Minnesota Hot Dish Quilt

This is my customers first quilt. I tried to get a photo where you could see the great background I did on this quilt.


I never like using the Rainbow or Lava thread. I am a total tone on tone kind of girl (I worked tone on tone into the the black background). But... I must say this looked pretty good in person and I am proud of how it turned out. I did the feather wreaths on all the colored squares. I then followed the long cross on the quilt with a whimsy little leaf. I think it probably looked better in person than these images show.


The feather was dependent on the size of the cross. I think it worked out in the end and I liked how it gave the blocks some attitude.


Then I had the piano keys that I just did a row of feathers on. I think the color of the thread worded out and I did get a little goofy in a couple places, but I think they still look good.


Another partial photo.


Here is the whole quilt. I can't wait for summer when I can get some better photos. I am totally not able to get the great background on this quilt.


Living the dream, one quilt at a time. Thanks for looking.
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Hot off the frame

Here is where I will start. ...


This is a customer quilt that took a little longer than I expected. I just kept going and going, before I knew it, I had been at it a week. I had a couple distractions but I worked on it pretty steady for a couple days.
The first photo is a picture of the quilt draped on the frame just after I finished it.
...and now for the best part...
Here are a couple of the blocks.


























Here is the border with piano keys. I just love the way a quilt looks with the piano keys added to the feathers.



This is my favorite block.



Here is a shot of the quilting in process. I always like taking these kind of pictures...let me see if I can find another one. It looks so cool to see the quilt in process. These blocks look so lofty because my customer requested wool batting.
This quilt just looks so good to me. I fully enjoyed making the quilting fit the quilt. I hope my customer likes the quilt as much as I do. I think this quilt is so nice, I am excited to get going on my "Love Letters" quilt that I have been sitting on for a couple months now. I better get busy...


I hope you enjoyed the pictures, I know I sure did enjoy the quilting.


thanks for looking.
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A bunch of quilts for my customers

This is going to be a pretty long post, mostly of just photos and slideshows. I feel like I have to tell you what I have been up to, here is a couple slide shows for a couple of the quilts I have been working on.

This free slideshow created with Smilebox Slideshow created with Smilebox

Another digital slideshow by Smilebox

This free slideshow design generated with Smilebox

This quilt was a charity quilt for a group of women that wanted to give a quilt to the little girl in Bremerton that was shot by her classmate.

Personalize a photo slideshow

This is another quilt that was quilted for charity.

Slideshow design personalized with Smilebox

Thanks for looking. I need to get back to work, hopefully I will have a couple other quilts to post in the next couple days. thanks ....star