Noah's Ark Quilt

 This is a panel that I have had sewn for several years.  I found a cute Noah's ark flannel backing at the local quilt shop that was a perfect match for this quilt.  Then I used Bubbles from Designs by Juju for the quilting. It is an end-to-end design.  My embroidery machine is a 10 needle Babylock.  The new big magnetic frame from Brother is perfect for end-to-end designs. I am very pleased with the final project!

Seaside Serenity

This is Seaside Serenity.  It is a quilt kit that I immediately fell in love with the colors when I saw it at Cotton Pickin's Quilt shop in Washington State.  I don't usually purchase kits but this one shouted at me.  I knew that I was going to try end-to-end embroidery design from JuJu.  This is the  Swirls 1 design. I basted the top, batting, and backing together with 505 spray (lightly sprayed). I recently purchased a magnetic hoop from Mighty Hoops to make the hooping quicker. I started in the middle of the quilt on one side and continued across to the other edge.  The last hooping on the edge was about five inches so when the design went off the edge I would stop the design and forward to another section that stitched on the quilt.  This quilt took some time and patience as there is probably 60 hoopings.  I just wanted to prove to myself that I could really quilt my own quilts. Someone is going to receive a nice Christmas present!
 

Anita's Arrowhead 2012

Anita's Arrowhead is now completed.  I tried several different fabrics for a border and the blocks just did not want to play with them.  So the blocks end with a binding from one of the dark fabrics.  I completed the quilting with a design from Classic Line Quilting by OESD.  It really does look perfect for this quilt.  The backing is a small-figured geometric with colors that matched the other fabrics perfectly.

I finally found the binding fabric for the Mosiac Memories quilt.  So that is the next project to finish.

Anita's Arrowhead progress

This is one block of Anita's Arrowhead that has been quilted.  I have the quilting half completed and now have to get more thread.  So I will finish the project when that happens.  I am using my embroidery module to quilt the blocks. There is still indecision about a border...

Saturday:
I have finished quilting all the blocks.  The remaining fabric has been laid around the quilt and it does not like any of it.  So the quilt will not have a border.  It will just have black binding.  A photo will be coming your way in a day or two.

The Shy Little Kitten Quilted

I found a CD titled "Classic Line Quilting" from OESD that had exactly the kind of quilting shapes I wanted for quilting with the embroidery module. The CD included squares, long rectangles, and squares for corners and borders. The stand-alone squares were the one I used in the blocks. I used the long rectangles in the sashing. Then I connected the corner and border squares for the last step. I have used quilting collections before but they did not contain all the elements for an entire quilt. This collection contained circles and ovals. There are three other collections on the CD. You may have to enlarge the photo to see the quilting. I used white thread throughout. I really am pleased with the quilting.