July

July brought me another batch of beautiful quilts! Each one more beautiful than the last.  What a fun month to see all of these great quilts and work with their talented owners.  

Cathy kept me busy with her ocean themed quilts for a few days! It gave me the opportunity to play around with different designs.  Flip flops, sea shells and puddle rings were the designs that completed the quilt.  The second quilt in this group was a interesting one to see finished.  First time using the modern quilting design on a more traditional fabrics, finished was very cool!

Lisa made the next three and they are simply stunning!  Her first, a trip around the world with a simple loop quilting, second a more modern look with the batiks and her last quilt two color flying geese blocks set in blue with accents of orange.  The color combo of each of the quilts is spot on, excellent job Lisa!

How cool is this quilt pattern?  It appears to be two quilt blocks but looks more complex after putting the blocks together. Sue did an fantastic job with her piecing and notice the border? Love the way she used the leftover pieces and cut them at an angle.  

Here's another cute little quilt from Paul.  His granddaughter loves flowers and butterflies.  He happily fulfilled her wish with this next quilt.  We selected a butterfly design with finished it up perfectly!

WOW!  Betsy knocks it out of the park with this quilt!  A million little pieces and all perfectly sewn together!  What a fun quilt this one is!  A huge mixture of tiny little blocks and Betsy did some fussy cutting adding more fun to the finished quilt.  LOVE this one!

Diane finished this adorable little farm themed quilt for her little grand.  The center print was too cute to cut so she added a couple of border and went with it!  Adding Minky as a backing this quilt is going to be loved!  We selected a super cute farm animal quilting design to finish it up.

Loretta Jo did some pretty incredible fussy cutting on this next quilt.  Be sure to click on the photo so you can see how she cut her fabric to create the inner line of the design.  Another quilt I fell in love with this month, the color combo of blue and brown - fabulous!  Can't wait to see more of Jo's quilts! 

Here's a couple of quick quilts from Shirley. The first for her granddaughter to use while having tea parties.  A cute little Strawberry shortcake print quilted with butterflies will be ideal for the job.  How delightful is her next one?  A simple ABC panel with borders makes a superb little quilt gift quickly!

Janet made this marvelous quilt for her daughter.  The blues and yellows are perfectly paired with the dark blue border making it exquisite! The backing fabric that Janet selected was wonderful and we just had to add a very modern heart design for the quilting.  

Up next we have a couple of QOV from Judie.  Absolutely outstanding quilts using red, white and blue finished with a patriotic star quilting design.  Wonderful, wonderful quilts!

Our next quilt is definitely symbolic of the ocean and waves.  Frances has selected the most perfect blue green fabrics to pull this one off.  Mixing it with the white was the perfect match.  We selected a quilting design that had a bit of swirl and wavy look to finish it off.  

Up next we have another blue and yellow quilt. Tammy, using the white makes this a excellent color choice for a more modern quilt. Wanting to keep the quilting modern but also a bit elegant we decided on elegant swirls for the quilting design.  

Janet brought me this lovely Trip Around The World quilt using blues and greens.  I believe she mentioned this quilt was a gift for a cousin who lives near the ocean.  A simple swirl design keeping the quilt soft and cozy finished the quilting perfectly!

That just about wraps up the quilts from July, working on the batch from August and hope to be back very soon with the photos!  I am missing a couple of photos from July.  Once found I'll add them to the post.

As always, more photos of these superb quilts can be seen at my other blog:

thanks for checking on me,

hugs,

joanne

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