Sydney's City Slicker

Sydney made this lovely version of the Highway 10 Designs City Slicker pattern. The pattern uses one jelly roll and some background fabric.  The fabric collection that she used was an older Hoffman Bail pop with a lovely warm colour palette.

Sydney selected the Bora Bora pantograph for the quilting design.

I know Sydney was giving this quilt away as a gift and I'm sure the recipient will be thrilled!

City Slicker - Custom Quilting

Patrice sent me this beautiful version of our Highway 10 Designs City Slicker pattern.  Patrice upsized the original patternfrom 60" x 84" to 87" x 96" so it would fit a bigger bed.

This quilt is a wedding gift for her daughter and son-in-law so Patrice requested custom quilting to make it extra special.  She really liked the designs I did on my original version of the quilt, so we proceeded with that plan.  I used black thread for all the quilting. 

Patrice sent a solid black backing so I suggested used Quilter's Dream Midnight Poly batting.  The quilting shows up so well on the solid backing!

I just love this version of City Slicker.  The jelly roll friendly pattern is available as a pdf download or in paper form through the mail from our Highway 10 Designs Etsy Shop.

Bold City Slicker

I am just in love with how the bold batik version of our City Slicker pattern came together! Kathy & I had recently seen a version of our City Slicker pattern with a black background that one of our customers had made.  We thought it would be the perfect project to work on together when recently attended a retreat at Road 17N in Winkler.

Kathy and I dug into our bold batik stashes to create this top.  The pattern calls for a jelly roll, but you can be creative and use your scraps too.  It was Kathy's turn to quilt one of our joint projects and she decided to custom quilt it this time around.

Looking at it just makes me happy!

City Slicker is one of those patterns that seems to lend itself  to so many different colorways.

The original cover quilt.

Kyla's grad quilt.

Reneta's New York City version.

Cheri's earthy version.

If you think you would like to try this pattern for yourself, ask for it at your local quilt store, or check out our Highway 10 Designs Etsy Store.

  

Cheri's City Slicker

Cheri made this beautiful version of our Highway 10 Designs City Slicker pattern using a earthy collection of Cantik Batiks.  She used one Gemstone pack in the Alberta colorway.

Cheri chose the "Mimosa" pantograph that adds a nice even windy/leafy texture to the quilt.

A beautiful blue-green Northcott Stonehenge wide backing that I have in stock was teh perfect compliment.

I really enjoyed having this on my machine.  I wish it could have stayed a little longer!

City Slicker and all of our other Highway 10 Designs patterns are available in our Etsy shop as an instant PDF download or as a paper copy in the mail.

City Slicker

  

This version of City Slicker was made by Reneta just in time for our local guild quilt show.  I pulled it off my machine just a few days before the show and she was able to getting the binding done in a flash.

Reneta knew she wanted the quilting to have a geometric feel so we decided on the Gatsby pantograph. A brassy gold thread was a nice compliment to all the fabrics.

Reneta found this collection of fabrics on a recent trip to New York City.  She picked up this package of New York themed fabric from The City Quilter.  Reneta thought the Highway 10 Designs pattern City Slicker was the perfect compliment and I couldn't agree more.  The yellow Grunge fabric by Moda was a really nice addition.

 While at the store Reneta also found some fabric postcards and decided to scatter them on the backing as another memory of her trip.

 Are here is a shot of it bound and at our local show.

CIty Slicker for the Dorm Room

 I made this quilt for daughter #1 as a grad present for her new dorm room at the University of Manitoba.  This quilt has been in the making for a while, but residence move in day of September 3rd was my deadline. 

 

I asked for Kyla's input on this quilt along the way.  She had suggested that she could just take the original City Slicker quilt that I made when we were designing the pattern for Highway 10 Designs.  I wasn't quite ready to part with that one, and I wanted to make something just for her, I selected a jelly roll in some of her favorite colors and paired it with the icy blue background.

Kyla chose the Zephyr panto.  I used Quilter's Dream Puff batting so that washing and drying in the dorm would be nice and easy.  I used a variegated Fantastico thread called Misty Morn on top and Bottom Line blue in the bobbin.

I love to personalize quilts for my clients when given the opportunity, and I wanted to do the same for Kyla.  I wrote her name in one row of the panto.  Subtle, but present.

I wanted to make a couple of matching throw pillows to send along and I was lucky to have an extra bit of my Stonehenge backing once the quilt was finished, so I found some small batting pieces and loaded the pillow fronts and just kept on quilting the panto over them.

It was a close call but they fit!

This pillow was made from the little pieces of jelly roll strip that are left over from cutting out the quilt.

The second one was made from bits and pieces from the quilt and my stash.

And here you see it where it will be living for the next 8 months.  City Slicker is the perfect sized quilt for a standard dorm room bed.  This one is a twin XL.

Cindy's City Slicker

This is Cindy's version of our Highway 10 Designs - City Slicker Pattern. City Slicker is our jelly roll friendly pattern and  Cindy used Cantik Batik Gemstone 2 1/2" strips in the Northern Lights colorway.  

 Cindy  made this quilt for and with a some help from her 10 year old niece.  We settled on the Fluffy clouds panto, a shiny lilac Magnifico thread, and Quilter's Dream Puff batting to compliment the minkee dot backing fabric Cindy provided.

I really enjoyed working on this cheerful springy version of City Slicker.   Now we just need the last of the snow to melt away, and no more to fall!