Ok, I know, I said I would spend the six months until the end of the year pattern drafting for my own clothing.
Can I help it if people are having babies, retiring or are leaving their employment and we'd like to congratulate them?
I had finished the top to this quilt some time ago
Fishing quilt for the man who likes fishing it was always intended for the person who will receive it now, I was just waiting for the opportunity to come up.
Whilst basting the quilt I was looking for a backing fabric, I had some wool flannel that was wide enough for the backing. I did have batting as the second layer.
As you know by now, I am trying my hand in free motion quilting, I think this looks OK (I have high expectations of myself). I started by marking the quilt, and then decided I was wasting too much time doing this, so I proceeded to free motion quilt (in the true sense of the words). Brave, wasn't I?
Backing this quilt with the flannel has made it a heavy quilt. Probably knee size is the biggest I would make if the quilt is this heavy in the future.
This quilt is for a gentleman who we know that has very little spare time, but, enjoys fishing. It was difficult to find fabric dealing with fishes, that I found tasteful. I fussy cut the pieces and used a fat quarter pack of green progression colours to complete the blocks.
This next quilt is one that I made for a friend who is a hairdresser and refuses to take any money. Although I have offered to pay for haircuts, she refuses to take payment. So I decided I would use the same design that I used in the three shirts quilt to complete this:
I call this, "Same, same, but different", note the red,block in the bottom corner, I ran out of the red fabric! Oh well, as
Tim Gunn would say, "make it work". I like it. I am retiring this quilt design now and moving onto another.
Babies? Seems like the rush is on again at work and
Ronda and I are busily working away at making baby quilts. I do the patchwork and Ronda does the quilting. Here are some of our latest creations:
There are more quilts to be done, stay tuned for pictures of these.
We (teachers) are on two weeks of holidays now, time for my sewing machine and I to become more familiar with each other.
Happy sewing everyone.
Sandra