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.

A Custom Quilting Finish for At The Seashore Quilt

This quilt is my version of At The Seashore by Moda Bake Shop. 

It was their summer quilt along for 2019. Free Blocks and settings were given over the summer.

This is a view of the bottom half. It turned out 108 x 96 inches.

I custom quilted it. I designed this bird and grass row myself.

I custom quilted the cat tails and grass and bugs.

This quilting design fit these blocks perfectly.

I put rope in this row of blocks.

The buoy row was my favorite one to piece. I loved picking out the different fabrics for this. 

Simply quilted with a wave design.

This is the middle section of the quilt.

This is the top section of the quilt. I had to fold it in half and clamp it to the railing.

This quilt started out with these twin pop blocks.

Here are the flying geese. I took a quilting design apart and tweaked it to be a continuous design for these blocks. 

The border view. It was tedious. I had to do one section at a time. The flower border has a cotton candy design that I used in the background of the twin pops too.

Here are my paper pieced snails trails waves. I tweaked a swirl design to fit in these blocks.

Here's a quick view of the back. The End.

I'm calling this "Patriotic Sparkler" quilt.

This is a modified log cabin block. The pattern started out the same as the Chelsea quilt that I made. 

Here are 4 blocks together.  The white fabric was from my neighbor. 

Here are the same 4 blocks turned a different way.  It's amazing what you can do with a log cabin block.

Back to the circle layout. I thought it was a little boring in the center.

Here's what I came up with. I sewed a random piece to each block on an angle creating a star-blade effect. I was able to break up all of the white space.

I made all the blocks first then added the blades before sewing the 4 blocks together.

Here we are as a completed top with a flowery border added. All fabrics were scraps from other projects except the white and the backing which my neighbor gave me.

I went to Handi Quilter Academy in June and learned more about my design software for quilting patterns. I created all of the stitch designs by changing existing patterns to fit my blocks and borders.

"Drum Roll Please"

There is a great corner design but you can't even see it because of the busyness of the fabrics.

You can see the corners on the back and the borders.

Here's the secondary design from the 4 corners coming together. 

You can't see me but I'm patting myself on the back. Ha Ha!