Chain Linked Quilt

Today I woke up to snow! The cold and I do not love each other. Actually, I just don't love the cold at all. Forget about what it thinks of me. So once March hits, I consider it spring and don't want to hear about the cold for several more months. 

Saturday, however, was amazing weather! The kind I really love. And it was perfect for snapping a few pictures. 

This quilt was pieced by my friend Wendy. She decided she wanted to learn to quilt a few weeks ago and here we are! She was so fast, especially for her first. I quilted it up for her using a large orange peel pattern. I think it turned out great! She's so in love and I think she made be hooked. She's already bought the fabric for her next quilt. 

 I shared another picture on my Instagram the other day that shows just a bit of her fun chevron minky back. I don't know why I didn't get any pictures of it on my regular camera and I'm sure there's a way for me to post that here but I'm just not figuring it out.
I'm linking up with Quilt Story's Fabric Tuesday. I'm also linking up with Someday Crafts & 733 Blog. Be sure to check them out!

XOXO Valentine Quilt

Valentine's is one of my favorite holidays to decorate for. It's nice to have some bright cheery color during the blah winter months. 

My older sister's birthday is on Valentine's day and I remember my dad always waking her up to an oldies song playing on the radio. He always had a bouquet of flowers for her and a single flower for the rest of us girls so we wouldn't feel left out on this fun holiday. 

I've started my own tradition of serving my family heart shaped waffles for breakfast and giving them a little valentine of their own. It's such a great day to show our loved ones how much we care for them. 

When Rae brought this darling XOXO quilt to me for machine quilting, it was love at first sight for me. I definitely have plans to make one of my own using this same pattern. I chose to quilt it with an all over heart pattern. It's fun to see all the seasonal projects our friends are bringing in. 

Stay tuned for more Valentine's projects we'll be showing over the next few weeks. We'd love to see your Valentine's projects, so leave us a comment with your link.  

I'm linking up with: Sew Many Ways, The Girl Creative, Pieces By Polly, Skip To My Lou, Sugar Bee Crafts, Quilt Story, Seven Thirty Three, Someday Crafts

Customer Quilt Catch Up

As I was looking through my pictures, I realized I haven't shown quite a few of the customer quilts that I have quilted in the past few months. So here are just a few...

Nancy's: 

This is the last of the three that Nancy pieced for her daughters. I love the soft colors that she used and the nine patch pattern on point. So pretty!

It's quilted with the wave on wave pattern that we did on this chevron quilt. I really love the way it looks. 

Jessica's:

 This darling quilt was made by Jessica for her cute daughter's bed. It was also her first time piecing a quilt. Didn't she do a great job?

We did a cute bubble pattern on this quilt to help break up the long rows of fabric. Love it!

Judy's:

Judy made this sweet quilt for one of her grandbabies. It really is such a sweet one. I love the fabric that she used and all the pinwheels, especially on the border. 

 She wanted a plain meander as to not distract at all from the piecing. It worked out perfectly. 

I love working with customers to find the perfect quilting for their project. It's so much fun to me to see it all come together. If you have any projects that you need quilted, shoot me an email or give me a call. I'd love to work with you too!

I'm linking up with: Skip To My Lou, Sugar Bee Crafts & Sew Much Ado

Christmas Quilting and a Winner

Thanks so much to everyone who has stop by my little blog this week and entered the giveaway. I just love Sew Mama Sew's giveaway week. It's so fun finding new blogs and entering all the great giveaways. So thanks to everyone who participated! 

The name that was drawn to win a copy of Camille Roskelley's book Simply Retro is....drumroll please... Karrie S.! Congrats! I have emailed her to let her know.

And now on to more quilty goodness!

I am loving all the Christmas quilts that I have been able to quilt! Marissa sent over these awesome quilts that she made for gifts this year. She loves to change out her bedding for the holidays and is giving these huge king size quilts to family members so they will also be able to enjoy doing the same thing. 

The first quilt is an all over pattern of snowflakes. I quilted a different quilt using snowflakes last year and Marissa really liked it so we decided to go with the same pattern. You can see how great it looks in this picture above. 

 The next quilt is such a fun one! The minky strips are so soft and I love all the paper pieced Santa's that she added in. You can see how she used the minky to add texture to Santa's beard and hat, so creative!

I used an all over pattern of jingle bells, but of course cut out and outlined the Santa's. 

 Thanks Marissa for letting me quilt for fun projects. I'm sure your family members will love them! 

I'm linking up with: Skip to my Lou

Holly Berry Quilting

Happy December! I hope everyone's Thanksgiving weekend was great. We just got home from a fun, but long, trip to Texas to visit family and then straight to Arizona to spend Thanksgiving with some of our other family members. I'm telling ya, swimming outdoors on Thanksgiving is definitely something I (and my kids, for sure) could get used to! We had a blast but I am glad to be home and more than ready to start decorating for Christmas.

