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. While we waited for our new house to be built in Vancouver, WA, we took 2018 off from quilting. We're moved in now and have Freddie the longarm set up. It got a quick tweak from the robotics guru the first week of March. Now that that's done, quilts are once again being accepted for quilting via the mail as well as local clients. I also take commissioned t-shirt quilts. Pictures to come of Freddie's new studio. In the meantime, please enjoy all of the lovely client quilts below.

Client Quilts in Curated Quilts

Two of my clients have quilts featured in the January 2019 no 6 issue of Curated Quilts magazine. Pam Rocco created the cover quilt, Metropolis. This was one of the very few quilts that I've custom quilted for anyone. She was very sweet and asked me to have fun and to do what the quilt called me to do. I chose to stitch straight lines in a variety of widths and directions using the channel locks and some ruler work.

 

Also Mickey Beebe had her quilt, Eichler Homes, featured in this issue as well. For this quilt I did an edge 2 edge design and kept the immediate areas around each house unquilted. That way Mickey could add some dramatic thick black line embroidered details to each house .. including the perfect TV antennas (my favorite part!)

I'm so proud of both Pam and Mickey. Each of them have had some amazing work featured in different quilt shows and publications. I'm looking forward to seeing what new works they have in store for the quilt world.

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?