Category: Judy Niemeyer

Digital Computer Quilting – Sunflower Illusions

Isn’t this quilt gorgeous?!   I love those blues and the compass units really remind me of sunflowers.I have been curious for a while to try the digitized Quiltworx designs for some of her patterns.  So far I have done a Prisma…

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Digital Computer Quilting – Sunflower Illusions

Isn’t this quilt gorgeous?!   I love those blues and the compass units really remind me of sunflowers.I have been curious for a while to try the digitized Quiltworx designs for some of her patterns.  So far I have done a Prisma…

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Star Bright Glacier Star

Photo overload on this but I do have some step by step processes on this one.  This was my most bold thread attempt I think I have ever done.  I wasn’t even sure if it would work but I was willing to try out one set of rays and rip it out if I did not like it.

 
 
Lou Ellen is a good friend of mine, fellow WWIT bee member and a master at piecing anything.   She had a vision for this quilt.   Diane Phillips “supernova quilt” had caught her attention.  She wanted to do something a little on the wild side and play with crystals.  She requested long extended points behind the compass rays.    I thought, those all look like crystals added to that quilt.   What if I quilt in thread colors to match each rainbow section?   I had not done this before, wasn’t sure I could pull it off but I was intrigued.  I pulled my threads.
 
 
But first I ditched and was able to do some fills before working on each color.   I do love The Quilted Pineapple curved rulers!   #8 was a perfect fit for these units.
 
 
Unquilted on the wall – Lou Ellen and I were trying to decide which way was going to be the top.   It can really look different as you turn this quilt hanging the top at each of those 4 locations.  This was our favorite version that seemed balanced.
 
Crawling underneath the frame looking at the backing

 
#8 Curved Ruler and Superiors Micro Quilter 100 wt thread.  I loved that thread for ditching this quilt. 
Trying it out.   First I had to draw in a design that I liked that gave the appearance of overlapping rays.  Next was the problem that I had so many starts and stops.  Using Glide threads, those end must be buried.  I find if I were to just snip those, they often fray at the edge and there is no getting rid of that bit of fuzzy end.  Because of the design I chose, I could not backtrack to get to the next section because it was high contrast thread.   I did give up on the small compass detail and backtracked in that curve.   If I had not, I would have had 20…. Yes TWENTY starts and stops on that tiny section.   As the old saying goes… Time is money…. so I backtracked.   Just no other option.

I even changed thread color for each of those rays.

Starting to look nice!   I also allowed space for Lou Ellen to be creative with her crystals. 

Looking down from my sewing room (Previously my longarm room)

Oh those colors made me happy to see them each morning

Backing side

Blue Ribbon at Greater Houston Quilt Show

 

At quilt retreat this past week, several had black and rainbow quilts for show and tell.  Lou Ellen made #1 and #3.  #2 is Denise Green (Holly Dee Quilts – Judy Niemeyer CI)  and #4 is a Ann Moore (local DSM quilting instructor). and on the table unquilted is another by Denise Green.

 
 
I know, way too many pictures.  I love this quilt and I am so happy that Lou Ellen challenged my skills to create something very “out of the box” for me.   Lou Ellen picked up it up on Friday, bound it over the weekend and then had to deliver on Monday for that show.  Next local show will be in the fall so she has time to work out the next phase of her transformation.   I cannot wait to see what she does with this!
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Joy of Quilts 2017

I went to the Quilt Guild of Greater Houston’s quilt show… Joy of Quilts today.   It was a lovely show and I had a few quilts hanging with my name attached as my own or quilted by me.   A couple of these have not been blogged about yet so this is the first you will have seen them.

Let’s just start with the best.   1st place!  Pieced Wallhanging – Large.   Lou Ellen Hassold’s “Star Bright quilted by me!   Lou Ellen had a vision for this quilt and thankfully I was able to step up to the challenge.

 
 
 
2nd Place – Group Quilt – Pam Heine  Double 4 Patch.   This one makes me really happy as this is an e2e design.   I think our shows need to include a category for e2e quilts because they may be impecabbly pieced and have great color composition but if they are not quilted to death they lose points to those more elaborately quilted pieces.  
 



  

3rd Place – Modern – 5th Grade Primer – by ME!   I really did not expect to ribbon on this… it was a small practice piece – a challenge for our longarm group.   I decided at the last minute to enter this one because it is rather interesting.   Much to my surprise it ribboned!   There were 6 in the category too so it was not by default.  I’m happy about that.

 
 
Now I was rather hoping to maybe come in 3rd on this one…   This is my quilt “Gravity” which is considered a Block of the Month.   I don’t understand why these have to be in a separate category…. and unfortunately this style quilt cannot compare to the detailed applique quilt  BOMS… and it appears that any applique trumps just pieced.   More points I suppose.   5 in that grouping and the 3 that ribboned all had applique, the 2 that did not ribbon… were only pieced.   I don’t even understand why something labeled a BOM has to be separate.   I bought the pattern as a booklet… and the designer had 2 blocks a month for 9 months and a 10 month to assemble.  I pieced and quilted in 3 months. 
 
