Showing posts with label Celtic knot stencil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Celtic knot stencil. Show all posts

Friday, November 21, 2014

Custom Quilting.................



Hello Poppets! Always lovely to have you stopping by for a visit.
 More customers quilts to share, thank you  so much to my lovely customers for trusting me with your beautiful quilts.
First are two quilts made by Pam, the first one you will recognise as this is the forth or fifth quilt of the same design I have custom quilted.


A mystery stitchery exclusive to The Country Yard. Compiled of piece work and of course stitcheries. Pam asked for Custom quilting. 


Ditch stitching, diagonal lines for the stitchery blocks, swirls for the main part of the quilt and our beloved feathers!


Words of friendship is the theme.
The stitchery below of the two sitting on the bench has me thinking of the Forest Gump film, where he says "life is like a box of chocolates................" how true!
Where would we be without our treasured friends?




Pam's second quilt is a table runner, more adorable cute stitcheries and clever piecing.


Helen Stubbings of Hugs and Kisses designed this cute focal piece for your table called " Tea for Two".


I did very simple custom quilting, stitching in those ditches again, around the teapot, straight lines for the border and a spiral square for the middle, better seen in the following photo of the back.


Thank you Pam.
Next is a happy quilt made by Stephanie as a Christmas gift for her sister-in-law.


Stephanie asked for custom quilting, she also gave me an Auriful variegated thread to be used on the cream fabrics, this threads variegation starts from a very soft lemon moving up through to a royal blue.


Lots of ditch stitching, background fill, swirls, orange peel and a celtic ribbon/rope for the border, chosen by Stephanie.


Stephanie's sister-in-law is sure to be happy when she opens her Christmas present this year!








Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Customer quilts




Another sample to showcase new fabric in at The Country Yard called 'Fieldnotes' by Blackbird Designs Moda. Designed by Kerryn, owner of The Country Yard. 'Warm & Bright' polyester batting.
Some of my quilting inspiration came from Angela Walter's book 'Free Motion Quilting'.


 Diane Gaudynski. gave me the inspiration for this design called 'Celtic Bubbles'. I had a go at drawing the design when I saw it on Diane's blog, but I hadn't found the right quilt to try out this design, I really like it, how about you? ( what's with the finger in the photo? )

 Sometimes when I have a nice big open quilting area it is nice to divide the area up, this is what I did in this case. I used my curved ruler to mark the curves, then I echoed. For the inner section I did some large pebbles. I quilted rope on the crimson sashing, orange peel on the checker board & a hook feather on the 'Chinese coins'.


.........some double loops on the busy flower fabric..................

.............some loop feathers & another finger!

 For a quilt that has birds, you can't go wrong with feathers!


Apart from the curved ruler & the stencil for this Celtic knot, everything was free formed, no marking......just the way I like it.

Another sample for the shop, this time a panel called 'Baby Zoo Crew'.
Simple quilting, all over double loops for the centre using a soft variegated Gunold thread. Some cross hatching & straight lines & of course ditch stitching.