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.

Old truck panel

I used a random snowflake design in the background for this quilt.

I quilted this for my friend. I used a dark gray thread for most of it.

She used a gray flannel for the border. It looks like velvet with the quilting.

She got the panel from Missouri Star Quilt Co.  It's digitally printed. The detail is amazing.

 I want one. I want this one actually since I already quilted it.

I put some straight lines in the buildings for the planks.

Here's a full view after all the quilting.

I put a cotton candy design on the roofs using white thread. I free motion quilted the snow mounds.

This is a weird view of the quilt.

Midnight Clear quilted

Trying to show the quilting here.

I enlarged this quilt pattern maybe a little too much. It quilted out super fast.

I only went through 2 bobbins for this quilt. I was using bottom line from Superior. The bobbin holds a lot more thread. Less stopping. I'm going to bind it with this same black fabric.

The thread is a light green color.

This is the whimsical fabric on the back it's also flannel. So soft. You can't even see the thread here.

Secret Santa Finshed

The quilting blends right in. 

I used a variegated green for the top thread.

I used the same Santa fabric for the binding.

I used a dark green thread on the back. Swirls and snowflake pattern.

Midnight Clear sashing made

I got all of the blocks for this Midnight Clear quilt.

The sashing is so tedious! But look at it!! It was worth it.

Sashing and 9 patch corner stones. I just got them up on the wall and will probably sew them tomorrow. Fingers crossed. I used all kinds of greens for the sashing. The pattern only used one green.  I love the variety of greens I used, it gives so much interest compared to the pattern. I also mixed up the reds in the 9 patches. 

Temecula Secret Santa Mystery with borders

The blocks of the Mystery quilt with the sashing added.

The sashing is all words. The instructions called for sashing and then just binding. But I thought it needed something more.

So I added a red border. Still wasn't happy with it. So I added a 10 inch border to that.

This turned out to be a Twin size quilt.  So I'm calling this quilt "Santa crisscrossing the snowy sky".

These Santa Heads are large and I didn't want to cut them off so that is why I kept the border extra large. I have enough of the Santa fabric to use on the back.