 I've been meaning to show you Yvonne's Christmas quilt for a while now, but I guess it worked that I'm just showing it off now since we are in holiday mode around here. Yvonne wanted an all over pattern and these holly leaves and berries did just the trick. This quilt is darling and I can't wait for her to be able to gift it this Christmas!

If you have any quilts that are in need of some great quilting before Christmas, make sure to give us a call so we can arrange it before the holidays get too close. 

I'm linking up at: Sew Many Ways, Skip To My Lou, Quilt Story

Megs Hexagon Quilt

My machine quilting is being featured over at Quilt Story. 

Go check it out!

 (Picture via Quilt Story)

Yvonnes Mum Quilt

A few weeks ago I shared some of Yvonne's quilts with you and I wanted to share another one. I'm calling this one the Mum quilt because of the cute purple mums on the center block.

 Each of the nine blocks have feathers quilted in a square pattern and the white sashing has some circles. My favorite part though, is the borders.

The feathered borders with straight lines ended up so cute. I can't wait to do another like this. 

Thanks for letting me quilt this for you, Yvonne!

I'm linking up over at Crazy Mom Quilts.

Feather Quilting for Nancy

This is the second of 3 quilts that we've machine quilted for Nancy for her daughters' Christmas gifts. I love that they will be getting such great keepsakes from their mom. If you want to see how darling the previous one (and Nancy) is, here is the link. 

 The quilting pattern that was used is called Debs Feathers. I love it! It's meant to be quite a tight pattern so I have hesitated using it but this time I just enlarged it from the recommended size and I think it turned out perfect. I'm sure I will be using it again soon.

Im linking up at: Quilt Story, Sew Many Ways, Skip to My Lou, Sew Much Ado.

Chevron Quilting

Who isn't loving Chevrons right now? I have seen so many cute ones all over blog-land and of course I made one myself a little earlier this year.

Anyways, I was excited to see how Yvonne had pieced together her chevron quilt. She chose great colors. I really like the navy blue and teal combo. She wanted me to quilt an all over pattern and I figured that some kind of a swirly pattern would look great to offset the chevrons.  

The pattern that I used is called Wave On Wave and I am loving it! I used it on another customer quilt  that I did recently and it really is a great pattern. Every time I use a new pattern I always say it's my favorite, so again I'll say that this is my new favorite pattern. Although that does change often. ;)

And here is a picture of the whole thing. I wish I had a better one to show you because this really is such a darling quilt but as I was getting ready to run Yvonne's quilts to the post office to ship them back to her, I realized that I hadn't taken pictures and of course the weather wasn't going to cooperate. I could have waited a day or two but I was anxious for her to get her quilts back to see how cute they looked. 

Thanks Yvonne, for letting me quilt this for you! 

If you've made a chevron quilt, please send me a link in the comments. I would love to see them!

I'm linking up with Heather and Megan over at Quilt Story and at Someday Crafts: Whatever Goes Wednesday.

Gray and Yellow Quilt

This fun gray and yellow quilt was pieced together by Yvonne. I am loving the fabrics that she has put together, it's such a great combination!

Yvonne has been hard at work with all her quilting, just last month she sent me 4 quilts to have machine quilted. I can't wait to show them all to you, but here is the first. 

When she sent this quilt to me to have machine quilted, I didn't want to distract from the cute fabrics or do anything that was too busy so we decided on baptist fans. I think it turned out awesome! 

Check out a few other quilts that I have machine quilted for Yvonne: Pretty Pink Pinwheels, Scrappy Trip Around the World, and her Plus Quilt. Doesn't she do great work and fun patterns? Watch my blog to see the other quilts that I recently quilted for her!

I'm linking up with Amanda Jean over at Crazy Mom Quilts. Go check it out!

Nancys Quilt

My sister-in-law's mom, Nancy, sent us this darling quilt to have machine quilted. I don't know if you can tell in the pictures just how big it is, but it is huge, a queen size. And she has made not only one, but three of these for her daughters! 

This is the first of the three. Isn't is so pretty? Nancy did a wonderful job on this quilt. She decided she'd like an all over quilt pattern on this quilt as to not distract from the piecing. Laurie was able to do the quilting on this and she chose a pattern called Paisley Feather. You can see how pretty the design is in the picture below. 

It turned out wonderful! I am sure this will be a keepsake that will be treasured for many years to come. 

We were so glad that Nancy loved it! She gave us the next two quilts to get started on and I can't wait to show them off. Thanks Nancy for letting us machine quilt your beautiful quilt! 

I'm linking up to Finish it up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts. You need to go check this link up out. It's amazing how many great finishes are displayed each week, very motivating! 

I'm also linking up at Link a Finish Friday at Richard and Tanya Quilts and Can I Get a Whoop Whoop at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.