Everybody needs a goal, right?

This is mine

http://www.softexpressions.com/software/books/BellaBella.php#boo

I purchased this book today. Incredible patterns. Lots of pieces. Author says It can be done. You can do it..... well basically that's what it said in the book, so I bought it! Ha! we will see. Probably in a few years, if I can really do it.

Block Party April 2010

I have agreed to assist with the about.com block party this month. Here are my four blocks to submit. I love how the dark ad light sides play off each other and give movement to this block.

This and that

This is a quick little quilt I made last weekend. I finished up the border yesterday.

I fell in love with this line of fabrics I believe by Maywood Studio, It is called

Backporch bouquet, and I wish I could remember the designer, but its gorgeous.

Everyone who sees it loves it.

I'm getting a bit ahead of myself on the row robin. Here is the row for the next quilt headed my way. This one is for Becky, she asked for southwestern themed blocks, or these Arizona blocks from Quilter's cache, I had lots of fun making these last friday with my quilting group.

Nell's round robin

I have added my round to Nell's round robin quilt. For her quilt we are to also add to the story going along with this story quilt, it was fun to think of the story as I sewed the border.

quilting finished

I have finished the quilting on this fun quilt. Its off to be bound! Yay! I love how it turned out.

wips and rows

I am participating in a row robin with some of the gals from the AZ retreat I recently attended. The top row was made by Rebecca for herself, and the bottom row I made to add to her quilt. I hope she likes it.

This is a work in progress for my sister intended as a Christmas gift this year 2010. I can show it as she picked out the pattern herself. I have the blocks made, but they aren't sewn together. I made them all at the AZ retreat. I love how it is looking.

Here is a bit of the quilting so far on my venetian tiles quilt, I am taking it slowly and doing a lot of stops and starts but I like it so far.

My quilt Venetian Tiles

I made this quilt for myself. I got the pattern out of a magazine and showed a picture of it here on my blog a while back. Of course I chose a different colorway. It is queen sized but I am showing 1/4 of it in the picture. Now to quilt it.

Quilting

These are pictures of a quilt I quilted for Evelyn. She is making two similar quilts for her granddaughters. This is the first one. I love all the bright cheerful colors in it. I went with hearts and flowers for the quilting, I love how it turned out and she was very pleased with it as well.

Hearts Quilt

I had started this as a healthy heart quilt a while back, but lost motivation all the way around. This is just the top, still need to quilt it.

Round Robin 2010 Nancy

This is the next round of Nancy's quilt. She made the feathered star center and I believe the first border. The second border is by Cat as well as out to the green border. Cat had made the square on point borders and sent them along to me, all I had to do was make and add the corner stars and sew it on. I love how it turned out.

Fishbowl Quilt

This is the top I made for my grandson out of swapped fishbowl blocks on about.com quilting forum.

I failed

to show pictures of the quilt I made with the extra squares leftover from Cody's comfort quilt from the people on about.com quilting forum. I did a simple pattern and tried a new to me quilting pattern. continuous curves I believe its called, sometimes called orange peel as well I think.

anyway here it is.

customer quilt for her grandson

This picture shows a fun border treatment called ribbon candy. I always did like ribbon candy during the holidays.
Next is a picture ofthe overall quilting for a customer's grandson's quilt, its made with fun outdoorsy fabrics.
You can see the fish quilting in the picture below.
sideways maple leaf, hard to see if you don't know where its at I guess
another fun fish
Bears in the corners and scattered about the quilt

I just finished a quilt for a customer. She made this for her 14 year old grandson. I utilized golden threads paper to do the fish and bears and its my first time using it. I loved it. easy to use and worked great. Sheloves stippling so I did that and threw in some fun stuff as well.

edited to add: customer didn't care for the bears, felt they may be too juvenile for a 14 yr old. Looks like some unpicking might be in my future. we'll see what the Mom thinks tomorrow.

edited to add again: The quilt was well liked by the Mother of the recipient so no unpicking was necessary. Wheww!!1

quilt whispering

I recently finished an online quilting class by Carla Barrett through the MQR forum. I loved the class titled quilt whispering 101. Awesome information and Carla was a wonderful teacher. Here is my final project a top made from swap blocks I swapped on the quilt shoppe forum last year. they went together beautifully.

I am taking more quilting customers if you are interested please e mail me at robicole@msn.com
thanks,
Colene

doll swap IX

I am participating in another doll swap on about.com's quilting forum. This time it is quilter's choice. Here is what I made for my partner. I had the center block. I hand pieced it a while back during a work training.... ( had to entertain myself somehow) It has been hanging around wanting to be something exciting ever since and so here it is.

Sample Quilting

I've been quilting for others for a few years now, but only a select small few. I've decided I'd like to increase my quilting clientele a bit and I have made this quilting sample to hang in a local fabric store I frequent. I love the all over feathers design and did this in a small scale. (Click pics to enlarge and see the detail)

Here is a fun picture of Mason a few weeks ago. We aren't supposed to let him play with this ball anymore as his dad thinks he will bite a chunk out of it. What happens at Grandma's stays at Grandma's LOL (really Cody we don't let him play with it anymore, I promise, really, you can trust me I'm a grandma)


My quilted and bound scrappy 9 patch quilt. I quilted it with all over meandering feathers, and I liked that quilting so much I used it on my Sister's Christmas quilt, which I can't show as she might see it here.

Here is a second quilt I'd like to do from the magazine I show below. I probably won't do it in these colors, though I like the look of it in the magazine.

Here is the one I did make.

I've always admired quilts with striped binding done on the bias. I've purchased striped fabric to do this over and over, and always chickened out and just cut it straight. I finally used the awesome instructions from Shelley's website. Incredible instructions I might add. Practically no waste as you use the whole rectangle and don't cut your fabric into a square. I love how my binding turned out. I used it on this Serendipity quilt. I used this quilt to try out different quilting patterns in each different fabric, and had lots of fun doing that.

Sideways picture of the magazine I got the pattern from. Easy Quilts, Its the first of this magazine I've purchased, and I have to say I loved how fast this quilt was; granted its basic.

My serendipity quilt

With bias striped binding. Yay!