The Salty Quilter - Modern Wedding Ring - Presenting the finished quilt

Modern Wedding Ring

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

The Salty Quilter - Modern Wedding Ring - Presenting the finished quilt

Presenting the finished quilt at the wedding.

The Salty Quilter - Modern Wedding Ring - blocking The Salty Quilter - Modern Wedding Ring - Feather border The Salty Quilter - Modern Wedding Ring - quilting in the blocks

The Salty Quilter - Modern Wedding Ring - Marking the quilting

I used a plastic template and a net template for the different sized motifs.

The Salty Quilter - Modern Wedding Ring - Quilt top centre The Salty Quilter - Modern Wedding Ring - Label

The Salty Quilter - Sea Change - Ocean waves block

Sea Change

General Info

Start Date  Mar 1, 2014
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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The Salty Quilter - Sea Change - Ocean waves block The Salty Quilter - Sea Change - Fabric pull and pattern

The Salty Quilter - Boldly Go Pillow - Front

Boldly Go Pillow

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.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

 

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The Salty Quilter - Boldly Go Pillow - Front The Salty Quilter - Boldly Go Pillow - Back

The Salty Quilter - Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland

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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The Salty Quilter - Winter Wonderland

The Salty Quilter - Sew Stitchy Machine Cover

Sew Stitchy Machine Cover

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.

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The Salty Quilter - Poinsettia Quilt - Finished

Poinsettia Quilt

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

The Salty Quilter - Poinsettia Quilt - Finished

The Salty Quilter - Poinsettia Quilt - Quilting from front

Quilting from front

The Salty Quilter - Poinsettia Quilt - Quilting from back

Quilting from back

The Salty Quilter - Poinsettia Quilt - Quilt top The Salty Quilter - Poinsettia Quilt - label

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Canberra Exhibition

Star of India

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

Quilted in the ditch with YLI invisible thread (clear). Star is quilted in Signature Variegated thread in blue/green 40wt cotton. Feathers in Gutterman 50wt cotton, micro stipples in Rasant. Rest of quilt in Gutterman and Signature. Outer border quilted with Sew Art smoke invisible thread and the Bottom Line poly thread in the bobbin.
First quilt using “show blocking” technique before squaring and binding. Very effective.

Progress Pictures

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Canberra Exhibition

On display at the Canberra Quilters Exhibition

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Awards Selfie

#QuiltSelfie

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Canberra show first prize

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Braidwood

On display at the Braidwood Quilt Event

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - blocking The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Quilting done

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - feather quilting

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Star quilting

“Paisley” or shell quilting on centre star.

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Quilt top

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - centre The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Star

Pinning the diamond rows together.

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - lone star diamonds

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - piecing diamond rows The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Label

The Salty Quilter - Painted Poppies - Finished

Painted Poppies

General Info

Start Date  Sep 1, 2013
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.

Progress Pictures

The Salty Quilter - Painted Poppies - in progress

The Salty Quilter - Love Birds Pillow

Love Birds Pillow

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.

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The Salty Quilter - Love Birds - Finished

Love Birds

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.

Progress Pictures

The Salty Quilter - Love Birds - Finished

The Salty Quilter - Love Birds - Quilting The Salty Quilter - Love Birds - Matching Pillow The Salty Quilter - Love Birds - Label