Free to Quilt: Fall Leaves

Free to Quilt: Fall Leaves:   Pew Runners This is the beautiful quilt made by Val for her friend Lesley.  I wanted to custom quilt the leaf blocks and I had to change t...

Fall Leaves

 Pew Runners

This is the beautiful quilt made by Val for her friend Lesley.

 I wanted to custom quilt the leaf blocks and I had to change the four different thread colours over and again as I worked my way down the quilt. 

I was trialling my new Glide threads and I was delighted with the results! One of the colours, a rather sickly greeny-yellow by itself, worked beautifully with the both the yellow block and the green block and just seemed to reflect the colours.

She didn't want it to be too heavily quilted. So after I finished the blocks, I went back to the top and filled in the background with a leaf motif to echo the idea of falling leaves linked by simple double loops in a silvery grey thread.

This was one the nicest tops I have worked on in ages!

Then a call from the amazing and ever productive Rose was followed up by yet another massive Kaffe Fassett masterpiece. 

A classic Tumbling Blocks layout - She does make them big!

So then - onto my new found WI connections - my first commission was to make church pew runners made from old curtains donated by some parishioners. I was presented with three bin bags full of cotton curtains which I have unpicked washed and ironed. 

But the first priority, I was told, was to work on these synthetic fabric curtains with velvet 'patches'.

 This is the first of two I plan to make, having carefully cut and joined the fabric to get the most out of it.

 I used that same yellowy thread and this time it looked golden against the maroon. It took me a whole day, start to finish, setting up the long strip and finishing the binding by machine. 

The actual quilting didn't take long at all. My favourite 'feather and down' design - and was so much fun! I just hope the second one comes out the same!

Happy Quilting Everyone - Stay safe and keep cheerful! 

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