Contemporary Quilt

Second Saturday Show and Tell:
Susan finished this beautiful quilt with a contemporary flavor.

Customize a Tote

Julie’s all ready for her next big trip with her “Professional Tote Bag”. It’s perfect with zippered compartments for her passport and iPad, side pockets for water bottles, and plenty of inside pockets for general “stuff”. Julie even added a fob inside to keep track of her keys! Monogramming on the front gives this bag a personal touch.

Garden Steps - a la London...Let the Games begin

Susan was looking for a pattern to showcase some great fabric from London and found the pattern “Big Easy”. The quilt turned out so cute; we know her daughter is going to love it!

Sentimental Sewing

Colleen made this Double Wedding Ring quilt for her daughter’s wedding in August. It’s made out of all her daughter’s riding shirts. Those of you who have daughters who love horses (like I do!) will understand how special this quilt is!

A Shining Star

We love star quilts here at Little Quilts. Can you believe Janice paper-pieced this beauty?

Gorgeous Log Cabin in a unique setting

Every time Kathy comes to Atlanta from Florida she brings a beautiful quilt to show us. You can almost smell the ocean when you look at this batik beauty!

Sudoku and quilting..Who knew?

Play Sudoku with your quilt blocks like Madelyn did and come up with a great lap quilt.  Nine patches with colors that symbolize numbers.  The pattern is from a book called Sudoku Quilts by Barbara Hershey.

Oh me, Oh my!!!

Former staff member, Nancy, was in town for the week-end and stopped by to pick out the perfect backing fabric for this quilt she appliquéd and pieced from a pattern by Terri Clothier Thompson. What a great quilt!

June Second Saturday Sampler Show and Tell

I wonder what goodies there were this Saturday at the Show and Tell.  I didn't get there but I will post the show and tell soon.
Here are the July beauties.
Tina finished her six inch blocks for the 2011 Sat. Sampler. Love these little blocks.

Susan calls this quilt “ Reverse Square”. Nice job, Susan.

Nicole was super busy this month. She brought in three quilts to show.

“Raegan’s Quilt” which is the Ohio Star block repeated set block to block. Someone will be happy to own this one.  “Blakes Quilt” is a scrappy Log Cabin that Mary Ellen tried to claim for her grandson.   “Ladybug Picnic” is for Sarah. It is a split 9-Patch with freehand appliqué lady bugs. How cute is this. I’m sure Sarah will love it.

Jenny took the Professional Tote class with Jackie and made this great bag. Wish you could all see it. We fell in love with it.

More Second Saturday Sampler Show and Tell

Sandy has the first row of a star quilt she’s making for her grandson finished. He’s going into the Marines just as soon as high school graduation is over.

Michele made this Minkie Row Quilt for her daughter. It was a quilt as you go project and features Minkie on both the front and the back – so cuddly!

Second Saturday Sampler Show and Tell - May

This is what you are missing if you are not coming to LQ Second Saturday Sampler. This Saturday July 14, is your chance.

Carol Ann used up scraps to make this star stunner

Christine finished a 10-minute Table Runner for her mother-in-law for Mother’s Day

Christine learned how to make this cute little box in Groovy Girls. She’s also carrying the Linen Tote Bag from another class she took!

Stacy’s daughter, an interior decorator, picked the fabrics for this quilt – what an eye for color!

Love the fabrics Stacy used in this quilt!

we love pieced quilts

Vickie made a quilt for her daughter’s best friend.

Block of the Month 2010 - blast from the past

Joan brought her finished “12 Days of Christmas” quilt in for us to see and it is stunning. This quilt was our Applique Block of the Month last year from patterns designed by our store manager, Wanda.

Faux Leather Fabric Creativity

Nancy's monogrammed our 'faux leather' and made this nifty e-book cover. Looks great and protects your Kindle or Nook.  We have some of this unbelievably interesting faux leather fabrics available, including a stunning kit for a tote bag using the Atkinson Designs pattern Zippy Strippy.

Happy - Smiley - Holiday Quilt

Never too early to get ahead start for Christmas! Geneva stopped by to show her wonderful appliqué Christmas quilt, all quilted even. We are all jealous.

Turn your fabrics into rugs....

Jackie teaches a great class on making toothbrush rugs, and one of her students brought in her finished rug! If you’d like to make one of these very durable rugs, check the newsletter for Jackie’s next class.

Yumm-O

Marshall brought in another beautiful top that he just finished. He used up scraps of 72 different batiks to achieve this rainbow of colors. Eye candy!

Exquisite Original Quilt designs - in progress

The current challenge for the Reproduction Study Group Class at Little Quilts is to add on to an originally designed medallion quilt each month.  Here are some quilts in progress.
Nancy is working on a medallion wall hanging. This will be spectacular - watch for progress in the months ahead.

Wanda is working on a medallion wall hanging in the reproduction study group with wool appliqué

Debbie is making this in the reproduction study group that meets monthly. A fun group

2011 Second Saturday Sampler Results

Julie and Madelyn both finished their 2^nd Sat. Sampler quilts from 2011. They both came up with their own setting ideas for their quilts and this is a good example of how versatile and unique sampler blocks quilts can be. You have to look at these quilts very closely to recognize they both used the same blocks! 

Block Swap Results

Carol Ann was finally able to use her Bow Tie blocks from the Bow Tie Block exchange we did several years ago when she found the perfect border fabric in our sale section! So cute!