Music, birds & lady birds

 First up is a sample for The Country Yard. A Music panel, with some border fabric added top & bottom & a round of a feature fabric for the border & binding. Cotton batting, gold Metalic thread for the 'bling' on the border & bobbin fill for the loose meander & the 'Organic' cross hatching, over cotton batting.

Next up is Leonie's foundation pieced bird quilt, made as a Christmas present for family members, I'm sure it will be treasured. Leonie sent me the top, a vintage sheet for the backing & a wool blanket for the batting. Because of the wool blanket, I kept the quilting fairly loose as not the make the quilt heavier & stiffer than it already was. This is Leonie's third quilt if my memory is not failing me.
Leonie tells me she got the patterns from Tartankiwi, great patterns!

 When a quilter is given a quilt with birds, we can't help but quilt feathers can we?? Well that's my excuse for banging some more feathers onto this fine looking quilt! Gunold & Madeira threads, lots of ditch stitching on these blocks.

A view of the vintage sheeting on the back...............................................................

And just because I liked the Frangipani backdrop.......................................(Thanks Leonie! )

Last but not least......................................Jacki's lovely Jelly Roll creation for the grandchildren.

Big apologies, I have forgotten the name of the designer of this pattern. I know Jacki used one Jelly roll, plus some fabric for the borders & binding. Once again I used Gunold & Madeira thread, this time over Cotton/Bamboo batting. Jacki made a cute backing.

Simple loose stipple, ditch stitching around all the applique & a flower medley on the border.

Leaving you with a lovely 'quilty' saying:


Good memories are like a patchwork quilt, each section is sewn together to be wrapped around us and treasured forever.