Butcher Shop Quilt

 This is the second quilt for the butcher shop in town. It is about 35" square.  Some applique animals and some embroidery blocks. The border fabric with the animals and the cuts marked is my favorite part. haha

front and center...the chef

Adam has fish for sale, too

Lots of things to grill

He can make it hot

He makes pretty kabobs

Stuffed chicken breast is awesome

Now I know where the ground chuck comes from. haha

Ribs and loin are my favorite parts

I don't do lamb. I haven't seen this in the shop

The back is a black and i used black thread, so you can't see it. but, you do see where the top white thread came to the back sometimes. my APQS is not right yet.

They truly loved the guitar quilt...Beth cried. I'll bet they like this one, too. I'll be delivering it this morning.

RED baby quilt

 Edith (Evie) Evilyn was born 2 days ago, so, I'm not too late with her quilt. I asked momma if she had a color in mind, and she asked if the main color could be red. OK....I got this.  I had already decided it would be crazy quilt blocks done on the embroidery machine. My cousin said she is the unconventional child, so I hope this fits her idea of a red baby quilt. haha

Red it is.

I mostly did the blocks that had a middle piece. I put kid fabrics in the middles....and used the main color of the middle piece for the embroidery designs and the edges of the pieces.

I didn't do the spider with the web. didn't want to scare a little kid. haha

I like little froggy.  And I think the embroidery fan is pretty cool.  I didn't do all the embroidery designs, just depending on what it was and the kind of red fabric in that space.

The quilting was wavy lines across and down. I did the edges of the block and twice through the blocks.

There are lots of different shades of red...even some pink. I used a spool of red thread...and then switched to a maroon. 

I had to do this whole scene with the bees

You gotta have a few monkeys

And the back is more monkeys....flannel monkeys at that. 

I'm not sure the baby would want to lay on the red side, it might be a bit scratchy with all that embroidery, so the back is nice and soft.

If I remember correctly, the size came out to be about 42x49.  I mailed it off today.  And got a pic of baby Evie from momma. She has some fat cheeks. haha