Horse panel quilt

I bought this horse panel at Joanne's on Sunday. I came home and started auditioning border fabrics to make it bigger. The first 5 pictures of this post.

I bought this white with berries for the back and thought I could do the border as well but it was too dull.

I liked the red a lot but I didn't have very much of it. The black print was a clash.

I though this one just popped. Winner winner -Chicken dinner.

It is quilted with computer and free motion here and there.

I free motion quilted the mane.

The face and body is a wavy hair computer design.

Enhance the bow with a little red and black thread.

The back.

I put some wood grain detail in with just straight lines with black thread.

Before quilting.

After quilting. Approximately 53 x 62 inches.

Sweet Christmas snowman kit done

Here's some confetti trimmed from my half rectangles.

Here are some of my 300 plus triangle units.

The kit came with 2 bloc-loc rulers to trim these units up perfectly. 

My design wall layout.

Here's a shot of all the triangles sewn together and the Snowman panel fused to the background. Then I used black thread to sew around the panel and finally trimmed away the fabric from behind the snowman so most of the background wouldn't show through the snowman.

Work in progress. Lots of work to crop out the facial features. I put snowflakes in the cheeks. I quilted the background first with a snowflake swirl that you can't really see because the background is so busy. Then I went back and customized the snowman.

Here is the completed quilt before binding.

 The binding came in the kit and I completed the quilt with the binding in 18 days!!

The custom quilting took me the longest. 

The back of the quilt with some of the words from the panel and the label that came with the kit.

I love how his hat turned out. I figure out something new with every quilt I sew. I had to figure out how to quilt the hat because it was too big to fit on the machine bed. 

Close up of hat design.

Here's his cute face.

Ear muff and scarf. I free motioned the scarf.

I love the sweater look of this design on the mitten.

Squiggle on the scarf.

The back. The snowflakes were rather small. They don't show up very well.

Amish with a twist 3 custom

I took pictures of my friend's quilt and started playing with designs for it on my Art and Stitch program.  It took me a while to design the turquoise stitched areas. I used an Anne Bright design for the border and used parts of it for some of the other designs.

Here I used a HQ design for the checker board area. I used part of the Anne Bright design for the purple triangles and I made it a continuous stitch out.

I tried to stay with just a few designs for the entire quilt. I used them in different areas resizing as needed. 

She said just do an edge to edge design. What?! I just couldn't do it. It was good practice for me.

Her backing.

This thing is huge!! 102 by 96 approximately.