Butterfly print quilt

To create this darling little throw, the quilter used a butterfly print alternated with light pastel-coloured fabric.

Rainbow quilt

This little carefully laid out rainbow effect quilt was also a breeze to quilt.  We decided on ‘n cloud like motif to go with the name.

Disappearing 9-patch

I got two quilts booked for Wednesday but on Tuesday late afternoon a quilter phoned to know if she could quickly drop her quilt off by me.  She planned to go away for the Easter weekend and said she was in no hurry to have the quilt finished, she just needed it out of her house while gone.

She dislikes dense or custom quilting and meandering at a large scale is her favourite, so before the two booked quilts arrived, I could load and finish this.

This easy, almost loose meandering, was a welcome relief after the gruelling almost 20 hours spent on the two tractor quilts.

Tractor panel quilt number 2

This quilt differs from the previous one in that only the larger centre tractor was used with 4 quilt blocks at the top and 4 more at the bottom.  It was also a little smaller than the previous quilt.

Here it shows some of the detail in the sky.  The completed quilt can be seen on the Gallery page.

Tractor panel quilt number 1

I received 2 quilts made from the same panel and although very much alike there are some differences.  This one, the larger of the two, used 3 parts of the panel with 5 quilt blocks at the bottom.

As can be seen, plenty of detail was added and I can’t remember when last I was this nervous to quilt anything.  This quilter came to show me these some 3 months ago, already quilted by someone else and she was not happy.  She then undertook to unpick everything and wanted me to redo it.  Honestly, I could not see much wrong with the quilting and I said to her I don’t believe I can do any better.

There is this unwritten rule in longarm quilting: if you make a tiny mistake, just go on and if you finish the quilt and can still see or find your mistake, only then do you unpick and redo.

With this quilt, however, every tiny spot where I missed a ditch or a line felt like the end of the world and I was convinced it would be the first thing the quilter would notice.  I stuck to my unwritten rule and I could hardly spot mishaps afterwards.  So, if this quilter plans to scrutinise the quilting, she surely will find mistakes but seriously, then she should do it herself.  I did my best.

This picture shows some detail on and surrounding the tractor.