Leftovers--in the quilting world

Often us quilters make and or cut extra blocks....specially when we have no end result in mind.  Well, these blocks used in this are leftovers from this quilt top.  So, while trying to decide on a backing for that quilt top and the last crumb top I made, I had the urge to sew.   So, sat down and started sewing these blocks together.  I did make 4 or 5 more of the little crumb blocks to have enough to alter with the plain fabric square.

I have had it quilted and the binding sewn down by machine for at least a week, maybe more.  So the past couple nights, I did the hand stitching part of the binding.  I have not measured since quilting, but this is only about 20-21 inches square.

Roger likes the quilting on the back about as much as he likes the front.  I quilted it on my Juki Exceed F600.
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I am in the process of pin basting a quilt right now.  Or at least ready to start.  I have all the layers stretched and pinned to the floor....now the real fun begins.  NOT.  Roger did help me get things stretched and pinned, or at least the backing and then helped me spread the batting and the top.  I wanted to do the pinning of the top.

For at least the next 2 or 3 hours, I will be on my elbows and knees, using curved safety pins like these.   The quilt top is approximately 70-72 inches, so going to take a lot of pins.  I have tried spreading a the layers of a 52 inch square top on my 30 x 60 folding cutting table and using binder clamps to keep it stretched but it just does not do as good.

Anyway, its back to work for me...

Another beautiful quilt...

In my opinion, this was another work of art...lots of work here.

I cannot imagine the hours that went into this quilt.

I would love to know just how many yards of thread was used in the quilting.  That would be amazing.  As you can probably quess this was my other favorite.

I wondered if Lorelei would like this one with pink and purple being some of the main colors.

Or this one...sorry, I could only get about 3-4 ft away from it to take a photo...anyway, another I thought she might enjoy the colors.  Plus she loves butterflies, moths, and flowers.

 I really did not take many photos..I thought the above beautiful...

 and the color choices for this unique.  It's name had something to do with Halloween and I thought that fit perfectly.

 I don't remember the name of these two....but liked both of them.

this bottom one had a lot of embroider work on it also.

Midwest Heritage quilt show

This was my favorite quilt at the Midwest Heritage Quilt show, held at the Vermilion County Museum in Danville, IL. I did not think to take my other camera with me, so missed having the normal lens.  But still, you are seeing most of it here.  The bigger stars are pieced, with embroidery done on an embroider machine doing the feathers/triamgles along the outside of the stars.  The little stars were embroidered.

The quilting on this was done by machine.  Nevertheless, it was simply out of this world.

As you can see in the above picture, there is even embroidery added to the pieced part of the block...
I just now thought, the quilting might have also been done with the embroidery machine...I wish now I had one of the little booklets about the quilts.

No matter how it was done, it is fabulous and was a lot of work.

There was not a super lot of quilts...so I did not take a lot of photos.  I want to encourage you to click on these to expand the view.   I will show the rest in another post.