Totes for the girls for Christmas

 Black leather pouch with shark applique for Kelley and brown faux leather pouch with black leather labrador for Amanda. Note the mini carabinas I used with a flat shoelace for the straps.

Leather backpack purse made from a vintage leather skirt for Kim.

Bag It for Elm Street Quilts

Here are two bags I've made this month for Yankee Swaps.
They were fun to make.
I'm going to share these at Elm Street Quilts for the bag it fun.
I have a few more bags to finish for Christmas presents.

Quilt Shop Gal FMQ challenge - Pumpkins

New pillow with trapunto pillow

Original pumpkin I made for the October, 2015 Lori Kennedy challenge.
I used insulbrite for one of the layers, so it's a useful hot pad every Thanksgiving.
Original post: Saturday, October 24, 2015

Trapunto Pumpkin inspired by Lori Kennedy and QuiltShopGal.

My new autumn pillow.
Lori Kennedy design for the FMQ challenge at Quilt Shop Gal.
I added trapunto to the big pumpkin.

A beautiful fall day in our neighborhood on a lake in NH.

What I did this summer:)

Inspired by Hawaiian quilts, I designed this whole cloth quilt. 
Appliquick machine applique with thread sketching,
then tapuntoed and lots of FMQ. 

Blue ribbon at the Cocheco Quilt Show this past weekend.

The shells were marked before FMQ.

Close-up of my adaptation of a Sue Heinz FMQ design around edge.

LLQG challenge inspired by an extra article from MQU magazine.

Cocheco Quilters challenge : Original design
inspired by the poem Stopping By Woods... by Robert Frost.
Thread painted deer, couched threads and lots of FMQ.

        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!

Q2 UFO's for the 2017FAL

Four placemats ~ machine pieced, appliqued and quilted ~ ready for the bindings.

I have traced my daughter's original art.
Next I will thread sketch with black 40 wt poly,
embroider the rose touches of color,
use my Derwent InkTense pencils to add the other touches of color.

This is a practice piece I did of one of her sketches
trying out different thread weights and color medium.

Fig Tree's postage stamp from Q1. I finished the piecing and applique.
Next to finish the embroidery, quilting and binding.


I'm linking this post to the Quarter 2 of 2017 Finish-A-Long.
http://www.shecanquilt.ca/2017/04/2017-fal-q2-proposed-finishes-link-up.html