Almost a week without customer quilting

It felt empty, really empty but just because I love doing it, does not mean all quilters have the time or means to make quilts just so I can be happy.

I was however, informed that a quilter from Kimberley will be sending a quilt somewhere after this weekend and she sent me a photo so I had some idea of what I’d like to do in certain areas.  I then loaded a test sandwich, marked this in 6” rows and started playing.

Way back in January 2018 I made my sister a bargello quilt and used concentric circles as an edge-to-edge filler.  This was the quilt.

When I asked the quilter how wide her inner border was, she measured and told me it was a 6” border and I decided to do these circles on this border too seeing that the prints on the fabric had somewhat of a circular design.

The first section of my test sandwich was therefore practising this again.

I treated myself to a new book as I can’t remember when I actually read anything apart from quilt blogs and watched tennis (Madrid open) as often as I could.

Saw this one day on Adria Goods’ FB page and decided to try my hand at it.  Now, this is where something Angela Walters so often says rings true.  Angela would say if you stitch out a design and are not happy with it, keep going.  Once you look back and see the whole picture, you’ll change your mind.  This was exactly what happened with stitching this out.  Whilst doing it, I thought that it looks nothing like that of Adria Good but just kept going.  It still doesn’t look anything like hers but looking back on the design now, definitely something I will do in future without feeling inferior.

Revisited an old Angela Walters video on elongated swirls and gave this a try too.

I just had to pop in a section of the all-over feathers I did in the 4-day boot camp by Susan Smith

Then another edge-to-edge filler by Susan that she calls Oakish leaves.  Again, mine doesn’t look anything like hers but still something I would do again…… my style.

Angela Walters recently showed the woodgrain filler but somehow these reminded me more of flames than woodgrain, I, therefore, opted to go for the Leah Day version of woodgrain with less pointy ends.

In the last section of my sandwich, I did my own design that I named Pringle pointer, I used to use this plenty of times when I still quilted on my domestic but I could immediately see that I haven’t done this in a while.

We had the younger kids over for Mother’s Day as the older kids had to take the oldest granddaughter for her check-up at the specialist on Friday and stayed the weekend.

I finished a top I started a while ago but more about this one once quilted.

I then had to do a dreadful thing…… wash my K-way jacket.  Sadly, I only have one and I honestly believe that no other jacket is as warm and mine has been terribly dirty.  I put it off for long enough as with being on pension, this jacket and hubbies’ old slippers with silicone inners have become my uniform every single day. SIL says I can fit another human in these!

Now off to make myself comfortable to watch the men’s final tennis game.