Tropical Noel quilt made by Holly, custom quilting at Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

'Tropical Noel' quilt designed by Mckenna Ryan,
 made by Holly, quilted by Frances Meredith

I have had the pleasure of custom quilting this fun quilt for Holly in the last few months.  The quilt design is 'Tropical Noel' by Mckenna Ryan and this quilt features dolphins, turtles, seahorses, an octopus and a host of other exotic underwater fish swimming amongst coral. Holly has appliqued all the sea creatures by hand and my job was to custom quilt it, so that all her hard work looked its best.

'Tropical Noel' quilt designed by Mckenna Ryan,
 made by Holly, quilted by Frances Meredith

I think the original design, the octopus has a santa hat on and the dolphin is diving through a Christmas wreath, but with all the different sections, it was a fun custom quilt to do.

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