Applique borders for quilts

Earlier in the year, I appliqued a block called "Miss Kelly" designed by Erin Russek. I have decided to finish it in a "Round Robin" sort of fashion. I wanted to start by designing an applique border for this piece, first I scanned a few my own flowers/buds and leaves that I planned to work with. After a little tweaking on the computer, I printed out several pages of these elements (actual size) in greyscale. Now I could cut them up and start arranging, a little dab of LAPEL stick ( I love…

That Secret made and quilted by Denise Havlan Includes hand and machine appliqué, painting, embroidery and machine quilting. Received an Honorable Mention award. Birds Fly made and quilted by Barbara E. Lies The swirls are all open work - you can kind of see it in the photo below, where you also see that Barbara won an Honorable Mention award for this quilt! Aurora Borealis made and quilted by Peggy Marquardt Original design with florescent thread colors on a black background. Aunt Millie's…

This is Lori’s applique quilt and she asked for custom quilting with some feathers! I can do that, feathers are my favourite design to quilt! Started with gradually increasing feathers in the large outer green border and SID around the applique border and then added curls to the background. I quilted feathers on the flowers and added veins to the leaves. The inner green border I did a feather curl design and then curls on the sashing. The blocks are SID with some CC’s and feather designs. I…

I have seen several of these Aunt Millie's Garden quilts done up at the shows I attended last year. Quite often they are appliqued on whit...

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The Sauder Village 39th Annual Quilt Show in Archbold, Ohio has come and gone. There were some great quilts this year! The first group is from the yearly challenge. The overall theme of this year's challenge is stated above. Mary Clark was one of the featured teachers of the week. She does lovely 3-D applique. Here are some of her quilts... (sorry, my full picture of this quilt was bad and blurry) Get ready to be wowed! Best of Show Wall Hanging and first place in the "Wall Quilts: Mixed…

Hi there, I’ve been quilting away the last month, and have some beautiful quilts to share with you…let’s start with one of my recent finishes… Susan made this incredible quilt and asked me last fall if I would quilt it for her. It was an absolute pleasure adding all the beautiful quilty texture t

As we continue our coverage of wedding ring quilts, today we're bringing you some beautiful double wedding ring patterns by Judy Niemeyer Qu...

I have one more needling session tomorrow with physical therapy, and then I'm off to my teaching obligations. After teaching I will meet Bruce in California, where we will go to a family reunion. In total, I should be gone for 25 days...... a bit too long. I do not plan on blogging while I'm gone, so I will be back in early August. I have a few more quilts to share today. And they are all so varied in nature. This quilt comes from a Van Gogh challenge. Old Glory. These type of quilts are…