This is another quilt made by the talented Sharon. I love all the pink and how the colours go from light to dark. The pantograph Sharon chose is called “Strawberry Fields”.
If you have been reading here for a while, you might remember Sharon who as a new quilter tackled everything with enthusiasm and made huge progress honing her skills in just a short time. She surprised me again by showing up with a beautiful Crabapple Hill quilt top, “Girls Getaway”, asking for custom quilting. I find these embroidered quilts much harder to quilt than pieced ones but I think I am getting the hang of it. Both Sharon and I were very happy with the way this one turned out.
This is another quilt that Bonnie made. When she dropped it off, she knew she wanted the pantograph “Rose Garden” for this project. Usually we let the quilt/fabrics/pattern inspire the quilting choices but in this case it was the recipient’s name that gave Bonnie the idea of this quilting design.
Here is another quilt made by Bonnie, pieced birds on a modern grey background and a bit of negative space to fill. I free-motioned around the birds in my favourite Angela-Walters-technique (just pick a few designs and repeat them randomly). For the border I chose the design “Taj Mahal”. It looks a bit like a chain-link fence all around, doesn’t it?
Here is another excellent idea for using up scraps if you are like me and prefer a solid colour background behind all your scraps. This quilt was made by Bonnie. The blocks are fairly easy to put together, and there are lots of setting options. Bonnie’s quilt reminds me of birds in a flight formation, following each other. The pantograph she chose for her project is called “Ginger Flower”.
This lovely blue and cream log cabin quilt was made by Carol as a gift for her son. We used the fabrics in her quilt as inspiration for the quilting pattern, and Carol chose “Wild Wind”, a swirly pattern, for her project.
Ginger made not just one, but two quilts using the pattern “Marcie’s Maze”. It was designed for layer cakes but I can also see a scrappy variation of the pattern that would look nice. All those straight piecing lines and the polka dots and circular flower shapes in the fabrics made us choose “Champagne Bubbles” as the quilting design for Ginger’s quilts.
This spectacular black and white log cabin quilt was made by Sandra. Doesn’t it look just fabulous? She chose the design “Diagonal Plaid Bias Cut” for her quilt, it picks up the secondary design created by the block setting and adds great texture.
These two almost identical quilts were made by Peggy. She used panels and surrounded them with other heavy machinery fabrics. I don’t have any construction-themed pantographs, so we settled on an abstract pattern instead and went with “Diagonal Plaid Bias Cut”.
This Southwest-themed outdoorsy quilt was made by Gerry. The fabrics she used show all kinds of animals including bears and elk, so “Deer in the Woods” was an obvious choice for quilting.
