Saying goodbye to September!

Well September is nearly over! Time sure is ticking by, the big "C" word is looming!
 I have three lovely quilts to share, all quite different but all made with love and the world can do with more of that.

First up is Jill's "Life is Beautiful" which is a Helen Stubbings design. Jill asked for an all over quilting design (a.k.a: edge to edge, E2E, panto) , as Jill lives in the South Island she left it up to me to choose a pattern, I went for "Papillon", Matilda's Own wool/poly batting and Glide thread in the colour Bone.

                             Jill even made a cool pieced backing with the leftovers!

Next is the fun quilt Angela made for her granddaughter. Angela also asked for an all over quilting design, but came by to choose a pattern herself and the thread.

Measuring 70" x 86". Angela chose "Camelia's" for the pattern and Glide thread in the colour Cardinal. Angela had her own black batting and fun backing fabric.

                                   And for the backing.........................................

Last for this post but certainly not least is Cat's quilt, lovingly pieced from a huge scrap collection!

Measuring : 77" square featuring many scraps, some I recognise from earlier quilts I have quilted for Cat. The choice of straight lines in the "crosses" using red thread and the newspaper prints I took the liberty of quilting swirls to bring some curves into a quilt that would have otherwise been dominated by straight lines.

                              Cat chose cotton batting and a fabulous RED backing fabric!

                          Thank you Jill, Angela and Cat for allowing me to quilt for you.

Some of my customers ask for the full "Quiltmekiwi" service which is to make and attach binding, what I noticed on one recent job was what happen to my cutting board...................

I cut right through the board! Yikes! Perhaps I have a heavy hand or they just don't make things like they use to? I am sticking with the second theory!

Helen Stubbings & Kathy Schmitz fabrics

                                                 
                                                    Hello and welcome good people!
    Today I am sharing with you Fleur's pretty baby quilt and one of my own quilts finished.

Isn't this a  pretty little quilt, so soft and sweet, made from Helen Stubbings fabrics, simple piecing and simple quilting.

                         Fleur asked for simple ditch stitching and cross hatching.............done!
A photo of the back shows off the simplicity, the use of wool batting has worked well.

I am excited to share a finish of my own, my Wendy Briggs stitcheries using a fat quarter bundle by Kathy Schmitz , her fabric range "Piecemakers".

I really like the traditional style of cross hatching across the stitcheries, to do this I always used a fine blending thread. The stitcheries themselves were completed using Cottage Garden Threads and Aurifil threads.

Throw in a funky feather, orange peel, swirls, straight lines, curling ribbon and a swagged border and you have a nicely textured quilt.

        Part of the fabric bundle was a panel that I thought worked well as part of the backing.

     A photograph in front of my Wisteria bush on a warm fine spring day was pleasing.
I have had a florist friend staying for a couple of days and I thought it would be nice to have a vase of freshly "'picked & plonked in a vase" display in the guest bedroom.

         A pretty sad attempt when you see the lovely bunch my friend made me from her garden!

I love the white Protea (which she grows) nestled in some other pretty flowers and wrapped up with some grapevine.

Happy spring days to you!