The Double Irish Chain.  This quilt was completed during our Thursday Project Night by Joanie Hogan.  She put a lot of time into the piecing and created a great border using extra blocks.  This was a very nice quilt to work on, and Joanie is one of my favorite customers!

For the border, I used a combination of piano border, and leaves and loops.  For the rust-colored  double chain, I used a diagnal line from corner to corner through each square.

Inside each light blue diamond shape, I found a pattern that works perfectly.  It is a diamond outline with small meandering on the inside of the diamond.  It is very difficult to see the stitching from the front side of the quilt, so here is the view from the backside of the quilt.

 

Talk about a Family Business!  My sister created this pattern, with the intention to teach a precious 9 year girl, named Sydney, who has an amazing passion for sewing, how to quilt. So she created this easy to follow pattern, and got her 6 year old Granddaughter, Kenadie, and Kenadie's 1st cousin, Sydney to pick out some great fabrics for quilting.  She set aside1 day a week for 4 weeks to spend Grandma Jo Jo-time learning to quilt.  We called this quilt "Grandma's Place".  The girls picked out 3 different fabrics for the inside, along with a coordinating fabric for the border.  The quilt was started in November, 2011.

For the quilting, Grandma Jo Jo was able to practice meandering, and making loops for the border. 

Here is a picture of the girls (Kenadie, Gabby, and Sydney) with their finished quilt tops....they are so proud.  Little 3 year old Gabby was able to work on a little table runner.  I am sure she will be able to have her Grandma Jo Jo time learning to quilt when she turns 6 too!  That's a great goal!



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!).

This is a very fun quilt!  It is called the "I SPY" quilt.  I finished this for my son's family Christmas present.  We got the idea and instructions from a freind we met on the way to the National Quilt Expo in Chicago.  She gave us the pattern, and several novelty fabrics to use in the construction of this quilt.  It consists of 72 - 4 3/4 inch novelty fabrics.  I chose a fun white with black print fabric for the cornerstones and inner border, and a black fabric for the sashing and large border. 

 

It was so much fun piecing this quilt together.  It was the start of our "Project Night", where family and friends gather to work on projects.  We have since started our own "I SPY" collection with the intention to offer classes for the "I SPY" Quilt.