Another year done and dusted and another ready to be taken on. A new year of the same stuff and a year of some new and exciting and changes things too!
With all the hustle & bustle of Christmas, the food, the bulging fridge, the boxes of chocolates, abandoned wrapping paper, "granny" being repeated over & over! and sheet changing in between visitors, I did manage to find time for finishing off some projects and even jumped in head first into a quilt top construction!
My sister's partner passed away some 18 months ago, when I offered to my sister I would make her a memory quilt from his clothing I never thought how difficult it would be to construct a cohesive-pleasing-to-the-eye quilt from such an eclectic mix of clothing! I hope the quilt will bring my sister some comfort.
Made from tee shirts, ties, photo's and Hawaiian shirts, ditch stitching and a bit of light custom quilting and machine attached binding and label.
The next quilt I finished was made many months ago from a layer cake called 'Modernism' which is by Barbara Brackman. The pattern is called "Hexagon Hip Hop" a fun name don't you think?
You can see another two quilts *
here* by the same design. I have made this quilt for a family friend who will be celebrating a 'notable big birthday' later in the year.
Using my Gammill long arm quilting machine with an all over quilting design (edge to edge) I quilted 'Turkish Tiles' with Superior's fantastico thread 'Pheasant'.
Once again attaching the binding completely by machine this quilt was finally in the finished pile!
Not to show off or anything.......but another finish....................
My granddaughter informed me:"
Granny this is a cheat quilt!" All because I used a panel.........hard to find family members that love you these days! I DID piece the side borders as the panel was too narrow, then quilted it, then PIECED the binding..........then attached it by machine!
Edge to edge pattern called 'Marmalade' fantastico thread by Superior called 'Niagara' - all finished and in my gift box to replenish the ones gifted last year. I found a cute flannel backing...................
Then I started a quilt from a black and white Jelly Roll, not sure when it will get finished or who it's for but I just needed some sewing time and boy did it feel nice!
After a visit to a
rather nice wee quilt shop for a border fabric I decided it would be nice with a zing of colour, I found the green in my
over flowing neatly organised stash cupboard.
That quilt may just go into resting or I may squeeze it in to be finished.........wouldn't that be grand!
I had BIG, HUGE plans to make soooo many other quilts, but as usual my time frame in my mind is so different from reality! I must get onto my growing customer pile of quilts.............. Holiday over!
I do have a nice pile of books and magazines that are calling me. I am reading
Danielle Hawkin's book ' The Pretty Delicious Cafe', her third book to date..........like the others I LOVE it! She has such a way with words that makes a gal of simple words like me envious.
Back in July I received a lovely quilt that the maker Sharon asked only for ditch stitching as she wanted to do the fancy bits of quilting herself. See *
here* for my post about this stunning quilt. Sharon has just recently finished this quilt and completed a blog post all about it.............see her post *
here*.
Thank you for stopping by, I welcome your comments........................
