Crop Circle Quilt - Quilted

 I decided to go with feathers in the background of my Crop Circle Quilt - although I did like the suggestion of cross-hatching.  I am thrilled with the end result - it was a fun little quilt to work on.

This quilt has now been added to my personal quilts which need to have the binding done - I seem to have issues with finishing quilts, especially when it comes to the binding.  I was thinking of including a solid coloured piping in white binding - what do you think?

It is back to customer quilts for me now!

Crop Circle Quilt - Work in Progress

With Easter and the school holidays, I have taken some time out to do some quilting for myself.  I have had this Crop Circle Quilt designing itself in my head for quite some time and these circles are the result.  The quilt is going to be a wallhanging and I have used white Kona Cotton quilted with Aurifil threads.

Here are some of my circles.

I am having a wonderful time quilting these, although, pebbling is not my favourite pastime.  Now, to fill that white space - feathers perhaps?

Wholecloth Design Course

I have been having a wonderful time participating in the Wholecloth Design & Execution Class being held online at MQ Resource.  The class is being run by Adam Chenevert who is an amazing and inspirational quilter - check out the link to see some of his amazing work or visit his blog.

The concept of the wholecloth design course if fairly simple - you design 1/8th, mirror this image which becomes 1/4 of your quilt.  Put the four quarters together and you have the basis for a whole quilt.  I have spent numerous hours in glorious Melbourne autumn weather drawing and re-drawing my design.  With the help of a computer savvy 13 year old I have even managed to mirror and flip my design in photoshop.

This is the 1/4 design of my wholecloth quilt.

The following is the complete design - there seems to be something quite magical about symmetry in quilting designs.

Adam also loves to quilt many different background designs on his quilts - I have included lots of pebbling, cross hatching and straight line quilting around the feather motifs.

I have ordered some Kaffe Fassett Shot Cottons to quilt this wholecloth design - whether or not I am up to that task is something I will find out in due course but I am certainly looking forward to the challenge.

Co-ordinated Chaos Quilt

Last week my sister Rita from Red Pepper Quilts made the Co-ordinated Chaos Quilt from the Rowan book a Colorful Journey.  When I saw Rita's quilt I realised that I had quilted a version of this quilt for my customer Isobel some time ago.

Here is Rita's version of the Chaos Quilt.

Photo courtesy of  Red Pepper Quilts

One of the many things I love about quilting is that a quilt pattern made by different quilters can result in vastly different quilts.  I love that even when quilters are making a quilt from a pattern, they are always adding a little bit of themselves.

This is Isobel's version of the Co-ordinated Chaos Quilt.

While both Rita and Isobel have used Kaffe Fassett shot cottons and checks and stripes, the colour palettes are quite different.  Rita has included blues and greens while Isobel has relied on reds, pinks, yellow and blues.

The quilting too is strikingly different between these two quilts.  Rita has quilted straight line quilting in both directions to great effect.

Photo courtesy of Red Pepper Quilts

 

I quilted Isobel's quilt with swirls and feathers quilted in alternating directions.

I have enjoyed the opportunity to compare and contrast these two beautiful quilts.  Thanks to Rita for allowing me to use the images of her quilt.  Thanks also to Isobel for allowing me to quilt her Chaos Quilt - it was a fun quilt to work on.

Rosie

The quilt I am sharing with you today has been hand pieced by my customer Ann.  It is a sampler quilt, set with sashing and smaller eight-pointed star cornerstones, made in gorgeous greens, pinks and reds.  The colour scheme put me in mind of roses and, as a result, we decided to quilt Ann's quilt with an all-over design called Rosie by Jodi Beamish.

I am sure you will agree that this pattern has quilted up beautifully with the flowers standing out particularly well on the green sashing and border fabric while still allowing the individual blocks to shine.

This has been another wonderful quilt to work on - I hope you like the final result Ann and enjoy your quilt.

Purple & Yellow Quilt

Having just quilted several custom quilts, it was a pleasure to quilt an edge-to-edge quilt again.  The quilt I am featuring today was made by my customer Liz.  She has made the quilt as a gift for someone whose favourite colour is purple.  Liz has made a beautiful quilt - she has used a beautiful range of fabrics and the combination of purple and yellow is striking.

I have used one of my favourite patterns, Splash by Jodi Beamish, on this quilt.  This pattern tends to look great on modern quilts -it has added some lovely texture and movement.

I hope your gift is well received Liz - it has certainly met the purple criteria!

Teddy Bear's Picnic Quilt

I have just had the pleasure of quilting my customer Denise's very cute Teddy Bear's Picnic Quilt.  Denise has made this quilt for her grandson's birthday.

 

Inspired by the quilting on this quilt, I quilted some whimsical detail into each of the blocks - see if you can spot the quilted leaves, flowers, butterfly, fruit, heart, sun, balloon and boat in these blocks.

The above block also shows the border which has been quilted with swags and feathers.

The following block with the little sailor and his boat is my favourite - I love how the quilted boat turned out.

Close-ups of the other blocks in this quilt are on my flickr page if you would like to see more. 

Denise picked up her quilt today and was thrilled - I hope her grandson loves the quilt as much as she does.  I certainly had a great time quilting it.