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!
When my customer brought her quilts to me I had recently added some new quilting designs to my collection. We both agreed that Fresco Feathers (one of my new ones) would be a fun addition to this quilt!
Both the feathers and swirls play so well with the different fabrics in the quilt with a lovely density that will make this quilt so great for snuggling under! check out that pretty flannel backing.
Her quilt was trimmed and ready for binding at pick up!
Some background to the story of this picture…after quilting their Bargello Quilt before my vacation and hearing a funny story that I shared my friends, Tim started referring to me as the Quilting Queen!
Tim and Donna came for a visit with this week with a gift!!! Thank you so much you two!!
I was told that I need a crown and now I have one! 💝
In some other news, I am currently piecing a quilt top from a kit for a customer. It’s a pre cut kit and so far so good and I will share my review on the kit as I progress. these blocks are trimmed to 14 1/2”.
I still am working slowly on my block studies course, though my customer quilting takes precedence.
My project Wendy as it’s come to be known, re my personal healthy living journey has been so successful and I am loving the energy that my choices have gifted my day to day life! More about that in a future post.
The quilt on my frame in the first picture will be finished today…what else is there to do on a rainy day than quilt 😊
My year has been busy both in the studio and in my life away from it.
On the Quilting side, I do have many customer quilts to share and I will try to catch up in the coming weeks! I will also share more about our winter vacation and what a fun adventure it was.
I had so much fun working on Donna’s selvage quilt…
A selvage quilt is pieced using saved selvages from fabrics often saved from years of quilt making and often donated pieces from friends.
Donna shared these statistics with me…she used a total of 23,400 inches of selvage, that’s 1,950 feet that’s approx 1/3 of a mile. I weighed her quilt after quilting so it included the foundation fabric used for piecing the 100 percent cotton batting along with the batting and it weighed 13.5 pounds. She has since added the binding.
We, well mostly Donna’s husband Tim chose the quilting design Prism. The angles of the design are a fun contrast to the piecing stitches and looks fantastic on the back.
Her quilt was trimmed and ready for binding at pick up…and she didn’t waste any time adding the binding!
She also shared this picture of the quilt on their King size bed (before binding)
Her quilt will be displayed at the quilt show in Dryden in you happen to find yourself at the show and you will very likely run into Donna and Tim there as well!
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