Jill's Quilt All Done

First off, sorry for the poor pictures, but I had to take some quick pics and it was in the evening.    I have completed Jills quilt, including the quilting.  

This is the front of the quilt.

And here is the back folded up to show how awesome it just "fits" this quilt.  Jill is a professional trained decorator, and it shows in this quilt.  

Because I had a little fabric left over, I opted to make a pillow using a checker board pattern, a split back opening, and the backing fabric for the back of the pillow.

This is a close up of the quilting I did on the pillow.

So, there you go, I have another commissioned project crossed off my list.

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Jill's Quilt Getting Quilted

I'm on the last leg of finishing Jill's quilt.  I started quilting it yesterday.  I had put over 500 safety pins in the sandwiched quilt, and took the time to go down the center of each strip first to stabilize it , before doing the rest of the lines, 1" apart.

I cleared off my waist high cutting table and set up my old, work horse, sewing machine to do the quilting.  The table width held the weight of the quilt off to the left of the machine, and standing to do the quilting, turned out to be a breeze.  It actually wasn't as hard on my shoulders as when I have quilted sitting down.

I am going to leave this set up in place and get some quilting done on some quilt tops that will be using just straight line quilting.

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Progress on Jill's Quilt

I am making progress on Jill's quilt. Today, i got the top, batting and the backing sandwiched and all pinned. Jill is opting for a straight line quilting done with white thread. It should go fairly quick.

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Jill's Quilt - Top Done

Today, I finished the top for Jill's quilt.  Look at the picture she sent me to pattern her quilt after and then look at the my finished quilt top:

Today is is cloudy (like most of the time here in the Northwest), so the picture is not as bright as I would have like it to be for comparison.  But, in my mind, I nailed it!!

Now she has to decide on the type of quilting and the color of the thread she wants to use.  I sent her some pictures of stippling, shadowing, and straight-line quilting that she can choose from.  

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More on Jill's Quilt

I received the fabric in the mail today of the choices she made for her quilt.  She is pretty much following the picture that was in my post, here, which is going to be gorgeous!  

The top print in the pile is the binding, the two solids are the top, and the feather print is the backing. She did an awesome job picking out the fabrics.

I spent this evening getting the pieces cut out for the top, and sewed about a fifth of the top together.  Stayed tune for the progress of this quilt!

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Jill's Quilt

I made a baby quilt about a year ago for my mom to give at a show for the daughter of a friend of theirs. So it was a surprise when the receiver of the baby quilt contacted me to ask if I could make her the quilt in this picture.

Since I don't have a pattern or quilt software to make one, I fell back on my all time favorite program to design this quilt on paper. I used iNumbers (from MAC) or in other terms, Excel. I have used this program more than once to make patterns for quilts, granny square afgans, knitting rows mark off sheet, and many other things.

This is what I came up with in pattern to match the picture. Then the second sheet is the fabric requirements.
The client is buying the fabric and sending it to me, so I am not sure what colors she will choose.

Fabric Requirements (done the old fashioned way, with pencil and paper)

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