Peacock blue wholecloth

Some two years ago, shortly after we moved into this house, I took an online longarm class on quilting feathers.

With my memory not improving with age, I wanted to make something from what I’ve learnt to cement the rules, tips and tricks into my muscle memory.  I then decided to make this whole cloth.  However, it did not happen as fast as typing this sentence as I had it on the frame and whenever a customer quilt arrived, I had to take it off and reload whenever done with customer work.  It nearly took me two years.

The worst part was when I sat doing the binding, one side by hand, I noticed I omitted one curved line.  Back onto the frame it had to go, binding and all but now it is done. All was done free-hand with rulers to guide me around the curves.

“Tannie” (aunty) quilt

We were invited for supper on Friday at the house of one friend, another friend came too and brought along curried chicken, which was really special.  Luckily the cook shared the recipe with me and I intend to make it for us one day.

Before supper, I finished this quilt, a pattern from a local quilter, teacher and designer.  She called it the ‘Aunty’ quilt and people in one of her groups could give a name and a story to go with the name and each block represented that person.  The outline of the block is basically the same with the inner detail changing from one block to another.

The quilt maker plans to use this on a bed so it needed no more than an edge-to-edge motif and we decided on medium grey thread.

Log cabin bed quilt

I worked two full days to complete this quilt as I expected 2 more quilts from out of town but I never got a message from the courier.  I then decided to cook hubby a decent meal for supper seeing he had the bare basic the last 2 days.  Tonight, I am making sweet ‘n sour Eisbein.

When I received this quilt, I found the floral prints representing the darker side of the log cabin almost overwhelming.  I knew whatever I chose to quilt should enhance the cream fabric and I must keep the quilting on the floral prints to the minimum.

Nothing seemed to be better than a large-scale feather, this turned out good as the feathers now attracted the attention. The picture of the full quilt can be found on the Gallery page.

Table runner

When receiving quilts from out of town I get a message from the courier early on the day of delivery.  However, I have often sat at home the whole day and then it will only arrive early evening.  It was frustrating as it seemed those days I had to wait for them were when I needed to do heaps of things away from the house.

I complained about this to my neighbours.  There are 4 ladies making dance costumes from their house and they offered that I could have my parcels delivered to their address seeing there is always someone home.  This is a huge help and I dearly appreciate it.

This runner was one from another town and I can clearly see this quilter has been at this hobby for years and is now scrapbusting with her remnant fabric.  A table runner always comes in handy.

English villages quilt

Next up on the frame was this tall skinny quilt.  I suppose this will be a wall hanging. It had plenty of applique work I outlined in certain places, filling the rest with different free-motion motifs and a little continuous line stitching.