Summer Quilting Time

With kids out of school, vacation time behind us, I am still trying to keep on top of my quilt production. I recently finished a pair of sports quilts for a brother and sister. He was into basketball  and hers is soccer themed. I've also made a memory quilt for a family that lost their mom and used her clothing items and holiday sweaters to make the quilt. And finally I made a necktie quilt for a physician who retired using all of his tie collection. In the pipeline are graduation quilts for freshman starting college, a hankie memory quilt and a runners marathon/10K quilt.

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Keith Urban in a Quilt

Using about 12 Keith Urban concert T shirts, I snipped and chopped and by adding co-orinating colored fabrics I came up with this snuggly balnket. My customer Jessica must be a huge fan to have such a  collection of shirts and was happy to have them made into this quilt. On the back I used a soft turquoise blue plaid flannel fabric. Such a fun quilt.

How to make a painted Applique Landscape Quilt

I wanted to share how I make my painted and applique landscape wall hanging. It's a class I have taught to my junior quilters and wish to teach it again. Below are photos of the progress of the quilt from photograph or image, painted background, added fabric details and then finished quilt after free motion quilting.

Hawaiian Postcard, not a photograph for this project

From this I enlarge the image so its a line drawing and approx. 8" x 10". This I trace using pencil onto a slightly larger piece of muslin. Then using watered downacrylic paints  I blend colors and fill in the background. When I am happy with that I will fussy cut small pieces of fabric to add details and focus pieces and glue those to the muslin.

Painted design with addition of fabric details

Finally adding a blue border finishes the wall hanging off by neatening up the sides. The quilt and border are free motion quilted using colored and variegated threads.