LONE STAR DONE!

Sisty gave me this quilt months ago.  In fact, it was so long ago that I forgot that I had it, and at one time, I even asked my guild whose quilt this was!  Then, finally, sisty came to visit me, after four years of being here, and she saw the quilt and asked when I would have time to do it.   Talk about egg on my face!  So I made a promise to myself to do it immediately after I finished my contribution to the Outreach Program quilts.

Missy has been quilting for over 20 years.  I'm a rank beginner compared to her.  She started quilting before the time of rotary cutters, when you had to cut each individual triangle or whatever with scissors. She had tried to get me interested in quilting at that time, but I just was not going to survive the painstaking efforts it took way back then. 

The first picture shows her Lone Star quilt, straight off the frame.  The second is a close up of some of the feathers in the open spaces in the quilt.

When I saw the Lone Star, I thought of Texas, of course, and the song "Deep in the Heart of Texas", so I put feathered hearts in the corners.

Of course, when it comes to all those rhomboids in the points of the star, the only quilting that really shines is CC, or continuous curve, so I spent HOURS doing those for her.  And today, I finally finished it!  As soon as I find a suitable box for this quilt, it will be in the mail to her!  Hurray!

SUE B'S QUILT

I took a little trip over the past 5 days to see family and friends and to get my hair done correctly.  Yes, hair.  I have not found a completely acceptable hair dresser these past four years since we moved to EBF, VA, so every three to six months, I bite the economic bullet and go to the big city where I used to live and get a decent job done with my longtime favorite hair dresser, Katie, who makes me look like ME again instead of some frumpish backwoods denizen.

Having gotten that off my chest, here are the promised Sue B quilt pictures that I didn't have time to post before leaving on my marathon trip.

This wallhanging is about 36 x 36 and consists of 32  4" churndash blocks alternating with solid 4" patches surrounding a central appliqued 11" block.

I chose to quilt the solid patches with a cathedral windows motif, which made the quilt look like it had been embossed.  Those corner patches that are only 3/4 of a block were a doozie!  I had to fashion the pattern myself to make it fit into the 3/4 block at the same size as the pattern for the full blocks.  This was done with the aid of my ingenious IQ system for my longarm using a continuous curve approach.

Here is a close up of one of the 4" squares and the quilting in it.  You can enlarge it by clicking on it.

The applique outlining took the longest to do and required the most precision.  It helped her lovely design "pop", didn't it?

And now off to the laundry and my lurkim.