Antique Quilts & customer quilting

A friend of mine recently inherited some quilt tops that his grandmother and great-grandmother sewed together by hand back in the 40's??!!

This one took my breath away!

This one was his favorite and it is fabulous!

There were many more!

Now he is looking for a quilter.  I would do it for him but I really think they need to be HAND quilted since they are HAND pieced.  Any one know an affordable hand quilter?

This quilt is from one of my students from my free piecing class.  I was thrilled to see it as a finish and I was truly honored to get to quilt it for her. 

Here is the back of it, quilted with "Funky Monkey" purchased from Intelligent Quilting.  It will be a fun quilt for her new grandson!

Free Piecing

Free pieced 16 patches before they went in to this quilt...

I am teaching a class on these methods in June.  If you are interested and are in the Albuquerque area, let me know and I will send you the info.  Now to decide if it needs another border or not before I load it onto Lizzie...
And, to  leave you with a lovely ending...
Here is my lovely daughter pictured after her drama final...

Isn't she just the sweetest?  Zombie , zombie, zombie, eh, eh, eh, oh, oh, oh....

Free pieced blocks

Here is a quilt I made for my son's best friend for his 13th birthday.  They both LOVE basketball and have played together on a team for many years.  The blocks are just cut without measuring or a template and a strip sewn in, then cut again, strip sewn in, cut again strip sewn in.  Went together in about 3 1/2 hours from un-ironed fabric to quilt top. 

Here is an up close of some of the quilting.  Do you see the basket ball player?
This is one of those deadlines that was keeping me very busy this week .  I am very happy that I got it done in time!

We also had a large family birthday party today.  Can you guess the theme?  My 15 year old is obsessed...

These are salt and pepper shakers I found.  They will probably just sit on a shelf in her room for a long while.