Quilt Proposal for Monster Quilt

I went surfing for some designs that might fit that adorable monster quilt. I have small photos of those designs. Please take some time to look them over and let me know which one you like. I will dance around the monsters with the chosen design.
The price includes the quilting, batting, thread charge and tax: $61.70

Call me, you have the number.

Martha - Choose one

And here are a few edge to edges for the center. When you choose the center, then I can narrow down some choices for the border and show you those. These do not respect blocks; they are edge to edge for the center. Further down are some that a quilted in each block.





















Then if you want a "blocked" look here are some that would be quilted as a block with alternating patterns. (i.e. 1 large and one with 4 small) the rows.












Here are 2 more alternating quilted blocks. These are called Star Blossom. It is almost like they have been turned inside out.






And the last pair of alternating blocks are Inside and Outside Loops:

Lover's Knot for Liz

Hi Liz,

Well, I surfed around the internet and some of my quilting books and came up with two ideas that are NOT edge to edge. Both are custom, so I will do separate borders and separate block treatments. One is more pricey than the other because there is lots of ruler-work (straight lines done using a longarm ruler, not marked). But please remember, that the choice is yours, including picking it up and taking it to another quilter.

Just so you know, I quilt way better than I draw.

Here is the curly-leafy choice for the knot. The chasing leaf and curl pattern is quilted around the knot. Traveling lines are curls. This option only has ditchwork between the borders, not inside the quilt.



Option 2 uses extenisve ruler-work to emphasize the knot. There are alternating patterns as the hearts go east-west as well as north-south. On the ones with the top of the hearts facing the knot, there will be an over and under pattern, like a knot. On the patterns where the hearts face away from the knot, the knot will just be a square in a square. The same freehand concentric hearts would go inside each pieced heart shape. There is ditchwork around the borders only, not around the knots.



The inner border design is the reverse loop (circles).

I like the following designs for the outer border. Red border is like double-ovals with leaf on either end.


Okay, so here is the pricing. The quilt 94 x 104 measures 9,776 sq in. I work by the square inch. I know that we were aiming at $130 for the total (minus tax, thread and batt) but that would put the quilting at just over a penny an inch, like .013. My pricing, even for edge-2-edge freehand starts at .016. I have included my pricing for both options but they do not fall into the target area. I'm sure that you understand that custom takes more time and I price it accordingly. And I understand that my pricing may be more than you want to pay. I will leave the quilt at the shop in a stapled white bag with your name on it "Return to Liz Cowling". That way, should you decide to use somebody else, the quilt will be available. I hope that I will be able to quilt for you in the future. You piecing is quite good.

Leaf following knot with hearts with separate border treatments and ditch in borders only (including batt, tax, thread and quilting) $237.64 (or .02 per inch)

Rulerwork lines in knot with hearts and separate borders treatments and ditch in borders only (including batt, tax, thread and quilting) $$258.90 (or .22 per inch)

Rulerwork option without the first-timer discount would be $343.95 or .03 cents per inch

Moose Wallhanging

The quilt has both pieced blocks and plain (bear and moose fabric) blocks. There are 4 green corner triangles and 2 setting triangles on each side with the bear/moose fabric.

I recommend that the borders have continuous borders of evergreen trees.






The cornerstones of the border could contain one of the moose designs. The patterns will face inward. Choose one design.




The green triangles are small but a single pine cone would look good in there. If you prefer a less complex design, something geometric like a simple triangle about an inch inside the triangle would also look good.


The larger setting triangles could also have a plain triangle. However, if the pine cone was selected for the green triangles then a pine cone and needle spray would be a nice repeat of that design.



Then in the pieced blocks, a simple continuous curve would stabilize the block. Or a 4-oak leaf design would also stabilize those blocks.






In the plain blocks, there are three choices for designs. I would choose one, maybe 2 for these designs for these blocks. The designs can be flipped, usually facing inward. Moose with pussywillow, moose facing front, bear walking are the choices. Choose one.



The final cost of this custom quilt would be $65.76 which includes the quilting, thread fee and required state tax. Please send me an email with your choices. My email address is: linda@ramona-quilter.com

Surfer Patterns for Betty

Hi Betty,
Here are some designs that I thought might look good on your sons latest surf quilt.
I really like one of these surfboard designs for the big blocks.



Since there are 2 different size on-point blocks, I thought that maybe the designs in the block should be different. First, remember these will be on-point so tilt the design. And then one of these choices for the smaller blocks. I am leaning toward the seashells or sun with swirls but I really wanted your input.


















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OK, and the border design was easy. These looks like waves.





I found a couple of triangle designs that would work. These designs coordinate well but do not steal the show from the beautiful triangle fabric.

Of course, I will stitch in the ditch the blocks and borders. Since I am still new to custom quilting on my computer, I won't charge my normal full custom rate of 3 cents an inch which would end up being $334.95 on this big quilt. How about .022 per sq in? So with quilting, thread charge and tax, that comes to $247.08.

If you would prefer that I quilt an edge-to-edge (E2E) pattern rather than custom, tell me which one of these you like best. Edge-to-edge is more economical. We are all watching our budgets these days. So E2E would be $192.16 including the thread and tax.

Let me know which one you decide on, Betty and I will get started on it in a week or so.

Lori's Plaids on White

Hi Lori,
I have never seen a quilt like this, Lori. It is so unique with all those 1-inch pieces of plaid, you must have worked very hard to make this. I kicked around a few ideas and came up with two options, well, really three options.

Option 1 is called swirls. Because of all the straight lines on this quilt, I wanted to soften those hard lines with circles or swirls. I have an example of swirls here. This all-over pattern makes wonderful connected swirls (some big and some small) all-over the quilt. This option would cost $185.03 (includes quilting, batting, thread and tax)


Option 2 is full custom. Starting with a square spiral inside each of those plaid sections, it would weave its way out of the middle of the plaid blocks. The sashing would consist of a line of circles surrounded by a wavy line on each side. The inner border (plaids) would be 2 wavy lines to carry that wavy line out to the border. Keeping with the softening theme, the outer border would be half circles that intersect each other all the way around the quilt. This option would cost $277.66 (includes quilting, batting, thread, and tax)

Option 3 is I return the quilt to you. You might be able to find somebody else with a different idea and pricing.

If you want me to quilt this, then it can be ready July 19th or sooner. We just moved and I am starting to work on my backlog. Let me know what you decide.

Linda
Ramona Quilter
760-787-9709

Picking a new avatar

Just before I go to a quilt show, I like to update my avatar so my online quilting buddies will recognize me. I tried taking my own photo with less than wonderful results. See if you can guess which one I chose?