Finished Baltimore Fox wall hanging

 

Here's the finished wall hanging.
I like how the watercolor floral came out.

        2017 #FALQ3
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It's time to link up some UFO's for Q3 of the 2017 Finish-a-long.

First up is a Fat Quarter Shop 2015 charity BOM for St. Judes Hospital.
The plan is to finish the quilting in time for a charity quilt sale in August for LLQG , Wolfboro, NH. 25% will go to David's House and 75% to St. Judes.

This is sea life wholecloth ready to trapunto and FMQ.
The machine appliques have been detailed with some thread sketching
before doing the trapunto.
This is a table topper for a round pub table.
 

This is a small wholecloth to practice ideas from Patsy Thomson's Craftsy class.
I think I'll finish two so I can see the threads better on the lighter batik.

I'm still designing this challenge quilt for the Cocheco Quilters.
I started redrawing and picking out the owl for a different background.
We'll see; it has to be done by August.

Two projects due in August and two by October.
Cataract surgery July 27 and August 3rd.
YIKES!

September Finish for Hello 2016, Good bye UFO's

Here's my September finish, Vintage embroidered linen bureau scarf.

details of some of the quilting.

FAL Q3 Vintage Linen Wholecloth Quilt

This is vintage embroidered linen with trapunto hearts,
stenciled fans and orange peel motifs and lots of FMQ feathers, hearts and fillers. 

The link to the proposed Q3 FAL is: http://lauraluvsloons.blogspot.com/2016/07/q3-ufos-for-2016-final-along.html

Some details of the FMQ

FAL Q3 Silo Barn Quilt



This is the finished Silo Barn Quilt from the book
Farm Girl Vintage by Lori Holt.

The link to the proposed Q3 FAL is:  http://lauraluvsloons.blogspot.com/2016/07/q3-ufos-for-2016-final-along.html



 

Some FMQ details.

Bloggers Quilt Festival 2016

This is my entry for the Applique Category.

I'm linking this post to the Bloggers Quilt Festival

 hosted by Amy Ellis at Amy'sCreativeSide.com

                                                        Blogger's Quilt Festival 2016 




Rabbits Prefer Chocolate a Bunny Hill Design
made scrappy from my stash,
machine applique and FMQ on my DM.





Some details.

August finish.

My August finish is Leah Day's Hearts and Feathers Wholecloth.
 It was fun to learn Leah's trapunto technique in the hearts and feathers and
 her hairball and micro stippling everywhere else.

I like the echo quilting inside the hearts.

The Ultimate Free Motion Quilting Challenge ~ Summer 2016




Thank you QuiltShopGal for this wonderful FMQ challenge:
Linky Party # 2 Doodle/Sketching with theUltimate Stencil Collection and        the Ultimate Background Collection designed by Cindy Needham


Here are some sketches and practice using some background stencils.

Here is the sketch I drew before attempting to quilt the linen I had already added trapunto to.
I used the circle stencil to get a good size and shape for the corner heart design.
The corner hearts and half hearts along the edge are from a MQU article by Sue Heinz.
I used the 3/4 inch and 1/2 inch background grids for the orange peel doodles. I used the clam shell Papa background stencil for the Baptist fans.
I must say I love using these stencils for this quilt I'm working on.
I can't wait to share the finished quilt:)

Q2 finish

Here's the quilt from my Q2 UFO page

Rabbits Prefer Chocolate by Bunny Hill, a scrappy version.
Lots of newly designed fmq motifs made this quilt lots of fun to quilt.

Bunnies and chicks



Coneflowers and bumble bees.



Ruler Work Rocks Linky Party

Here's my practice sampler using my straight ruler to FMQ the basic block pattern of a snq with a churn dash in the middle.
I used a double curve ruler I bought from Amy's store. I love the curved cross-hatch in the corners.
I used a decorative stitch on my Janome Horizon to hide some practice threads that showed up too much on my first corner.
I like to use these practice quilt sandwiches as shelf liners for small kitchen appliances and small placemats depending on their size.
I'm linking this piece up with Amy's Free Motion Quilting Adventure and her Ruler Work Rocks Linky Party

Heart and Feather Wholecloth Update

I added the cat hair balls, outlined the hearts and feathers
and micro stippled. Making progress and like it so far:)