BONUS DAY - 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'

'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

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

11th Day of Christmas 2024 - 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

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

10th Day of Christmas 2024 - 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

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

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

January 2025 - Drop-Off Dates Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

Happy New Year! I hope you have been enjoying some of the lovely quilts that my customers have made in my 12 Days of Christmas on my blog, Facebook and Instagram pages.  I always try to include as many as I can on my website, so that you and other customers can gain a greater understanding of what quilting patterns might be suitable for your quilt top.  Below are some dates I am taking in quilts in the next few weeks.  If none of those dates are suitable, get in touch and we can usually arrange something at your convenience, or maybe take advantage of my postal service. 

Email: frances@fabadashery.co.uk Tel:01291 629120

Tuesday 7th January
Wednesday 8th January
Thursday 9th January

Friday 10th January

Tuesday 14th January
Wednesday 15th January
Thursday 16th January
Friday 17th January
Monday 20th January
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Thursday 23rd January
Friday 24th January
Monday 27th January
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Thursday 30th January
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9th Day of Christmas 2024 - Anne's Kaffe Fassett Window Quilt

Anne's Kaffe Fassett Window Quilt

When someone brings Fabadashery Longarm Quilting a quilt I never quite know what I am going to unfold.  When I first saw Anne's quilt, I was amazed by the design and colours, but I wasn't sure what quilting pattern was going to work on it. A quick flick through my pattern book and I felt I had found one which would be perfect.  

Anne's Kaffe Fassett Window Quilt

With the movement of the black and white lines, we chose 'African Samba' stitched in a mid-grey Glide thread.  The pattern seemed to echo the windows of colourful Kaffe's Fassett fabrics.  I am sure this gift was well-received.

'African Samba' digital pantograph by Apricot Moon

8th Day of Christmas 2024 - Sue's SOS Liberty Log Cabin Quilt

Sue's SOS Liberty Quilt

Since 2016 the Quilt SOS Project organised by Alice Caroline has been distributing Liberty fabric quilts to a range of charities at home and abroad.  Throughout the years, Sue has always made a contribution and, with some help from a friend, this year has made a rainbow log cabin quilt in a wide range of Liberty Tana Lawn fabrics. This year the quilts will be supporting families through GARAS (Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers). If you want to get involved, get in touch with Alice Caroline.

Sue's SOS Liberty Quilt

The purpose of these quilts are to keep people warm and to be easy to care for, so on this occasion we used 100% Hobbs Polydown and quilted it with a pretty new pattern to my collection called 'Shell Game' designed by Willow Leaf Studio.

'Shell Game' designed by Willow Leaf Studio