Bonny's Vintage Fabrics quilt

Bonny's Vintage Fabric Squares Quilt,
quilted by Frances Meredith, Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

This is Bonny's first large quilt.  It is made up of squares of vintage fabrics, mainly from the 1960's and 1970's, hand stitched to create this beautiful homely quilt.

Bonny's Vintage Fabric Squares Quilt, 
quilted by Frances Meredith, Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

With the relatively simple pattern and busy fabrics, this quilt could have taken all sorts of allover patterns, but we settled on this beautiful quilt pattern with feathers and flourishes called 'Nemesh Feathers'. I should have taken a picture of the back as well - it looked amazing!

'Nemesh Feathers' digital pantograph designed by Bethanne Nemesh

Orange Peel Quilt Busy Bees Workshop - February 2019

'Orange Peel Quilt'
Workshop on 2nd February 2019 - Busy Bees Patchwork, Newport

I had a lovely day at the Busy Bees Patchwork Programme Launch on Saturday and it was lovely to see lots of my customers.  Now the launch has happened I can reveal some of the behind the scenes work I have been doing for Ann and Becky.  Above you can see the Orange Peel quilt just as it came off the frame.  This will be a workshop at Busy Bees Patchwork , Newport, UK on Saturday 2nd February 2019.

'Ginger Spring' digital pantograph by Apricot Moon

I professionally longarm quilted this pretty quilt with an all over digital quilting pattern called 'Ginger Spring' by Apricot Moon, using the orange peel shape petals as inspiration. 

'Ginger Spring' digital pantograph by Apricot Moon

Chelsea Football Fan Quilt, made by Penny, quilted by Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

Chelsea Football Club loving fan Quilt made by Penny

We all reach the stage when we have made a quilt for all the women in our life and then don't want the men in our life to feel left out.  Reaching this point Penny decided to design her own quilt for her Chelsea Football Club loving fan, using the colours of their football kit.  Once made up she brought it to Fabadashery Longarm Quilting for finishing.

Chelsea Football Club loving fan Quilt made by Penny

The next decision was which quilting pattern to use on the quilt.  Luckily we spotted this hexagon shaped pattern which reflected the pattern on a football called Argyle. I have never used this pattern before but somehow it seemed to be the perfect pattern for this particular quilt.
 

'Argyle' digital pantograph by Urban Elementz

Penny even manged to fine some Football fabric for the backing - a RJR fabric from 2011 called 'Sporty' by Dan Morris. 

'Sporty' Footballer fabric, RJR Fabrics by Dan Morris

Fabadashery Longarm Quilting at Busy Bees Programme Launch Saturday 21st July 2018, Newport, Wales

Busy Bees Patchwork are having their annual Programme Launch on Saturday 21st July 2018 and I will be in Duffryn Community Centre, between 10am - 2pm,  if you want to meet me  or chat about how to finish your quilts.
It is a great day as there are exhibitions of City & Guilds classes, the tutors for the 2018 - 2019 Programme and as always - tea and cakes!

Prairie Flower Quilt made by Angela

'Prairie Flower' quilt made by Angela,
quilted by Frances Meredith

This quilt design is called Prairie Flower and is made by Angela, who brought her quilt to me for quilting a few months ago.  I think Angela used a 'Grand Traverse Bay' Layer Cake by Minick and Simpson. The pattern is a great 10" Layer Cake pattern and there is a video tutorial of how to make it on the Missouri Star YouTube site. 

'Prairie Flower' quilt made by Angela,
quilted by Frances Meredith

I completed the quilting for Angela using the 'Ginger Hearts' digital quilting pattern.  One of my popular quilting patterns, especially when a quilt is gifted with love.

'Ginger Hearts' digital pantograph, designed by Apricot Moon

Cross the Scraps Quilt, made by Margie

'Cross the Scraps' quilt made by Margie,
Quilted by Frances Meredith

Margie is one of my postal customers and she keeps sending me lovely quilts to quilt for her.  I fell in love with this one instantly and have already been out and about collecting fabrics to make one of my own.  It uses fabrics from the MODA 'American Jane' range and has a lovely scrappy feel to it.

'Cross the Scraps' quilt made by Margie, 
Quilted by Frances Meredith

Margie had looked at my online Pinterest catalogue and had chosen 'Popcorn' for the pattern, an ideal choice and the final quilt looked absolutely gorgeous.  She also provided me with the binding, so that when it was returned to her she just had to hand finish the quilt. Seeing these photos just makes me want to get on and make mine!

'Popcorn' digital pantograph