Sampler quilt

I didn’t have any quilting to do last week but it was rather convenient as hubby started painting the passage with all the mess that goes along with it and I had time to clean-as-he-went (reminds me of quilt-as-you-go).

We also went shopping for garden plants when I saw this beautiful indoor rubber plant and simply couldn’t resist buying it. Now many people who have seen this and heard the name, think it is fake but alas it is as real as can be and the problem I now have, is to keep it alive.  Unlike hubby, I don’t have green fingers.

Last Saturday however, I received no less than 3 quilts from a quilter in another city, I must say this is what I call a serious quilter, she just keeps them coming and I have to compliment her on her neatly packed quilts with batting and backing cut to my specifications and with the top, placed into one bag.

I try not to peak at any of the quilts and take the top one first which is what I did here and the first turned out to be a very colourful sampler.

The beautiful part about a sampler is that one can do a different motif in every block but after about 10 blocks I started running out of ideas even though there are countless more.

14 and a half hours later I have this to show.

I am spending this morning with my daughter and granddaughter at an Open Market with Tjiff & Tjaff.  I have no idea who these two are but I am about to find out.

Medallion mystery

This was an almost completed quilt given by one quilter to another to finish and then have as a gift.

I think the recipient only had to add borders but now she has a brand-new quilt for her guest bedroom.

Sampler quilt

This is a new customer and not knowing how much the quilting will add up to (money-wise) she requested just edge-to-edge motifs.  I have only done one other sampler since I got my frame but that one was custom quilted I must say, this didn’t turn out bad at all.

Scattered glass

Here the quilter made a ‘wonky stars’ quilt way back and kept all the corners she chopped off to make this little wall-hanging.

She requested fine lines on the quilt and after I showed it to her, she asked if I could put it back on the frame for even more thin lines.  Once done, this little one was quilted to death.

Abundant leaves

I finished 4 more quilts since my last post but somehow the time to blog, simply disappeared.

This quilter saw a leave-print fabric she liked and decided she’d make a quilt around it.  I think it looks great and then to top it all, she chose only leaves edge-to-edge to be done.

 

Every dark cloud has a silver lining

This quilt was made for someone going through a tough time and the colours and placement symbolises what is in the name.

The quilter only requested straight line quilting.

We’ve replaced two more windows, both in the front of the house.  These used to have, what I called 9-patch windows but it made the entrance and study look like a jail.  These were taken off and replaced with solid safety glass windows.

Some before and after photos