Wednesday, January 3, 2018

2017 review

I realized I hadn't photographed all the quilts I made in 2017. Sometimes, I'll make a charity or comfort quilt and hand it off without taking its picture! My bad. Anyhoo, here are the pictures I did take, and I am working to get the first of 2018 finished this week. Yup...I'm hooked on quilting.
My Brother's Quilt of Valor

Customer commissioned Georgia Tech tee shirt quilt

Charity log cabin

Miniature storm at sea

Challenge: Office

Challenge: Glasses

Challenge: TV

Charity, Girl's home

Charity, Kids

Charity, Kids

Christmas Gift

Charity, girl's home

Miniature

Charity, Nursing home

Charity, Kids

Charity, family whose house burned

Charity, Kids

Customer commissioned memory quilt. One of three

#2 commission
#3commission

Show quilt

Table runner for silent auction

Show quilt

Donation, Quilt of Valor

Donation, Second Wind

Show quilt

Commissioned customer quilt from antique fabrics


Commissioned FL Seminole tee shirt quilt

Baby quilt, given as a gift

Second FL Seminole tee shirt quilt for same customer

Bears for Boutique

Table runner for Boutique

Commissioned auction quilt for Christian School. I made two of these.

25 chicken pin cushions for boutique

Charity, Nursing home

Charity, Kids

Hummingbird quilt

Charity, Second Wind

Charity, Girl's home

Sample for BOM Class

#2 quilt for Christian School


Commission from table cloth

Charity, Kids

Second commission from same table cloth

African fabrics quilt

Door decoration

Charity, Kids

Commissioned tee shirt quilt

Soft book. I made two different ones


Christmas gift

Huge wall quilt, Christmas gift

Chicken quilt

Commissioned customer quilt from antique linens and laces

Commissioned tee shirt quilt

Commissioned tee shirt quilt

Commissioned tee shirt quilt

Christmas gift bed quilt

I Spy Christmas gift
I started back to work on Monday, and am custom quilting this unique quilt. I have tinted the flowers that are quilted on the surface. I hope the customer likes it...I should have it finished later today. I'll show the whole quilt then.



I did the tint with crayons. I tried this on my Rat Race quilt with great results

The quilt has a dress form with flowers for the dress. This is the exposed top of the form

The flowers are the colors of the flowers on the dress
Over last weekend, I made this quilt. I'm getting the backing today at my local quilt shop. They're having a sale!! I love sales.


More later. On with 2018!


Sunday, December 31, 2017

Last quilt...First quilt

Yesterday, I finished putting together the quilt top I started on a whim. No more purchases were made to finish it, the quilt shop is closed until Tuesday. I would have preferred a dark blue outer border, but had the red floral in my stash, so I used it! It is the last quilt top I made in 2017. With no suitable backing...it also becomes the first quilt of 2018. I'll get some backing on Tuesday and finish it up.

Blocks finished and auditioned with an alternate block fabric

Adding setting triangles

Sewing the rows together

Finished! A nice queen sized quilt.
Mr Wazoo is struggling with the flu, but managed to quilt this customer project before he was too ill to stand up for long periods.

The quilt is done and already sent back to the customer in Florida

He used the panto Angel Wings, because it mimics the butterflies
The last customer quilt of 2017 was this tee shirt quilt for a grandson. It will go home on Tuesday...January 2, 2018. Mind boggling, isn't it?

This should be a hit with the young man!
Tonight I'll be watching the ball drop in my jammies with a glass of bubbly and some Christmas cookies. Mr Wazoo will have his shot of NyQuil and be snoring in the New Year. I bet you wish your life was as exciting as ours is!!
Happy New Year, everyone.

The Wazoo quilters