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May 10 and 11, 2024 was the “Look What We Made” quilt show hosted by the Prairie Piecemakers Quilt Guild. This is the first show that I was involved with both as the long armer for the pictured quilts and as a volunteer. I had a great time at the show. The first five quilts are all donation quilts through Connected Threads Network and the last three are quilts belonging to clients. I was pretty excited that a client, her first show, received a ribbon from the guest quilter, Brett Lewis of Natural Born Quilter.
A member of the Connected Threads Network had a donation quilt that she wanted to enter into the May 2024 quilt show here in Regina. I was pretty excited to sort out some custom work ideas for the flower pots. This quilt is a good example of light custom work without being too heavily quilted. I will lay down some plastic over the quilt to audition ideas before starting. I used stitch in the ditch around each block, outlined the flower pot and added flowers to the pot. I treated the setting triangles like their own border and added a butterfly motif in them. The full squares inside received a flower garden motif. I did a curl/vine look for the outer border. The quilting done on this might be my favourite to date.
These two quilts were pieced by a member of the Connected Threads Network group here in Regina, Saskatchewan. I had a large piece of batting and backing available. Instead of cutting them to these quilts separately, I kept it as one piece and alternated the design as I went back and forth between each top. This is a great option if you are having trouble meeting the minimum charge. Each quilt or smaller work can be quilted with its own design and matching threads. Both designs count as medium density due to the echo stitching and are in the 4-6 object category.
This beautifully pieced quilt was brought to me by a client. The finished quilt was gifted to her mother-in-law who I had the privilege to meet a couple times when I bumped into them at a quilt store and a quilt show. The client asked me to trim and bind the quilt for her since she felt I could do that much quicker and time was a priority. I used a low density flower and leafy curl motif that fit into the 1-3 object category.
This outdoors themed client quilt was dressed up using an oak leaves, acorns, and leafy curl motif that is quickly becoming a popular motif. This is an example of low density quilting using 1-3 object. The back of the quilt is fireside. I do quilt fireside and minky backings - if you are bringing me one of these backings, please make sure they are one piece (not pieced together). The material is a lot heavier and the piecing seam is very bulky and can cause issues with stitching over that seam.
The clients that brought these quilt tops to me inherited them from a family member. I was able to quilt, trim, and bind these quilts for them. The one quilt was meant to be a graduation quilt for a grandson and the clients were so thrilled that they managed to find it. The photos on the graduation quilt could not be quilted over so I used rulers to outline the photos and did a meander all around. The 3D cubes quilt has a C’s and S’s pattern stitched into it and the other has stars and loops. All three quilts are low density quilting. The photo quilt moved from meander into the 1-3 shapes category to account for the added ruler work. The stars and loops also 1-3 shapes and the C’s and S’s are a meander. There was a separate border added so as not quilt over the phalange added between the body and borders.
I designed and made this “pixelated” butterfly quilt using donated fabric to Connected Threads Network. This quilt is made up of quarter square triangles. I quilted the black border areas with a variety of flowers, the inside of the butterfly with butterflies and added some texture to the body of the butterfly along with some antennas. This quilt went out for donation.
These three tops were pieced for donation by a member of the Connected Threads Network group and I had the privilege of quilting them. The first two are different kinds of echo swirls. The third stars and stripes was quilted with echo hearts in the stripes, curly hearts in the border, and some custom quilt work done in the stars.
This practice piece and then quilted piece is a filled paisley design with smaller paisley and daisies to fill some spaces. The first four pictures are the quilt this design was intended for (The Fence Rail quilt was pieced by someone else). The yellow and red are the practice piece. The white board is part of how a design comes to fruition. The intended quilt was 45” x 45” and the quilting is an example of medium density, 7-8 shapes plus two borders. You can use this information in the pricing calculator under Pricing Information - Edge to Edge.
Four lonestar quilts for a client, one has traditional meander, another an elongated meander to give the illusion of water/wind swirling around, and two in a C’s and S’s pattern. All of these fall under the meander category and are a light density quilting.
Another quilt group top is done. This monochromatic quilt was done with a purple variegated thread. The quilting is an edge to edge, free hand design of daisies, pansies, and butterflies. The large design will make it perfect to snuggle under. If you are using the quilt calculator, this is a low density design of 1-3 basic images.
This quilt is an example of custom quilting. The quilting is designed to look like thread coming off the spools and “sampler stitching” in the piano key borders. A map of sorts was made to help keep the border consistent with types of stitching that went into it. The spools were done with a ruler and the border and loopy meander are free hand. The complexity of custom quilting can vary, this one was fairly basic - no thread changes and I was able to move into and out of the border without breaking thread.
Custom/commission quilt for a client. My client had an idea of what they wanted for design and a colour palette that needed to match the pink carpet in their home. I pieced the top and quilted it with a flower garden motif. This quilt is an example of edge to edge quilting with 7-8 simple shapes and medium density (no special borders).
Two matching airplane themed quilts made at the same time. Both quilts are queen sized measuring in about 90x100 inches. The quilting done was a low density, edge to edge design of 4-6 simple shapes of clouds, stars, swirls, and moons.
First Queen size quilt, this was before the long arm was purchased.