Showing posts with label Quilt on Wheels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quilt on Wheels. Show all posts

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Yesterday's Quilting

My Gammill has been getting a good workout lately. Right now I have a good supply of customer quilts, and at least ten more charity quilts waiting for me. Yesterday I started with a soft, sweet baby quilt top by Teresa.

It was so cuddly I felt like taking a nap right then and there!
The fabrics featured butterflies, duckies, and hearts, so I just free-motioned some of those motifs. Teresa chose a pale yellow thread which blends in with the fabrics. But when you quilt on flannel, you always get a lovely sculptural quality.

The back is a yellow flannel print which looks nice all quilted.

Then I did some fast quilting on a top donated anonymously to the Capital Quilters' Guild Quilts on Wheels charity for rest home residents. This top appears to be made from a quilter's stash of old calico fabrics. A great way to use up the out-dated fabrics for a good cause...and they still make lovely comfy quilts, don't they!


I have so many of these to do that I am trying to do FAST quilting. I just did spirals and echoed them and swooped around at high speed.


This one did not come with a backing, so I used the last of the bolt of plaid flannel that I brought home from the Flower Cottage last summer. Another soft, cuddly quilt.


I have heard from all three of my give-away winners, so I will be mailing out their fabric bundles shortly. This little drawing brought me so many lovely comments and even a new member of my local quilt bee! I sent a notice to the guild about the drawing, and received an e-mail from another Wake Forest quilter who is looking for a bee. So, I have some new blog friends and will soon have a new in-person friend! Good stuff!