February 2020 The Quilters Touch
I am ready to get started on your quilts for 2020,no matter if you want pantographs, free hand edge to edge or meandering.
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A new year – with The Quilters Touch
The new year I know it is almost the end of January – but you know how busy life can get. Did you make any New Year resolutions? Have anything new going on in your life? I would love to hear if you do.I don’t make resolutions, can’t keep them so don’t bother. I am …
March 2019 Quilts
Marty Marty made this for her son, Square Spiral pantograph using Superior Omni thread in Dark Grey on front Milk Chocolate on back, Warm & Natural batting. I am sure he is going to love it. This is a very nice quilt for a guy, just masculine enough and very interesting. Jenny vintage log cabin …
New year 2019
I still can’t believe it is January 2019, where did 2018 go? I just got home from 2 weeks in Missouri visiting family, those grand-kids are growing up so fast. I finished a quilt for my oldest grandson so that I could give it to him for Christmas. It was from the book Civil War …
Customer Quilts June 2018
Here are customer quilts from June 2018. I had only a couple of finishes for customers. I have a quilt on the frame right now for our guest room, it is a sashiko whole cloth that I purchased on eBay years ago. It is beautiful and something I never would have made if not for …
Out with 2016 and in with 2017
I ended 2016 with this beautiful Quilt of Valor. And started 2017 with this beautiful Quilt of Valor. Both made by the same quilter, she does numerous Quilt of Valor every year and her piecing is perfect and it makes my job a dream. I think this is an amazing transition thru …
Finished Quilts March 2016
As usual I am late getting my projects posted. Better late than never I guess. Here are some of the quilts I finished for customers this March 2016. [su_posts post_type=”jetpack-portfolio” taxonomy=”jetpack-portfolio-type” tax_term=”101″ tax_operator=”0″ order=”desc” post_status=”any”]https://www.thequilterstouch.com/project-tag/october-2015/[/su_posts] Share this:
Finished purple and green fussy cut quilt.
I am doing custom quilting on this pretty lavender and green half square triangle with fussy cut squares in the middle. Very pretty quilt, client requested that I accentuate the diagonal lines in the quilting and I have to admit it has hung on my design wall for over a week while I wait for …
Bird Dance Finished
Update – finished the Bird Dance quilt and it turned out amazing. Customer quilt inspired by “Bird Dance” by Sue Spargo. For those not familiar with Sue Spargo kits/patterns/BOM or whatever, she does beautiful wool applique’ kits with lots of embellishments. I have never applique’ with wool, honestly don’t enjoy doing applique’ although I love the look …
Just 22 Fridays till Christmas
Or will you look like the lady in the picture to the right? Can you believe there are just 22 Fridays till Christmas? I haven’t even started thinking about my Christmas gift list yet but I encourage you to make sure you get your quilts to the longarm quilter early enough to have them back …
Marking Quilts
I mentioned yesterday that I had marked all the quilting guides on my quilt top but by the time I got around to get it loaded on the machine they were pretty much gone. No problem really I am just marking it as I go as usual, I will be researching marking pencils, pens etc …
On The Frame
Today on the frame I am working on a quilt that will probably go to one of my granddaughters. It is a One Block Wonder from a book by Maxine Rosenthal. The design of the quilt is mine but the technique of the one block wonder is Maxine Rosenthals’ This floral fabric is what I used for …
Practice practice practice
Practice makes perfect they say. I have had my second Gammill Classic Plus for two weeks now and still working on my blue and yellow table topper. I really think I took on two much to soon with it but I am determined to finish it. I started out doing custom quilting with feathers in …
Yellow and Blue table topper
Here is what I am working on this week. I love blue and yellow quilts and have been working on this one for quite some time and am so excited to finally get to quilt it. I am doing custom quilting on it because I hope to enter it into some quilt shows when finished. …
First Quilt on New Machine
After a few mishaps getting the machine installed into it’s new home I have the first quilt loaded and ready to go. This is a donation quilt for the local quilt guilds Philanthropy program. I have a lot of my own quilt tops to finish and am happy to work on donation quilts and Quilts …