Another Glenys quilts

With a printed panel as the centre, Glenys made this quilt in about half a day! Four borders and a simple custom quilting job and it was done. I quilted it with a bright variegated thread to highlight the happy colours in the borders.

Scrap quilt by Glenys

I really admire patchworkers who can create beautiful works of art from their scrap stash. I try but I never seem to have just the 'right' ones to blend together so I usually end up buying a whole new bundle. Glenys wanted to use up all of her black and green toned fabrics and this is the result. It's quilted with an edge to edge tulip through the centre panel, a little scroll along the black first border and a rolling feather outer border - all done in a forest green thread.

Noah's Ark

Two more of Lynette's little stitched animals finished. Willowberry designs isn't playing nicely so I'm showing this photo on my 'work' blog instead of my 'play' blog....

Bright and fresh on gloomy winter days

Sharon's 'bright quilt' - very much not in the normal Sharon tones but it looks so cheery. Quilted with signature variegated thread to match the vibrant colours in the quilt, using Fantasia from Lorien Quilting.

The next one was made by Chris as a gift... she is such a generous lady, makes gorgeous quilts for family and friends. Another bright, happy quilt, covered in loopy love hearts of all shapes and sizes .....

The last photo is the centre pieced panel of a quilt I'm making for a client. The humble cushion panel can look pretty good when it's combined with some bold blocks. I'm planning on using some of the printed flying geese border panels in the quilt's outer border (show you some more photos when it's finished next week)

Pretty hearts

A pretty quilt made especially for a 9 year old's birthday. Meandering hearts and loops through the sashing and borders, stippled block backgrounds and a curly heart inside the appliqued hearts... so sweet.









The postie delivered my new patterns yesterday so I'm just itching to get back into the quilting workroom and have a play. Twelve new patterns plus a whole bunch of customers who don't mind what pattern I use on their quilts, Yay! Hope it's a warmer day tomorrow.
I'm a bit tired tonight, I just helped the rowers win two gold and one silver olympic medals....

Pretty....

Made for a special sister's birthday, this quilt measures almost 100" square - HUGE! But so pretty with photos and little stitcheries in the centres of each block. This is the second of these quilts made by my friend, I can't show the whole thing just yet because I don't want to spoil the surprise. It has meandering loopy hearts through the quilt with a sweet open rose and leaf border. I love quilting these quilts, you can just let your mind wander and the machine follows, so much fun! the photos are a bit dull, the quilt is actually a lot prettier in 'real life'

Another little quilt finished today was also a fun one to do. Can't show the whole thing just yet but here's a sneak look.

This week's completions - so far...

First up is Lyn's quilt, made from a pattern featured in Patchwork & Quilting v0l 15 no 12. I simply ditch quilted every seam and around the applique shapes. Heavy custom quilting is beautiful on the right quilt but it's often the only thing you see. The hours of hand work done by the maker can be lost in the quilting so the design needs to be carefully chosen, together. I hope you enjoy these quilts.....

Marion's jelly roll quilt - front and back (the back shows the lovely popcorn quilting pattern)

I delivered two quilts to Helen yesterday, one of them is shown in the previous post but I forgot to take a photo of the second one. I have another the same to quilt for Helen next week so I'll post photos of that one when it's done.

And today I finished another customer quilt but can't post a photo because it's a surprise 50th wedding anniversary gift! You'll have to come back later for that one.....

More finished

Evelyn's Quilt for her grandson. Lovely combination of colours, framed with a narrow black 1st border. Evelyn is binding it with black as well which will give it the perfect finish.


















Kathy's postage stamp block quilt, edge to edge in the centre panel with a flowing feather border. Quilted with a variegated pastel.




















Helen's lovely bright quilt - just a simple edge to edge 'Belladonna' in pale pink.










Lots of quilts have come in over the last week or so and my schedule is fairly well booked out until the end of September.
Mary from Fresh Hope has also dropped off another five cot quilt panels for me to quilt. I do these at no charge to Fresh Hope - if you'd like to know more about them, have a look at their website. There is also a link to the Fresh Hope range of patterns. Click on the 'shop' tab and you'll be pleasantly surprised to see some of your favourite designers!