Carpenter's Star for DH and the infamous defiled quilt!
 

I made this quilt for my DH for his birthday. He loves it and I had lots of fun with the batiks. I did a Karen McTavish inspired quilting in the background and a straight-lined maze theme in the diamonds.



The second quilt mentioned in this thread - http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...t182836-4.html


Both patterns were from Calico Carriage Quilt Designs. I absolutely love her patterns. Both quilts now sit happily on my quilt rack in my family room :)

Thanks for looking!

-Emily

WOW! Those are both gorgeous. I especially like the colors on the first one.

what a beautiful job! your quilts are gorgeous!

Thanks, girls :). I wish I had taken better quality pictures but our digital camera is nowhere to be found since we moved :(. So had to take pic with my iPad.

Just beautiful. He had to love it. How many batiks? How big is the quilt? Just can't stop looking at it. I love it. BrendaK

Both are beautiful!!

The batik quilt has 11 different fabrics (including background and borders). It measures 70" sq.

The one below is 73" sq.
Thanks for lookin'!

Love the colors you used in each quilt!

Great job on these. You Mctavishing looks awesome. Is that a little bird I see hidden in the corner?

Also, I had been following your longarm is cheating thread so I appreciate you posting the picture. The elderly woman's lack of filter was indeed appalling but maybe she thought your quilt was so pretty she felt compelled to make that inappropriate statement about LA quilting. Like Dunster, I would have been sorely tempted to engage her more and perhaps get her to reconsider her thoughts on the matter, once getting over my initial shock. I think it looks great as well.

Love your quilts and.....your GREEN grass. We'll be in the 70's for the next week, so should see some soon. The colors in the batikl are so soothing. Sorry about the longarm experience, chalk it up to ignorance. Your quilting is wonderful!!!

Both quilts are beautiful :)

I see exactly why that LOL raised sand with you....you ARE cheating; you created a more beautiful quilt than she has probably ever seen! I hand quilt and LA...and there's NO WAY you can get these results by hand (unless you quilt LONG past 80 or so....)! I applaud you, they're gorgeous! (Keep on "cheating", hear??)

How very well done, I bet these two quilts will bring you years and years of enjoyment.

Love the way you cheated!!! Your quilts are fabulous!!!

Love both of these. You did a wonderful job on both. Great colors.

Both are really beautiful!

Really pretty quilts. I was going to ask why your head was flat, but then I read further on and found out that you took the pic with your Ipad. Whatever works !!

What beautiful work! I love them both.

Love them both!

Lovely!

Hugs

Caroline

Gorgeous work.

Very beautiful! The quilting makes even more so!

beautiful!

I love both of them, especially the poor defiled quilt. LOL

Wonderful quilts; wish I was that good.

Like both quilts.

Beautiful ;)

First one my favorite.

I do like your colors, wish I was better at that

I love your color choices....making the quilts beautiful!

Way to long arm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful, beautiful quilts. Great workmanship. You should be proud of both. Thank you for sharing.

Beautiful quilts and quilting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love the colors in both of the them! You did a great job.

Both are beautiful. I am partial to the colors in the first. Love the quilting

Love the quilts. Beautiful. But your quilting is outstanding. I would give anything to be able to quilt like you. I wouldn't be able to stand for a long arm, "bad back, 5 surgeries:. So enjoy seeing your work.

Lovely quilts. Tks for sharing.

Great job! Love the colors and design.

Love both carpenter star quilts. Beautiful!