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. 

 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!  

 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. 

 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.   

A client of mine, Erin  asked me to quilt a couple of Carolyn Friedlander style quilts that she had made.    They are so beautiful.   Truthfully, I had to think about these for a little bit and what I noticed, is that much of the style is more 'organic' and 'freeform' lines and design.   Not so much ruler straight and square patterns.    

 This one is a Carolyn Friedlander Collection Block of the month quilt.  I can't stop saying how much I adore this pattern.   It is so cool.  And it's hand appliqué.   Sigh.

 I used a variety of denser quilting -  lots of geometric straight lines in the lighter backgrounds, to let the piecing pop.

 Some of the larger pieces I quilted lightly with a few straight lines in various directions

 I have found something new I want to try -  appliqué.  

Yes,  you are telling me, yet another thing to try.   

I know. 

 Jamie created this sweet modern baby quilt for her new arrival.   I adore the colours and the direction of the flying geese and pinwheels!

 Yes! I still do pantographs on occasion!  This one is called Tranquiltiy.

 I had a brain burst idea one day and had to try something out.    My idea failed miserably, so here is my humble project LOL

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!  

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 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!