Spruce It Up Quilting: Hollie

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Saturday, November 14, 2015

Batiks and More!

Sit a spell... you might want to grab a coffee and enjoy the show. This is the week of April 5th-11th on Lolah! As you will see, it is possible to quilt more than one quilt during your day on Lolah.

Date: April 6th

Lolah's friend: Marilyn

Name/Pattern of the quilt: Batik Jelly Roll Quilt/ backing is also a batik

Thread: King Tut #417 a blend of all the colors in her quilt

Panto graph: Burning Bush

Batting: 100%cotton

Photos and a finish: Marilyn loves to make quilts for teenagers at a treatment facility where her daughter works; each person gets a quilt for their birthday... what a kind heart!!

Marilyn has great control! She's barely holding Lolah's handles... it's that easy to move Lolah!

I bet the teenage boy who received this quilt was thrilled with his gift!!

Date: April 7th

Lolah's friend: Carole L

Name/Pattern of the quilt: Triple Irish Chain

Thread: Glide Vegas Gold

Panto graph: Chinook by Denise Schillinger

Batting: Cotton

Photos and a finish:

Name/Pattern of the quilt: Sonya's Windows

Thread: Glide Green

Panto graph: Interlocking Stipple

Batting: Cotton

Photos and a finish:

Date: April 8th

Lolah's friend: Diane F

Name/Pattern of the quilt: ZigZag quilt

Thread: Black Glide

Panto graph: Interlocking Stipple

Batting: 100% polyester

Photos and a finish: this quilt was for her brother who loved it!

Date: April 9th

Lolah's friend: PROLIFIC Hollie

Name/Pattern of the quilt: Butterfly quilt

Thread: Glide

Panto graph: Hearts in Bloom

Batting: 100% poly

Photos and a finish:

Name/Pattern of the quilt: Bird quilts (x2) on 1 backing

Thread: Glide Graphite

Panto graph: one was freehand stipple and the other was a panto

Batting: 100% poly

Photos and a finish:

Name/Pattern of the quilt: 4th quilt of the day: Imagine

Thread: Glide Teaberry

Panto graph: Hearts in Bloom

Batting: 100% poly

Photos and a finish:

Date: April 10th

Lolah's friend: Marie

Name/Pattern of the quilt: Batik Floating Star

Thread: King Tut in variegated colors to match her quilt

Panto graph: Chinese Crescents

Batting: 100% cotton

Photos and a finish:

Look at this backing!!! Perfect choice!

Marie makes LARGE quilts!! Gorgeous!!

We hope you're enjoying seeing all these beautiful creations! From April on, Lolah was one busy machine! Keep watching as we try to catch up on our blogging!

Toodles,

Lorette

Friday, April 24, 2015

As I was finishing up quilting on a customer quilt one day in early March, Hollie came over with her cousin and brought along the three quilts she planned on quilting the next day. (It takes time to choose thread and panto graphs as friends of Lolah can appreciate!) Two were baby quilts, made exactly the same with the same backing. She intended them to be gifts for friends expecting.

I had to leave early that day so I helped Hollie and Shannon load the baby quilts, gave them brief instructions and left them on their own.

Flannel baby quilt no 1 was quilted with Bronze Glide thread by Filtec, and 100% poly extra-loft batting; Shannon was brave and/or confident enough to go freehand!

They did really well flying solo... I came home to an empty shop and one quilt done. The next day, they returned to finish the next baby quilt. For this one she chose Filtec's thread called Tar Heel and added ruler work to her freehand. Not bad for a newbie!! This is Shannon's 12-yr-old daughter Jessica.

Shannon's third quilt is for Jessica who is a lover and rider of horses.

The backing is a beautiful batik; Shannon picked Sea Green Glide thread by Filtec, and Hearts in Bloom panto.

I was surprised at how speedy and in control Shannon was on Lolah. She's a potter and told us she has to work at higher speed on the wheel than most so perhaps it wasn't such a surprise to watch her go.