On the Home Stretch, Quilting Batik Quilt

Quilting Customer's Batik Quilt

The light-colored square is the center of the quilt... so I'd be more than halfway done, except I've skipped the darker background area until another cone of better-matching thread arrives.

More Quilting on Batik Quilt

More quilting is done on my customer's batik quilt; I'm almost to the halfway point.

Quilting Batik Quilt

More quilting done on my customer's batik quilt today:

I see a triangle that should have some feathers in it.  😏

The kind of stitching in the middle strip is called 'McTavishing'.

Quilting a Customer's Batik Quilt

I've gotten a good start on my customer's batik quilt:

Using my new swag rulers

(It really doesn't have as many ripples as it appears; I've turned out all the overhead lights and shot the photo from the side so the stitching shows up, and that exaggerates any slight rumple or rimple.)

There we go; see, that green row is nice and smooth now.  🙃

Not done with this next row yet... just put in the outlines so far.

Sunbonnet Sue Irish Chain EQ7 Design

Back in November of 2014, my sister gave me 18 vintage appliquéd Sunbonnet Sue blocks, made by our grandmother, great-grandmother, aunts, great-aunts, and some of their friends, neighbors, and even a favorite teacher or so.  Here are close-ups of the blocks I took back then:  Sunbonnet Sue blocks

Today I played around with them in EQ7, adding in my own pictures.  (The Sunbonnet Sues won't fill up quite so much of the blocks, in actuality.)  I'll use a background that closely matches the backgrounds on the Sunbonnet Sue blocks.  Here's one of the possibilities:

If the blocks are about 13" square, this design will produce a 96" x 96" quilt.

Emma's Lavender-Green Quilt

This quilt was made from a kit given to me by my sister-in-law.  I finished it last night.  Thank you, Annette!

I'm going to save it for Emma for Christmas.  The green fabric is chenille.  The pantograph pattern is Folk Irises.  It measures 47" x 57".

The light mint green with lavender butterflies is flannel.