with IQ and the panto Ripples by Lorien Quilting.  I will make coordinating batik pillowcases and of course still need to bind the beast!!
Robin in MT

I finished this quilt recently for a client.  She absolutely loved the way it turned out.  It's great when the pieces fall together and the client celebrates the job with you!!!

This is the quilt I made for my first granddaughter's graduation from the book Bella Bella quilts.  It is my version of NON-paper pieced paper piecing.  My mind just doesn't work backwards, so I break the pattern down into units and then connect them into the wedge segments.  I had my husband cut out plexi template rulers to trim the units.  I started this after Easter and it went together pretty quickly.  SID the borders and the outside of the Xs.  Feathers in the upper purple/teal sections and loops in the bottom ones.  The star is from a shirt from each grandpa, the dark from the other grandpa who has been gone a couple years now, the light from one swiped from my husband.  The label is inserted into the western snap pocket from the dark shirt with a ribbon and kite from hubby's shirt.
 

Over 50 pieces in the anchors ,micro stippling around anchors trying to make them pop,only thing I did not make are the three small pillows ,.....oh this was just also just a test run adding pics since I have been away from here in awhile .....................still no regrets on my purchase of my used milli,first longarm ever!!!

I finished my Petit Fours quilt last night! I'm very pleased with how it turned out. It's a layer cake/jelly roll pattern from Hummingbird Highway.  I tried a new binding technique that was shown at our last quilt guild meeting and just LOVE the effect it has on the quilt. It's a flange binding which gives it the piping detail look. Very easy to do and I think it gives this quilt a 'Tuxedo' look to it. 

Whew, thanks Heidi.  I thought I was the only on who never changed her canvas.  My machine is a 2009 and I do the same as Heidi.  Every now and then I zip them together and give them a spritz of water too.

I've had my Liberty 9 years and I've replaced them three times.  The first time I changed them was because they were stretched,  Then I ordered some canvases that had been printed with a one inch grid and other markings.  I thought I would love them.  I did not.  That was also my phase of "zippers".  Didn't like those either.  Then I decided I wanted some pretty canvas.  Nope that was kind of stupid.  So now I'm back to my natural colored canvases and I seem to be content with them.  It's not hard to change them and the canvas is cheap enough.  The hardest thing is the first time and fear of messing them up.  I think how often you would need to change them would depend on how many quilts you do.  I quilt in spurts and only for myself and I let my friends quilt on my machine and I figure about every 3 - 5 years at least.   

Replace them every so often...lol.

I use custom printed labels that I sew on when I'm doing binding on my projects.  I purchased them here: https://ikaprint.com/?wpam_refkey=5
You can see the label in the corner of the backing. The front has my 'business name' and when you flip it up it has my name.  They are nice quality, not too expensive and I think it was 100 labels in the pack.

This small quilt is a gift for a new mom to be's baby shower next weekend. I've known this lady for about 25 years since she was about 12. It took her a long time to meet Mr Right and now they are expecting their first - a little boy. This pattern is a MSQC and is in the tutorials. 2 charm packs used with poly blend batt and glide threads. 

I remembered I had the email of her DIL and emailed her.  Rita is still in the hospital.  She had breathing related complications but seems to be doing better as of this week.  I'll let you know if I hear anything further.

I just published the latest Quiltniques blog post: http://quiltniques.blogspot.com/  Enjoy.

Cagey I am sure modern quilters love that elephant in those colors
I had to look past that and put my scrappy twist on it.
I love mixing different color prints together that people say don't go together and make something beautiful. 
I have made an orange one for myself I shrunk it down in size to be able to display it where I want. He is on my long arm right now 
He is bright and beautiful. I will post him soon. 

Terry, that is over the top wonderful!  Congrats on creating a masterpiece.

I call myself the 'cobbler with no shoes'  because I quilt for everyone else except me!  
So my goal was to make a quilt for our new house,   our new bed....
 
I wanted calm neutral colours reminding me of sand or pebbles.....I made this quilt  using the pattern "Sweet Garden" from Carolina Patchworks.    I was intending to make the entire king size with this pattern -  and I did.  Then I hated it, so I chopped 2/3s of the pattern off and added white for some neutral breathing space.  
 
Simple quilting in between the blocks.   
And then I got carried away in the white.     [
 
 

So I have been very busy lately. If you follow me on FB or IG you will know the following. We moved both our stores together to one new location! We started Dec. 26 and opened Jan. 6, one week ahead of our self imposed opening day. We are very tired but it is a good tired!
As you may remember my Longarm was in our classroom. Now I have my own space!!!!!! I am thrilled with my new space! Not only that we added Quilt Path to my 2009 Millennium and added a new Milli!!! I have a new assistant, Sabrina, who introduced herself here earlier today with the handle Fried Green Tomatoes. Sabrina will be helping me with all sorts of things as well as running Quilt Path. She is young, and catches on to computer stuff very fast.
RoseCity Quilter New Studio by -RoseCity Quilter-
My new Milli!
6B9B01ED-FE6B-4EDB-A098-DA18F61F07D7-172 by -RoseCity Quilter- Sabrina and her 1st Quilt Path quilt!
RoseCity Quilter New Studio by -RoseCity Quilter-
My new pressing station, 111" long!
Lots more pictures on my latest blog:
https://rosecityquilter.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/organizing-my-studio/

