Gallery of longarm quilting
Here are several quilts I finished for customers using my new longarm machine. These quilts have been returned to thier homes, but if you see something you like you may email me about building a custom quilt for you.
Family Photo Memory Quilt (Fall 2009)
This quilt was very special to me. I found several of my mothers old photo albums that contained pictures of rare moments when the entire family was gathered together, as well as several family members that are no longer with us. Many of the photos were tarnished with age or simply black and white. I knew I wanted to make a quilt to preserve those memories. I scanned the pictures into the computer, edited them all to be in a black/white/sepia tone, chemically treated the fabrics, printed the photos out on fabric, and set the dyes. I then paper pieced the Ohio Star blocks to set between photos (most of her side of the family is from Ohio). I trimmed the 8 X 10 pictures down to 8 inch blocks, assembled the quilt, and quilted it with a popular heart pantograph called Cutie Patootie using white King Tut Thread. This quilt was given to my mother for Christmas and she cried for hours while happily showing it off to relatives. Photo quilts make wonderful gifts, email me if you would like one made for your loved ones.
Applique Hummingbird Quilt (Fall 2009)
This was the third quilt I did for a lady in Texas and the most elaborate. She choose a beautifully detailed pantograph to go in the center of the quilt containing flowers and hummingbirds. Then she had a second design placed in the large white areas in the border, larger hummingbirds and flowers. Finally, around the large applique flowers in the borders she wanted very dense echo quilting to emphasis her work. This quilt took probably two weeks to complete but it was just lovely once it was finished.
Navy Eagle Quilt (Fall 2009)
This quilt was sent to me from a generous woman in Washington who made it for her father who was retired from the Navy. The design she choose for the quilting was Where Eagles Dare by Anne Bright in white King Tut thread. She used a fuzzy fleeze for the backing and it really added extra dimension to the quilting, as you can see in the photos.
Pink Hummingbird Log Cabin Quilt (Fall 2009)
This quilt was made by a very sweet lady who simply adores hummingbirds. She must have over 50 hummingbird feeders in her yard. When she saw the hummingbird log cabin quilt her sister made in the log cabin class, she had to make one herself. She choose fabrics with a little bit more pink in them. She also went with a Positive/Negative star layout for her log cabin, instead of the traditional Barn Raising layout her sister choose. It made the cream colored areas of the log cabin appear like butterfly wings. When she asked me to quilt it, she said "The more hummingbirds the better." So we choose two designs available from Digi-Tech. One was a square design of a hummingbird feeding at a flower. The second design was a border pantograph of tiny hummingbirds and flowers. She was slighlty concerned her quilt was "too pink" and she really wanted to be able to see the quilting, so we went with a brilliant variegated green thread called Oasis. The thread color really makes the hummingbirds shimmer and tones down the pink in the quilt, bringing out more of the greens.
Autumn Leaves Quilt (Fall 2009)
This quilt was made by a wonderful lady who enjoyed the log cabin class so much, she decided to take it a second time! This time she brought her sister along and made a larger quilt. She used alot of creams, browns, and greens in her fabric selections. So we went with a similar toned thread made by King Tut called Bulrushes. You can really see the beauty in this thread in the close up picture of a stitched leaf. The design we used is a leaf vine pattern available from Ellen Munnich Designs. It reflected the character of the leaves scattered through her fabrics. This quilt turned out just beautiful and I'm glad to find another person who loves log cabin quilts as much as I do.
Nine Patch Football Quilt(Summer 2009)
This quilt was made by one of my favorite quilting students. She and her daughter took this class at the end of the summer, rushing to get the quilts finished before school started up again because they are both teachers. It was alot of work focusing on the tiny little squares and improving accuracy, but the quilt turned out wonderful. They are a big Arkansas Razorback football fans, so that helped her decide on the red and black colors. The quilting design is Keep Me in Motion made by Anne Bright. We used a black thread made by King Tut called Ebony for the quilting. This quilt will see many a night snuggled warm in the stadiums watching the games or stretched out on the grass.
Square in a Square (Summer 2009)
This quilt was mailed to me by a wonderful lady in Texas I had the pleasure to work with earlier this year. She also made the purple passion quilt. This quilt was made for her son's family and she wanted very intricate quilting. We went with three quilting designs: a Flur du Lee motif (available at Digi-tech Quilting) in the large floral squares, a background filler of twisted stars (design called DESET09 available at Digi-tech Quilting) which was placed in the border and in all the teal blue areas, and channel quilting in the dark brown rectangles. It was alot more work than I was expecting, but the quilt turned out beautiful. The quilting was done in a light blue thread made by King Tut called Angel Teal. The quilting looks amazing against the dark brown fabric of the back.
