Travel 1 & 2

With Mondays being house-cleaning days, I had to refrain from continuing my binge-watching “Stranger Things” on Netflix.  Watching this every spare moment last week means that a couple of other things have been neglected.  Knowing I would receive 2 quilts after 5pm on Monday, was just the inspiration I needed to get my life back on track but I have to admit, not watching my early morning series took major willpower.

The 2 quilts, both very similar, arrived as discussed but being hubby time, I only loaded them on Tuesday.  The quilter provided what I do believe is batting more for upholstery and not ideal for quilting.  My quilting foot got hooked on the batting and it was really no fun to stitch my top straight line, on which I place the quilt top, on the batting only. Furthermore, the thickness of the batting caused puckers in the top.  Not a fun experience.  The sad part is that I know this, due to past experiences but once a quilter goes through the trouble of bringing their quilts to me, I feel too bad to send them home to replace the batting.  However, if I wish to continue enjoying my hobby, I will need to start putting down some ground rules or at least my foot and refuse to accept these.

Be it as it may, the quilter was satisfied with the end results.  I did the same motif on both quilts to prevent one grandson to think he got less or more than the other.

Number 3 in the 4 series shirt quilts

This quilter is still going strong with quilt number 3 of 4 shirt quilts but she had to admit that she is over shirts for a while and I don’t blame her.  Fun is only fun for so long and then one has to move onto something else for a while at least.

This, however, as with the others, is a beautiful creation and will surely bring back wonderful memories.

Number two

 

I couldn't help thinking of this quilter using old shirts to create quilts when I saw this.  Sometimes one should look outside the box and find fabric around you and still be able to make good quilts.

This is the second of 4 memory quilts made from old shirts for the same family by the same quilter, known for her repurposing of previously worn shirts.

She only used the available shirts and did not use any other fabric and with that only, did a great job of putting a reasonable-sized quilt together.

Perfectly pieced

This quilt has so many attributes I really didn’t know what to complement and what not to mention.  The piecing is impeccable and one might think it is rectangular blocks but alas it is squares butted up against each other to mislead the eye into thinking these are rectangular BUT it would not have looked this good if the piecing was off by a smidgeon.  This quilter did a darn fine job with this.

Then the colours…… need I say more?  I also think the SID quilting spaced 1½” apart not only served its purpose but did not take away from the overall look of the quilt.

9-patch and hearts

More previously loved shirts turned into a memory quilt for family.  I think shirt quilts is becoming the trade mark of this creative quilter. 

A quilt for Cheryl

Nope, sadly I don’t know who Cheryl is but when the quilter told me which motifs, she wanted to be quilted, she said “Flowers and leaves on Cheryl’s quilt”, which became the name of this quilt.

Whether Cheryl is a friend or family member, she is fortunate to receive such a beautiful quilt as a gift.

Quilting of a different kind

Let me start off by saying, this was INTERESTING!  Not your standard pieced quilt but instead what used to be a duvet cover for a grandson and then grandma got tired of fitting the inner or the inner sliding off, inside the cover, ending up at grandson’s feet.  She made a plan….Unpicked the cover, got backing and batting and told me to quilt it.

I started by outlining the major figures.  Sorry, I don’t know all their names, I did recognise Hulk though and at first wanted to call this the Hulk quilt but I was scared of offending the others.  Once outlined I phoned the quilter to say how long only the outlining took and whether she wanted me to do more.  She gave permission to do MUCH more.

I then filled the wide-open spaces with free-motion motifs and mostly just echoed some areas – this was also an instruction from Grandma.

Grandma gave me one more visit to check over and we added even more quilting.  The quilt is huge and having fetched it from me one evening, she had to take the photos the following day and send it to me.

This is the centre of the quilt

This is the left side

And the right side

The completed quilt can be seen on the Gallery page.

I am seriously contemplating finding a suitable duvet cover and quilt it for myself.  This was so intriguing.  My Son-in-law is already distraught and said I don’t love him because I never ‘made’ him a quilt like this.