Wall hanging by Judi Madsen

I had a lot of fun with this class on www.iquilt.com by Judi Madsen. She's an awesome instructor and very thorough. Online classes are the best for me. I can pause when I need to or take a day off. I go at my own pace. I suggest you look her class up and see for yourself! You won't be sorry!

Blue and Brown Irish Chain

This quilt was a gift to my father for Christmas last year.  Little did I know it would be the last Christmas I'd get to spend with him.  He had been battling kidney cancer since 2014.  Unfortunately he passed in April of this year.  I'm happy I was able to make him smile.  I know he used this quilt a lot.  He was covered up with it when I visited him.  

Whole Cloth Quilting

My husband has bugged me for a few years now to make him a quilt for on our bed.  He told me he wanted a white one that we could put under our other quilts (blankets) to add that extra warmth.  Well, of course I couldn't just throw one together simply.  lol  so I took on a whole cloth quilt challenge.  My first large WCQ on my longarm machine.  I do have a whole cloth quilt project in progress on my Facebook Group 'Free Motion Quilt Along With Ren'.  I am quilting it on my sit down domestic sewing machine and will be using the Quilt As You Go method to put it all together.  You can check that out here: Free Motion Quilt Along With Ren to learn more.

Now back to this beauty here:  I felt overwhelmed trying to figure out how I wanted to go about this quilt.  After endless hours on Pinterest and Google Images I finally decided to break the quilt up into sections.  Hence the horizontal strips.  This was great because I just did my own thing in each strip and it was so much easier to quilt.  (at least for me it was)  ;-).  There are a ton of pictures here and of course they don't do the quilt justice at all.  It is really a beauty.  Oh and of course I couldn't hide it under my other blankets.  It's right on top!!!! 

Swirls and pebbles above.

Dallas Cowboys Lap Sized Quilt

This quilt was a blast to make!  Together Pat and I created this lap quilt for a customer.  Pat did an amazing job piecing it all together.  She paper pieced the stars and appliqued the letters.  How awesome is she?!  Go Pat!!!  I planned on doing an all over simple quilting design on this one, but after looking at it and all of the hard work Pat put into it, I just knew I had to do a custom job on it.

You can see in the pictures below how I did the quilting.  I did a simple zigzag on the borders and added some lines to fill in the empty spaces.

Below you can see how the corners came together with the zigzag design.

I also did some zigzag quilting around the appliqued letters.  

I did some simple all over stars and loops for the white area in the quilt.

And finally a quick pic of the back of the quilt.  I just love the way this one turned out.  The customer was happy with it and that's really all that matters!