Quilters Show and Tell

Brittany Quilt

Submitted by sereine32.

This is my vision of Brittany. I made the design and then I spent nearly six months before achieving it (I work in a restaurant in the South-west of France, so I have not a lot of time left). Sorry if my English is not so good.

 

Dragon Quilt

Submitted by Clare Montgomery.

This is my 'baby'. I am really proud of this one and have won a first prize at my local show for him. 

He is constructed using raw edge applique by machine. It took me probably 12 months to finish him but I got there in the end.

Double Hexagon Diamonds

Submitted by Woodland Patches.

Woodland Patches has a blog and sell their products through their website.

It's Hermione here again :o) with a different hat on.

A friend and I started a new business selling accurate pre-cut patchwork pieces and I can't resist showing off our newest project.

Isn't it awesome? I'm so pleased with it.

We hand pieced the whole thing - actually it didn't take very long because all the cutting was already done.

The side measurement of the hexagons is 1.5" - small enough to get the effect of lots of pieces but big enough to grow quickly.

I quilted it myself on my longarm with continuous curves. I'm feeling rather pleased with myself :o)

Our Family Quilt

Submitted by Kathleen.

This quilt came into being with the assistance of my brothers who climbed the trees to pick the leaves and then identified them for me. The leaves were taken from trees around the house where we grew up in Connecticut. 

I based the layout of the quilt on a beautiful coverlet made by an unknown Connecticut woman in the mid 1850s. I apologize for the poor photography; I have yet to hang this quilt. 

The blocks are 20' x 20'; the hand appliqued leaves are botanically correct-I traced the real leaves. The photo of the label shows the identification of each specimen. Making this quilt took patience, but I loved every minute of it. We call it our family quilt because we all are very attached to nature and to the land around us. Thanks, Kathleen.

Leafy Quilt

Submitted by Rayne.

This is my entry for our local quilt shop competition. We could choose between three colour ways of a particular fabric. I chose the green for a wall hanging which I then had framed when it was finished. Every leaf is individually made by bonding black fabric to the back then machine stitching the leaf veins. I then machine appliqued the inner leaves to the base material, then hand stitched on the outer leaves.

Purple Quilt

Submitted by Rayne.

This is for another grand daughter. Her choice was for mainly purple with some brights. 

I again made 12 1/2' squares & joined them directly to each other without sashing. 

I tied the layers with multi-coloured embroidery thread instead of quilting. I think that matched the quilt style quite well.

Dresden Garden

Submitted by The Crafty Unicorn Quilting.

This quilt was a fund-raising project for the committee to renovate the old town hall building. The Dresden plates are antiques donated by a local antique shop.

I designed the flower layout because we didn't have enough blocks to make a good size quilt.

The group members hand appliqued the plates onto muslin and then one member pieced the pots and the main portion of the top.

I pieced the chain border from reproduction fabrics and quilted it on the longarm with lots and lots of feathers.

Tea Towel Quilt

Submitted by Judy B.

You can see more of Judy's work on her blog.

Mum bought this tea towel as a Christmas present for me when I took her to Broken Hill in 1994. Vicki asked me what I had got for Christmas that year, and she stated that a tea towel wasn't the most inspiring gift a mother could give to a daughter, but then she hadn't seen the tea towel. Sadly, neither Mum nor Vicki saw the finished product.

The art work is signed Stewart Merrett, and this was one of a series of tea towels by the same artist. The project finally got underway when the tea towel and narrow border fabric came together while I was making a quilt top using Australian fabrics and some printed blocks which were 10 years old.

The nearest the tea towel will get to drying dishes is hanging on the wall in the kitchen.

24th October 2006 to March 5th 2007. 27.5 x 32 Inches (70 x 81cm). Machine pieced, Machine and hand quilted. Linen and Cotton Fabrics, wool/polyester wadding.

All fixed

I spent the weekend trying to work out what was wrong with the quilt submission form and I think I've cracked it. Who wants to give it a test run with a real quilt?

Hopefully we're back on track now. Thanks for waiting :o)

Hermione.

We interrupt our scheduled programming to bring you some technical problems

Well, I think I know why there are no new quilts - there's something wrong with the submission form. Duh!

I will try to work out what the problem is and I will post here when it's working again.

Thanks for your patience :o)

Hermione.