Zebra Quilt (Summer 2009)
This quilt was made generous woman that spent the summer teaching her two teenage nieces how to quilt. This quilt was made by the oldest one who enjoys very bright and vibrant colors. We went with an African Safari pantograph (available from Intelligentquilting.com) to mimic the zebra stripes in the border. We used a black King Tut thread for the quilting called Ebony. It gave the quilt a very nice texture and everyone was pleased with the outcome.
Circle Quilt (Summer 2009)
This is the second quilt brought to me by the lady that was making quilts with her nieces this summer. This quilt belonged to the younger girl and was slightly smaller than the zebra quilt. The girls have very similar tastes as they both enjoy very bright vibrant colors. She picked out a varigated King Tut thread in shades of green, red, yellow, and orange that matched many of the colors in the quilt fabrics. She wanted a spiral pantograph (available from Ellen Munnich) to cover the entire quilt. The quilting was very dense and I ended up using over 2500 yards of thread. The quilt turned out just as she wanted.
Maple Leaf Nine Patch Quilt (Summer 2009)
This quilt was made by a very talented young woman in my double nine patch class. All the quilts she's done so far have used very vibrant shades of red. In this quilt, she combined red, brown, and several shades of green to make a very earthy soothing quilt. She selected a leaf vine pattern, available from Munnich Designs, as her pantograph. We went with a varigated King Tut thread in several shades of tan and brown for the quilting. Against the deep red and brown of the quilt, the thread almost seemed to glow. The quilt turned out great and she is still undecided as to who will get that baby as a christmas present.
Hummingbird Log Cabin Quilt (Summer 2009)
This quilt was made by a wonderful lady in my log cabin class who was learning to quilt with her daughter. I love the floral fabrics she used in the quilt, as well as the border. We picked out a hummingbird pantograph, available at Digi-Tech, to be centered in each block and a swirling vine pantograph, available from Munnich Designs, to go in the borders. The thread used was a cream colored thread from the King Tut line and we choose a simple color because her fabric prints already had alot of movement and color in them.
Harley Davidson T-shirt Quilt (Summer 2009)
This quilt was mailed to me from a lovely lady in Louisiana. It was made from many motorcycle t-shirts as well as several Harley Davidson logo's printed on photo fabric. Her piecing was marvelous and we picked out a pantograph called Fantasy Flames to compliment the quilt. The pantograph is available from Digi-Tech. We used a variegated yellow/orange thread made by King Tut called St. George that blended well with the t-shirt colors and stood out brilliantly on the black backgrounds.
Log Cabin Longarm Quilting (Spring 2009)
This quilt was made by a customer that took the beginner's quilting log cabin class I teach at A Stitch Away. After the last class, Cindy handed me the quilt and said, "Finish it." We went with a pantograph called Cutie Patootie, available at Digi-tech. I used a purple/pink variegated thread to do the longarm quilting.
Purple Passion Longarm Quilting(Spring 2009)
This quilt was mailed to me from a wonderful lady in Texas. We spent a week or so picking out just the right pantograph that would compliment her piecing without over powering it. We went with a design called Swirling made by Anne Bright. I used a varigated purple thread called Crushed Grapes in the King Tut line to do the quilting.
Grandmother's Fan Longarm Quilting (Spring 2009)
This quilt was given to me by a lady who was expecting her grandchild to be born in the next couple of weeks and wanted to give this quilt to her at the hospital. The fans in this quilt are beautiful and she applied antique lace at the edge of each fan. A simple pantograph would not work on this quilt. Instead, I went with a floral design in each fan arch, feathers in the open pink areas framing the fans, and a filigree pattern in the sashing of the blocks. I used a neutral color thread that matched the lace and it came out lovely.
Pioneer Star Longarm Quilting (Spring 2009)
This quilt was halfway quilted by the owner when she broke her hand and was unable to finish it. She supplied me with the feather motif patterns she was using and I finished the quilting for her using my longarm. The quilting consisted of a feathered wreath, a feathered triangle, as well as in-the-ditch and echo quilting.
