September finish #3

Here is the 3rd quilt I just had quilted. This one is my 2010 Saturday Samper. It has 12 different blocks with this triple sashing with 9-patch cornerstones.

Love this pink and brown and cream colorway. It is so soft and tranquil looking. Carly put this simple loopy motif in each block, and did a floral in the sashing and border.

Another finish

Red, white, and blue - accented with golds. Love this color combination. This is another pinwheel project and it is also one of the quilts I just got back from the quilter (thanks Carly!).

She did this one in a large all-over swirl pattern. Looks great.

And I should mention that when I dropped off the 4 quilt tops to be quilted - I no longer have any tops laying around waiting to be quilted. Lots of sets of blocks waiting to be made into tops - but no UFO tops. That is a milestone for me.

Amish Houses are quilted

This one is just as pretty from the back as it is from the front. For my regular readers, this is my Amish House quilt, and I spent most of July and August working on this. It's a bit outside of my usual projects - with each of the 12 house blocks having a unique 6" square miniature quilt.

But it's all worth it when I see this finished up with beautiful quilting. Carly put a different quilted motif over the miniature quilt in each block. The house parts were outline quilted. The sky is a very small stipple. Then beautiful leaf shapes in the first border, a geometric design in the second border, and finally another soft swirly design in the third border.

I absolutely LOVE it! Carly did a great job!

UFOs no more

These 4 quilts are no longer UFOs!!! I dropped them off with Carly at The Pin Cushion a couple of weeks ago, and picked them all up today. And let me tell you, they are all beautifully quilted!!! Now I just need to get the bindings on. I know which one will be first.

I will show them off one at a time over the next few days.

Thanks Carly!

October Count On It

This will be the first thing you see upon entering my kitchen from the garage. This is October's Count On It design.
Love these little monthly wall hangings! They are so easy to applique because most pieces are fairly large. I added some beads for eyes that are a golden orange color. And the bat fangs are tiny little candy corn motifs cut from fabric and fused on.

Using up the leftovers

A close-up of the leaf design octagon shows how the 60 degree leftover cuts fit together perfectly to make this small table topper.

I decided to just quilt around the leaves in the black background. I'm doing the same on the long 60 degree table runner made of this fabric. This simple stitching allows the fabric to be the star.

60 degree and simple stitching

I ended up making 2 identical 60 degree table runners with this fabric, plus a bonus octagon with the leftover cuts. Then I made 2 identical ones using a fall fabric with a beautiful leaf design, plus the bonus octagon.

One of the Halloween runners is now hand quilted and bound. The Halloween octagon is also quilted but still needs binding. And the fall leaf octagon is quilted. I decided they all needed very simple hand quilting. It is so simple in fact that I just pin basted it and didn't even use my usual lap-sized quilt frame. I just held it in my hands and stitched, following the fabric designs. You'll have to click on the photo to make it bigger in order to see the stitching lines. I'll show the leaf design one another day.