Tuesday, 28 January 2025

Natalie's Feed Sack Quilt

Natalie's Feed Sack Quilt
Natalie's Feed Sack Quilt
Today I am sharing Natalie's Feedsack Quilt.  Natalie collected some original Feedsack prints and has incorporated them into several of her quilts. Feedsack Quilts? If you want to find out more there is a great little article at Heritage House Quilts website, which explains how printed feedsacks carrying dry goods became a popular marketing idea.

Natalie's Feed Sack Quilt
Natalie's Feed Sack Quilt
Again, the main purpose of the quilt was to highlight the historical fabrics, so just a simple, low key quilting pattern was required - Popcorn.
'Popcorn' designed by Willow Leaf Studio

Drop-Off Dates January 2025 - Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

Here are the dates I am taking in quilts for longarm quilting in February 2025, including a Saturday (15th February). 

Friday 31st January
Tuesday 11th February
Friday 14th February
Saturday 15th February
Monday 17th February
Tuesday 18th February
Wednesday 19th February
Thursday 20th February
Friday 21st February
Monday 24th February
Tuesday25th February
Thursday 27th February
Friday 28th February

Sunday, 26 January 2025

Liz's Modern Grey Triangle Quilt

Liz's Modern Grey Triangle Quilt
Sometimes just keeping it neutral is the way forward with a quilt.  They are easy to live with and that probably means they will get more use.  Liz did this lovely neutral grey quilt using a simple triangle pattern (one which has been on my 'Bucket list' for a while to create a lovely quilt for a family member.  To keep the calmness, Liz chose 'Bird's Eye View' a design by Barbara Becker.

'Birds Eye View' digital quilt pattern
designed by Barbara Becker

Monday, 6 January 2025

BONUS DAY - Mary's Sparrow Quilt

Mary's 'Sparrow Quilt'
Mary's 'Sparrow Quilt'
I hope you have enjoyed the past 12 days of Christmas where I have been sharing some of quilts I quilted for my customers last year.  I have thrown in this bonus day featuring Mary's 'Sparrow Quilt' by Pen and Paper Patterns. Mary and Alyson completed this project together, you can see Alyson's here. I wanted to show how different they look in with a different style of fabric and a different quilting pattern.  Mary has used Liberty fabrics and for the pattern we used 'Jasmine' a pretty floral pattern designed by Anne Bright.

Mary's 'Sparrow Quilt'
Mary's 'Sparrow Quilt'

'Jasmine' digital pantograph by Anne Bright Designs
'Jasmine' digital pantograph
by Anne Bright Designs

12th Day of Christmas 2024 - Alyson's Sparrows Quilt by Pen and Paper Patterns

Alyson's Sparrows Quilt
Alyson's Sparrows Quilt
Today I am sharing Alyson's 'Sparrows Quilt', a Pen and Paper Patterns quilt design, which has rows of cute birds all over it.  Alyson used a Moda Grunge blue background and some peachy orange Grunge tails for her birds.  A simple, but very effective pattern.  

Alyson's Sparrows Quilt
For the quilting pattern, Alyson chose 'Squirts' designed by Anne Bright, a swirly pattern which on this occasion gives the impression of twigs and branches.

'Squirts' designed by Anne Bright
'Squirts' designed by Anne Bright

Saturday, 4 January 2025

11th Day of Christmas 2024 - Carol's 'Good Friday' Quilt

Carol's 'Good Friday' Quilt
Carol's 'Good Friday' Quilt
Today I am bringing you Carol's wonderful 'Good Friday' quilt.  The pattern is called ' Lent / Good Friday' designed by Jen Frost of Faith and Fabric.  With the dark brown against the white, the crosses have a striking luminosity.  It was quite a big quilt, so Carol took advantage of Fabadashery Longarm Quilting binding service.

Carol's 'Good Friday' Quilt
Carol's 'Good Friday' Quilt
For the quilting pattern we used 'Bird's Eye View' designed by Barbara Becker.  This quilting pattern is great if you want to maintain a calm serenity to your quilt top and works on a lot of quilts.
'Bird's Eye View' designed by Barbara Becker
 'Bird's Eye View' designed by Barbara Becker

Friday, 3 January 2025

10th Day of Christmas 2024 - Susan's Australian Flower Quilt

Susan's Australian Flower Quilt
Susan's Australian Flower Quilt
Last time, I featured one of Susan's quilts, it received a very positive reaction from all of you.  Well, she has done it again, this time printing images of Australian flowers onto fabric to incorporate them into her quilt.  There are also some of her signature animals and shells. 

'Glide 'Prickly Pear Thread
'Glide 'Prickly Pear Thread
Susan is one of my postal customers, so although we have never met, we are able to correspond to make her quilts the best they can be, choosing the thread colour and quilt pattern to get the best effect.

Susan's Australian Flower Quilt
Susan's Australian Flower Quilt
On this occasion, we chose 'Malachite' designed by Patricia Ritter for Urban Elementz, with Glide Prickly Pear thread.

'Malachite' quilting pattern designed by Patricia E Ritter
''Malachite' quilting pattern designed by Patricia E Ritter