There is something about September that many of us begin thinking more about being cozy and warm at home…
Well living in Thunder Bay we begin to wake up to chilly mornings and have less day light than the last two months so it’s a little hard to ignore the new season arriving!
This recent quilt job was made as a wedding gift and was a true pleasure to work on.
We chose the quilting design Two of Hearts which perfectly added a touch of more Love to this beautiful quilt!
This quilt will no doubt add warmth and coziness to the newlyweds home!
The quilt was trimmed and ready for binding at pick up!
It’s always my pleasure to help you bring your quilts to completion! Contact me for more information.
Well I honestly am not a person who loves the beginning of the “ber” months!
I love summertime, extra time with family and especially grandchildren. I love our long daylight hours…I know that the shorter days are coming and I know that means cooler temps and putting summer clothes away again.
It’s been a fun and good summer in most respects. I however do not recall a worse fire season so close to home and with it people who lost their communities of homes along with summer homes. We had a long stretch of smoke in the air which was a clear reminder of the destruction and devastation.
I have given myself a gift of less social media this summer and more time truly enjoying being outside enjoying nature, walking, biking and hiking.
And, of course time in the studio working on customer quilts!
This one, a temperature quilt was a fun project that I completed with both quilting and binding. as I mentioned, it’s been a busy summer and I neglected to get my usual pictures of this quilt. I chose the binding for it and really loved the finished look. As did my happy customer 😊
She chose the quilting design Bayside. It is such a popular design and works with so many quilts!
I will be sharing more of my summer quilting jobs in the coming days.
So now that the “ber” months as I often hear them referred to as are here. I want to remind you that if you need a quilt completed for Christmas or a quilt you would like to display in this years quilt show that it’s a good idea to let me know soon even if you are still working on it as I will add you into my queue.
I haven’t had very much time to play with my own personal piecing projects though one finished project was truly so much fun that I have to share!
The project was started and completed this last Monday when my 6 yr old granddaughter dove into one of my scrap bins! We set up a sewing station. I did all of the cutting, she did all of the pressing and sewing and after I loaded her quilt onto the longarm she did all of the quilting!
It was so much fun sharing my love of quilting with her!
Let’s talk about finishing your quilting projects! wendysquilting@gmail.com or 807-251-4261
Marilyn’s quilts are always so inspiring! Her use of colour and design in her quilts make my heart sing! I do love scrap quilts!
Tying all of the colours together with a darker slashing and final border seems to both pop the colours and tame them at the same time. To my eye anyhow.
How fun is her addition of squares on the top and bottom of the quilt.
I chose the quilting design A Little Bit of This with its soft lovely flowing density it added a perfect additional layer to her fantastic quilt!
Her quilt was trimmed and ready for binding at pick up…
The maker of this quilt is a prolific piecer she is also what I would call an advanced piecer! She loves a challenge and often chooses patterns that many would run from!
This quilt however was one she decided that she wanted to use up a couple of layer cakes that were in her stash. She chose to make hour glass blocks or half square triangle blocks depending on how you look at the quilt.
When her husband initially saw the blocks that she was making he said they were ugly and it would never be on his bed!
Thankfully his comments did not detour her plans!
When she brought the quilt to me she told me that she had named it the Ugly Duckling Quilt. She also asked me to quilt a duck somewhere one the quilt…so I did.
Can you see it?
The we chose the quilting design Finesse. This design added a layer of elegance to this stunning quilt.
The backing in its rich purple colour couldn’t be a more perfect match!
Her quilt was trimmed and ready for binding at pick up.
Also, her husband changed his tune regarding it being ugly.
This amazing paper pieced Lion quilt recently left my studio!
We chose the quilting design Waterworld with its fun movement that mimics the fur on the lions mane.
His stare makes you almost feel like he is ready to pounce doesn’t it!!!
Some fun facts about this quilt…
The pattern had more that 100 pages due to it being paper pieced.
It was made almost entirely from scraps that its maker had on hand…I challenge everyone to play with and make use of your scrap fabric or share them with friends!!
The backing fabric with its swirls was a fun choice and the quilting plays so nicely with the swirls in the fabric.
This quilt was trimmed and was ready for binding at pick up.
Well today, after many relaxing hours working on it over the last couple of years or so…I sewed the victory lap around the 6,480 1” (finished) squares!
