Quilting for Diane & Marilyn & other news

Hello Quilty friends!

Two customers - five quilts.

Grab a comfy seat & a beverage of your liking & take a look what these two clever customers of mine have been up to.

Plus a new quilt for sale & a ribbon for me!

Quilt Information:

Pattern - Llama Love - by Moda.

Measurements - 43"x 54"

Quilting - E2E Quilting - Primitive Stars (with the Llama's face masked out then a bit of custom quilting on the face)

Batting - Supplied by customer.

Backing - Supplied by customer.

Threads - Glide - Linen.

Quilt Information:

Pattern - Bonus Project from Quilty Love's Happy Stripes Pattern.

Measurements - 50"x 59"

Quilting - E2E Quilting - Van Gogh.

Batting - Supplied by customer.

Backing - Supplied by customer.

Threads - Glide - Linen.

Quilt Information:

Pattern - Unknown to me. Flannel front and backing.

Measurements - 48"x 60"

Quilting - In the Swirls.

Batting - Cotton - Purchased from me.

Backing - Supplied by customer.

Threads - Glide - Cool Mint.

Quilt Information:

Pattern - Unknown to me.

Measurements - 45"x 54"

Quilting - E2E Quilting - Stars on a String.

Batting - Cotton - Purchased from me.

Backing - Achitextures - Purchased from me.

Threads - Glide - Light Grey.

 

Quilt Information:

Pattern - Unknown to me.

Measurements - 53"x 53"

Quilting - E2E Quilting - Blooming Feathers.

Batting - Cotton - Purchased from me.

Backing - Reproduction Beige - Purchased from me.

Threads - Glide - Mocha.

A new addition to my quilt shop is this nice neutral "Into the Woods" quilt.

 Gosh & golly - whiz, I love making quilts, but I CANNOT keep them all! So having a place to sell some of my creations means I can keep making them.

Here is the link to my shop if you'd like to take a look at this quilt & some others:
Quiltmekiwi Quilt Shop


A couple of weeks ago was a fairly big quilt show in Auckland - Äuckland Festival of Quilts"".
This year I decided to enter two quilts for judging. I got placed second (merit) for one of them!

Quilt Back.

Thanks for stopping by!

Leeanne.

Sue's Quilts and Elizabeth's winning quilt at the Auckland Festival of Quilts

Sue asked me to quilt these two fabulous quilts she has made for her lucky grandkids. First up is her New York Beauty quilt. Sue asked for very simple quilting, basically just stitching in the ditch (SID) but not each ray, just the arcs and some stipple on the borders.

Sizing up at: 84" x 87", foundation paper pieced rays and a cute little yellow peeper out towards the border.

I was itching to quilt more, that centre was calling out for a swirl, pebbles or cross-hatching...............but I was good quilter and stuck to what I was instructed to do.

Happy Jacks was the next quilt Sue wanted quilted by me, I found this quilt a good cheerful, 'boost you up day' kinda fun!

Isn't it funky and fun! Measuring 64" x 91". These 'Happy Jacks' seem to be like friendly alien spaceships floating over the quilt looking for a good landing spot!

Sue and I agreed that quilting over the vertical brown sashings would make them sink into the background, so the swirl background filler did just that. Then a 'organic' piano key border and a several different quilting designs on the Happy Jacks themselves.

I don't think Sue could have chosen a better backing fabric............all those big spots, perfect!

Lately when I am out tramping the latest thing my eye is drawn to are punga fronds, I now see that when I take photo's I can truly call it 'professional development' for me, because so often this is the perfect quilting style for many of the quilts that pass through my studio. Nature IS so inspiring.

               I made a video of me quilting swirls. P.S "look Mum, I am quilting one handed!"

Yesterday I visited the Auckland Festival of Quilts. Another nice set up in the new venue, lots of merchants and people enjoying the quilts. I was so pleased to get a very excited phone call from one of my lovely customers  on Thursday night to say the quilt she entered this year that I had quilted earlier in the year had won the Open Wall section made by 2 or more people. Here is my blog post about this quilt.  This is a Kim Diehl design named 'Snow in Summer', Elizabeth renamed "Carnations in the Octagon". Here is Elizabeth standing with her lovely quilt.

Inspiration for pre cuts........................

Some may say the invention of pre- cut fabrics is like the best thing since sliced bread,  I am inclined to believe. The options are endless and ever growing, they give you a nice 'head start' to quilt making and you have a wonderful selection of fabrics usually from a whole range of fabric.

The Country Yard team have been busy whipping up some inspirational pieces to get their customers mouths watering. This cute quilt is made from a charm pack (5" squares) and some creamy tan fabric from the bolt.

Measuring 50" x 54", Kerryn (shop owner) asked for custom quilting and chose feathers for the creamy tan areas, a great choice I think. I used Glide "Mocha" thread.

Kerryn often asks me to attach binding, usually I take a photo of the quilt before I attach the binding, but I only remembered after the job was done. Here is a photo of the back giving you a clear view without binding in the way!

Next in the line up is a lovely soft quilt made from a layer cake (10" squares) in flannels. This quilt has a manly/bloke sort of look to it.

Kerryn asked for edge to edge (all over quilting) this time, picking a double straight lines evident in the pattern on some of the fabrics. relatively easy when you have the beauty of channel locks on your machine, when it came to quilting the other direction I did need to turn the quilt.

A peek see at the back, also flannel..............................

Last but not least, something a bit Christmasy. Another charm pack creation, very simple quilting with a bit of glam on the border!

When I say 'Christmasy', I mean toning, some gold over lays. I like the simple piecing which is enhanced by the straight lines on the light fabric.

I used Glide "Butterscotch" for the border design. Once again Kerryn asked that I attach the binding, this time completely by machine. Have you ever tried this? I quite fancy it personally, within a short space of time your quilt is completely finished. Here is one way to do this method: binding by machine take one and: binding by machine take two and: binding by machine take three!

 If you are going to the Auckland Festival of Quilts you will see The Country Yard there along with these quilts and some other scrumptious tempting delights!

After all that it's time for this quilter to put her feet up with a nice hot cuppa! See you next time.

A winner!

Hello happy people!  I have been waiting patiently to share this lovely quilt with you.

"Affairs of the Heart" is a beautiful applique masterpiece designed by Aie Rossman, made by Ngaire, who dedicated and re- named the quilt 'In Memory of Ruth', her sister.
I was pretty excited when Ngaire asked me to custom quilt this quilt for her and when she said she would be entering the quilt into The Auckland Festival of Quilts under 'Open - small bed quilts, made by two or more people' that was another level of excitement!

Ngaire anxiously waited by the phone on Thursday hoping we would get the call to say we had won, then I got a text to say "WE WON".................pretty exciting!

The quilt measures 61" x 61" with black cotton backing and black backing this is a black beauty!

Ngaire gracefully and happily handed her beautiful quilt top to me with no real rules of what she wanted, I suggested some dense background fillers around the appliques to help make them pop and me being a feather fan, happily recommend feathers on the border as well some scrolls in gold metallic thread, Ngaire said 'Oh Yes please!"

I ditch stitched around every piece of applique to define Ngaire's lovely satin stitched appliques, then some pebbling in the very middle section, then out to the next section I did my version of "Mctavishing' as well as some micro scribbling in selected areas.

I hope I don't sound like a big ego freak, but I really love the quilting, I had so much fun! This was as perfect as a quilt can get to work on, lovely and square, everything just flowed so well.
This is the very first time I have had a quilt in a show for judging, so to come away with a win is the icing on the yummy cake of life!

the back, including the label

This was a lovely quilt let loose with some custom quilting. A big thank Ngaire.