Thread Tales From A Scrappy Quilter

A couple of baby quilts.    One for an infant, the other for a toddler boy.  Minkee backings and oh so soft!  I usually trim quilts for this client and I am thinking I will not cut minkee in my studio again.   Gosh that stuff makes a mess!  My cutting table is in front of a window and that fluffy stuff stuck all over my red draperies and all over the glass as well as my container holding my cutting tools, etc.   The cutting table has to be moved to be able to reach the window to clean.  Definitely too messy, I'm going to have to let you have all that fun in your studio!  The infant one a panto I use frequently for sweet baby quilts "popcorn".  It adds just the right amount of movement and dimension.   The little boy one with the chain pattern, I just quilted a loopy thing that I thought maybe he could use as a road while playing with little cars.     ...

A couple of cute quilts!   The one with whiskey bottles is really cute and was made cutting the fabrics lengthwise.   It's supposed to be a very quick and easy pattern to make.      Baby quilt with "popcorn" panto     This pattern reverses at the bottom.   Really cute! Snuggly thick flannel backing.  Chinook panto    

This one is a lovely Asian modern framed square pattern, sorry I don't know the exact name.  This will be a bed quilt for the client's son so we wanted the quilting to be not so feminine.  We went for lovely texture, Glide Vegas Gold thread  and used wool batting.  Ahhh - I LOVE this one.       The hand quided panto is called "popcorn" and looks great on so many styles of quilts - from cutesy baby quilts to looking oh so elegant on this one!   Medium density to add lots of texture to your quilt, smaller design filling not so large of an area creating a consistent backdrop for those fabrics.     How about more T-shirts quilts?   I don't post many of these, they usually are so large and hard to get a good view of them.  Some really cute ones came through here recently.     I had 2 sets of the black/blue school shirts one to quilt.   One had severa...