All red and white quilt

This quilt arrived at an extremely busy time in my life. So much is happening, and I don’t get to do as much quilting as I would like to. My youngest granddaughter, who stays with us after pre-school, now comes out earlier as the older classes are busy with exams. My mornings, therefore, are much shorter. Hubby is finally finished with the renovations inside the house and is now waterproofing the roof. 

On Wednesday, I finally had the skylights (there are three rather dark areas in the house) I so badly wanted installed. Then, we are expecting workers to fit new windows in the kitchen and replace the two wooden back doors with glass doors. When it rains, the wood swells, and we struggle to close the doors. So, the glass doors should eliminate that problem. (They never came this week...ughh!)

Furthermore, either one of us must always be on chicken duty.  House hen still threatens to kill the little frizzle, and we dare not leave them unattended. I just have too few hours in a day to do all my household chores and get a fair amount of quilting done, too.

This morning, I started quilting at 02:20 while hubby and the pets were still asleep in order to make some progress, as I’ve been working on this quilt for a whole week. The kids came over for Father’s Day as DIL made us lunch.  Needless to say, I took a well-deserved nap afterwards, but was able to take this all red and white quilt off the frame and pack it to be returned.

Wholecloth

 This was from a quilter whose friend wanted a solid white quilt, which she plans to gift along with a blue and white Peaceful Star quilt to go in the centre of the bed as a finishing touch.

I don’t design the inside of these solid-colour quilts (this is a different skill level), so I offered to do an edge-to-edge design.

Colourwash quilt

The maker of this quilt is the same lady who made the beautiful runner I so much enjoyed working on.

Because of all the different printed fabrics in the centre, I opted for an edge-to-edge design with just a little detail in the sashing and border.

Table runner

I get to see many beautiful quilts and as many pretty fabrics, but occasionally I get this one quilt that rings all my bells.  I received a parcel with two quilts, but could not get batting locally. I did not open it immediately as I had a couple of quilts already open, just waiting for batting. Being bored one weekend, I gave in to the urge to open the parcel and saw this absolutely stunning table runner.  It was small enough for me to decide to use some of my own remnant batting and get going with this.

Not being in a hurry to quilt anything else, I had time to think about the design and motifs and took my time deciding on this.  Most of the time, I feel rushed to finish a quilt to satisfy the customer, eagerly waiting for their completed product.  This little runner is a perfect example of what can be done when one is not rushed to finish.

Sadly, I finished this way too fast, due to the small size, and now have to wait for batting to do another quilt.