Modern Wedding Ring
March 23, 2014
General Info
| Start Date | Aug 11, 2013 |
|---|---|
| Finish Date | Mar 23, 2014 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | 92″ square |
| Pattern | Modern Wedding Ring from McCalls Quick Quilts Magazine 2010 December issue |
| What it’s for | Gift for my sister’s wedding |
| Batting | Cotton |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
Used a mix of batiks from Hancock’s fabrics.
Grandma Mary Jean pieced the blocks, I added the borders and quilted it.
Quilting Notes/Techniques
Used Harriet Hargrave’s clover heart template for the blocks. Continuous curves in the rings. Feather spiral in the border.
Progress Pictures
Presenting the finished quilt at the wedding.
I used a plastic template and a net template for the different sized motifs.
Sea Change
March 1, 2014
General Info
| Start Date | Mar 1, 2014 |
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| Finish Date | |
| Status | Piecing – Stalled |
| Size | ~55″ square |
| Pattern | Sea Change Pattern by Sue at Rosemont Patchwork |
| What it’s for | Me |
| Batting |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
Storm at Sea and Ocean Waves quilt begun at Rosemont Patchwork class. Fabric from my stash.
I am struggling with getting points to match piecing the half-square triangles for the Ocean Waves blocks. The Storm at Sea pieces were cut from a template – I’d like to go back and re-do them so they’re paper pieced.
Quilting Notes/Techniques
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Boldly Go Pillow
December 21, 2013
General Info
| Start Date | Dec 21, 2013 |
|---|---|
| Finish Date | Dec 21, 2013 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | 16″ square |
| Pattern | Design Sponge’s zippered pillow tutorial |
| What it’s for | Gift for my MIL |
| Batting | N/A |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the pillow Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new furniture, to comfort new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no pillow has gone before.
This pillow is for my slightly geeky Trekkie MIL. She’s more of a TNG fan, but original series was the only fabric available.
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Winter Wonderland
December 14, 2013
General Info
| Start Date | Dec 9, 2013 |
|---|---|
| Finish Date | Dec 14, 2013 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | 12″ x 10″ |
| Pattern | A Winter Wonderland from Love of Quilting magazine |
| What it’s for | Gift for my Grandpa |
| Batting | ? |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
Fusible appliqué with buttonhole machine stitching. Embroidery and sunburst beads.
Quilting Notes/Techniques
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Sew Stitchy Machine Cover
December 8, 2013
General Info
| Start Date | Nov 3, 2013 |
|---|---|
| Finish Date | Dec 8, 2013 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | ~25″ x 30″ |
| Pattern | My own design |
| What it’s for | Covering my sewing machine |
| Batting | Cotton |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
I wanted to make a dust cover for my sewing machine that would fit while it was in its table. I used a charm pack of the Sew Stitchy range, 5 x 6 squares, quilted diagonally. I used pre-made bias binding, and some measuring tape ribbon for ties. It’s a little big, but will do the job.
Quilting Notes/Techniques
Straight line quilted diagonally.
Progress Pictures
Poinsettia Quilt
December 6, 2013
General Info
| Start Date | Sep 29, 2013 |
|---|---|
| Finish Date | Dec 6, 2013 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | Lap |
| Pattern | From Keepsake Quilting |
| What it’s for | Christmas gift for Mom |
| Batting | Cotton |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
The pattern was not great. It’s a shame they don’t include instructions for a length wise outer border. If alternating colours of scrappy blocks, make sure 10 start with colour A and 10 with colour B. The pieced border should end with the same colours length wise, and the other colour width wise. The amount of fabric listed for the backing will only give you approx 2″ overhang on the top and the bottom of the quilt. If you are sending to a longarmer, recalculate the backing requirement.
Quilting Notes/Techniques
Quilted from the back, using the Poinsettia print fabric as a guide for quilting.
Progress Pictures
Quilting from front
Quilting from back
Star of India
October 12, 2013
General Info
| Start Date | Mar 3, 2012 |
|---|---|
| Finish Date | Oct 12, 2013 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | 87.5″ square |
| Pattern | Star Sapphire by Jinny Beyer |
| What it’s for | For me. |
| Batting | Matilda’s Own Cotton/Poly hi-loft batting. |
Shows
Entered and shown in the 2013 Braidwood Quilt Event.
Won first prize for Contemporary Patchwork and Quilting at the 2014 Royal Canberra Show.
Won 2nd place in Bed Quilts (non-professional) and Excellence in Machine Quilting (domestic) at the Canberra Quilters Exhibition 2014.
Shown at Australian Machine Quilters Festival 2014
Shown at Australasian Quilt Convention 2015 as a “Best of the Best” representing the ACT
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
Begun in a Lone Star class taught by Sue at Rosemont Patchwork Shop in Tugerranong.
I consider this quilt to be my “thesis”, graduating from a beginning to intermediate quilter.
Quilting Notes/Techniques
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On display at the Canberra Quilters Exhibition
#QuiltSelfie
On display at the Braidwood Quilt Event
“Paisley” or shell quilting on centre star.
Pinning the diamond rows together.
Painted Poppies
September 20, 2013
General Info
| Start Date | Sep 1, 2013 |
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| Finish Date | Sep 20, 2013 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | Wall hanging |
| Pattern | Poppies by Helen Godden |
| What it’s for | My house |
| Batting | ? |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
Class by Helen Godden at Hobbysew Belconnen. Her poppies design, traced and painted by me. It was done using Genesis Creations Liquid Radiance pigment. It was similar to doing watercolour. Used salt to get splotchy effect on border.
Quilting Notes/Techniques
Flowers outlined in black thread quilted over at least twice.
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Love Birds Pillow
September 17, 2013
General Info
| Start Date | Sep 9, 2013 |
|---|---|
| Finish Date | Sep 17, 2013 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | 18″ square |
| Pattern | Love Birds |
| What it’s for | Wedding gift for my cousin and her wife. |
| Batting | Iron on poly. |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
Raw edge appliqué. This pattern requires a medium weight fusible web like Steam-a-Seam 2 and a fabric with a fairly tight weave like a batik, otherwise the curls fall apart.
Quilting Notes/Techniques
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Love Birds
August 24, 2013
General Info
| Start Date | Jul 22, 2013 |
|---|---|
| Finish Date | Aug 24, 2013 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | Queen |
| Pattern | Reflection Kit from Addicted2Fabric |
| What it’s for | Wedding gift for Andy and Megan. |
| Batting | Matilda’s Own wool/poly |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
Pattern uses “stripe” fabric cut length-wise with matching solids.
Made a matching Love Birds Pillow
Quilting Notes/Techniques
Quilted by Jeanette at GoneAussie. Paisley feathers pattern with cream thread.
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