T-shirt Quilt Delivered!

Today I delivered the quilt to Nancy and Shel Ferdman for their daughter, Katharine.  It was the t-shirt quilt.  I had worked on it for quite a while.  It was fun.  She had sent some really cute tees.  She chose a backing that was bright and perfect for a college student.  It was challenging quilting it, because it was such a large and heavy quilt.  Bill helped me put it on the frame.  Once on, I found that it was hard to roll the top tightly on the  bar.  One of the blocks had her letter from high school on it. It made that block so much thicker.  I ended up leaving the tension off of all the bars, just trying to keep them as taught as possible manually.  After a prayer for help, I was amazed at how well it went.  I had the whole quilt quilted in just 2 hours!!!  I meandered the whole thing, using a variated thread from Superior threads. 

Here is a close-up of the quilt, as well as showing how cute the backing was!

This quilt was so big, Bill had a hard time getting a picture of the whole thing!

Halloween Quilts

I made a Halloween quilt for Tim's family several years ago, when the boys were little.  It was a "cutesy" one.  I decided the boys needed a more grown up quilt for themselves now.  I found some neat fabric and made them each a quilt that was roughly 45"x60".  This one is for Jimmy:

And this one is for Jason:

I ordered a glow-in-the-dark thread and used that in the machine(not the bobbin) for the quilting.  I practiced until I was able to do a continuous-line spider web.  It was alot of fun trying that.  Here is a closeup of the quilting:

The fun began when I turned the lights off in my studio while the quilt was still on the frame!  It was really neat!  There was a very delicate yellow spiderweb showing up on the quilt!  I think it would have showed more if I had filled in an area instead of the stitching like this, but it was still very neat!!!  Needless to say, the boys, as well as their mom and dad, thought it was pretty cool!