JoeAnn's Outer Space Quilt is Finished, U of M Quilt is Loaded on Frame

 My customer's 'Outer Space' quilt is all finished, and her U of M quilt is loaded on the frame and ready to be quilted as soon as I get the pantograph lined up... tomorrow.

I'll take full-length pictures on my deck tomorrow.

Quilting JoeAnn's 'Outer Space' Quilt

 I've started quilting my customer's 'Outer Space' quilt.  I'm using a pantograph called 'UFO' (last photo).  There's a medium teal (Stone Blue) 100% cotton 40-weight thread on top, and a charcoal Bottom Line 60-weight thread in the bobbin.

When I walked outside to refresh the birdbaths, I found the old-fashioned pink roses still blooming, and the Double Knockout roses beginning to bloom.  The Asiatic lily buds are turning pink; they'll be blooming soon.  The milkweed buds are beginning to hang down in their customary fashion before opening and turning lavender.  I keep a couple of stands of milkweed, because it's the only host plant for the Monarch butterfly.  Plus, the tiny flowers are pretty and fragrant, and the seed pods, which are produced in late summer, are unique and interesting.

Carol's 'Missy' Quilt, Finished

Last night I finished quilting my customer's 'Missy' quilt. She designed the borders herself. I used light sand-colored Gutermann 40-weight thread on top and matching Bottom Line 60-weight thread called 'Statue' in the bobbin. The pantograph is an offset 'Paisley' by Patricia E. Ritter. The quilt measures 97" x 100". The batting is Hobbs Heirloom 100" cotton.

Quilting Carol's 'Missy' Quilt -- and the Local Wildlife

I was quilting away a little before 11:00 tonight when it occurred to me that I hadn’t turned off the water. I walked outside, went around the corner of the house – and found a pudgy little raccoon sitting on the ground under the bird feeders, which are one story up on the deck. He – no, actually, I think it’s a ‘she’ – was scarfing down sunflower seeds (and shells, too, by the looks of things) as fast as she could gather them up in her little paws and stuff them in her mouth. She looked a lot like a toddler eating birthday cake sans utensils. 😂

I left the water on, the better to cover any noise I might make, and scurried back into the house for my camera. When I re-exited the house, I found a tree frog on the front door, with a little moth beside him living dangerously. I stopped to catch his portrait, then hurried around the house to snap a few pictures of the raccoon.

So here are the tree frog, the raccoon, and the quilt, not necessarily in that order.

Quilting Carol's 'Missy' Quilt

 Today I started quilting my customer's 'Missy' quilt.  I'm using light sand-colored Gutermann 40-weight thread on top and matching Bottom Line 60-weight thread called 'Statue' in the bobbin.  The pantograph is named 'Paisley'.

Linda's 'Play Day' Quilt, Finished

Last night I finished my customer's 'Play Day' quilt.   It measures 77" x 91".   I used silver So Fine 50-weight on top -- it's the same color as the silver print on the white fabric -- and charcoal Bottom Line 60-weight in the bobbin. The pantograph is called 'Alfresco'.

Note the picture of the empty quilt box.  Well, sorta empty.  I've requested of my customer that if her quilt gets to her with Teensy cat stowed away inside it, she will send him back.  😂

Last evening, I went outside to reposition the water sprinkler, and brought back in an old-fashioned rosebud from a bush that came from my mother’s rosebush, which in turn came from her mother’s rosebush in North Dakota. The old-fashioned roses – even the unopened buds – have so much more fragrance than the hybrid roses.

This morning when I went into my quilting studio, I found the bud fully opened.

When I spread the quilt out on the deck to take pictures, Tiger showed up, as usual.  I put up a hand like a traffic cop and told him, "Stay off!"  He did -- but you can see by his ears' back-quirk (should be a word, and would be a word, had Noah Webster's cat ever had reason to back-quirk him) and the tail straight out behind him (as opposed to its usual lofty attitude straight up into the air) that he is not pleased with being disallowed on the quilt.

Quilting Linda's 'Play Day' Quilt

Today I started quilting a customer's 'Play Day' quilt.  I had just enough time to get the top border quilted tonight.

I'm using silver So Fine 50-weight on top -- it's the same color as the silver print on the white fabric -- and charcoal Bottom Line 60-weight in the bobbin. The pantograph is 'Alfresco'.