Monday, October 06, 2025

Squares only

 

After the death of her husband, this quilter moved to a retirement village but also gave up quilting for a couple of years.  In her new community, she met a lady with some fabric who wished to make her daughter a quilt for Christmas.  The quilter then helped her cut the squares, have her piece the blocks and then assisted in joining the rows.

I just had to do the easy part and stitch the 3 layers together.  I must admit, after doing the previous dense quilting, having this one on the frame was a breeze.



Sunday, October 05, 2025

Sampler quilt

I don’t think I’ve ever worked this long on any other quilt, but being a sampler, I loved every moment of it.  The quilt is large, with blocks that are big and plentiful. Whenever I have decided on a motif in an area, I have had to repeat it over and over, and it often felt as if the end of this quilt would never come.

This quilt also posed a couple of problems in that I found lots of puckering in the blocks themselves, as if the sashing around the blocks was cut too small, or it could even have been the diagonal sashing between the blocks.  I had to make a decision between keeping the sashing flat when quilting, moving the puckers to the blocks or keeping the blocks flat and allowing the puckers to gather in the sashing.

I planned rather dense quilting in both sets of sashing, so I decided to do less quilting in the blocks to move the puckers and give the illusion of loft instead of puckering.

As much as I enjoyed working on this, I am glad to finally have it off the frame.  I think my machine now needs plenty of TLC and a new needle.



Thursday, October 02, 2025

Shop or class wall quilt

One of our local quilters will be moving to a coastal city towards the end of the year and has one extra-large spare room in her new house.  She intends to use this not only to teach quilting but also to sell fabric.  How fortunate are those people?

One of her quilting friends made her this beautiful quilt to put up against a wall, not only to show how the same block in different colours looks, but also how shifting a little bit can make a huge difference.

The recipient asked for not too dense custom quilting.




Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Sage green quilt

 The daughter of this quilt maker asked for a sage green quilt, and mom had no other choice but to oblige.