Carol Moellers Kaliedascope

Carol Mollers, a very talented customer of ours designed this quilt, after taking a Ricky Tims workshop in Cedar Rapids called Kaleidoscope Quilts. She will be submitting this for possible publication in Ricky's book on designing Kaleidoscope Quilts. She asked for very dense quilting. It is probably my most challenging project so far.

June 2009 Meeting at Sue Urich's

Michelle's applique sheep quilt.

This is the top for a start to finish project. A customer wanted her mother's clothes to be incorporated into a quilt for her soon to arrive grandbaby. Michelle designed it.

"The Beat Goes On" created by good Empty Nest Quilters customer Carol Moellers with email consultation from Ricky Tims. Carol had Ricky autograph it at a workshop in Cedar Rapids in May.

The back of "The Beat Goes On."

Another one of Carol's.

Linda's retro fabric top. Bring it back when you have your quilting done.

Heidi's table runner for her mother. If Mom ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!Sue's new tools. A water pen for removing blue marks and a true left handed scissors.

Quilt from Heidi Roberson

I just finished a quilt and see that there haven't been any photos posted for awhile to here you go. This client used the 2008 MN Shop Hop fabrics for the main section of the quilt and a maple leaf print for the outside border. The maple leaf was the inspriation so I did a free hand maple leaf pattern and then outline the star blocks and micro stippled in the center of the stars. Love it when a client says "do whatever you want".


I just finished a quilt and see that there haven't been any photos posted for awhile to here you go. This client used the 2008 MN Shop Hop fabrics for the main section of the quilt and a maple leaf print for the outside border. The maple leaf was the inspriation so I did a free hand maple leaf pattern and then outline the star blocks and micro stippled in the center of the stars. Love it when a client says "do whatever you want".

Quilt from Heidi Roberson

This was a fun one to do. The client told me to do whatever I wanted to so I thought I would try a stencil. I started with the washable marker but the was going slow so I changed to chalk which went much faster. A bit messy with the chalk dust but it cleaned off nicely with a light sweep of a paint brush followed by a damp cloth. The gold blocks got the stencil design and then I stitched about a quarter inch off the edge of the black strips.

March 2009 Meeting

Thanks to Lisa for being the photographer this time around.

Shelly's wholecloth. Wow!

Ann's Mackenna Ryan....Wow again!

Cock-a-doodle-do! Check out Ann's background fillers on this one!

Steve and Janet's prizewinner!

Janet and Steve's Star.

More from Steve and Janet.

Linda's finished flannel for John.

Michelle's Purse.

Photo's from Carol and Rich Best

After having our Statler for 4 months we finally were able to put a quilt on it (that was the Log Cabin one shown in the album). Rich quilted an allover design from Anne Bright called "flutterbys" .


Then I got a chance to do a quilt - our first paying customer!! She found the top in the bottom of her closet - it was her Grandmother-in-laws from the 1940's. She 'just wanted it quilted, nothing 'fancy'. Since she was going to hand this down to her kids I asked her if it would be okay if I did something more involved, only charging her for an allover design. She was all for that, thankfully! 25 hours later I finished it -- loving it very much. I used a single design for each of the star wedges. The large squares I used a feather burst pattern. The little squares I used "featherblock 3 half_t", using the rubber stamp to add the mirror image. The border was a lesson by itself! Rich came up with the idea of overlapping the pattern "twilla sash_t", which worked out really well on the top and bottom, the sides proved to be more challenging since the way the Statler figures the side borders only works well if the designs are end to end (at least that was the extent of our knowledge of it - if anyone knows a work around let us know). We created our own work around with alot of measuring and praying. It wasn't exact, but it was close! Since the back of the is quilt was muslin and I used a similar thread the back is basically a whole cloth quilt - it took my breath away - I've never quilted anything so pretty! It was hard to give it back.



Last but not least, is our 2nd customer quilt. She chose "Deb's feathers_t", which stitched out beautifully and was a very welcomed change from the labor intense '40's quilt!

February 2009 Meeting

Antique double wedding ring that Terry rebuilt from pieces. Now she gets to quilt it!

Scrappy quilt from Terry. Sorry for the bad photography.

Steve's wholecloth. Zoom in to see the cool pinecone border as well as the hole in Heidi's Valentine socks.

Heidi's wholecloth...and to think she was afraid to show it!