Making Statements...

 Most of the quilting that I do is for others. I've been doing this for almost 15 years. That being said, it is fairly self-evident that I've literally quilted hundreds of quilts...all sizes, various designs and modes of construction, and degrees of difficulty. You would think after that many quilts over  so many years,  the next quilt on the machine would be "just another quilt." 

But it just doesn't work that way for me! It seems that every quilt that I receive from a client is special and unique in some way. For most of them, I see the personality of the quilter reflected in the top. Each quilter seems to develop her own "wheelhouse" of colors, designs, and techniques that she will use in her quilt tops. I'm not saying that my clients "get in a rut" with their quilt tops...quite the contrary. Each top seems to have it's own special message. Sometimes I get that "message" as soon as I see the top and start discussing quilting plans with the  client. And sometimes that message doesn't become completely apparent until the quilting is complete.

Yea, I know I'm sounding a little "out there!" My point is that every quilt makes a very "one of a kind" statement. I hope these photos speak to you today!

 Time to Catch UP a bit....

I don't even know where the time went or what happened. This morning I thought of my blog and decided to pull it up. I need to catch up a bit....

These won't be in any particular order, but I want to share some photos of quilts I have done for myself as well as others. Some have stories that I can tell, and others...not so much.

This Pink Dogwood quilt was made by by mom...lots of needle turn applique. I think the design...especially the center block is basically her own. She likes to take quilt designs and modify them to her liking.

Pink Dogwoods

The empty center section was a perfect palette for a custom design.

Don't you just love the soft muted colors of this design? The quilt owner planned to scallop the edges of the quilt...hence the swag/piano key quilting design in the outer border. I can't wait to see it once she get the scalloped binding in place.

This black and cream beauty quilted up just fabulously. It is an edge-to-edge design called Joyful by Christy Dillon of www.mycreativestiches.net.  I saw a photo of it after it was bound and put on a bed...magnificent!!

That's all for now, but I'll continue to post photos in the days to come!

One Year Later....

I just realized that it's been almost a year since I posted to my blog! I guess a wedding at my house, quilting, and life just took precedence. So I'm going to try to do better and keep up with blog posting in the future. I used to think that I had to write "a story" with every post....but you would probably rather look at the pictures of quilts over reading my comments here.

With that said, I will just post some photos of quilts that I worked on during this lapse in communication. Hope you enjoy!

A fund-raising quilt for the Freestone Co. Cancer Support Group.

Christmas Cardinals

A beautiful "Challenge" quilt

Close-up of the center block

Cute cows!

Raggedy Ann & Andy embroidery!

Magnificent machine embroidery/applique quilt

Bird quilt....great combination of fabrics!

Love this bow-tie quilt...used a Baptist Fan design on it!

Alphabet block quilt.....beautiful hand embroidery!

Close-up

Such wonderful soft colors in this quilt!

Oh my! I just loved working on this quilt...so much space for beautiful feathers!

A simple four-patch, but the colors make it special!

Froggy quilt! Such fun!

Snake River Log Cabin.....love it!

Beautiful machine embroidery designs!