Things To Treasure: 2016

Friday, November 11, 2016

God is Great Bench

God is Great Bench

Love to embroider! had a great time making this bench cover with a Moda cotton and an embroidered piece of linen. Love the feel and look of the linen, it gives such texture to this bench.

Black n White n Bright All Over

Black n White n Bright All Over

Strip quilting is quickly becoming a past time for me and to combine it with my all time favorite of applique is pure joy. Putting these black and white striped fabrics together with the splash of brightness and quilting it with the more modern quilt designs made for a fun time.

Horses Galore

Horses Galore

This bright fun print has been a joy to quilt. The bright colors just make you happy. Love getting to play with the many designs I have to accentuate the quilt. I am just in love with the backs of my quilts as I am the fronts... sometimes more!!

Pink Jewel

Pink Jewel

Love this pink jewel with floral circle quilting in the middle and the piano key swag both from Wasatch Quilting designs. I love their designs and the way they stitch out.

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Many Belles and All Beautiful

Belle the Beautiful

This beautiful Belle digitized embroidery pattern is one of my favorites. She is so very versatile and beautiful, I know i keep saying that word... I just think she is Beautiful. I will be putting lots of photos of her in this blog as I continue to explore all of the things I can do with her. I have already enhanced her to work on my Longarm Quilting machine and she has been used on my embroidery machine. The pattern in started working with is for a 5x7 embroidery design. I so far have made her in the 5x7 and 8x10 and 12x14 and 18x24 to get her any larger I will need to break apart her individual stitches and stitch in two runs of my longarm... not sure I will take the time for that. I have an amazing block quilt I am working on now with her and should have photos posted soon...

But here are a few photos I have completed already.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Life Is Good

Life is Good

The center of this quilt is from a class I took and then expanded on it to create

this one of a kind all cotton front and back with customized detailed quilting.

I feel like LIFE IS GOOD and wanted to share that sentiment with my dear

friend Mr. Titus. In the top blue block of this quilt are the words...

Life is Good

The striped fabric makes an amazing center piece for this quilt.

Bright Colors for the Twins

My daughter has a friend who has twins and you might notice A LOT of my quilts are

for my children's friends that have had children. My children are the real life in my

being and their friends are my friends. Babies are such a gift from God and I love sharing

his joy, so I quilt for my family and friends. These quilts are made of all cotton and

quilted with a bright green and royal blue back (which I cannot find the photo of...)

I love my embroidery almost as much as my quilting and I really enjoyed this piece

with a new alphabet I got that will allow me use fabric and two colors of thread.

Congratulations Candice!

Brooklyn's Fancy Umbrellas

Brooklyn my Great Niece, that makes me the Great Auntie Deborah!

This is another quilt I made for her with all cotton fabric, some of which is flannel.

This extra soft quilt is the special love this little girl deserves.

The umbrellas are on the fabric and in the quilting design. This

quilt is sure to keep her warm and cozy, even on a rainy day.

Grandma's Pink Gingham

This colorful and stunning quilt was made by a friend's grandmother

and she entrusted me with the honor of quilting the masterpiece. All of the cotton

pieces were hand sewn together with more love than we can guess.

With old quilts especially, it is hard to determine what is the best fabric for

the back of the quilt. It has to continue the story the quilter began. In this case, I felt a pink

gingham and pink thread would complete the story. I used straight line quilting patterns

blocks to keep the sharp points she created alive and was able to add some scrolly

patter in the sashing to complete the feminine chapter of this one.

Quilting this was quite an honor, Thank you Cindy!

Brooklyn's Belle

My beautiful neice Kimberly is having a baby Girl, her name

is Brooklyn. Such a Beautiful Belle name I couldn't resist making

this one for her. She has now been born and is very healthy and

vibrant little princess. This quilt is made with all cotton muslin on the front

and cotton print on the back, the binding is a combination of the two.

Cotton and Wool batting is used for the maximum exageration in the negative spaces.

She is quite the Belle, Brooklyn...I mean.
(This time I even got the label right...)

Jackson's "Great" Auntie Deborah

Jackson is just about as cute as they come and his SueSue

thinks he is as cute as they come! I kept thinking of myself as his

Auntie Deborah then as I was folding the Monkey Quilt I made for him...

it dawned on me I am his "Great" Auntie Deborah!

I loved the panel when I saw it and knew it would be perfect for my grandsons

and for Baby Jackson... a bunch of little monkeys!

Announcement Quilt

Baby Eubanks Announcement Quilt

Baby Eubanks is an Announcement Quilt... My daughter's dear friends have announced they are having a baby and do not and will not know the gender until delivery time! Who does that these days? Most parents are there at the first visit with confirmation of a baby wanting to know "What is it?" These two wonderful people are definitely God's gift to this new baby.

Congratulations!