August 2020 - Fabadashery Longarm Quilting Drop - Off dates

If you have a quilt ready for longarm quilting here are dates when I will be taking in quilts in the next few weeks, including a Saturday. Please get in touch if you have a quilt you would like digitally longarm quilted.  I am usually particularly busy from September to December, so if your quilt is ready and you can get your quilt to me in August that would be great.  

In addition, to these dates, do not forget that I offer a postal service and I have several customers from all over the UK who regularly send me quilts.

Wednesday 12th August

Thursday 13th August

Friday 14th August

Saturday 15th August

Monday 17th August

Tuesday 18th August

Thursday 20th August

Friday 21st August

Monday 24th August

Tuesday 25th August

Thursday 27th August

Friday 28th August

Scrappy Cotton Reel quilt by Jenny, longarm quilting by Fabadashery

Photo: Jenny Smith

Jenny has sent me this lovely photograph of the quilt which I had the pleasure of longarm quilting for her recently.  One of the reasons I enjoy longarm quilting for my customers is to help them get a finished quilt, so a photo like this in my inbox brings joy to my heart!

'Silver' digital pantograph, designed by Patricia Ritter

I think she mentioned that it was a Moda Cake Mix pattern and so it is probably made out of a pre-cut.  I really loved the green border on this quilt.  For the quilting, Jenny chose one of the digital patterns from my extensive pattern library called 'Silver' designed by Patricia Ritter.

'Silver' digital pantograph, designed by Patricia Ritter

Sheila's Hierloom Sampler Quilt - custom quilting by Frances Meredith at Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

Sheila's Hierloom Sampler Quilt

Do you have a special quilt in your cupboard which you made many moons ago, but never quite had the time or confidence to finish and quilt.  Sheila hand stitched this sampler quilt a long time ago (1980's?) for a family member, but at the start of 2020 it was still waiting to be finished.  Sheila decided that it might be something I could do.  I was pleased to help and in this particular quilt used a combination of hand, custom quilting and computerised quilting.  Sheila had already designed the heart wreath for the alternating blocks and I was able to reproduce this as a digital pattern in my HQ Prostitcher Software, as a whole, half and quarter block.

Sheila's Hierloom Sampler Quilt - Basket Block

For the remaining quilt I stitched in the ditch, added some freehand stipple to the backgrounds of the different sampler blocks and freehand feathers for the applique border.  

Sheila's Hierloom Sampler Quilt

Mary's 'Around the Star' friendship quilt, quilted by Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

Mary's 'Around the Star' quilt with

'Popcorn' digital Quilting pattern by Willow Leaf Studio

Mary has made this quilt for a friend using a Missouri Star pattern called 'Around the Star'.  It is made from a 10" square Layer Cake, which ended up about 80" square.  I will admit that I would not attempt to quilt a quilt this size under a domestic machine, but the longarm quilting machine makes light work of it - like magic!

Mary's 'Around the Star' quilt with

'Popcorn' digital Quilting pattern by Willow Leaf Studio

Another bit of 'magic' I used on this quilt was the pattern, 'Popcorn' designed by Willow Leaf Studio.  This digital pattern seems to work on a wide range of quilts.  If in doubt - use 'Popcorn'.

'Popcorn' digital Quilting pattern by Willow Leaf Studio

Modern Pickle Dish Quilt made by Ainslie, custom quilted by Frances Meredith

Modern Pickle Dish Quilt made by Ainslie,
custom quilted by Frances Meredith

Here is another custom quilt which I have finished in the past few months - a Pickle Dish quilt made by Ainslie. Ainslie wanted a modern finish to this small quilt, so we went with custom quilting and to make for a quick finish, she also opted for my binding service.

  

Modern Pickle Dish Quilt made by Ainslie, 
custom quilted by Frances Meredith

As I enjoy piecing myself, when I am asked to custom finish a quilt, I am always keen to make the piecing look sharp and the best way to to this is to stitch in the ditch.  I would recommend this to anyone quilting their own quilts too.  It is hard work, but you know exactly where to stitch, so not too many decisions!  On this quilt I also did a lot of matchstick quilting as a filler.  You can see more of the detail of the quilting on the back!

Modern Pickle Dish Quilt made by Ainslie, 
custom quilted by Frances Meredith

Blue Cat Quilt made by Clementina, custom quilted by Frances Meredith

Blue Cat Quilt made by Clementina, custom quilted by Frances Meredith

Clementina has come up with a truly original design for her blue cat wall-hanging.  She has combined some hand-pieced fussy-cut English paper piecing with a simple outline of a cat.  As a longarm quilter my job was to custom quilt it, so that it was converted from a pieced top to a quilted wall-hanging.  Sometimes that simply involves outlining the painstaking work which my customer has put so much time into, to make their vision shine. 

Blue Cat Quilt made by Clementina, custom quilted by Frances Meredith

Celtic Solstice 2016 Mystery Quilt , made by Catherine, custom quilted at Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

Celtic Solstice Mystery Quilt , made by Catherine,
custom quilted at Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

The lockdown period allowed me to work my way through a list of custom quilting for my customers, including this Celtic Solstice quilt made by Catherine.  The Celtic Solstice quilt was a Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt in 2016 and on this occasion Catherine doubled the size of the pieces to make a wall-hanging sized quilt.  As usual the internet doesn't give a true representation of the size, but it was 46" x 46".