Longarm

Back in April I bought a Wild Honey Charm Pack at the Abbotsford Quilt Show. In the meantime, I bought another Charm Pack, this one is called In The Garden. Over the summer, I turned both of them into quilts, using my favourite Charm Pack pattern by Sarah at Sew Me. Click here to view the pattern on her blog.

I quilted both of them at the same time, using the same edge-to-edge pattern. Inspired by Wild Honey, I chose Christy Dillon’s Summer Thyme Bee, which fits both quilts nicely. These two will go into my donation quilt pile.

I made another donation quilt using the alternating square/framed square layout that I discovered last year. My scrap drawers were overflowing, and I needed a pattern that used different scrap sizes than I normally use for my Renate’s Scrap Quilt projects. This one made a nice dent in my 3.5″ and 5.5″ drawers. Not that they are anywhere close to empty, but it is a start.

For quilting, I used an allover pattern by Christy Dillon called “Sorcha’s Flowers”. For scrappy quilts like this, the quilting pattern doesn’t matter all that much, so I usually just go with what catches my eye.

Once again I took eight little preemiequilts with me when I traveled to Germany in June. Those were the ones I had already finished last year, and I finished four more before my trip. I was tempted to take them all but then realized that I didn’t have enough labels. Oh well, I really didn’t want to rush printing more labels, because as you all know, as soon as you are in a hurry, things will go wrong.

Here is a little gallery of the latest finishes in the preemiequilt department.