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

Stitch in the ditch & come meet the team!

Jenny had me quilt her two mystery quilts she made through The Country Yard

Jenny only wanted ditch stitching & on the one with the red border she had me quilt a heart on the centre block & a meandering flowering vine on the border. here & here you will see I have quilted both these before for others.

Meet the 'Quiltme' team............................

My Bernina Aurora 440 is my main quilting machine, it is fantastic, I love the short term memory capability & the needle up/down setting too.
Next is my backup for when my 440 is in having a service.

My Bernina 830 another great machine. No short term memory or needle up/down setting, but a lovely stitch. I bought this a few years ago off Trademe. These machines date back to the early 70's but to look at it you would think it was new! Who ever owned it it hardly used it.
Next my piecing machine..............................

My Bernina 801, I have had this since I was ten. A great machine, absolutely nothing fancy on it, no bells, no whistles but it sews beautifully.


I have a  Bernina overlocker too..........do you reckon I like Bernina's?


Wishing all peace while you piece & quilt!



  

A customer quilt & taking you to "On The Edge"............

This quilt has such beautiful colours, big prints & a clever design that it really does seem to suit an allover quilting design. Joan  made this quilt for her granddaughter, I'm sure it will be well loved.
The pattern is called "The Big EZ' by Bloomcreek. Joan chose cotton batting & bought a organic cotton for the backing.

I finally got to take my menfolk to the local gallery -"On The Edge"  to see some of my quilts on display.....& wouldn't you know it the batteries were running low on the camera, anyway have a wee look & see what you think?

My Under the Southern Stars

My, Lynette Anderson 'My garden' button BOM

 This photo shows my 'Stitching Round The Block' cushion as well
as Raewyn's & Kerry's ( see this post for more details). Also a bag I made. The quilt on the bales hay was made by Raewyn.

This quilt was made for our friend Jacki's 70th, we all made a block that we felt was related to our relationship we had with her personally. I didn't make a block but donated my time to do the quilting.

Dark as this photo is.....arrrrgg....low batteries! shows Noeline's 2 bolsters & cushion, Noeline's embroidery is out of this world stunning! The patterns Noeline used are by Crabapple Hill. The quilt is a Cinderberry stitches made by Jules.

The quilt laying on the table was made by Rachael, who also made another lovely one that missed out on getting a photo because of the battery situation! The quilt in the background was another 70th birthday quilt that was jointly made for Mary. Jule's , Mary's daughter quilted this one. Below is the block I made.....

 


 This display of quilts from The Country Yard as well as some beautiful photography & other art is on display for another week, after that the exhibit changes. Richard & Shari are wonderful host's that have a done a fabulous job of creatively displaying all work. So if you are in Whangarei  area pop along to On The Edge Gallery.
Raewyn has some nice shots of the gallery too, she didn't seem to have a problem with her batteries!!!

one of those weeks.......................!!!!!

Wow so much can happen in one week, can't it? Well it feels like it has been one of those weeks.
Our sweet big boy Brian has been to the vet many times this week. He has had a nasty injury to his tail, looks like a door slammed on his tail. The vets tried to save his tail, but this morning the they told me his tail couldn't be saved, too much nerve damage. I'm sure he is going to be fine, but I feel for this this proud cat.

On to quilty matters.........................

Ngaire's granddaughter has been at her stash again! look what she came up with.......................































I quilted "lion, Zebra, Elephant, Giraffe on the borders, orange peels on the squares, a leafy vine on some of the sashings, accented the panel blocks.









The next quilt was for Miranda, she made this one for her father. Using some Minkie for the large blocks & musical fabrics & other fabrics for the four patch blocks, has resulted in a very simple quilt. Miranda wanted me to quilt it as I did on the last one she commissioned me to do....































See you next time!

Leeanne

"A Trip Down Flimsy Lane"

I love when you can make the time to just 'potter'.
 So with pottering on the menu for today.....(well after Hubby & I cleaned the house!)
 I finished " Classic Strippy" from Bonnie Hunter's book : Adventures with Leaders & Enders. You may remember my post about making this quilt way back here!
Now this is a BIG quilt : 90" x 108" , I made mine a bit longer than in Bonnie's book as I wanted the quilt to go over the pillows. I have my washing line extended as high as would go & it was still on the ground!

Way back,
..................well a while ago I posted about these wee stars .So here is another flimsy, this has been finished for quite sometime, ready to be quilted.

Maverick Stars is from Bonnie Hunters website, she has many cool free patterns, you can find Maverick Stars here.
Great quilt for a Leader & Ender & to use up those scraps. Some of the centres I did 'crumby'.

I just need to get quilting these as I love them!!

Click for a better view

This one was a BOM  (no scraps here!)  from Crab Apple Hill I have spent quite a few years working on this , lots stitchery, the hand bags, the crazy patch blocks. this too is ready to be quilted, when that is done I need to add all the beads.
All these quilts have backing &  binding already cut & ready to go!

As suggested by Leeann I'm bringing you the month of March.

 

panel quilts, appliqued dogs,and a thought?

Some panel quilts I have just finished quilting..........................

Panel called 'Baby Moon'

A Nancy Halvorsen panel called 'Garden Song'

Ngaire has made this quilt for a friend who is mad on dogs, Ngaire has appliqued different breeds of dogs.
Look at the backing, isn't it perfect!

I watched a DVD the other night called 'Akeelah and the Bee' and this saying was read out that I thought was very thought provoking, I will leave you with it.


Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves : who am I to be brilliant,gorgeous,talented and fabulous, actually who are you NOT to be............................

customers quilts

This quilt is off to sail the seas to Australia to a wee lad of 5 months old. Sharon made this quilt from a Debbie Mumm Panel and left it to me to quilt.

I had fun quilting the waves!

funky wonky houses!!

Carolyn made this fun quilt and was happy for me to quilt how I liked. Busy black and white fabric is not so good for photographing quilting, but maybe if you click on the photo's you will get the idea.I got my inspiration from the fabric.