Background and foreground stars

The quilter requested two different motifs on the back- and foreground stars.  The idea was to push the background stars back and have the stars with the coloured points somehow pop.  I am unsure this was achieved as the meandered background stars tend to pop more than the coloured ones.

Interestingly enough when I did the very first quilt for this quilter, she seemed somewhat upset because I did full custom quilting and she preferred larger and less quilting.  After that, it was exactly what I did for her.

However, with this quilt, she requested more dense quilting in certain areas.  I suppose the quilted part of any quilt, grows on you after a while.

She came to fetch the quilt but later in the afternoon phoned and said she wanted more quilting in the stars with the coloured points.  Back on the frame, the quilt went and afterwards looked like this.

In between cooking, cleaning and quilting, we got 5 stray kittens of different ages to bottle feed.  This is luckily only for a couple of days (I dearly hope so), so life has been a rather balancing act this last week.  Here, hubby is trying to hold all of them, do not overlook the state of our clothing (his pants) with the mess these little ones make while being fed and all fighting for the same bottle.

Urgent sampler

This quilter arrived here on a Monday and requested the quilt to be finished by Wednesday as she still had to do the binding and needed it as an example for a competition in the near future.

Fortunately, the quilt was small and she only required edge-to-edge quilting which made it possible for me to pop it on the frame before the next quilt.  It was finished on time.

Pretty in pink and black

Hubby replaced my faulty encoder and I am so blessed to have married a handyman.  The part alone was a couple of thousand rands; if I had to pay the technician to replace it, it would have been more.

Just then I got a beautiful quilt, not only the block pattern, the selection of colours and the neatness in which this was pieced.  A sight for sore eyes.

This quilt required mostly ruler work apart from the free motion design in the sashing and border.

Here is a close-up photo, the whole quilt can be seen on the Gallery page.

On point squares

I loaded this quilt knowing that I still had to wait for the parts ordered.  These took a week before arriving in my city and by then I was so frustrated about having a quilt on the frame and not working on it that I carried on in unregulated mode.  Luckily most of what I did was free-motion work and very little ruler work, so not too big a problem.

For the centre, I chose continuous line stitching and played around with other motifs on the sashing and side.

I was therefore able to finish this one before the new parts arrived.