Anytown, Texas Quilt

So I designed a quilt for the Quilt Across Texas fabric line and wrote up the pattern too! It will be for sale at Quilters Crossing starting September first! Kits are available too.

It is called Anytown, Texas. 

The center of the quilt is a panel that I quilt Tomball trivia onto, you could do that for anytown in Texas though and it would make a great quilt.

The quilt finishes at 72" x 74"

Here are some detail shots:

 Hooks Airport was not originally part of the town but was incorporated later on.

My favorite part of Tomball, Relics by the Railroad!

 Latitude and Longitude of Tomball

 Tomball was originally called Peck but was renamed Tomball after Thomas Ball in 1907

 This was a very educational process. Designing a quilt is challenging but, I decided not to make this too complicated, so that a confident beginner could accomplish it, which I thought would also make the pattern writing a bit easier too. In a word WRONG! The pattern writing turned out to be the real challenge! 

I wanted to make sure I gave good directions, had correct fabric requirements etc... Lots of check and re-checking. Wording and re-wording. Thanks to my mother for helping proof read for me! I am happy with how it came out, we'll see what our customers say starting tomorrow!!!

Think I will stick to quilting for a while now!

Halfway through the quilting!

 Tomball was originally called Peck 

( until renamed in honor of  Thomas Ball in 1907)

 Hopefully I get this finished today!!

More Quilt Across Texas Quilt Revealed

Working on the quilt! Hoping I will have it done for Saturday!

Teaser

I have been diligently working on a pattern and quilt using the 2012 Quilt Across Texas fabric line from RJR. This fabric will not be available for purchase until September 1st though we have had people calling at the shop asking if we would sell it earlier. 

Can you believe that?

So here is a teaser of the quilt which we will have kitted with patterns starting September 1st. Note it isn't quilted yet but it goes on the longarm this evening so hopefully it will be done by the first!

Wine Tote

Have you played with these new laminated cottons yet? They are a lot of fun once you get used to the way it handles. 

 I saw this pattern in the shop and thought it was worth a go, it said you could use laminated cottons to make it so I took advantage of my laminated cotton stash!

 I made the wine tote version with great results. The pattern also gives full instructions for a lunch bag size.

It holds two bottles comfortably with a little divider so your bottles don't clang together.

Small pockets on the outside for a bottle opener perhaps?

Loved it and plan to make more for gifts! The pattern was good and full of helpful tips. 

Linda's Heart Bargello

These are shots of Linda's queen size Heart Bargello quilt done in rich Civil war reproduction fabrics:

no idea what the white spot in the pic is? Something weird with my camera because  it isn't on the actual quilt.

 It had three borders:

 In the largest border, I did a winding feather all around which really looked lovely. I am still working on having amazing large feathers so this was a nice compromise:

 Still got my feather just on a smaller scale-- all this practice will pay off I think.

I used my rulers and gave the heart portion a chevron pattern across it. 

Thanks Linda for the opportunity to quilt this beauty!

Julie's Sneak Peek!

Julie asked me to quilt this little beauty before she left for her summer vacation in a state far cooler than the great state of Texas. She kindly gave me permission to post picks of it before she even gets to see it in person! ( it is on its way there by mail) So Julie here is your sneak peek. I hope you love it, it was fun to quilt!

 Here are shots of before I began- pretty autumn/sunset colors and lots of lovely metallics.

 I outlined each applique shape and then used rulers to make a secondary design around the appliques:

 Here you can see the secondary design starting to take shape but it needed more....

 So I filled in some of the shapes created to get this:

You can see it better on the back side, 

in this shot of a single square: 

 

more detail shots:

 borders:

 borders from the back:

Look at the texture created!

 Wide shots of the front:

Wider shot of the back 

 It sort of reminded me of a cathedral window design. I used a lovely olive green So fine thread on this which seems to look fantastic on nearly every Asian fabric. It looked nice on the light teal backing too- giving some contrast but nothing too eye catching.

Thank you Julie for giving me a chance to quilt for you!

 I hope you love the quilt and enjoy it for years to come.