Kaffe Fassett Snowball For Friendship Quilters Guild

My guild, Friendship Quilters of San Diego, had a philanthropy day in January in which we put together a snowball blocks using Kaffe Fassett charm packs. Then Lee and Jean, the Philanthropy chairs for the guild, decided to set the blocks into a black sashed settings with tiny corner stones and a black border.

I volunteered to quilt without any idea of how to quilt it. I got some ideas from the pros on MQ Resource. I used Superior Rainbows thread #814 Gypsy (RED-MAGENTA-ORANGE-DK.RED) plus Superior So Fine black thread in the bobbin and in the border.




I didn' want the border thread to detract from the snowballs; I just wanted it to ruffle the 1-2-3s design in the border. I quilted a feathery flower in each block with the feathers peaking out a bit so the color shows in the black sashings and so the sashing is stabilitzed. I considered SIDing all the rows but it idn't work with my continueous feather flower.

The guild plans to use the quilt in the auction coming up in April. I hope it makes a ton of money for the guild.

Celtic Knot

This is a class sample for my LQS, the CraZy 9 Patch, in Ramona, CA. Debbie is an exceptional piecer so I really wanted to do some special stuff in the quilt. I knew that I wanted to quilt it to define the over-under of the knots. And I knew that I would be using a ruler for most of it. Lots of ditch work. I did a double-line inside the black and then SID the entire knot. I strated using Superior MonoPoly but it kept breaking on me. I was using a new Gammill wide expanded base which gives lots of room for ruler work. but the nut connecting it bumps into the carriage. That would not normally be a problem but I just added Edgerider wheels to my mahcine which are the tiniest bit smaller than the old Gammill wheels. I just had to be carfule during diagonal ruler work.






I found a new Keryn Emmerson border design that was continuous. I also used Helen Squire design for the long heart shaped pieces of blue. I double-lined the black border also.




I used two battings, Warm & White on the bottom and Quilter's Dream Puff on the top to give the Celtic Knot some definition. I used Superior So Fine black thread and turquoise PermaCore.







I dropped it off at the LQS this afternoon. It was a hit.

St Bernard Rescue Quilt

Allison has a small ranch in Julian. She is passionate about St Bernard Rescue. She has one of her own. Allison decided to make a quilt to raffle and donate the proceeds to the rescue group.. Allison gathered red fabrics of all kinds, flannel, cotton, homesppun and lots of plaid. She also had a small piece of fabric with Saints on it that she fussy cut into blocks. Then using ultrasuede, she appliqued a St. Bernard dog sleeping.







I trapuntod the dog and did a medium stipple throughout the quilt in Superior So Fine black thread.