Photo Album - Custom & Heirloom Quilts

This type of quilting is meant to enhance the piecing or applique designs of the quilt.  Sometimes particular designs are quilted into specific areas of the quilt, while other areas are meandered.  Sometimes the entire quilt has specialized quilting.   This is more time consuming to quilt (hence more expensive) than pantograph or meander quilting, but quilts with striking design features greatly benefit from this special quilting.

Your quilt could be here next!

Click photos for larger views.  The quilts are generally in chronological order so you'll find the most recent quilts at the top.

        

Judie has created several "big star" quilts and was very creative with the lettering on this patriotic version. 
Note the stars and loops quilting design used.

     

Brenda made this colorful medallion quilt as a wedding gift.

     

Maydean made this wonderfully patriotic flag quilt quilted with a stars and loops meander between the flag stars.

     

Ethel embroidered and pieced this state bird quilt for one of her grandsons.  In order to maintain the beauty of the embroidery, the background was meandered surrounding the birds.

     

This is Judie's second "big star quilt and this time it was quilted with a floral theme.

     

Leola pieced this cheerful pinwheel quilt and wanted a design set into the alternating squares.

    

Denise created this snuggly flannel quilt -- this particular quilting design was chosen
because she had already marked portions.

        

This wonderful sampler was created by June -- and I apologize for the distortions in the photos.

        

This is the first "big star" quilt I did for Judie and the fabrics she'd chosen really
showed the leafy quilting design well.

        

  

Cindy made these two lovely photo transfer quilts (one in blues and one in purple and green) of members of her family as gifts.

        

Rouye created this pinata storybook quilt for a friend who teaches in Houston.

        

Margie created this exciting patriotic quilt from a block of the month offered through Creations in Kerrville.  This is a gift for her son and daughter-in-law.  Unfortunately the black fabric doesn't show the quilting in the photos.

     

Amy pieced this wonderful quilt for a friend with inspiration from a photo of a Japanese garden.   Overall meandering was used (in various styles and colors) in the central portion and the outside borders were quilted with straight line quilting through the blocks.

  

Elaine had me finish up this wonderful Dresden plate design -- she appliqued and set the blocks that her mother had created years before.  

     

Elaine made this lovely sampler quilt in burgundy and blue (the colors certainly didn't photograph well).

  

This is the Christmas gift Terri made for one of her sons.  The bears paw block was really appropriate with the outdoor scene fabric.  

  

Terri's Christmas present for one of her sons, who chose the bright gecko fabric!

     

This is the second Jinny Beyer mirage quilt I worked up for Rebecca -- and these is a more original color choice.  The quilting just doesn't show on the black areas in the photo.

  

Ethel created this lovely, traditional Dutch Doll quilt for her granddaughter. 

Elaine made this lovely stained glass block quilt for her daughter.  I'm sorry the quilting detail just wouldn't show up on the black in my photo.  

  

Diane made this marvelous tribute to her in-law's anniversary.  What a daughter-in-law!

     

Maxine made this lovely snowman block of the month for her granddaughter - a snowman collector.

  

Susan loved this Irish chain and had used it as a class sample for a long time before deciding to have it quilted and entered in the Austin Area Quilt Guild show.

     

Flo created this incredible quilt for her granddaughter - an avid hunter/fisherman who wanted no flowers.  Boy, should she be happy with this!

   

This is Rebecca's first quilt -- and it's a truly wonderful rendition of Jenny Beyer's Mirage quilt.

      

Nancy Brenan Daniel had me quilt a disappearing nine patch sample she uses for her classes.  Be sure to catch her class when you can!

  

Pat made this baby quilt for her first great grand daughter.

     

Cindy created this lovely blue and yellow quilt for a niece's wedding gift.  

  

This was Diane's first quilt created for a good friend's first baby.  Congratulations!

  

Leola's lovely sampler quilt with its precise feathered star will make a lovely wall hanging.

  

This was a very sentimental quilt.  The woman who pieced it passed away twenty years ago and her son and daughter-in-law decided to have it quilted as a wedding gift for her great-grandson.  I hope she'd be proud. 

  

Carolyn made this wonderful, bright quilt as a graduation gift for a neighbor.  Stars were quilted into the larger sections using variegated thread. 

     

The New Braunfels Area Quilt Guild has a project where members create quilts to match those in children's storybooks.  The quilts will be loaned to school teachers in the area to incorporate quilting into their curriculum.  The piñata quilt was created by Wilma Peters. 

This is the second of the storybook quilts I quilted for the New Braunfels guild.  The tamale quilt was created by Nancy. 

   

This is the third of the storybook quilts I quilted for the New Braunfels guild.  The tortilla quilt was created by Terri. 

  

Wilma made this lovely wallhanging with special photos and nostalgic embroidery for a dear friend. 

  

The Hope Hospice had this quilt made from airplane blocks created from special fabrics as tributes.  

     

Susan created this wonderful baby quilt with Aunt Grace fabrics (and still can't close the box of her favorite fabrics). 

        

Betty V. pieced this lovely hunter's star quilt and wanted butterflies quilted in the open spaces.  

        

Helen made up this lovely Grandmother's Garden quilt featuring three dimensional bouquets in the baskets.  

  

Nancy is a marvelous quilter whose precision creating this bright and cheerful top made it a real delight to work with.

     

Loretta created this lovely delectable mountains quilt started in a workshop with Glenn Rabb at the New Braunfels Area Quilt Guild.  

     

Carolyn's bright appliqué lent itself very well to a leaf-like meandering.

  

Another quilt made by Susan where she wanted spirals running through the dark areas.  The full view is dark but more true to color and the close-up was adjusted to show the quilting.

   

The flannels used in this quilt by Pandora gave it a wonderful weight and texture.  Really a nice quilt to cuddle up with.  The quilting was kept very subtle and sank into the flannel nicely.