Finished For Fursday

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Well, it had to alliterate, ok?

I have finished and bound my Gira Rosa quilt. It was designed by Michelle Marvig and published in Australian Patchwork and Quilting. I was lucky to grab a kit from Michelle so a)I didn’t have to think too hard to match my fabrics and b) mine looked like hers  - which I loved.

Anyhow, here are the pictures.

On the grass – this shows the whole quilt – it is 60×60 inches.

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Gratuitous shot over the chook pen. Please understand this is MY quilt and I would NEVER do this with a client quilt.

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Ditto.

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Flung over the clothesline for a better detail shot.

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More detail. My quilting is indeed freehanded. Those feathers come out of my head, through my hands guiding the quilting machine and on to the quilt.

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And showing the border. Look – the binding is on too. I machine bound this one – it is mine, mine, mine and to be used for snuggling under in winter.

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I love my new quilt and as quick as the quilting seems to be, I started making this in, I think, 2009. Maybe even 2008.

A Quick Look

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At my latest quilt that I just finished. It’s for me!!! I bought the aqua fabric in June 2010 and finally cut and pieced it in March 2011 to demo some quilting techniques for the DVD I made for Quilters Companion Magazine. I have had it basted and attached to the zippers and shoved on the bookshelf since then.

I pulled it out the other day and started to quilt it. The feathers took me ages. I had to work out how to make them look like they were crossing over each other. I like the effect, but I won’t tell you where I kinda botched it!!!

I have overlocked the edges and I am now debating whether I should wash it before or after I bind it. I want it to shrink up a little….so maybe wash and block first.

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First Quilt of 2012

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And it’s all mine!!!

I finally put the borders on my quilt and quilted it today. I made the top in class in November. It just needed the borders popped on (easier said than done).

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For the backing, I decided to piece in a strip of the fabrics that were used in the top. I like the effect that it has. I quilted with red thread in the bobbin and a taupe colour on top. Above, you can see the backing with the quilt folded on top of it along with the charcoal coloured batting.

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The backing is loaded onto my A1 Quilting Machine.

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Quilting in progress. I used Swirl and Twirl for the all over quilting. It is one of my favourite designs for this style quilt.

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The finished quilt laid out on the floor. It isn’t my favourite quilt of all time (I am still deciding whether I even like it), but it will have a home on one of the boys’ beds, I suppose.

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And the backing with the pieced strip in. Is it wrong of me to say that I like the backing better?

Japanese Panel Quilt

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This is Jan’s quilt. She used two gorgeous panels of a Japanese geisha print and set them on a chequerboard style background. The wide borders were quilted with a sashiko design to compliment the centre and add texture. I like this border because it is interesting but does not overwhelm the centre of the quilt, which is the main feature. We used a charcoal coloured batting in this quilt to intensify the darker colours of the fabric.

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The back of the quilt is interesting too.

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Suzani Stars Part 2

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Here is the finished quilt. You can’t see the quilting very well with my photos unfortunately. The colours are a lot brighter than they are in real life too.

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You can see the quilting a little better in this shot. Each alternate feather frond is a curl. It matches the curl in each of the diamonds of the lone star.

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Suzani Stars

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In progress is Lyn’s Suzani Star quilt, designed – fabric and all – by Michelle Marvig, who owns my local quilt store, where I go to class every week. The store is closing next month and I am very sad about it.

I really like how Lyn’s quilt is coming along. More when it is finished…

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Karens Million Pieces Quilt

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Well, maybe not quite a million. I did count the pieces in one block, then did some math and I worked out there was definitely over 2000 pieces in this fantastic foundation pieced quilt.

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The quilting was kept to pretty simple lines and circles – which actually are the most difficult things on a longarm machine. Longarm machines are great for free-motion, but this ‘simple’ straight line quilting is quite labour intensive as you have to hold a ruler and ‘draw’ the machine along it to get a straight line. One wobble, and out comes the unpicker!

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It was very much worth the effort for Karens quilt after all the work she put in making it in the first place. Can you see all the little pieces making up the ‘solid’ background?

This was an amazing quilt to quilt. Thanks Karen!

 

 

A Pretty

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Here is a pretty and softly colour quilt that I quilted recently. June made it for her sister, who wanted a very soft looking quilt. There is a lot of work in the piecing of this quilt, which you can’t see right up because of the low contrast colours.

I really like this very pretty quilt and would not have minded keeping this one.

 

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