Princess Theatre Ceiling

A couple of weekend ago we took my nephew to see Elmo live on stage at the Princess Theatre.  Of course I couldn’t resist a photo of the ceiling to add to my collection.

You can see more detail of the chandelier in this photo.

Under The Australian Sun Quilt

This vibrant quilt belongs to Wendy.  The design and striking Australian fabrics are from Leesa Chandler.  The fabric range is called Under the Australian Sun.

 

It is quilted with an allover freehand leaf and swirl pattern.  I elongated my usual Windblown Leaves to make them a better match for the leaves in the fabric.

 

 

I have linked to Esther’s Blog for her WOW = WIPs On Wednesdays.

Blue and Green Quilt

This lovely quilt was made by Robyn.  I remember my mother saying as a child “blue and green should never be seen, except with a colour in between”.  Robyn has successfully proven this saying wrong – I think the colours are vibrant together.

I have linked to Esther’s Blog for her WOW = WIPs On Wednesdays.

Some of My Favourite Customer Quilts

Over the past week have found some time to update my Customer Quilt Page (the link can also be found above on the navigation bar).

I had plenty of new quilts to add to this page as I hadn’t updated it in a while.

I enjoyed looking at all the customers’ quilts that I have posted over the last couple of months.  I am so lucky that I get entrusted to quilt so many beautiful quilts.


Here are a few of my favourites (which were really hard to choose as all of the quilts I show on my blog I really like).

Click on the picture to go to the post for more photos.

Butterfly Quilt

This is a round robin quilt brought to me by Jo.  I like how each of the butterflies are different, and how they have been brought together in the quilt with the flying geese.

The round robin group that Jo is a member of have been together for thirteen years.  This round, to be different, instead of the quilt owner putting together the blocks, each person was appointed a ‘construction manager’ who was assigned this task.

Heather was assigned as construction manger for Jo, and she did a great job putting together her butterfly blocks.

Jo was the construction manager for Judy’s quilt that I quilted last year and you can have a look at it here.

I have linked to Esther’s Blog for her WOW = WIPs On Wednesdays.

Heart Feathers

Alita made this cot sized lone star quilt as a present for her great grandson.  She asked me to quilt heart shaped feathers in the corner squares.

 

 

Feathers with Curved Cross Hatching

I was given this quilt by Anthea last year with instructions to quilt it heavily with traditional quilting.  

I had a lot of fun doing it, but boy did it take me a long time.

I was really happy with how the curved cross hatching and feathers look in the border.

Last year I did a great class with Carla Barrett at Feathered Fibers called Quilt Whispering, where you look at developing your quilting design skills.  One aspect of the class is that you can send pictures of a quilt to Carla and she will draw on it suggested quilting designs. 

I did this with Anthea’s quilt, and the design Carla suggested can be seen in her post here.

I liked what Carla did, but I had some different ideas. I had already planned to do curved cross hatching and feathers in the border, and pebbles as the background fill.

One thing I did take from Carla’s quilting design was to put a little flower in the border to create a point that the feathers could come from.

I am glad that Anthea chose a plain back as it shows the quilting beautifully.

I have linked to Esther’s Blog for her WOW = WIPs On Wednesdays.