Appliqué butterfly

Appliqué butterfly quilt- quilter with a custom design.  She added a little embroidery to some blocks- a very sweet quilt.

Patriotic Flag quilt

Here is a patriotic log cabin quilt.  I custom quilted this one.  It has a neat bargello flag in the center area.  I put a star/wave pattern in the diagonal white area. 

Eagle quilt

This beautiful eagle quilt received a custom treatment....  This was quilted last year, but I came across the pictures today & thought I would share the photo's.

Sampler quilt

I did a custom treatment on this sampler quilt.  Each block was quilted differently- using alot of straight line and echo quilting.  It was fun to quilt each block differently & challenging to think of what would work to complement each block.

Bird quilt custom treatment

This quilt has such pretty bird blocks in it. The customer requested custom treatment on this quilt.

Customer quilts

Here is a cute fire engine quilt that I quilted lately... I added some grid quilting behind the fire trucks to give some texture to the solid fabric.

Freehand custom

 This quilt has some pretty applique on it.  I usually do all-over patterns for this quilter, but I couldn't see quilting over the applique on this one.  Instead, I did some freehand patterns in the background to fill in the white areas.  She & I were both happy with how it turned out.

Custom quilting

Some pictures of a very involved custom quilt that was finished last month.  The straight feather sections were done with the IQ, also the diagonal 1/4" lines.  The outer border was hand-guided, echoing all the applique, and also the straight line filler. 
A very beautiful quilt- all that applique is done with perfect teeny tiny needle-turn hand stitching.  For some reason I can't find a picture showing the whole quilt.  But there are 9 large blocks just like the one in the first picture below.  The quilter had made this from a pattern in Quilter's Newsletter Magazine if I remember right, and the magazine article showed how the original quilt was done.  I tried to keep the same style of quilting as the original, but I did have to change it a little as the original one was antique, and the quilting was done by hand on that one. 

A quilt for me

I've had this quilt top pieced for a few years, but had never quilted it.  I often have a hard time motivating myself to quilt my own stuff when I have customer quilts waiting in line.  But about a month ago, I decided just to pin in on the frame & get it done. 
The feathered star quilt top is paper-pieced.  There is a combination of hand-guided & computer-guided designs on the quilt.  That large feather wreath is done with the Intelliquilter, I filled in the small stippling, and also the feather designs in the outer border as hand-guided patterns, as well as the checkerboard background fill in the cream corner areas.  

This Snail's Trail wallhanging received a custom design.  I followed the piecing using a hand-guided swirly pattern. 

 A view from the back: 



Table runner

Here is a table runner with custom treatment.  I used a scroll design in the open areas around the pieced lillies, and did some 1/4" echo around the piecing.  I think the curvy scroll design is a nice contrast to the sharp points of the pieced flowers. 

 A view from the back: