Monthly Archives: November 2007

Customer Quilt

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One of the things I enjoy most about quilting for others is the stories that go along with the quilts.

This quilt is owned by a self proclaimed non-quilter and non-sewer. The blocks were inherited from my customer’s step mother. My customer set the blocks together using a small floral print fabric that closely matches the time period that the blocks were made. The blocks were hand embroidered by friends and family of my customer’s stepmother. These blocks are old and only one or two people are still alive today that originally made these blocks. This quilt holds great sentimental significance to the owner. I was thrilled to have a part in preserving these memories.

This first picture shows the quilt from the back.

This quilt was quilted exclusively with Circle Lord templates: the heart, the wave, and tiles.

This quilt has Thermore for batting as the quilter was originally thinking of hand quilting this piece. She decided she did not have the time to commit to hand quilting this quilt and so she came to see me. The Thermore makes this quilt extremely light and soft. This is the first time that I used Thermore on the long arm and I was pleasantly surprised with the results.







Happy Birthday…To Me!

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Yesterday was my birthday!

The birthday celebrations started Wednesday night. While I was at the quilt guild meeting, my daughter baked me a birthday cake. We had this cake Friday night as my daughter was going to be away Saturday night and would miss my birthday dinner.

Yesterday, my husband and daughter took me out for lunch and we all headed to my parents’ house for supper. My Mom had made me an angel food cake too (see the cake in the black and white picture).

Thank you to all who sent e-mails, cards, and presents. Yesterday was a wonderful relaxing day. Today it is back to work….well maybe not “work”. I have some quilting to do for customers so technically that is “work” but because I enjoy it so much, it doesn’t seem a lot like work.




Quilt Guild – We Care Quilts

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Last Wednesday night was our regular monthly quilt guild meeting. We have an ongoing quilt charity program throughout the year where guild members make and donate quilts to our guild who in turn donates the quilts to local women’s shelters, local hospitals–both the cancer ward and maternity wards, RCMP Victim Services, and local Seniors’ homes to name just a few.

We had 29 quilts handed in on Wednesday evening. After the regular show and share portion of the evening, we have volunteers come forward and grab one of the We Care quilts donated that evening and stand side by side to show off the quilts to the rest of the membership. Our 29 quilts managed to circle the room completely. I was not able to get a picture of the group all at once, but i did wonder what the view would have been from the ceiling–looking down at that fabulous train of quilts that circled the room.







4-Patch Stacked Posies – Poppies

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I have been itching to make another quilt from the 4-Patch Stacked Posie pattern. Since I finished my pumpkin 4-patch version, I could start a new quilt with no guilt. This is a photo of the 4-patch blocks I finished last night.

You can see the original fabric down the left hand side of the picture. I have just set the blocks on the green fabric to audition the green color choice. I want to set these blocks differently than the previous two quilts I made from this pattern. I am playing with an on-point setting. I like the green with the blocks, but I have decided that there needs to be something between the block and the green sashing. With my son’s assistance last night, we decided that the perfect colour would be a dark brown like the center of the poppy in the original fabric.
I am also undecided whether I will make one larger lap quilt, or if I will make two smaller table toppers.

Since I don’t have a fabric in the right shade of dark brown, this project will have to wait until I have a chance to get to the LQS to get more fabric.

This is the link to HD Designs’ website–manufacturers of the pattern: http://www.hddesigns.net/default.aspx?sectionid=1756&pageid=3671