Cactus Flower

I started this top soon after I started learning to quilt - took a class at Quilt Fest. I didn't know enough to do something this complicated and made many mistakes, had to resew too many seams and it still is a bit distorted. I would like to enter it in the HMQS competition. Remember - I won an award there last year, and would like to do something wonderful this year. This quilt is supposed to have wide black borders with vines and flowers appliqued on it. However, the quilt pattern is called cactus flower, and I would prefer to applique on a cactus in bloom. I can't draw. Would any of you artistic relatives be willing to draw me a simple cactus in bloom that I could use as an applique? I still have to figure out what I want to quilt on it too. I'll keep you posted.

A Customers quilt

I just finished my latest customer quilt. Makes rather a good whole cloth doesn't it?
She wanted traditional quilting - mostly stitch in the ditch and crosshatching.
I talked her into a few flowers and leaves in borders to soften the look.
Had a few piecing problems but altogether rather a beautiful quilt. Not cheap, unfortunately. (Sorry ladies). Had I been trying for a whole cloth I would have buried the knots, which would have added even more to the cost. I spent over 40 hours quilting this puppy! Oh, and she created the pattern on EQ.

By the way, it is finally snowing. It has been a weird, cold winter with almost no snow til now.

My latest wholecloth

A glimpse of a quilt I am doing for someone else, and my latest try at a whole cloth. Unfortunately, after I had finished it I realized it is too small by 20 inches circumference to put in the competition I wanted to enter. Sigh. I could try again slightly larger if I could find some 60 inch fabric or wanted to seam the top, or I could color this one and enter it as an art quilt. What do you think?

Pinky again

Remember months ago when I made this very pink quilt? Well, I finally got it quilted.

latest quilting

I can't get the photos to show me which I am choosing on this computer and my old reader won't work so I can only pick a couple, sight unseen to show you. These are a couple of my latest quilting efforts. The one with the white border was hand done and the black and white was done with the aid of my computer. They both look much better in real life.

Award winning quilt photo

Here I am with my winning quilt, and the ribbon. Unfortunately you can't see much of the quilting that won me the award. Anyway, I am so thrilled I can't stand it.

Getting better

I won the BEST ROOKIE award at HMQS!!! That is a really big deal quilt show and I am thrilled to death! I won with the cream and blue baby quilt with feathers, and I will try to take a photo of it tomorrow hanging with it's ribbon. Hurray!
By the way, I am taking a number of quilting classes that are all making me a better quilter. Love that Long Arm Quilting Machine.