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I love quilting for one of our local quilting stores. I love getting to see some of the new fabrics/patterns before they are released and even more I love the freedom with the quilting. Most of the time I get to pick what goes on the quilts.

The staff at Hamels has been busy with some new quilts and as a result, kept me busy.

quilted with Daisies and Loops

Love this little snowman.

quilted with a meander

He's just too cute!

I loooooooove this next one.

quilted with Bountiful Feathers

I just had to quilt feathers all over this. Loved how they looked.

Hamels has been adding more modern quilts to their store samples. When I saw this flannel quilt, I wanted to do a modern pattern on it to oompf it up a bit.

Contempo was a perfect choice!

I loved the colours in this one.

Quilted with Cotton Candy

Quilted with Swirl

Loved the backing fabric.

The colours in these next two remind me of summer.

Both were quilted with Fascination.

I might have to pick up this next one lol.

This cute little panel.

quilted with a meander

I was hoping for this next one for Christmas.

I water-stitched around the snowmen and did a freehand star in the outer border.

I love the little details of the snowmen.

Some more snowmen.

Quilted with a meander

I love these next two.

Quilted with Star Swirl

Check out how tiny these squares are.

All these quilt kits are available at Hamels; either online or in person.

Happy shopping!

not my quilts monday

I've been meaning too add up all the customer quilts that I did in 2013 but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I do know that I worked more days this year but had more time off (it does make sense. sort of). Here are a few of my recent customer quilting jobs.

Andrea's brother in law is a big Star Wars fan so this fabric was a perfect choice. It was discovered after she gifted the quilt to him that some of the fabric glows in the dark. How cool is that?

I loved the pantograph that Andrea chose; Square Dance.

Dawn's table topper.

quilted with Folk Heart

Anita made this quilt for her husband.

quilted with Mozart

I love the detail she added in the corners.

Denise's winter quilt.

quilted with a meander

Carol's quilt for her nephew.

quilted with Popcorn

Rose's quilt

quilted with Twilight

Juanita passed away and we have been quilting her quilts as her friends get them finished.

quilted with Falling Leaves

quilted with Floral Meander

I love these blocks.

This adorable baby quilt by Marion

Quilted with Spring in Spades

Too cute!

And lastly, these fabulous quilts by Marie

Quilted with Daisies and Loops

Quilted with Bluster

And lastly, by Sharon

quilted with Alfresco

Loved how the quilting shows up on the backing.

I'll have a few more later this week.

merry christmas

christmas eve

24hours to go. Are you ready?

I got my Christmas Swoon quilted. It just might be on the wall come tomorrow morning!

I quilted two pieces of minkee for a special little girl. I love how the quilting looks textured.

I have all my Christmas presents quilted and have the binding on 3 to finish up. One will get gifted with the binding not sewn down but I can do that while relaxing with family on Christmas Day.

I may not be around much over the next two weeks while I spend time with my family.

From our family to yours,

Merry Christmas

quilt monday

When I found out that the flower girl from our wedding was getting married (she is Jim's youngest cousin); I knew I wanted to make her a quilt. But with being away; I knew I had to do something speedy and that's when I remembered my scrappy trip along blocks(you can read about them here).

I had the top pieced on Tuesday and quilted it Wednesday. I lucked out on the backing fabric; $3/m on clearance at the quilt store. For Canada, that is an amazing price!

I started working on the binding Friday night and finished it in the car on the 90minute drive to the wedding lol.

I absolutely adore this quilt. It couldn't have turned out more perfectly.

Because the quilt is so busy, I kept the quilting simple and did just a large meander over the quilt.

I love looking at all these fabrics; they represent years of quilting and so many fabulous quilts.

I love how the spider worked out.

When we arrived at the wedding, we found out that Jen and Charlie were moving to Michigan on the 27th. Learning that made it so much more meaningful that I made this quilt for them.

snack saturday

Peppermint Bark Cheesecake

chocolate sandwich cookies, finely crushed (about 1-1/2 cups)

Tbsp. butter, melted

starlight mints, divided

pkg. (8 oz. each) Cream Cheese, softened

cup sugar

eggs

pkg. (4 oz.) White Chocolate, melted

1/4

tsp. peppermint extract

pkg. (4 oz.) Semi-Sweet Chocolate, divided

cups thawed Whipped Topping

HEAT oven to 325°F.

MIX cookie crumbs and butter until blended; press onto bottom of 9-inch springform pan. Bake 10 min.

MEANWHILE, crush 25 mints. Beat cream cheese and sugar in large bowl with mixer until blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each just until blended. Add white chocolate, crushed mints and extract; mix just until blended. Chop half the semi-sweet chocolate; stir into batter. Pour over crust.

BAKE 55 min. to 1 hour or until center is almost set. Run knife around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool before removing rim. Refrigerate 4 hours. Meanwhile, crush remaining mints; chop remaining semi-sweet chocolate.

SPREAD cheesecake with 1 whipped topping just before serving. Drop remaining whipped topping in dollops around edge of cheesecake. Sprinkle remaining crushed mints and chopped chocolate over center of cheesecake.