sharing another sampler with you.....................

Back again with another sampler quilt, this one is made by Barbara during a sampler class at The Country Yard . I used mainly Madeira poly neon threads & cotton/bamboo batting.
Warning............lots of photo's.

                                                                       68" x 68"

Not sure if it is my camera or the light, but the photo's don't give true colour & detail of the quilting...........maybe it is both??

 One of the back of the quilt. This one is a wide backing fabric by Moda, the quality is wonderful.
If you haven't had enough of the photo's here are a couple more of close ups.

More sampler quilts can be seen here and here and here , I'm sure if you put 'sampler quilts' or 'traditional sampler' etc in the search bar on the top left hand corner of my blog you will find more, as I have quilted quite a few samplers!

Presents, customer quilt & a rose

What do these three things have in common?? They are all at my house...........but not for long!

First the presents.........................
Cat , over at Catalina's Cottage organised a Advent Swap & I took part. So for the past month I have been sorting, making, buying & wrapping presents for my swap buddy Dawn. 
Here are all 25 of the gifts for Dawn............( one for each advent day )

  And I did manage to put them all neatly into to a box, which is now on it's way to Dawn in the USA.
There will be no public mention of how much this was to post!!!
Enjoy your 25 days of December Dawn!!

Secondly, the customer quilt
. A little cot panel quilted up for a sample at The Country Yard . Cotton batting & minky backing. My quilting inspiration came from Leah, over at the free motion quilting project, only I used my walking foot.
You really need to click on these photo's.

 I wish you could feel how soft the backing is.....................

And last, but not least, a rose.

 This will be gone soon, as roses do, but then lucky for me another will follow!

The last photo is what I have been working on for the last few days & will be finished soon.

Blogger's Quilt Festival 2012

Blogger's Quilt Festival 2012 !

               Amy's Creative Side  is hosting an online quilters festival

 
                                                          
 Here is my entry. I did not make this quilt, it was made by Jill at a class at The Country Yard our local patchwork shop, learning several patchwork techniques.  This quilt recently won viewers choice at the shops annual exhibition.
Measuring approximately 68" x 68", Warm & Natural cotton batting . I used a variety of threads, Madeira Polyneons, Sew-Art, Mettler etc.

   Best categories:

   Favourite Professionally Quilted quilt.
  Favourite Bed Quilt.
   Favourite Appliqué Quilt. 
  

Please click on photo's to enlarge

 Because the deep purple paisley border was difficult to photograph, here is a photo of the back.

If you haven't already been to see some other wonderful quilts please do so over here

not so traditional sampler

This stunning quilt was made by Jill, who was a student in a traditional sampler class held at The Country Yard. Some months back I quilted the shop sample, seen here  ( Please click to enlarge photo's.)

This is a good example of a traditional quilt using not so traditional fabrics. The border fabric can be seen for something non quilty too, as seen here
If you are not sick of photo's there are a few close ups.

Because the border fabric is a dark purple paisley it was difficult to show the quilting I did, so here is a photo of the back.

 It is sad the photo's never really do the quilt justice.

For a quilter who claims to have 'A Quilters Garden' I have done all right today, as I actually did some gardening! It is a lovely sunny day here in Northland New Zealand.
I hope what ever you are doing sun or not, that it makes you smile.