This is a quilt I made for my husband's birthday.  From Wisconsin, he is a big Packer fan, and I wanted to represent the 4 Super Bowl wins for the Green Bay Packers, in a quilt.   The pattern is called the Swing Pattern, and I was able to use fabrics that complement the Packers Green and Gold color scheme.

I was able to personalize this quilt with the final score of the most recent Super Bowl win!

In the dark green rectangles, I made a proto-type of the NFL football logo.  This quilting took a lot of practice, but once I got it down, it was pretty smooth.

In each of the 4 corners, I quilted the trophy representative of the Green Bay Packer's Super Bowl wins.  This took even more practice!  For the 2 inch inside border, I used a football-type pattern, and on the outside border, I used the piano border, which is becoming one of my favorites.

 

This quilt was made using 13 fat quarters.  We have kits available to make this quilt.  It is a very simple pattern, and goes together quite quickly.  It is a very good choice for beginners.

For the black border, I chose a leaf and loop pattern.

And for the inside, I chose a primitive box/curl pattern which I found in a book called Mindful Meandering.  It was very fun to do, and I think it went very well with the colors of this quilt.

     This is a quilt I made for a friend of mine who has a place in Hayward, Wisconsin.  I call it my Northwoods quilt.  I wanted to incorporate animal prints into this quilt, so I chose a pattern that used a 7 inch block. 
     This friend invited my whole family up to their place.  Now that included 8 people from my family, and I thought the least I could do was make a nice lap size quilt for their place in the Northwoods. 

For the design on this quilt, I chose a piano border.  I learned this technique from the class offered with the purchase of our Long Arm machine. I was glad to put it to use, and am very pleased with the outcome.  I choose this border on several different quilts.  It works very nice on any size border. 

For the inside of this quilt, I chose to do a leaf pattern in each of the blocks.  It goes along with the theme of the entire quilt.

This is a quilt that I made for a special fundraiser, using 24 fat quarters.  I purchased a pre-selected group of 20 fat quarters in red, black, and white, and since I wanted this to be a UW-Madison Badger Quilt, I added 4 fat quarters of Wisconsin Badger fabric.  The quilt pattern is called "Between Friends", and I got it from a book called "Happy Hour" by Atkinson Designs.  Their patterns are very easy to follow, and the piecing went very quickly. 

Not only was this quilt quick to piece together, but it was also quick to finish it on the Long Arm machine.  Because the fabric used was so very busy with patterns, I chose a simple bubble type pattern for the overall quilting.  I think it turned out very nice, and I know the person who won the bid on this quilt.  She is very happy with her purchase, and can't wait to give this quilt to her son, (once they purchase a house!).