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Party At My House, Y'All! C'Mon and Link Up your TGIFF Finishes! from Cheeky Cognoscenti

Hello and HAPPY FRIDAY, everyone! If you've come looking for the Thank Goodness It's FINISHED Friday Linky Party, welcome -- you're in the right place. I'm delighted to be hosting this week's finish party.

I'm so excited to share my finish this week. I know I say this a lot, but I found another new favorite edge-to-edge quilting design that I am crushing on this week:

37 x 37 HST Baby Quilt with Echo Bubble Meander E2E

This 37" x 37" quilt top was pieced by a fellow member of the Charlotte Quilters' Guild for ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 1 month ago. under baby gifts , charity quilts , charlotte quilters guild , e2e , long arm quilting , notorious r.b.g. , outreach

More Square Drama for a NICU Cuddle Quilt from Cheeky Cognoscenti

Good Monday morning!

More Square Drama E2E on a 39 x 42 Baby Quilt

I quilted a new E2E design yesterday on a 39" x 42" outreach top that was pieced by a fellow member of the Charlotte Quilters Guild. Kind of fun, don't you think? The digital design is called More Square Drama from Wasatch Quilting and it's dense but not thready because there's no backstitching. I see marshmallows, or melting ice cubes, or roses, or Flintstone wheels, or fried eggs...

I love quilting designs that can be chameleons like that, evoking something different each time ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 3 months ago. under baby gifts , charity quilts , charlotte quilters guild , e2e , long arm quilting , outreach

Why Does Rebecca Need SO MUCH THREAD? And Will It Go Bad Before She Uses It Up? from Cheeky Cognoscenti

So here's how the "Firemen Heroes" charity quilt turned out the other day:

"Firemen Heroes" Pediatric Hospital Outreach Quilt

I quilted this donated top using Jessica Schick's Fantasy Flames digital pantograph, scaled to a pattern density of .92, with Glide thread top and bottom in color Lemon Ice.

Top Prior to Quilting

I always like to compare photos of what a quilt top looks like before and after quilting, don't you? With this quilt in particular, simply pieced from large rectangles, I wanted to choose a quilting pattern with curved lines to soften the "brick" effect of ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 4 months ago. under charity quilts , e2e , intelliquilter , outreach , pantographs , thread

Fresh Off the Frame: Patriotic Star Quilt with E2E Confetti Parade Quilting from Cheeky Cognoscenti

I tried out one of my new pantographs yesterday on this veteran's outreach quilt, and I love how it came out! This top was pieced by a fellow member of the Charlotte Quilters' Guild and I volunteered to do the quilting.

70 x 80 Veterans' Hospice Outreach Quilt, "Flirty Bubbles" Pantograph

Now, I know that some kind of star pattern would be the first choice for many quilters, but to me, that felt too matchy-matchy. Instead, I chose the Flirty Bubbles pattern from Timeless Quilting, because this design reminds me of baloons, confetti and streamers filling the air during ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 7 months ago. under charity quilts , charlotte quilters guild , long arm quilting , outreach , pantographs

Something about working on Group Quilts from Sew Sunshine

My local quilt guild took on a group project last year. We wanted to show a T.O.M. = technique of the month, to members and then have them try it. Most of the techniques were improv based giving some the opportunity to try them with no fear. We chose a color and size scheme. We used coral and cream and we were pretty free about the corals including shades of reds and violets. Same with the creams including some whites. Block options were 12.5, 6.5 squares or 12.5 x 6.5. The result of the blocks ...

added by Kris 3 years, 7 months ago. under community , donation , fund raising , group quilt , habitat for humanity , improv , lqg , new techniques , outreach

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