April 9, 2012 by admin.

This beautiful quilt will be auctioned off for Hannah’s Horseshoes of Hope at their open house Spring Fling on May 19, 2012. The quilt is machine pieced by me and machine quilted by Jean of Silver Threads in Bonham. I chose to have this quilt machine quilted as it will receive a lot of loving use from whomever buys it. Jean donated the batting for the quilt. She does a great job of machine quilting if you ever need such work done.

Please stop by Hannah’s website and bid on the quilt - give some help to the kids who benefit from the horse therapy. Lizbeth is the director of Hannah’s and she’ll be glad to help you place a bid.

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December 10, 2011 by admin.

Thank you so much to Gina and Tom for buying two of the quilts! Gina bought Country Blues, a scrap quilt that had not even made it to the blog. She fell in love with it while it was still being hand quilted. Tom bought Thankful - for his mother-in-law! How’s that for a great husband!

We still have several great quilts to add to your Christmas giving or as a gift to yourself. This gift will do double duty and give back to the needs in our community and world wide.

Here’s a picture of Grand Central Station and Dorothy McKee, the ‘kitchen manager,’ volunteer coordinator, all around help at Grand Central. Both above quilt proceeds went to Grand Central to help feed the homeless in Sherman. Grand Central provides the noon meal during the weekday, with a sack lunch on the weekends as needed. They have showers and toiletries for people to clean up during the day as well.

Grand Central Station has a facebook page so you can see a little of the life there.

Grand Central gladly accepts donations of food, cash and books - they have a small library section.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good morning! (hey, I know it doesn’t have the same ring but I can’t help that it IS morning now!)
Debbie & John

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November 19, 2011 by admin.

Let’s get these quilts out of my cupboards and into your homes for the holidays. Our community and world wide needs are growing each day and not a need for gifts under a Christmas tree but needs for food, warmth, shelter and clothing for daily survival. For that reason we’ve decided to have a Christmas sale on our quilts. If there was a quilt you were specifically interested in, now is the time to buy it. The sale prices are only temporary for this season.

Scroll through the blog to find the pictures of these quilts -

Thanksgiving quilt is $225 on sale. Hand quilted.

Sweet Dreams - $325 on sale.

His and Her Country quilts - $350 for the pair or $200 individually.

Falling Stars - $350 sale price - hand quilted.

Monterrey Medallion - $450 sale price - extensively hand quilted.

If you are hunting a wall hanging for a teacher’s Christmas gift, email me and I’ll show you what I’ve been working on.

If you want a gift that will keep on giving, one that will change people’s lives as well as bring pleasure to the receiver, please consider Beulah Land quilts. Help find a quilt a good home!

Debbie

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September 8, 2011 by admin.

Quilt sale proceeds from this blog goes to support community and world wide needs. These quilts are machine quilted as they should get a lot of wear! These are fun quilts, designed for a couple but the set can be broken up and the quilts sold individually. These are my own creation, focusing around the central panel of ‘Just a Country Chick’ and ‘Living the Good Life.’

Country Chick Quilt

Living the Good Life Quilt

Close up of the quilts’ centers:

The two quilts are priced as a set for $500 or individually for $300. They are roughly 60×60″ and will be great for picnic quilts, table cloths, wall hangings or my favorite thing, just as a quilt!  Again, these are machine quilted on top, not hand quilted and are one of my original designs.

Sale proceeds will go to support community (Grand Central Station, that feeds the homeless, and other food banks) and world wide needs, such as World Vision, Gospel for Asia and Beads for Life.

Debbie

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September 7, 2011 by admin.

I have got to find a way to take a better picture.  Or get John to take them! This quilt is called Thankful and is 46″x64″. It will make a great lap quilt or a fantastic wall hanging. I did a lot of hand quilting around the pictured items, such as the trees, leaves, the houses, etc. to accent the center picture. The prairie points add depth to the quilt.

I know these pictures do not do the quilt justice. I’ll be glad to email individual pictures directly to you if you’re interested.

The white banner around the wheat sheaves says, “Give Thanks”

The backside shows off the hand quilting around the tree and the top diamonds.

The glorious fall colors are vibrant on the quilt.  This would make a great Thanksgiving or Christmas present for someone you love. Or yourself!!  The $400 purchase price would go for a community or a world wide need.  Community wide I know food pantries are struggling. We support several local food pantries and Grand Central Station who feeds the homeless 6 days a week. World wide, we support Gospel for Asia, World Vision and Bead for Life. We’d like to add Samaritan’s Purse this year also.

Thank you,

Debbie

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August 11, 2011 by admin.

