Two finishes and a few string quilts

 I hope you all are enjoying the warmer weather. I have been spending a lot of time in the garden, but you know I will always make time for quilting. 

 

I finished the purple basket quilt. I love how the quilt crinkled up after the first wash and dry. I know I said this a lot of times, but it is always such a great feeling seeing the quilt for the first time out of the dryer.

 Do you see all the different purple yo-yos? Well, I added them after I quilted the quilt to cover up the seams that did not want to line up nicely. I really like using little yo-yos.

 Here is my second quilt finished with leftover blocks. I like how it crinkled up; I love crinkled quilts. Here I go again about crinkled quilts...oops :)

 I really enjoy making string quilts. This is the butterfly string quilt I just quilted on my longarm for my youngest daughter. I used a good old stipple for the quilting.

Orange and purple are some of her favorite colors. I also added a few green, blue, and yellow strings. I like to use cona cotton snow for the background. This is probably the fastest string quilt that I have made and I like how it can look like bows too.

 A few more strings for a rectangle string quilt.

 I grabbed all the lighter colored strings from previous projects. 

 And this is the quilted string quilt. I used a cream colored fabric for the sashings.

For the border I used the pretty soft yellow fabric with pink flowers. 

 For the backing I was very tempting to use a colored back, but I went back to my usual cream colored fabric for the backing.

I hope you have a good weekend. I will be working on my daughters binding.

 

Smiles,

Millie

A good old stipple/meandering

I love a good old stipple or meandering. And it goes with every quilt...from traditional to modern to t-shirt quilts.

Rhonda made this purse and bag quilt for her 13 year old cousin. This is the second quilt she made. She used her cousin's old dance costumes to make the purse and shoe blocks.

I had to free-hand the stipple around the appliqued purses and shoes.

A close up picture of some of the cute bags and shoes.

Teal and black borders.

Zebra backing.

Busy t-shirt quilts always turn out well with a stipple. The next 2 quilts I used a stipple panto...no freehand work on these quilts!!!

It is always fun to look at all the different t-shirt and picture blocks.

Border and corner detail of quilt.

Red backing.

Do you see something under the quilt?

My son made him a sleeping spot before my longarm!

Sharlene made this Winnie the Poo machine embroidered quilt. She asked for a plain stipple quilting too.

Muslin backing...a favorite fabric of mine for a backing

Have you ever got something new that made you too excited to sleep? We went to Lowes one day and picked up pantry shelves to put all my quilts on. The baskets were on sale but they only had 6 out of the 9 brown baskets that I needed so I just picked up 3 blue and brown striped baskets. I thought it made it look more interesting. On the top shelf I have the quilts waiting to get back to their owners.

In these baskets I have all the unfinished quilts, batting, and thread.

I decided to keep these old baskets here for a while... Just to remind me of my own UFO's so I don't get too wrapped up in customer quilts.

Happy Quilting!
~Millie~