 
 
Lastly, Alice Sadeghpour  entered her Thankful Thanksgiving quilt in Mixed Technique – Large.   It did not ribbon either but it looked pretty hanging there.  I’m not sure what this show defined Mixed Technique as… but I call that category as having applique, piecing, maybe embroidery or painting… something with 3 or more distinct techniques that make it unique.  She has hand piecing, machine piecing and some panels used.   That’s not really mixed JMHO.  Now on my end … it WAS mixed LOL!    I used a combination of computer custom designs and some hand guided quilting too but that should not have dictated entry into this category.   Another odd thing, this show only splits Large Pieced quilts into 1 or 2 person quilts… everything else is judged together regardless if pieced or quilted by someone considered a professional or master or someone less skilled.  Probably because this guild has so much talent that it is pointless to try to separate!   Anyway…  here is Alice’s quilt which also has not been blogged about by me.  She asked that I wait until after the show.
 

 
 
Fun show, many thanks to the guild and their volunteers for putting on yet another fantastic show.  You do not have to be a member to enter a quilt at this show which is held on the other side of Houston from me.
 
 
 
 
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My Prismatic Star One Stitch Closer

My schedule has been so hectic with so little personal time for even household stuff, much less my own projects.   I just added them up, I’ve quilted 12 charity quilts so far this year, with 2 more on hand to be quilted in April.  One was a queen size lovely quilt that I also donated the batting for that is going to a new local women’s shelter.  Another is this quilt that I made entirely to donate for my son to use for fund raising for myeloma. I needed a quick project, I asked Denise Green to pull fabrics for me.  She sent me a box of fabrics, a color coded worksheet with the fabrics glued in.   I was ready to get to work on this one!   We love Judy quilt patterns!

This is Prismatic Star.   I also quilted it with a digitized custom set designed just for this pattern.  Both Judy Niemeyer – Quiltworx patterns.   I was torn, it’s such a fun layout for custom quilting  – hand guided.  But it also offered the perfect opportunity to experiment with the digitized sets on  my own quilt and not yours!  I played it safe, I really wanted to use a light lavender thread… but opted in the end to use a matching blue.  I played it safe all the way through and set most units with about a 1/4″ space from the edges of each unit too.   I needed this done and no ripping!   I’m so happy it turned out pretty nice.  Now, I’m confident to start on a few client quits waiting on digitized custom quilting.

auditioning pieced binding

center detail

Gosh I love those feathers!  Digitized design.  Hand guided ditching
 
Show and Tell @ Houston Modern Quilt Guild (yes… I know this is NOT modern but they tolerate me LOL)
 
I even finished in time for a little local exhibit in The Woodlands and WAQG.  Those bold colors really presented well.  That afternoon, the sun was shining just right and from the ground floor I could see every feather!  Those matching threads need that side light to present well.
 
A little video, that digital quilting is mesmerizing.   The stitch pattern on this is so different from how we would quilt this freehand.   I love seeing that long sweeping line meet up with that hook time after time.
 

I am really excited for next year, one of my good friends, Lou Ellen, has offered to team with me for next year’s quilt.  She is an award winning amazing quilter with a passion for “judy” quilts and I am so excited she offered to help.  She has lost 2 family members to myeloma so this project is near and dear to her heart.   We requested  our good friend Denise of Holly Dee Quilts to help us with thinking about colors/fabrics and to kit up something gorgeous for us to work on this fall.  At present we are thinking about Feathered Star (another Judy Niemeyer Quiltworx pattern).   The color to represent myeloma is burgundy and the color for leukemia is orange so I’m hoping we get some of those colors in there.  I’m pretty partial to burgundy as a favorite color and my hubby and this son both are graduates of TAMU.

I also want to share this is my first born son (we have 4) and I an so proud of the person he has always been and continues to be.  Read a little about him and his work here   Larry Anderson  The quilt has shipped, I’m not sure how it will be presented this year but funds raised will be going to the myeloma foundation.     Here are a few of the local projects right now:

From his facebook page:  Please participate or donate to help find a cure for the 400 Myeloma patients that I take care of. 5/7/17 Cotton Bowl Stadium
https://walkrun.themmrf.org/Dal…/Team/View/31336/UTSW-A-Team

Cancer Blows:  

The LEGENDS RETURN May 10th!
http://www.ticketdfw.com/…
#trumpet #cancerresearch #livemusic #somanytrumpetstogether

My little part…. One stitch closer to curing myeloma.
 

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My Prismatic Star One Stitch Closer

My schedule has been so hectic with so little personal time for even household stuff, much less my own projects.   I just added them up, I’ve quilted 12 charity quilts so far this year, with 2 more on hand to be quilted in April.  One was a queen size lovely quilt that I also donated the batting for that is going to a new local women’s shelter.  Another is this quilt that I made entirely to donate for my son to use for fund raising for myeloma. I needed a quick project, I asked Denise Green to pull fabrics for me.  She sent me a box of fabrics, a color coded worksheet with the fabrics glued in.   I was ready to get to work on this one!   We love Judy quilt patterns!

