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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Well, Hi.

It's been awhile. My life took a turn from blogging to deal with life for awhile. You know, the stuff that you don't really count on happening, but they do. The stuff that movies are made of.

Oh yes, and we moved too. I took October -December off, to pack,move, unpack, settle and just be.

I am taking on new quilts as of January 2016 and will be quilting full-time. If you are interested, please send me a message!

For now, here are some examples of client work I've completed that I think is pretty special:

Ashley made this gorgeous ombre pieced improv quilt - she wasn't quite sure what she wanted, and wasn't quite sure if she even liked the top. I played.....

I kept the rainbow ombre quilting simple, and then densely quilted the white background.

I mimicked the triangle theme in the white background too....

I think it turned out really special with the quilting. It kind of let the colours leap off the quilt top.

Ashley also sent me a a pieced white top in which she wanted a bit of a winter scene. This one was really hard to interpret. As well, it was a bit more complex with thread swaps and thread changes

I drew in a 'north star', some blowing snow and tried to get a hill of trees....

I used metallic threads for the trees and I used filler to show the shape of the trees.

Dana pieced and appliquéd this amazing Jen Kingwell quilt:

Again, totally floored and honoured that someone wants me to work on something like this! Wowza!!

Look at the appliqué and the gorgeous piecing! I did dense fillers around the appliqué to let them pop and showcase some of the beautiful pieces in the quilt.

The border treatment I kept simple with a triangle ghost echo.....again, with some denser fill to showcase the shapes and the texture. This is a stunning quilt!

If you made it this far, you're thinking - did she do anything for HERSELF? YES! I did!

I made a tree skirt LOL:

and tried not to go too nuts on the quilting. It's so hard when you have a longarm...

I made 2 baskets! This was a riot. The black basket below took me FOUR HOURS because:

a) I am inept at making things other than quilts

b) my sewing machine crapped out and needs to be repaired.

This basket took a little less time....ahem...

I am planning on working on a king sized quilt for my bed....it's in my head right now. ha!

This week I have been making infinity scarves. I'm addicted. I have made 4, and have to stop. really. they take me 15 minutes and are fool proof. Cam was impressed:

and because I have to show BOTH kids in one post:

my oldest....I made him! This always floors me.

If you made it this far, a reminder - I'm getting back into quilting again, and will be taking on full time quilting schedule as of January.

If you are interested in longarm quilting work or commission work, send me a note!

Thanks for reading...thanks for your support!

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Traditional quilted with a modern flair

Josee brought me this gorgeous quilt to work on.

I'm not going to lie...I may have been a wee bit terrified.

It's more traditional in piecing, design and colours.

And then she told me: I want it quilted more modern.

And then I knew I could do it.

I started with figuring out the top border design - I applied these ghost designs in the cream sections and that really set the theme for the rest of the quilt. I knew I wanted to show that texture of the border - so I densely quilted the cream background, medium quilting in that medium brown, and then light quilting in the darker brown/black so it showed that wrap around effect

Again, keeping with the theme of making the piecing pop, I densely quilting some areas (the cream) and let the darker colours pop.

The border around the medallion echoed that 'ghost' shape...

And in the medallion itself, I added a few subtle hints of that ghost shape again.

The pebbling and the echoing around the piecing makes the medallion pop.

In some of the other areas, I did simple stitch in the ditch, pebbles, ribbon candy

figure 8's.

blocks with that 'ghost' shape again...

I also did a straight line quilting around the middle border to soften the other quilting. The piecing on this quilt was so precise that it was fairly easy to get those lines accurate!

Quilt size: 83 x 104''

Batting: - provided by Josee - not sure

Thread - Superior Magnifico in Medium Brown and Cream

Decobob thread in brown and cream in bobbin

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Do I have to give it back?

Ashley, from Yellowknife pieced this beautiful hexagon top.

When I received it, I laid it out on my design wall and had a good thinking session. The photo below shows what a quilt looks like when I receive it - it is flimsy...a flat sheet of fabric.

There was a lot of negative space in here...and a lot of beautiful piecing to showcase as well.

I did continuous curves in the hand pieced hexagons ...

I did some ribbon candy, c's, and wishbone quilting. I also stitched down all the seams of the little 2''squares. You can see what a difference it makes in texture...the right side strip has been stitched in between each square. The left strip, not(this is an in progress photo) Love the extra pouf personality you get with this!

In the large empty spaces, I quilted....

swirls, pebbles, uturns,

hexagons of different sizes,

hexagons with different fills.

This quilt measures 84'' x 88''

Batting is Hobbs 80/20

I used SoFine 50 in cream, super bobs in the bobbin

Quilted on my APQS machine.

How do I tell my client I don't want to give it back?

Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Rainbow Log Cabin Quilt

This beauty was made by a first time quilter!

totally honoured to quilt this one.... It is just full of happy and cheer!

I called it the beast as I was quilting it. It is approximately queen sized, and because the colours were on the diagonal, the quilting was requested to be on the diagonal too. That means, that I had to do a lot of rolling up and down the quilt, back and forth to quilt in those diagonal spaces. Hence, it was a beast to quilt. But it sure turned out beautiful!

I quilted spiral swirls and plumes up each colour way.

The piano key borders were done in a whimsical feather shape. The small dark border was a simple loop de loop.

Thread: Superior Magnifico in Yolk

Batting: Warm and Natural

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Boxes of Colour - A Moda Bake Shop Tutorial

I have a new tutorial up at Moda Bake Shop. It is a baby quilt that is quick and easy using the fabric line Boho by Urban Chiks.

It was a super gorgeous morning when I took these photos, and this quilt just looked so beautiful in the morning light....

I just got back from a family reunion/cruise to the Caribbean and trying to catch up on everything....have lots to post!

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