Handquilting finished on 2 tops
 

My mother and I have a collaboration, she enjoys handquilting but not piecing while I prefer piecing to quilting. I went home last weekend for her retirement party and was able to get photos of two recently completed quilts.

The first one I assembled the top using some blocks that had been painted and then donated to the church quilt group. The church group did the hand quilting and the quilt was raffled off last weekend. I was not able to get pictures of the entire thing but tried to get a few that showed off the quilting.
The quilting outlined the flowers and the chimneys and cornerstones blocks in the middle.

The second one is a top I made using the pattern "Third weekend in October". This one is probably going to be saved for my niece once she is a little older and out of a crib. The quilting was done freehand, outlining and making stems on each leaf.

I've shown pictures of these before when they were just tops but now they are really finished.

The other pictures.

WOW!!!! they are fantastic.

Wonderful quilts. The painted one really grabs my eye. Thanks for sharing with us all.

Beautiful quilts.

very nice quilts!

very nicely done... i love that flower pattern

great quilting on the leaves... so pretty

Gorgeous, gorgeous!

These are simply amazing! Gorgeous!!!!!!!

Beautiful work!

Both quilts are outstanding!! Love the richness of the fabrics/colors and designs!! Great job!!

Love them both!!! Thanks so much for sharing!!!

both are very nice...
I really like your painting

Absolutely gorgeous!!

Absolutely gorgeous, gorgeous hand quilting too. Great color choices.

They are beautiful! I love the leaf one ~ well the painted one, too. I hope it raised lots of money as it well should!

just love your quilting. :)

I LOVE the painted one the best, the colors just pop out at you. You and your mother do a great job, both quilts are wonderful.

Awesome love the hand quilting.

Beautiful quilts

Those are two stunning quilts!

absoutley beautiful!!!

Love them! I love the colors on the first one!

Breathtaking!!!!!! Magnificent quilting!!!! WOW...............:)

Especially love the first one,but both are absolutely stunning!

Both are absolutely beautiful....I've been a hand-quilter since 1976 but have recently been trying to master free-motion quilting....of course my proficiency doesn't match my hand-quilting skills but there's no way I could ever finish everything without learning to machine quilt.....I love how you set up the painted blocks and plan to use that idea....but I really like the second pattern....Where did you find "Third Weekend in October"?

Both are amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Two AMAZING quilts!

They're both gorgeous! Nice work!

Wow is right! All are beautiful.

Mother hand quilted. She used a yard stick to make the straight lines drawn with a lead pencil. The lines
she drew were just as wide as the yard stick. What an uncomplicated way to make straight lines. (and
they always washed out of the finished quilt) These are g-r-e-a-t. Thanks for showing.

I am amazed!! Fantastic quilts and quilting! I never thought about quilt blocks when I was doing fabric painting.....I don't know if i would have ever done as nice a job, but should have tried..

Fabulous quilts, loved both of them. Your mother's work is beautiful.

the artwork in these quilts, the puffy cozy want to snuggle up with a book of the fall leaves you can almost smell the crispness in the air. I couldn't 'choose a favorite' out of these. they both are simply exquisite!

They are both stunning, great job!!!!

WOW!!! Great work, but the piecing and quilting.

I really enjoyed looking at those quilts, thanks for sharing, beautiful work!

They are BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The colors are nice & bright.
Outstanding!!!!!!!!!