Hello and a warm welcome quilt lovers, I have a lovely treat for you today, Sue's eight-years-in-the-making-grandmothers-garden-quilt!
A few months back Sue contacted me to ask if I would quilt her beloved batik grandmothers garden quilt............of course I said yes, I had been watching her progress reports on her blog. So it was all arranged on her recent visit to New Zealand that we meet up for the first time. Even though I have already quilted another one of Sue's quilts - see here, we had never met, only through our blogs and emails.
Sue was keen to have a New Zealand feel to the quilt, the black fabric is a Kiwiana fabric called "Moko", think swirls, punga fronds and ferns.
The 'Moko'-fern-feather is all free hand quilting, I did mark with chalk the spine to get nice curvature.
I used Glide thread in black. The 'pathways' around the flowers have been left un quilted as Sue didn't want dense quilting.
I thought of all my lovely readers and followers as I was quilting the last few flowers and got to thinking you might like to see how I quilted these flowers...........hubby to the rescue! Women are known for multi-tasking, but I haven't mastered quilting and videoing at the same time :-)
For the flowers I used a Gunold Variegated thread, this colour worked well over the rainbow of colours. The singular red toned hexagons I also used a variegated Gunold thread but this time in pinks and reds.
With a black/grey backing fabric and lots of black on the front, Sue wisely chose black batting.
Thank you Sue for letting me loose on your quilt!
Next a few photo's of my recent trip as a helper with a school Duke of Edinburgh - sliver medals group in training for tramping Cape Reinga - Te Paki next year. A great bunch of kids learning life long skills.
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| A mock patient with a 'broken leg' being stretchered out! |
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| Hunkering down in the long grass as the rain does it's thing! The lessons don't stop because it's raining. |
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| Blindfolded -lesson you must know where everything is in your pack! |
A fun few days away, now back to quilting...............lots of variety in the quilting pile! Thanks for stopping by.
Amazing quilt/quilting Leeanne
ReplyDeleteQuilting like no other, that was amazing. and an amazing quilt too.
ReplyDeleteSue's quilt is beautiful - doesn't the black look great and set it all off well. Looks like you had an interesting time up north!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful quilt, and as always is your quilting superb! Beautiful feathers and I love the quilting in the hexagons. Nice to see you working on it, it's going so fast!
ReplyDeleteNice trip with those kids!
Awesome quilting and great little video. Good to see you inaction. The fern feathers do give the NZ feel for sure.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a fun, wet trip with the kids.
I agree with Raewyn about the black! Love the quilt and the quilting! Well done both of you!!
ReplyDeletewow, no wonder it took 8 years. Great quilting motifs
ReplyDeleteWould have been fun to work your magic on such a lovely quilt. Well done o both of you.....and enjoyed watching you quilt with the video! Wow not sure I would know where everything is in my pack, might have to do the blindfold in preparation for next tramp. xxxx
ReplyDeleteWould have been fun to work your magic on such a lovely quilt. Well done o both of you.....and enjoyed watching you quilt with the video! Wow not sure I would know where everything is in my pack, might have to do the blindfold in preparation for next tramp. xxxx
ReplyDeleteSues quilt looks stunning Leeanne - you have worked your magic on it yet again. I am sure it will become a heirloom to be treasured & handed down. Glad you got back from the tramp okay - was thinking of you.
ReplyDeletewhat a alovely quilt and it ws good to see ypu actually quilting it such spwd and accuracy, loving it.
ReplyDeleteLooks like hard work on the tramp are you going with them on the trip I wonder
What a vibrant quilt, and I love your quilting , especially the "Moko" fern feather, just beautiful, and wish I could sit down and quilt hexie flowers at the speed you do!
ReplyDeleteThis is a beauty. The video was a great addition, to see how you did all of those flowers!
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had quite an experience during your days away!!
Sue's setting is very clever and your quilting perfect! Thanks for sharing a video of your stitching prowess.
ReplyDeleteOh wow Leeanne!!!! It looks amazing...was great to see you quilting too, the sound of the machine made me think of a humming bird!! Who knows why!! Tramping in the rain must have been hard!! That blindfolded checking the pack must have been hard!!! Thank you so much for quilting my quilt, I love it.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful quilt do quilt. I love what you have done on it. Must get my husband to try the blindfold/where is it in your pack activity with his Scouts.
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