Some more Quilts!

Looks like I'm on a roll so thought I would update this page with just a few more photo's showing my work.

Some of these were done a while back, I thought you would like to see them.  This first one is of a quilt top made by Margaret from Kangaroo Island, she made this for her grandson who is off to boarding school. He had chosen this quilt from her pile of UFO's to be quilted, hope he likes how the quilting has finished it off.

 This close up was meant to show some detail but those busy background fabrics prevent us from seeing the swirls that were stitched to hold things down.

This quilt was finished for Patchwork by Sea, Hove. Many hours put into this BOM which showcases the Shadow Play range of fabrics, using a chocolate brown background that shows up all those yummy bright fabrics in the piecing.

 Here is some detail of the above quilt. I used Nouveau Scallops for the quilting design, this is published by Lorien Quilting of Victoria, Australia.

Now for something FUN.....'Betty Boop' no less!! This quilt was crying out for some Trapunto underneath Betty, so I used 2 layers of Polyester & basted this behind the figure. After trimming away the excess it was then layered with Wool Blend Wadding & quilted to pronounce the areas on her body. THe outer background was quilted with 'Wandering Lips' which was modified from the original design by Ann Bright, USA. I thought this was most appropriate, considering the theme of the quilt.

This quilt was a commission - I was asked to put together a quilt using the panels of Japanese Ladies which were originally bags (machine embroidered on polyester fabric). Using some black homespun, a few Japanese prints & just a bit more of that blue print for the border & I think it finished up quite well. At least the owner was happy with the end result.

 A new baby in the family is always a great excuse to make a new quilt. My hairdresser Fiona made this one with some 3D machine embroidered butterflies, which I repeated in the blank blocks. She was so pleased with this & it was finished just in time for the baby shower - the mother of baby was really happy with it too.

And now we have a quilt with a little difference - Mixmasters!! Must say I haven't seen one of these before which proved a little challenging when it came to the quilting. My new client was quite happy with the result.

 Here is a closeup of the work done on the Mixmaster Quilt.

That's all for this time, I will continue to update more photo's in coming weeks. I'm trying to keep this blog updated with more recent work that I've done for my clients, may even get some pic's in of my own work if I'm lucky!!

Cheers for now
Val