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08/26/2026

Cathy has made several quilts of this pattern and wanted this quilted in the same way. Starlet from Urban Elementz it is, using Light Gray Glide thread on the top and Light Blue Bottom Line on the back.

08/23/2026

Wow, Mary Ellen! Well done on this quilt top. I know it was a long time in the making and is amazing. The pattern is Star Splitter by Victoria Findlay Wolfe. Quilting e2e is called Bright Lights and thread is Cornflower Glide on the top and Cream Glide 60 on the back.

08/09/2026

Dorothy’s Dinosaur quilt. As I hunted for the best pattern to quilt on this, I went looking beyond my current collection, because, wouldn’t dinosaurs (which o didn’t have) look cute on this one? I found one I liked and bought it. I personally love the quilting on this. It just makes me happy. Thread is Glide/Glide 60 mocha. As always, Dorothy used the leftover fabric to make a scrappy back.

08/04/2026

This quilt by Dorothy, destination yet unknown, makes me think of a rustic cabin in the woods or mountains. Scrappy back. I quilted it in mocha Glide/Glide 60 thread using the Zing E2E from Urban Elementz.

08/01/2026

This pretty quilt by Ruth is one I had some fun with - hand guided and rulers. I had quilted another embroidery sampler quilt for her and she wanted similar quilting, but the layout was different enough that identical quilting would not work. I used the same designs and added a few more so I that each of the background fills were different. My only regret is that with the invisible MonoPoly thread I used on the front, the light turquoise MicroQuilter thread on the back, and the busy fabric, you can’t see all the fun designs in the photos.

07/29/2026

Charity quilt I quilted for my guild. Whoever made the top drew markings in pencil where the quilting should go. Even after repeated washings the markings did not come out, so instead of doing my own design, I more or less followed what was written in the white areas. Then I did the rest to coordinate. White Glide thread, ruler and freehand quilting.

07/23/2026

Beautiful quilt made by Mary Ellen. I quilted it in Linen Glide thread in a Baptist Fan design.

07/21/2026

Another quilt Dorothy made with a fun scrappy back. I love the USA map panel. I quilted it with an edge to edge I designed, and learned something I would do to alter the pattern. Don’t get me wrong, I like the way it looks. But, rather than doing one row at a time, I’d like to change it to do multiple rows at a time. Some day. Not today.

07/15/2026

This two sided quilt was made by Dorothy. I quilted it in a paisley design in Sterling Glide/Glide 60 thread.

07/12/2026

This one was a challenge for me.

Wendy asked me to quilt a vintage yo-yo bedspread, where the stitching between the yo-yos were coming unstitched, to secure it and keep it from continuing to come apart. I looked up ideas online as well as consulted with other quilters about the best way to do it. Many advised not to try. Some felt that the beauty of a yo-yo quilt is the openness between the yo-yos. Some said because if it’s age, it should be left exactly as it was to preserve the antiquity. Some just felt it was too difficult to task because the yo-yos are so thick in the center that a bulk would not fit under the foot of the machine. All good points, but then the question would be how to quilt it so all of that was taken into consideration.

The end result was I bought White backing fabric and put batting in between the two layers of white. I then laid the bedspread on top of it and did my best to keep all the points in line with each other. I Quilted small wavy line in a crosshatch style so as to catch the edges of all the yo-yo’s and secure them as well as those that had come sewn to resecure them.

How to bind the edges was a question the baffled me for quite some time. In the end, felt the best thing to do was to trim the white to match the edges of the yo-yos, then tuck the raw edges inside and carefully whip stitch the entire edge. Time-consuming, but I think in the end that was the right way to go.

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