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Wendy's Longarm Quilting, Thunder Bay, Ontario

A Little of This…a fun scrap quilt!

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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…

Wendy's Longarm Quilting, Thunder Bay, Ontario

A Funny Quilt Story

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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.

Wendy's Longarm Quilting, Thunder Bay, Ontario

The Lion quilt!

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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.

Wendy's Longarm Quilting, Thunder Bay, Ontario

The Postage Stamp Quilt

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When I began piecing my Postage Stamp Quilt, my plan was that I could slowly work on it with no deadline. Just a fun easy relaxing quilt to make!

I wrote about it almost a year ago here https://wendys-quilting.ca/2024/07/20/postage-stamp-progress/

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.

Wendy's Longarm Quilting, Thunder Bay, Ontario

A Beautiful Modern First Quilt

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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.

Wendy's Longarm Quilting, Thunder Bay, Ontario

Sunshine and a Special First Quilt

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Oh the joy of having sunshine flood my studio!

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!

Wendy's Longarm Quilting, Thunder Bay, Ontario

A Donna Jordon Quilt, pieced in Batik

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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!

Wendy's Longarm Quilting, Thunder Bay, Ontario

Winter Vacation 2026 part 2

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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!

Wendy's Longarm Quilting, Thunder Bay, Ontario

Fresco Feathers Quilt

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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!

Wendy's Longarm Quilting, Thunder Bay, Ontario

Some Fun!!

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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 😊