Quilting for Dorothy & Merry Christmas!

Hello Quilty friends!

Welcome back for my last post for 2023.

Another year another wrinkle 😄

Dorothy is a customer from Taranaki, another part of the north island of New Zealand, about an eight hour drive. Anyway for the last few years Dorothy has been sending me quilt tops in bulk!

Anything from six to ten quilt tops.

This year it was ten quilt tops. I promised I would get as many quilted before I finished quilting for the year. I quilted seven. They are all back (thank you NZPost!) with Dorothy as she now begins her mammoth binding expedition. 

I won't share every photo and video I took, if you want more eye candy you will have to trot over to either my Instagram or Facebook pages. Let me know what you think.

Quilt Information:

Pattern - Scrappy Trip Around the World (Bonnie Hunter has a good tutorial if you are interested)

Measurements -37"x 49"

Quilting - E2E Quilting - Modern Squares.

Batting - Supplied by customer.

Backing - Supplied by customer.

Threads - Glide - Bark.

This quilt top was Dorothy's beloved old cat 'Baz' quilt top. He would lay on it to supervise her sewing. So the quilting design is a tribute to him!

 Quilt Information:

Pattern - Shattered Nine Patch.

Measurements - 57"x 70"

Quilting - E2E Quilting - Cats in the Moon.

Batting - Supplied by customer.

Backing - Supplied by customer.

Threads - Glide - Peacock.

 

Quilt Information:

Pattern - Chilhowie - By Bonnie Hunter.

Measurements - 57"x 57"

Quilting - E2E Quilting - Vestibule. 

Batting - Supplied by customer.

Backing - Supplied by customer.

Threads - Glide - Linen.

Quilt Information:

Pattern - Unknown to me.

Measurements - 69"x 69"

Quilting - E2E Quilting - New Growth B

Batting - Supplied by customer.

Backing - Supplied by customer.

Threads - Glide - Willow.

Quilt Information:

Pattern - Unknown to me.

Measurements - 57"x 57"

Quilting - E2E Quilting - Elizabeth.

Batting - Supplied by customer.

Backing - Supplied by customer.

Threads - Glide - Tarheel.

Quilt Information:

Pattern - Brightly by Cluck Cluck Sew.

Measurements - 60"x 72"

Quilting - E2E Quilting - Totally Mod Circles.

Batting - Supplied by customer.

Backing - Supplied by customer.

Threads - Glide - Linen.

Swap blocks from Australia & New Zealand.

Quilt Information:

Pattern  Unknown to me.

Measurements - 59"x 68"

Quilting - E2E Quilting - Van Gogh.

Batting - Supplied by customer.

Backing - Supplied by customer.

Threads - Glide - Mocha.

I want to wish you all a safe and peaceful festive season. Be safe out on the roads.

We are ready, we have our Christmas tree up:

And here's what I will be doing over my holidays:

And some of this for sure:

Catch you back here next year!

Leeanne.

Marilyn & Maureen's Quilts.......

                       Three more quilts I recently had the pleasure of quilting.....................

Quilt Information:

Pattern - Alletaire - A Bonnie Hunter Mystery.
Measurements - 83" x 97"
Batting - Hobbs Heirloom Wool - Purchased from me.
Backing - Supplied by customer.
Quilting - E2E Quilting - Joyful Pearls.
Threads - Glide.

Quilt Information:

Pattern - Into the Light - by Malcom Angus.
Measurements - 57" x 66"
Batting - Black Blend - Purchased from me.
Backing - Supplied by customer.
Quilting - E2E Quilting - Spiderweb.
Threads - Glide.

Quilt Information:

Pattern - Unknown to me.
Measurements - 49" x 73"
Batting - Wool/Polyester - Purchased from me.
Backing - Supplied by customer.
Quilting - E2E Quilting - Full Feathers.
Threads - Glide.

Did you know I have an ongoing special of a 50% discount off batting when you request E2E Quilting?
I also have a good selection of wide backing fabrics, see the header at the top of my blog.
These change from time to time.
Many of my customers post their quilt tops to me from all around the country and find it convenient  to just post their quilt top.

A small selection of wide backings

All over quilting designs

Some of you may recognise this design, it is a Bonnie Hunter mystery from last year, or possibly the year before?This quilt is on the bigger side! ~ 95" x 95" called "Easy Street".
Barbara has chugged away on the piecing doing 'leaders and enders' to get this completed in time so she can gift away to some special for this Christmas.

Barbara asked for an all over quilting design using bamboo/cotton batting. In my last post  you may have spotted this quilt also. Fun vibrant fabrics.

Thank you Barbara, I hope your lovely Christmas gift is loved!

Next are three quilts for a baby.

Isn't this fun fabric! Shannon got busy to make these three quilts for her baby, she thought they would be nice to have as floor quilts for her sweet baby to play on. What a great idea!!

Lots of hearts, an all over quilting design seen here on the back.

Bugs this time! Lucky baby, don't you think?
You may have seen sneaky peeks on my Facebook page.

Cats this time.

Checkout the fun backing of these last two quilts.........................................

Yea-haw cowgirls and cowboys! Happy days to Shannon's baby.

I have several more customer quilts to share, but I don't want to over load you with photo's.
Wishing you all a happy weekend, my supervisor wishes you a happy weekend also!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!
I'm sure this will be a great year for much sewing and completions of UFO, flimsy's etc.



I have enjoyed reading a couple of books in the last few weeks I thought I would share as if you haven't read them I sure you would enjoy.
My friend Raewyn lent me this book and it is a must read for all quilting chicks!.....Thanks Raewyn.

What a great read this was. Easy reading, relaxing, a trip down memory lane of previous Elm Creek books and I nearly cried a couple of times.

I am looking forward to the last chapter in the Orca Bay Bonnie Hunter mystery, in between working on that I have been working on something that I can only give you a sneaky peaky of..........more later!

part 6 of Orca Bay Mystery

Look what turned up in my vegetable garden.............................

All finished.....56 Ohio Stars....of course I had to actually finish part one!!! So now I feel double delight.
My wee 'orange friend ' from last time was nowhere to been seen, but I did find these marigolds in my wee vege patch and the pumpkin leaves work well for plates for my blocks don't you think?

This one is for you Rhonda , check out the square top right hand corner....same brown fabric you are using!! I used the same fabric on this table runner........

now for proof I did make all 56 blocks.....................................!

Now don't these wee sweeties go well with my blocks?

Wanna pop over with me to see what everyone else is doing......?

Thank you for taking the time to stop by my corner of the world :-)