Showing posts with label crinoline ladies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crinoline ladies. Show all posts

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Custom quilting Crinoline Ladies.


Your patience has paid off..........................drum roll please for  Veron's Crinoline Ladies!


In between showers of rain I managed to take a photo, but there was that pesky shadow!
This delightful, lovingly made quilt is called "Forever and Always" by Bella Embroidery Designs.



Veron has a real flare for fabrics and her stitching is as near to perfect as humanly possible! As Veron lives down in Wanganui we corresponded by phone and email as to how she wanted this beauty quilted. I emailed several photo's of other stitchery/applique quilts that I have quilted in varying quilting styles, from simple ditch stitching to cross hatching through to my dense 'doodle quilting'. Veron chose my dense 'doodle quilting'.



Her motto was "if  I am going to pay someone to quilt for me it may as well be how I want it quilted".


Once I get going on this type of quilting it really does take on a life of it's own, the doodling just flows from feathers to wave type McTavishing to pebbles.


I have been completely amazed and humbled by how many have been viewing my work on Facebook!! I feel very blessed to have so much work flooding my doorstep..............thank you!



                   Borders and sashing were given my treatment of feathers and ribbon candy.



The ever present quilts requiring custom quilting grows weekly, quilts requiring all over quilting (edge to edge) not so much. The all over quilting takes much less time than custom, so from time to time for a break from the custom work I load a quilt needing all over quilting. This makes for a quick turn around for those wanting their quilts made over with edge to edge quilting.



Some of those larger applique pieces need some quilting on them, this helps secure, give texture and life to the applique.





                  To finish off this post here are some photo's of the backside.................enjoy!



              I hope you will join me again very soon when I share Veron's Dresden Plate quilt.

Monday, May 25, 2015

Three finished quilts.



Hello readers, today I am sharing three quilts that have had all over quilting designs by me. The first is Elizabeth's eye spy quilt. Made for a friend's baby girl. There is a fabulous mix of novelty fabrics.


Elizabeth fancied the idea of hearts so I free hand quilted hearts and swirls and chose a nice variegated thread. Elizabeth also asked me to attach the binding.


            Thank you Elizabeth, I am sure this quilt will create many hours of 'eye spy' games!

The next two quilts are from Thelma. Thelma purchased sheeting/duvet cover fabric and asked me to quilt them for her two grandsons, one is mad on Spiderman.................................



.............................Then there is the "Ben Ten" grandson who is mad on this comic/movie character.



Thelma chose a high loft poly batting giving these quilts a real puffy look. I hope both boys love their quilts.

My Facebook followers would have seen sneaky peeks of the Crinoline Ladies quilt I have been working on. I have had a few inquires if I have finished this pretty quilt, the answer is yes! You will need to wait a week or so before I can reveal the finished quilt as the same customer has given me two of her quilts. As they have to be posted off to Wanganui I will finish the second quilt so they can keep each other company in the post. I will leave you with a photo of the back of the crinoline ladies quilt.


                          Wishing you a happy week and thank you for stopping by!