It's a New Year & New Beginning

Hello everyone,
Here we are in a New Year, 2014 no less.....where has the time gone?  I haven't done a very good job posting anything during 2013, so my promise to my readers & myself, is to rectify this during this coming year. I've been browsing blog pages by fellow quilters' & I must say they have been doing a grand job keeping up there photo's & stories. So my goal is to write regular posts with lots of photo's.

As I have soooo many photo's to catch up & post for you, I will select some of the more favourite ones to post on the blog but not all at once, over the next few weeks as least. I have a new computer to get used to as well, so wish me luck as I venture into the world of Windows 8!!

Here is one of our favourite flowers in the garden, only from last year's blooming.....we haven't been able to get hold of the Sturt Desert Pea seedlings yet this season.

This quilt was worked with some basic custom quilting for Margaret. She made this quilt for her grandson as he's off to boarding school this year. She did a great job with the piecing, lots of little squares between those panels.

And here is a photo of more detailed work done on this quilt.

Here is a beautiful baby quilt for a new granddaughter for Fiona. The butterflies have been machine embroidered on solvy so they have a lace effect, then sewn on after they were made. Some simple custom quilting to finish this off & I added the binding ready for her to sew to the back as time was of the essence, the baby shower was happening a few days after she collected this quilt.

Here is something a little different & funky!! Betty Boop in all her glory, Trapunto quilted with 2 layers of poly wadding, then layered & quilted with a continuous Lips design which I made up myself to suit the quilt. I think it finished up really well & my client was quite pleased with it too.

This quilt made by Sonya of SA Mallee Country Connection at Karoonda, allowed me to add a pattern which used more pattern, so I chose one called Hibiscus, stitched in green thread which helped it show up really well.  It also added to the look of the quilt which turned out great.

A Tessellating design was chosen by Jenny to piece this quilt while she was on holiday in England last year. Delivered to me as soon as she arrived home to quilt with a basic design called Splash which seemed to suit this quilt perfectly.

Glenda made this quilt/wall hanging with paper foundation piecing. She did a great job & it's very effective. A little challenging to come up with a suitable quilting plan but I think it worked well in the end. You can see what I quilted in the following photo of the detail.

Two little baby quilts made from charm squares for our grand-nephew who arrived in February Quilted together with very basic patterns that worked really well.

Another simple pieced quilt which didn't need a lot of heavy work done so I used a pattern called Streamers which worked quite well.

This quilt made by Patchwork by Sea in a Thousand Pyramid design, I used a provincial design called Dutch for a simple edge to edge quilting design.

I think that will do for now, except one last photo of some Rainbow Lorikeets feeding on the nectar in these gumtrees in our front yard, They make such a noise but are beautiful to watch at the start & end of every day.

And look at these Pansies still flowering in January - we've had such a mild spring here in the Mallee. I've never had them stay flowering this late. Mother Nature continues to surprise me at times....

Until next time

Keep safe & happy quilting

Val
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