Sampler Quilt

Pretty in pink........that's what I would call this quilt. Leonie has been busy taking part in a modern block swap & piecing together the following quilt for her soon to be six year old daughter.

Leonie wanted cotton batting & custom quilting. A beautiful pieced backing (which I'm sorry, for some reason I didn't take a photo), a vintage sheet in the mix.

I did a mix of free motion 'bits n' bobs'...........you know the wiggles & squiggles! As well as some straight lines. Not to forget feathers!

You may remember I did a quilt for Cat earlier in the year, she too took part in the same block swap. See here for Cat's version.

But wait there is more............................................

Using mainly Madeira poly neon threads, there was a few hours stitching involved. Leonie is now on the job of binding.
Receiving a rather emotional thank you from Leonie was a lovely way to realise she was happy with the quilt.

Looky, looky what arrived in my mail box yesterday............................

 Back in May I pre ordered this book from Judi of Greenfairy Quilts. I knew it would be a goodie. Although I had a long wait for the book to arrive, it was worth it! And after all, don't they say all good things come to those who wait?
Judi, in my humble opinion does the most breath taking quilting,  truly a work of art. This book comes with a CD with printable patterns.

Customer quilts & a sneaky peek

Di finished her pinwheel quilt & commissioned me to do the quilting. Don't you think to dog tooth border looks like giant Ricrac??
Anyway last year several ladies participated in a pinwheel block swap, remember Jacki's?? massive pinwheel quilt? & my quilt?
Di wanted large cross hatching in the 'nine patch' pinwheel blocks & what ever else I thought best for the rest of the quilt. Using Maderia poly neon threads over cotton/bamboo batting here are some close ups.................................

While we are looking at feathers..........................................here is your sneaky peek.................

More on that soon!

My Quilt

Hello watchers, readers & bloggers, I am sharing with you today a finish of one of my quilts, with a bit of help from some friends.
Last year Eight friends decided to participate in a Pinwheel block swap, there were eight of us, so each month for the next .......I forget how many months it was something like 10mths we each made eight pinwheel blocks, many of us made them the super quick way........................

 

I started to put my blocks together at our retreat then I said to a few of the girls I wanted to add a applique header with either & house or an angel, I got some votes for a house, some for an angel, so I thought why can't I do both?

 

 

 

I haven't used all the pinwheel blocks, I thought I might make a cushion, or two, plus I used some in the pieced backing.

 

Block swaps are lots of fun, I have participated in a few now, if you missed them see here , here & here.

I didn't do any fancy quilting just straight lines & some stipple.

 

 

Because I had a lovely quilt hanger in my lounge, I added a hanging sleeve so now the quilt is up to enjoy!

 

 

 

 

fabric pen & some tiny buttons for the angel face & hair

 

 

Thank you girls! Also to Megan, Rachel, Aurely for making some extra's!

 

Do you like my tiny pinwheels???

Somehow I had got carried away & made extra blocks, I can't brag I made blocks this small, I just cut them down to 2" square!

Heavy rain here today, both my cats are very happy to be inside!

Brian & Simon

customer quilt

Cat gave me this quilt to work on for her. This was a swap quilt, you can read all about it on Cat's original post here
You may want a better view of what I did, so just click on the photo's & that should help.   

No Madeira threads were harmed in the quilting of this top.

this one was special to me, those of you who know me, will know why.

Cool wedding cake house! I think it is cat & her hubbies! Can you see I quilted "Here comes the bride"

The back! Each participant put a sigi block in as well.

 

Years from now this will hold some special memories for Cat.

I will leave you with a couple more pincushions I finished last night while watching American Idol.

P.S how is everyone feeling about this 'word verification' thingie? Some folks have it, some don't? Does it put you off leaving a comment? Ha....if it does, you won't leave a comment to tell me so!