Just a Little Bit of ME Time
My quilting sessions have had to be scheduled around the cooler times up in my loft this week. Even so I have completed three quilts. This is the first one from Janet S, which allowed me to indulge myself with my favourite feather design. Once I get going with this, I just cannot stop until it's done (or I absolutely have to go to bed!).
When Janet collected it she left me another one. She's been as busy as I have!
This beautiful blue quilt was a project she started with Sandy several years ago. Such gorgeous sapphire shades, it is so striking and (as usual) perfectly pieced. Janet asked for quite concentrated all over quilting. I decided on this feathered swirl pattern, which emulates one of Judi Madsen's designs. I am so pleased how it looks and I'm getting better at it too.
At the same time, I received another stunning top from Stasha.
I continue to be astonished at her ability to produce hand pieced tops like this. There is a lot of blue background which belies the amount of piecing involved, unless you looked at it up close. But I could see how perfectly accurate and smooth it was and it was a dream to work on.
Stasha asked for a looser flowing design, so I happily scattered flowers and ribbon curls all over it. The multicoloured thread (King Tut Jacob's Ladder) stitched out so prettily against the royal blue.
So Yes! In the twilight hours I found time to make a small project of my own.
When I made my Hunter's Star quilt, many years ago now, I had 'mopped up' the tiniest of scraps of my favourite fabrics on to phonebook paper strips. These had been stashed away, together with some pretty duck egg blue half square triangle units, just waiting for inspiration to strike.
Now I've made this folded kit bag for all my Apliquick tools.
It has pockets for the special stabiliser material, template shapes, the rods, scissors and ergonomic tweezers (they were expensive, but I couldn't resist!), milliner's needles and fabric glue pen and refills.
This will have to satisfy me for a while until I have chance to start work on quilting my Treasure Quilt. I want to really take my time over it, but I have a waiting list of tops to be finished first.
Happy Quilting Everyone - Stay safe and keep cheerful!
My quilting sessions have had to be scheduled around the cooler times up in my loft this week. Even so I have completed three quilts. This is the first one from Janet S, which allowed me to indulge myself with my favourite feather design. Once I get going with this, I just cannot stop until it's done (or I absolutely have to go to bed!).When Janet collected it she left me another one. She's been as busy as I have!
At the same time, I received another stunning top from Stasha.
Stasha asked for a looser flowing design, so I happily scattered flowers and ribbon curls all over it. The multicoloured thread (King Tut Jacob's Ladder) stitched out so prettily against the royal blue.
So Yes! In the twilight hours I found time to make a small project of my own.
Now I've made this folded kit bag for all my Apliquick tools.
This will have to satisfy me for a while until I have chance to start work on quilting my Treasure Quilt. I want to really take my time over it, but I have a waiting list of tops to be finished first.
Happy Quilting Everyone - Stay safe and keep cheerful!
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