Kimberbell Halloween quilt top

 This is just the top....not quilted yet. I got most of it finished a couple years ago, then let it sit.

I finally put my big girl panties on and got the border on it and finished up a couple things and now it is ready for quilting.

That Broomhilda's Bakery sign is not attached. they put a button on it. If I quilt this, I will probably just quilt it down. 

There are all kinds of blocks. I used the Kimberbell fabrics called for.

Today's menu hangs from a button.  The eyeballs in the 'glass' jar are behind vinyl. The spider on the pie is 3D

Several things are in vinyl jars. I think that spider is supposed to hang from a web...oops, forgot that.

The flower is 3D along with the top of the shoe.

This was just too much fun to do.

This shoe has glitter. The Bone Appetit sign is only pinned on.

Love that cupcake. haha

Broom is 3D

This was a lot of fun. I am not really a Halloween person, but couldn't resist this one. 

If anyone would like to purchase it, give me a holler. Maybe you know a Halloween lover.

Brenda's #4....Blue and white borders

 How about a quilt with a center square about 12".....and then a zillion borders. hahahaha  well, 13, but felt like a zillion.

It was rather interesting to quilt. I tried to do something different for each different fabric. Sometimes I forgot. oops!

I did all of the rows going across and then turned it to do all the other borders going the other way. I had a bit of an issue by the time i got to the bottom. I think i needed to baste those sides a bit as I went. oh, well, done is good. haha   Hope Brenda forgives me.

Quilt started out at 76 x 82 but lost 4 inches each way by the time i was finished. That seems a bit much to me.

I did some ghost quilting of blocks

Wavy lines in the fishy rows....straight lines in the flower rows

Some SID in the 9 patches and CC in the pinwheels. A bit of crosshatching.

I didn't SID all the rows....perhaps I should have. Some flowers and feathers and swirls

The back is kind of cool, I think.

It seems like a lot going on from the back....but a lot of the quilting doesn't show on the front.

The back was a darker blue...the camera washed it out. Wonder why cameras do that?

It's a pretty cool quilt....I like it.

Top thread was Glide Hawaiian Blue and bobbin was So Fine Navy

Took me about a month to quilt it. .... about an hour a day....most days.

Brenda's #3...Blue and white

 Here is the third of my friend, Brenda's, quilts. It is a blue and white one....very pretty. I think it is going to her sister. I did a panto on this one called Bright and Breezy by Lorien Quilting.

Quilted with Glide Hawaiian Blue on top. I didn't want to use white...it seemed too harsh on the dark blue.

 

The curves seemed to work with the sharp points of the flowers

The back is a white on white and I used Bottom Line White in the bobbin.

If memory serves, it is 64 x 80".  

Now to decide which one to do next.

Brenda's quilt #2

 This is my friend, Brenda's quilt #2.  There are numerous houses with embroidered flowers, too.

I think this is an interesting quilt. It's just a bunch of houses.....but,  each block has a word under the house.  And, usually, the window shows an example of that word.

There are so many different fabrics used in this quilt, you'll never tire of looking at it.

Drama

Empty nest. Brenda embroiders wonderful flowers, too.

Energy

Garden

Giggles

Plantings

Sew

Since the theme was houses....i gave the border a picket fence.

And, here is the wild back.

 

The whole quilt was SID....took me a while.  

I have 5 more Brenda quilts to do.....on to the next one.

Brenda's #1 quilt....snowmen applique

 My friend, Brenda, does a fantastic applique job and her quilts are always fun. She asked me recently to quilt some tops for her and I agreed.  I have 7 of them to do.

This is the first.....cute snowmen, wool and flannel applique, clever embellishments.

It is 60 x 70"...wider than it is tall.

I just basically did SID around everything and a little bit of background quilting. The hardest part was what to do in the houses.

All these blocks just make me smile. This is one plump snowman. I love her background fabric. Easy to follow those swirl lines. Snow ladies can't go on vacation in the sun.

A snowman Santa....what a big nose you have.  Check out those bead ornaments on the tree below...a quilting challenge.

 

This guy tickles me....just an old country boy....out to do some ice skating. haha   Those ear muffs were my biggest problem. Couldn't get too close to those. I worried about the paper clips but they didn't give me any trouble at all.

 

I struggled with what to do in the border since some of the dark triangles were deeper than others. So, I just went with lines...and did some curves in the white parts.

 

The backing was a grunge fabric....blue with gray.

 

It's been a while since I've quilting anything for someone else. Hope it passes inspection. My eyes aren't what they once were. Old age sucks, you know. haha

Glide threads on the top...white, dark blue, light blue, green and red.  Bobbin was So Fine navy.

There is another quilt just like this one but I'm going to do something different next and save that for later.

Are you ready to rock???

 Well, here I am....a year later. haha    perhaps I will keep this up a little better.....or not.

My cousin is a hard rock fan.....she surely didn't get that from me. haha    Her favorite is KISS.   bleck..

Anyway, she saved all her concert tshirts for years and recently asked me if i could make her a quilt with them. what's a girl to do...I said sure. haha

She wanted it to cover her couch so she could see it every day. It is 81" wide and 69" high.

I had heard of most of these bands...except for a couple.

I used gray thread because i would not be able to see black thread on black shirts. in some places it sunk into the tshirt and where i added black fabric, it shows up.

I put interfacing on all shirts, so the seams were a tad thicker than usual. I did a wavy line across all the seams to hold everything together better.

Some of the stuff on tshirts is not conducive to sewing through, so i went around things the best i could and filled in larger spaces with swirls or lines or whatever.

There is no 'theme' to the quilting...it is a mish-mash of shapes. haha

This....ugh!!   it will be the first block to disintegrate. parts of the red are already starting to come apart. 

Most of these shirts are many years old.......from the 80s and 90s. 

She wanted me to use the backs of the tshirts for the back of the quilt. I wasn't sure how it might work, but it went surprisingly well. I put interfacing on them, too.

Some of the shirts had a plain back, so I embroidered some rock sayings.

When I needed to fill in a space, I used a part of a shirt and embroidered on it.

 

This is one heavy quilt.

She chose the sayings to use after i gave her a list of them.

She had enough tshirts so I could make a quilt for her best friend also. That is next on the agenda.  sigh!!

The things we do for those we love. haha