Urban Quiltworks: modern custom quilting

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Monday, July 04, 2016

More quilts to share - catching up

Remember my modern quilt for my bed? Well I had extra left overs, so I pieced them together and made a large lap quilt for my sister....

This quilt was made using strips from my client's scrap stash. She prefers very very loose quilting. As she tells me. If I think it's loose, loosen it even more. ha! To give you an idea of how large this meander is - I put one of my L sized bobbins inside one of the meander curves.

That's large quilting - but it is lovely...all draped and soft and very much withing the batting limits of quilting every 4''.

Another scrap quilt she did - this one is so cool - strip piecing and then cut on a 60'' angle to make diamond shapes...or are they parallelograms?

A beautiful Christmas table runner...a loose overall design with loops, swirls, holly leaves and snowflakes.

Another queen sized bed quilt - aren't these colours beautifuL? Just a simple patchwork quilt...I used the Tranquilty pantograph on this quilt.

Jamie pieced this flannel baby quilt for her new baby. I love the navy blue, coral and mint greens together! This is before the quilting...

and here is after...mostly straight line designs to emphasize the geometric feel to this quilt. I did mostly looser work to keep the gentle softness of the baby quilt.

That's all for now....have another quilt to showcase - A tula pink butterfly quilt...but am working on the photos for that one first!

Sunday, July 03, 2016

Modern Custom Quilt - Farmers Market Quilt

Linda pieced this incredible Farmer's Market Quilt (Laundry Basket Quilt patterns) I love the neutral colours in this quilt top - especially the pops of blue. She specified custom quilting, but not too too dense. I loosened up some of my quilting and still did a lot of texture quilting - to show off her piecing.

As you can see in this photo - the quilt has a centre focal point.

The flying geese were quilted in a way to allow them to stand out. While the larger triangles had a simple continuous curve and swirl design.

Around the centre 'medallion' section, I quilted around the triangles and the diamond shapes to allow them to pop and give that centre area a frame.

When I do custom quilting, I try and choose 4-6 designs to use throughout the quilt...this keeps everything uniform and ties all of the quilt together.

The rest of the photos here are self explanatory - eye candy. :-)

Linda did a fantastic job of piecing this quilt. When things are really accurately pieced and pressed, it makes the quilting easier, but also allows the way I quilt to show off the piecing even more.

Details:

Thread - Superior Magnifico thread on top. Wonderfil Decobob thread in bobbin

Batting - Hobbs 100% Heirloom Wool

Hand guided machine quilting on my APQS machine.

Friday, February 12, 2016

Farmer's Wife Quilt - modern custom quilting

Geraldine contacted me to work on this incredible Farmer's Wife quilt. She had seen some of my work on Instagram and wanted to work with me. I was so flattered and totally up for this one!

The colours in this quilt are stunning and would be a welcome addition to my Great Room. ha!

This quilt was meticulously pieced. There are 111 unique blocks in this quilt.

Here are sampling of some of the blocks:

I wanted to quilt them in a way that would showcase the piecing of the blocks - some areas quilted more heavily than others - allowing designs to pop.

The black sashing was quilted with ribbon candy design, allowing the centre red squares to pop.

I know....a ton of eye candy right?

I have to admit that about 3/4 of the way through the blocks my new mantra was 'Just Keep Swimming' - Dory's song.. ha!

The setting triangles are a simple triangle echo with figure 8 fill. The outer border I wanted to keep simple and quilted a beadboard design to keep the focus on the blocks.

The backing showcased a lot of the quilting as well....

The details:

Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt

Pieced by Geraldine H.

Size 81" x 100"

Batting: Hobbs Heirloom 100% wool

Thread - Superior Magnifico on top to match the piecing. Wonderfil Decobob bobbin thread.

Hand guided quilting on my APQS machine.

Thank you Geraldine for a spectacular piecing job, and giving me the opportunity to work on this quilt!

Monday, March 23, 2015

Modern Custom Quilting...

Stacey and her mom Lynn brought this beautifully pieced quilt to me. (Carolina Patchworks - Sweet Garden Pattern) I think I drooled a little...

The colours were stunning, so perfectly pieced, and perfectly placed. Every print that had a special direction, was placed in a uniform direction.

I did a figure 8/wishbone design in one direction of the sashing, and ribbon candy in the other.

Some of the blocks I did swirls, pebbles, straight line details..

Each block was outlined with stitching for best definition:

...some of them I left on their own like these wee ones....they look like little pillows!

Some blocks I kept simple....

...and some blocks I used the print to dictate my quilting,..

with outlines...

or following the detail in the print to give it texture...

The backing was just as beautiful - the piecing, again, perfect. Here is a sample where it has been pieced:

That's right - where?!

Hobbs 80/20 batting

Glide thread in white

Wonderfil Decobob grey thread for bobbins

Pattern: Carolina Patchworks Sweet Garden

Quilted by me on my APQS machine

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Urban 9 Patch quilt

This beauty was pieced by Shena of Apple Pie Patchwork in Lethbridge. Isn't it stunning?

Based on SewKindofWonderful's Quick Curve ruler and patterns. I love how this one was done with an assortment of solids, framed in a dark navy blue. It's so pretty!

I lightened the photos a bit to show some of the quilting on the navy blue.

close up of some of the blocks as I was working on them - note some of the areas are not complete yet

The backing is pretty too - I love how the quilting shows up.

One thing that is always difficult is to pick a bobbin thread that will work for your top threads, especially when there are so many colours in your quilt. This is especially true when you have a solid colour fabric backing....it will show every single thing! Because the backing was a green and navy solid, I chose navy as my main bobbin colour. Contrasting top and bottom threads are risky in that you may see evidence of them on either side of your quilt. So, I chose a navy bobbin thread for the majority of the quilt - except for the white top/white bobbin areas.

I loved working on this quilt!

Quilted on my apqs machine