I’ve had a request for pricing on my quilts so I thought I’d explain how I come up with pricing. The first thing I figure in is the cost of the fabric for the quilt top.  If you haven’t visited  a quilt shop recently, I’d recommend it. Beautiful fabrics will assail your sense of sight right away and then the price tag will assault your common sense. Quilt fabric is now up to and over $10 a yard. It’s quality fabric, though. The same way choice cuts of meat are sold to restaurants so are the choice bolts of fabric sold to quilt shops. Even if you see the very same fabric pattern in Walmart or Hobby Lobby that is NOT the same fabric.

I started out with Walmart fabric and found out right away the difference. Quilt shop fabric does not need the horribly heavily scented fabric starch to give it body. Quilt shop fabric has body because of the weave and number of threads in the fabric. Discount store fabric is hard to straighten (’square up’) and if fabric isn’t cut straight on the grain it’s hard to get the quilt pieces to set in correctly and match up edges correctly. It’s like trying to build a house with warped lumber.

So even though quilt shop fabric is expensive, it’s worth the cost as quilts should be long term friends.  I figure $100 at a minimum for quilt top fabric. I may have some left over for future quilts but I may also have to go back and buy more to either add or replace a fabric that just didn’t sit right with the other fabrics. Those fabrics I have to put in ‘time out’ until they find a fabric group they fit well with (naughty fabric!) Add to the quilt top cost the cost of batting and backing and I figure $150-200 for materials.

Making the quilt sometimes starts with a pattern in mind and sometimes it starts with finding a beautiful fabric I want to experience. Even after I find the pattern and fabric I seldom stick to the pattern. As I finish a square or block I put it on my design wall and imagination sprouts new ideas every time I look at it. Very few of my quilts are exact copies of the original patterns.

I figure a minimum of 6 months to piece my tradition quilts. I’ve had several that have taken more than a year to piece and a year or more to hand quilt after that. No, that’s not with me doing continuous working on them and I’ve never tallied and calculated the hours spend on a specific quilt but I did keep track of the feathered border on the Mariner’s Compass quilt, TouchStone. It took a hour to do a 2 inch segment. The feathered border went all the way around the outside edge of the 90×90 inch quilt.

Most of my quilts are hand quilted but sometimes it’s better to machine quilt it. If the quilt will be greatly used and washed often, such as a comfort, baby quilt, I’d have it machine quilted. If the quilt is needed quicker than I can hand quilt it then I may give in and have it machine quilted. Machine quilting is another cost I can’t control. The pink and brown quilt on the prior post cost $90 to machine quilt. The price has gone up since that one was done. A baby quilt cost $45 to machine quilt now. These costs may sound high but I’ve seen the price tags on those long arm quilting machines - thousand of dollars just for the machine, then add in the labor and time costs to run the machine and these costs are piddling.

I know it’s shocking to see a price of $500 or more on a quilt, but now you can understand why.

Thanks for visiting at Beulah Land’s quilting room today!

Debbie

ps Here’s a picture of the center of the TouchStone Quilt. The hand quilted feathered border is outside of this - not shown here, but you can see some of the other detailed hand quilting.

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August 8, 2011 by admin.

I know pink and brown are popular colors so I thought I’d try one last year. Personally I do not like the color pink so although I enjoyed sewing this pattern I decided not to hand quilt it. It’s also a little more modern looking so I opted for Jean of Silver Threads in Bonham, TX to machine quilt it.

This isn’t a very good picture, but you can see the block used in the main quilt in the corner squares. I’ll try to get a better picture when John can hold it up for me.

I named this quilt Sweet Dreams as it reminds me of chocolate covered cherries and Patsy Cline and the $500 purchase price would go towards helping many community or world wide. Give someone else some Sweet Dreams, too!

Debbie

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August 7, 2011 by admin.

A few years ago I fell in love again. Not with another man but with quilting. I especially like the traditional quilts, sewing the many small pieces all together and then hand quilting the tops.  BUT a family can only use so many quilts and just storing anything bothers me. If I have something I want to use it; if I don’t use it then I want someone else to.

So I open up my love of quilting to you! Hopefully, you will see and want to buy these quilts. Pretty straight forward of me, huh? There’s a reason. The proceeds from quilts will go toward a need, either in our local community or through responsible charities, like Gospel for Asia, World Vision or Samaritans Purse. I plan to donate my time and either contribute the full amount toward the need or take just the cost of the fabric (for the next quilt) out of the purchase price.

If quilts and helping hands interest you, then please pass the word. Come back often as I will be posting quilts as they are completed.

Not all quilts will be hand quilted. Some will be machine quilted and it will depend on the quilt style and use.

To start the ball rolling, here’s a picture of two of my hand quilted, machine pieced quilts. The one on the wall is called Monterrey Medallion and the one on the bed is Falling Stars.

Monterrey Medallion has extensive hand quilting on it. It was so hard to stop on quilting on the Log Cabin blocks. The Falling Stars is on a standard size bed. Let me know if you’re interested in either or both! You can email me at debbie@beulahland.com

thank you for stopping by,

Debbie the guiltless quilter

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