One of my Granddaughters (she was 5 at the time) told me when it was about halfway pieced that I didn’t need to worry, that when I finished this quilt that she would have it for me 🥰. Last week her younger sister offered to help me finish the quilt…she is 4 yrs.
I still have a lot of scraps along with some finished blocks left over and block parts ready for piecing so this postage stamp journey won’t end but will continue. I have plans to make several more over the years!
This quilt isn’t in the queue yet…I do plan to eventually add it in though.
One of the things I enjoy most about longarm quilting is seeing how the quilting design brings a pieced quilt to life.
For this quilt, we chose the quilting design Here and There. The flowing curves of the design provide a wonderful contrast to the strong geometric piecing. Rather than competing with the sharp angles of the blocks, the quilting softens them and adds texture and dimension across the entire surface.
The quilt is my customers first larger quilt and she did a fantastic job piecing both the quilt top and backing!
Her quilt was trimmed and ready for binding at pick up!
If you have a quilt top ready for quilting, I’d love to help bring it to life. Feel free to contact me at wendysquilting@gmail.com for information about my longarm quilting services.
Spring has felt long in coming this year with many extra snow falls since our return and what felt like days on end of cold grey weather.
This quilt was pieced as a birthday gift for my customers daughter. The colours were requested by her daughter for her new house that they will be moving into.
This quilt was also my customers first large quilt and in my opinion she certainly did herself proud!!
When she picked it up she was really excited to see how it turned out and that she would have it finished in time to gift it!
We looked a several options for the quilting design and decided to use Bayside.
Often with angular piecing a curvy design works really well. Bayside also loosely mimicked the flow of the printed squares.
The solid backing fabric really show cases the quilting!
Her quilt was trimmed and ready for binding at pick up!
This recent quilt was a treat to work on! It was pieced using a pattern by Donna Jordon of Jordon Fabrics in Batik fabrics. She was a fantastic teacher with so many wonderful online tutorials.
Most of my customers ask me to choose the quilting design, which is something that I really enjoy and often know almost immediately what will work well on a quilt.
In this case I had a few ideas so I sent the three ideas to the quilts maker and she chose Nocturne Feathers a design by Bethanne Nemesh. (The third picture below)
Her quilt was trimmed and ready for binding at pick up!
It made me a little sad to see the bikes loaded back up onto the motorhome! I truly see the appeal of cycling not only is it a great way to get and stay fit it’s FUN! It reminds me of the freedom as a child riding my bike!
Our first overnight on our way home was in Las Cruces New Mexico…the forecasted temperatures for Tucson were for 40C for right after we left, I happen to enjoy the heat more than Erik. Thankfully it wasn’t as hot in La Cruces but hot enough that we really enjoyed the pool!
And the Sunset on our after supper walk!
We spent a couple of nights at the Santa Rosa Lake State park, we stayed there last year as well and really enjoyed hiking around the lake along with our after supper hikes.
Our daytime hikes were a little too hot for Erik 35C but for some reason those temp sure felt great to me!
We finally checked out Buc-eyes… https://buc-ees.com in Amarillo Texas. The brisket and pulled pork sandwiches were really tasty! The candied pecans were also a yummy treat!
We stopped to visit the Kansas Welcome Center and when I saw this display I just had to get a picture!! I also made Erik pose with them as well!!
Driving through the burning of the Flint Hills felt eerie with the more yellow Smokey sky and smell.
Visiting Winterset Iowa again was such a treat and I will write a separate post about both the Museum and the fantastic quilt shop there!
Aside from visiting the quilt shop and museum in Winterset we were treated to one last day of summer weather! We made great use of that with a fun hike in their city park!
The drive north included Minneapolis which we normally side skirt around by visiting Hastings and Stillwater MN and we both agree that we will do that in the future.
Our last overnight stay was in Hinkley MN where I needed my fleece lined leggings,Winter Coat and wool headband and gloves again in order to take our evening walk…it was not an easy transition back to the cold again!!
You can tell that we were North again parked beside an ice fishing trailer in Hinkley!!
The last cold travel days did make being back in the house welcome! The rest of March and April was very chilly and snowy, however our days were also filled with a lot of wonderful family time and of course Quilting for me!
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