Flashback Friday- Camping It Up

We shared a few posts back about how Jeanette is doing another summer full of Quilt Camps; this year at Will-N-Bee'z Quilt And Coffee Shoppe in Salem. Today's Flashback Friday features some terrific quilts that kids made at last summer's Quilt Camp at Whitlock's Sew and Vac. Jeanette's been the intrepid Quilt Camp director for quite a number of years as she has helped hundreds of boys and girls make a quilt in just a week. Enjoy the look back at the quilts and kids having a great time making them! 

Flashback Friday: Pretty in Pink

So I had this great plan to have this ready and up this morning before most of you even got that first cup of coffee. Oh well, the best laid plans of mice and men and iPads.

The Movie

With all the beautiful flowers blossoming right now, I thought we'd share some flowery quilts we did a while ago. Back in the 80's, John Hughes' movies were super popular, especially when they starred Molly Ringwald. Using that as inspiration, we're calling today's Flashback Friday, Pretty in Pink.
Hope you enjoy them as well as your upcoming weekend!

 

Flashback Friday- Custom Waves

Many of the requests we get at OTS are for custom quilting. These are always a bit challenging, but we enjoy trying new things. The grey quilt with wavy line quilting was made by Heather Costello from Greenbaum's Quilted Forest. Heather had shown us a photo of another quilt with a wavy design that had been done freehand. We put our Pro-Stitcher to work and designed our own Wavy Lines. The quilt turned out so well and has graced the front window of Greenbaum's since it was finished.

Another one of Heather's quilts feature these great rectangles on grey as well. While the quilting design we used wasn't one we designed, we ended up reshaping and resizing the design to fit the quilt just the way she wanted it.



Flashback Friday- Vacation Edition

We got to spend Mother's Day
with some of the family in Grants Pass
before Jeanette headed out to California

                                  

Since Jeanette's down in California this week for Whitney's graduation from USC, I thought I'd do a little sharing of some projects I've been working on both at On The Stitch and in my own studio, Piccolo Di Luce. I promise next week we'll have more of what's been going on at OTS!

Some little embroidered animals

I like to do handwork as it gives me something to do while watching the latest BBC costume dramas. These adorable little animals are from Penguin & Fish. I'll be putting them onto baby bonnets for grand nieces soon as they are too cute not to use as part of a bigger project.

Log Cabin Linen Photo Pillow

And speaking of nieces, this is a linen photo pillow I designed as a gift for the most recent niece wedding. It's done in a variety of linen sewn in a log cabin pattern. I'm planning on doing some quilting on it before popping into the mail for the happy couple.

Embroidered Baby Quilt Label

I also made this baby quilt over the last few weeks to send back to Thomas More College in NH for a couple who are expecting their first baby. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson-Briggs are a very special couple who teach The Way of Beauty course to freshman including my daughter Mary, so I knew they needed a special baby quilt. I hand embroidered all the squares and then sashed them using vintage cotton strips that had been hand sewn. I finished with a mustard border, and more vintage strips for the binding. The label was the final touch, and I think it turned out really great.

So the last couple of things I wanted to share weren't made by me, but they are so fantastic I had to show you. If you haven't tried a craft or quilt swap, then you really must. These items were from my Narnia Craft Swap partner. She sent a plethora of Narnia-related items that are just wonderful. You can find all sorts of swaps online from aprons to crafts to quilts. Be sure to check them out!

Thanks for stopping by our Flashback Friday and for letting me share some things I've been working on. We'd love to see some of your creations too, so be sure to share with us in the comment section! 

Flashback Friday- Babies, Boxers and Motorcycle Pigs

We were busy with some fun quilts a few weeks back. 

Here they are for Flashback Friday-

Jungle Buddies- quilted with jungle leaves
 for a happy new Grandma

A close up of the Boxer quilt. It was quilted
with a dog bone design in brown.

The Boxer quilt- it's doggone awesome!

Motorcycle Pigs- The back was out of flame
fabric. It turned out great!

I couldn't resist a close-up of the flame quilt design

Flash Friday- Flowers Flowers Everywhere

As spring in the Willamette Valley continues to give us gorgeous flowers, we thought we'd share some beauties of our own. From a precious little bonnet to a quilted masterpiece, we hope you enjoy this Flashback Friday.

So it's not a quilt, but I couldn't resist showing you the teeny preemie
bonnet Nanci hand-embroidered and made for a dear Instagram friend.

Love this sew much! We called it our "Anne of Green Gables" little quilt

The amazing stained glass quilt that Jeanette custom quilted 

And here is the whole stained glass quilt in all of its' beauty.
So many hours were put into both the piecing and quilting.
It is definitely an heirloom quilt!

Flashback Friday- Facebook Challenge Edition

Did you know that both Jeanette and On The Stitch are on Facebook?  One of Jeanette's crafty friends gave her a 7-Day FB challenge about sharing quilts that she's quilted. She posted some great pics. We thought we'd share a few of the beautiful quilts for you.

Day 1- Stained Glass Quilted for Customer

Day 2- One of her first ProStitcher quilts

Day #- Quilt of Valor by Jamie
in honor of Jeanette's Dad

Day 4- Quilt made by Carol Kurth,
Applique by Pam More. One of the
first free motion quilts by Jeanette. 

Day 5- Quilt by Terry K &
quilted by Jeanette

Day 6- Quilt made and quilted by
Jeanette for grandson Ashton

Jeanette quilted this for Kaye L for her kids

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Flashback Friday- Springtime Edition

A sweet bird for a raffle quilt

 

Here's a look at some very Springy quilts

that we've made in the past~

Lots of flowers and pinwheels

A close up of a floral quilting design



Springtime stripes

 



A vintage embroidered quilt on the machine

Flashback Friday- Auction Quilts

Two years ago, we had the opportunity to make a series of auction quilts for Alta Vista Elementary School in California. The teacher in charge of the project sent us the squares that had been drawn on by the different classes. We then found sashing, border, binding and backing fabrics to go with each. After we had sewn the quilt tops together, we then machine quilted each one on the Handi-Quilter using a design to match the theme. Once that was finished, we bound them and sent the completed quilts back down to California for what would prove to be a successful auction.

The process of sashing each square

Sashing completed and top almost sewn



A close up of the Beach Pal Kids

One of the quilts ready to auction off





Flashback Friday

Thought we'd go through the OTS archives and post
some of our great quilts from the last couple of years!