It’s Apple season again and this year the tree was loaded, much to the grandchildren’s delight! Can you spot Erik?
And also this visitor the other day, we saw each other just as I was heading out the door for my walk, I was just going to sit on the step to put my shoes on when we noticed each other…with it being a cub, I decided to put my shoes on in the house.
Once I was sure the mama was no where clear I stepped out told the cup to enjoy the picnic and off I went. I knew that once Erik spotted it that it would soon be scared off. He also removed all of the apples to remove temptation and to save them for juice making.
We had a couple of grands overnight last weekend and we all went for a walk to the pond in the back of the property. The girls tell us that we have the best backyard. They were excited to discover that we have minnows!
I am enjoying a visit with Liam this weekend….he wanted to try a recipe that he found…
Pancake spaghetti…
Of course along with all of this fun there is customer quilting going on!!
Jan pieced this wonderfully fun kitty quilt as a gift for her kitty loving friends!
She used up scraps from her batik collection which made it even more fun to make.
When deciding on a quilting design my eyes were immediately drawn to the curling of the kitties tails…which led me to swirls and the design definitely added another layer of fun!!
She chose Minki for her backing, this fabric so plush and soft and has some stretch to it. So it is important when loading it onto the longarm to attach the selvage edges to the leaders and carefully advance the backing to minimize the stretching while quilting. It can be bit of a challenge but having years of practice helps me turns out beautifully.
This summer some of my jobs were very special quilts to work on! Great Grandbaby quilts! (though they are all special of course)
I always consider it an honour to quilt for my customers. As a long time quilter both piecing and long arming I am well aware of the time, love and cost of creating a quilt.
One of my Granddaughters (the one who made her first quilt last week) told me that I have the best job ever! She said that I get to help people finish their quilts and that I get to help people like her how to make quilts!! I do love being a Mom!! Being Grandma is over the top fun! 💗
This is one of the great grand baby quilts that I quilted…
We chose the quilting design Tickle Two with its fun swirls and feathers. It’s a design that offers a great density for a quilt that we hope will be enjoyed for years to come.
My customer is a long time piecer and it’s always exciting to see what she has made and this visit she told me what she is up to now!! I am pretty excited to see this one too.
Her quilt was not only trimmed it had the binding attached so that it was ready for her to stitch it down by hand!!
My Granddaughter is correct!! I do have the best job ever!!
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.
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!
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