The Quilted Lemon

Welcome to The Quilted Lemon by Tami Levin, computerized longarm quilting service. Thank you to all of our clients for such wonderful quilts in 2017. We're currently in the process of relocating so will be taking a sabbatical until the end of 2018. In the meantime, please enjoy all of the gorgeous client quilts below.

Luann's Ginger Stalks Quilt

Luann brought me a delightful modern quilt that she pieced from a pattern called Ginger Stalks. She said that it was quick and easy to piece. The prints are all vibrant colors and prints ... sort of a mix between a tropical vibe and Mexican pottery ... very colorful and cheerful. Since the backing fabric was a bright kelly green she opted for a bright green thread. This combined with the white-on-white pigment print, which let the green backing shadow through, gave a lot of texture. The panto she chose is called Banana Leaves and adds even more to the tropical look.

It's a great quilt and the high-loft polyester batting gives it a nice fluffy texture. I had a lot of fun with this one.

Megan's Very First Quilt

While all the quilts that I get to quilt for clients are important, there's something special about someone's very first quilt. This week I had the honor of quilting Megan's first one. She did a beautiful job and chose the Modern Loops panto to complete her top. It's a cheerful quilt with great colors and fabrics. Looks like you've been bitten by the quilting bug, Megan. Welcome to the club!

 

Mo's Flying Geese Quilt

Mo gave me her lovely flying geese quilt to work on before Christmas. She didn't want anything to distract from all of the geese so when I showed her some design options she loved the Chevron Wide and Narrow panto by Karlee Porter. What's so nice about it is that we placed it so that the chevrons were horizontal against all the vertical flying geese. In the end it gives a nice allover texture to the quilt which is going to look lovely on the bed. 

Mo's backing is a pale peach print from Art Gallery designed by April Rhodes. It reminds me of a 1940s gown and has the softest, slick hand. I'm envisioning a pale peach satin accent pillow with a couple large grey flying geese to go on the bed. But then again while I'm quilting a client's quilt I come up with all sorts of stories for the quilt's life.

The batting is Quilter's Dream Cotton Deluxe, which is slightly heavier weight and gives nice texture to the quilting. Thread is Superior Threads So Fine 50 weight in the color Silver.

This last picture is of the light shining through the backing to let all the flying geese glow. I love that bit and hope that Mo enjoys many years with this beautiful quilt.

 

Dale's Martini Quilt

Dale had me quilt the cutest lap quilt this week. The fabrics were all centered around the brown ground fabric with hot pink and apple green martini drinks. The backing is a hot pink flannel with a strip of light pink flannel (both because we needed a bit more fabric as well as making a nice contrast stripe along one side of the back for interest.) Batting was Warm & White to keep it a fairly thin quilt and Superior Threads So Fine 50 weight polyester thread in the color Marionberry to blend with the brown print and hot pink flannel. All topped off with the Marmalade panto to keep it a bit on the whimsical and light side.

It was fun looking at all of the little drinks while this was quilting. Too bad Mad Men is off the air. Cosmo, anyone?

Lynne's Much Ado About Nothing Quilt

Lynne took a workshop with Tina over at Little Blue Cottage to make her improv quilt called Much Ado About Nothing. It's a negative space medallion surrounded by 16 log cabin type of improv piecing blocks. Oh how I wish that I had signed up to take this workshop when our guild, South Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild asked Tina to teach it to us. Perhaps she'll do it again one day? But I was pleased to quilt up Lynne's version. She pieced it with a wonderful collection of black/white prints and a few bits of vibrant red here and there. The negative space is a wonderful light grey on grey print that gives just a hint of texture. The backing is a marvelous black/white collage of headlines and magazine articles which led to the choice of quilting. Lynne wanted something with text and I found a digital alphabet quilting panto called simply ABC. In a light grey thread it almost doesn't show up until you get it in the right lighting and then there it is.

I didn't get a good picture of the entire quilt but here's one of it when it was first put on the frame to give you an idea of the design. Do you see the center medallion of the pale grey print that's surrounded by the black/white and red log cabins? And many of those strips aren't simple strips of fabric, but pieced improv blocks and strips. Quite lovely!

Thank you for letting me quilt this up for you Lynne. Now I can't wait to try out this ABC panto again. It may be just the thing for my improv round robin quilt that I'm working on with lots of text prints.