This is Prismatic Star.   I also quilted it with a digitized custom set designed just for this pattern.  Both Judy Niemeyer – Quiltworx patterns.   I was torn, it’s such a fun layout for custom quilting  – hand guided.  But it also offered the perfect opportunity to experiment with the digitized sets on  my own quilt and not yours!  I played it safe, I really wanted to use a light lavender thread… but opted in the end to use a matching blue.  I played it safe all the way through and set most units with about a 1/4″ space from the edges of each unit too.   I needed this done and no ripping!   I’m so happy it turned out pretty nice.  Now, I’m confident to start on a few client quits waiting on digitized custom quilting.

auditioning pieced binding

center detail

Gosh I love those feathers!  Digitized design.  Hand guided ditching
 
Show and Tell @ Houston Modern Quilt Guild (yes… I know this is NOT modern but they tolerate me LOL)
 
I even finished in time for a little local exhibit in The Woodlands and WAQG.  Those bold colors really presented well.  That afternoon, the sun was shining just right and from the ground floor I could see every feather!  Those matching threads need that side light to present well.
 
A little video, that digital quilting is mesmerizing.   The stitch pattern on this is so different from how we would quilt this freehand.   I love seeing that long sweeping line meet up with that hook time after time.
 

I am really excited for next year, one of my good friends, Lou Ellen, has offered to team with me for next year’s quilt.  She is an award winning amazing quilter with a passion for “judy” quilts and I am so excited she offered to help.  She has lost 2 family members to myeloma so this project is near and dear to her heart.   We requested  our good friend Denise of Holly Dee Quilts to help us with thinking about colors/fabrics and to kit up something gorgeous for us to work on this fall.  At present we are thinking about Feathered Star (another Judy Niemeyer Quiltworx pattern).   The color to represent myeloma is burgundy and the color for leukemia is orange so I’m hoping we get some of those colors in there.  I’m pretty partial to burgundy as a favorite color and my hubby and this son both are graduates of TAMU.

I also want to share this is my first born son (we have 4) and I an so proud of the person he has always been and continues to be.  Read a little about him and his work here   Larry Anderson  The quilt has shipped, I’m not sure how it will be presented this year but funds raised will be going to the myeloma foundation.     Here are a few of the local projects right now:

From his facebook page:  Please participate or donate to help find a cure for the 400 Myeloma patients that I take care of. 5/7/17 Cotton Bowl Stadium
https://walkrun.themmrf.org/Dal…/Team/View/31336/UTSW-A-Team

Cancer Blows:  

The LEGENDS RETURN May 10th!
http://www.ticketdfw.com/…
#trumpet #cancerresearch #livemusic #somanytrumpetstogether

My little part…. One stitch closer to curing myeloma.
 

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Kathryn’s Lumina Feathered Star

Kathryn finished her top at our retreat last summer and has waited patiently for her time slot for some playful light custom quilting.   These bright colors made my job so much fun!  This is another Judy Niemeyer Quiltworx paper pieced p…

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Alice’s Paradise In Blooms

It finally happened!  A prolific quilter said, let’s try this.   We chose an edge to edge design for her beautiful Paradise in Blooms, complete with needle turn applique.  I must say I am completely happy with this and would not hesitate to recommend doing this again.   Surf digital edge to edge design by Anne Bright,  Quilters Dream Wool, Glide thread in Warm Gray #4.

 

 
 
 
Thank you Alice for such a lovely quilt and being brave enough to try this.   We both think it turned out awesome!
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Suzie’s Paradise in Blooms

This is my 6th time to quilt a Paradise in Blooms quilt, a Quiltworx, Judy Niemeyer pattern!  This one will become a bed quilt and originally was to be lighter custom but Suzie saw the one I quilted for Lou Ellen in a similar colorway and really liked the quilting dimension she saw in the photos.  We changed a few things around, different feathers, double batting.  It really pops!  I used Quilters Dream 70/30 with Quilters Dream Wool on top for nice dimension and a variety of Glide, Isacord and Superior threads.

 
Suzie took it straight from the box and had to see in in the bedroom it will grace once binding is complete.  Beautiful!

What an awesome embroidered label she made directly onto one of the backing fabric panels.

even with busy fabrics you still see a good deal of detail from the back

I added a little geometric design to the bottom corners.

 
 
What a lovely quilt to sleep under.  I really like the QD combo of battings.    Not too puffy in in the larger areas but enough to really make a difference compared to 1 batting.  Thank you Suzie for the opportunity to quilt for you and I’m looking forward to seeing what is under your needle next!
 
As for me…I’m approaching 2 years that my Paradise in Blooms has been a stalled work in progress.   Someday!
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Barbara’s Eight

I’ve had a run on the aqua, teals lately!    Here is another Judy Niemeyer pattern called “Eight” pieced by Barbara.  This is constructed differently from the Fire Island Hosta and similar quilts in that the leaves are constructed f…

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