UPDATED FEB 3,2022
Thank you for your overwhelming interest in this piece I quilted for my client back in 2015.  
many have inquired about the pattern for the quilt as well as the digital patterns for the quilting.  
I have attached the book used to inspire this piece as my client did do modifications to the pattern 
for the Stars to fit her liking.  
The Quilting was all freehand on my APQS Milli.  of course,... you could use a feather stencil or digital feather design 
and a ruler for the straighline work... 
I hope this helps anyone looking to make this quilt,.. or a version of it,.. 
Happy Quilting
Laura

Update,..... 
I did point out mistake to customer and we both decided it needed to be fixed. 
so,... spent an afternoon picking out stitches,  and 10 minutes to restitch the Feather,...
I was happy to do it as it was my mistake,.... 
I always point out mistakes if any,.. big or small
and let the customer decide,.... 
this one I knew she would want fixed,.... 
She is very pleased with the end result!!! 
and so am I!!! 
Thanks for looking ,.... 
Happy Quilting,...
Laura
 
 
 
 
Love the combination of the two,...  Simple,.. with a pop!!! 
I used a double Cotton Batting on this one,..  wanted the feathers to stand up
and take center stage,... Matching Glide Threads in the Grey, Burgundy and White Areas,...
Thanks for looking,...
 
** can you see the mistake?  Found it after I pulled it off the frame,....  :0)
 
 

I have 3 of these quilts to quilt. Lera did this blue quilt and the pink quilts for her granddaughters for Christmas.  I have one more and it is in red, white and blue and is made by Virginia. The pattern is by Amy Bradley.
 
Used 80/20 batting with Metro and Glide threads.  Thanks for looking. I think these two girl are going to be very happy!!!
 
Of course there are more pictures on flickr.  LOL
 
 
 
 
20151022_124918 by Dell Dunman, on Flickr
20151022_124944 by Dell Dunman, on Flickr
 
20151018_163445 by Dell Dunman, on Flickr
20151018_163505 by Dell Dunman, on Flickr

So I discovered today that putting a quilt top on my table to work on later might not be the best idea. Right now I'm still learning quilting and just working on my own projects so not a huge deal. If I ever start doing customers quilts I will probably need to make my sewing room a cat free zone.

Hi Everyone.
 
It's been awhile since I've popped in here to share anything, but I've been working on my studio to update it with better lighting and a ceiling and cleaner look. There were many times I searched the forum on ideas for lighting. My situation is that I'm in a basement with no windows and low ceilings. Thank you for all your help.
 
Loaded with ideas about fluorescent tube lighting, Deloa's lighting system, track lighting, pot lights, etc., I finally decided on pot lights that could be set in between the rafters, thus allowing the drop ceiling to remain as high as possible. We put lots of pot lights in - 29 to be exact. There are 4 BR30's in the main part of the room and 4 above the table providing good all over light. Then there is a row of 4 GU10's on either side of the table pointing towards the table. The row of pot lights above the table and the 2 rows of GU10's on either side are on their own sets of dimmer switches (3 dimmer switches - one for each row) allowing me to control where the light is coming from depending on which side of the table I'm working at and what type of quilting I'm doing.
 
I'm working on my first quilt with the new set up today!
 
You can see the pictures of the progress of my studio from 2005 to current here.

Hi everyone! I'm finally responding to Ardelle's challenge to post pictures! Due to my crazy busy life, I was only able to complete 2 quilts in the past year. In less than 5 years, I've been blessed with 5 grandbabies... the 6th is due any day, and I haven't even started a baby quilt yet! These little munchkins plus a full time job keep a Gramma busy! LOL
Both quilts are bargellos... "Lightning Strikes" is one of my favorite patterns. The first, the green one, was made for my son's wedding last January. One of my first attempts at custom, I sweat buckets over the thought, but in the end, I'm pleased with how it turned out. I used Ronda Byer's rulers for the border... first attempt with them. They are so easy to use. Quilter's dream wool, it's my new favorite batting), and a silver/grey minky on the back. Ok, now to try posting pictures, fingers crossed that it works.

IMG_5811 by Sharon M2013, on Flickr

IMG_5818 by Sharon M2013, on Flickr

IMG_5814 by Sharon M2013, on Flickr

IMG_5812 by Sharon M2013, on Flickr

IMG_5824 by Sharon M2013, on Flickr


IMG_5820 by Sharon M2013, on Flickr
The second, oranges & browns, was for my daughter & son-in-law. She wanted the quilting to follow the lines of color. Was tons of rolling back & forth, I think it took longer than the first one. Again, Quilters dream wool, and brown minky on the back.
Both quilts are king size... 110 x 110 They take up my entire floor space in the living room

IMG_6206 by Sharon M2013, on Flickr

IMG_6207 by Sharon M2013, on Flickr

IMG_6208 by Sharon M2013, on Flickr

IMG_6214 by Sharon M2013, on Flickr

Both girls picked the Lightning Strikes pattern, and they each chose their own colors, all Jinny Byer fabrics. I have her portable pallette... such a wonderful tool for choosing fabrics, especially bargellos. No issues at all with the minky backing, it quilted beautifully
Thanks for looking, and thanks for the challenge Ardelle! And thanks also to Heidi for the instructions on using Flickr