All the Way from South Africa!

Phyllis is a returning customer - all the way from South Africa!  Her daughter and a couple of grandkids live here so she comes to visit them from time to time.  And she brings quilt tops.  Easier to pack before they are quilted so she has brought them to me for quilting.  This year there is an "adult" quilt and a "kids" quilt.  So first up is the adult quilt.  It's a medallion sampler quilt for lack of a better description.  Except for the centre medallion there are two of each block.  I quilted each pair the same way - more or less!

And here is the kid's quilt.  She used her embroidery machine to stitch out 8 different air transportation motifs.  Very cute!

Another Meadow Quilt!

Kathy asked me to quilt her Meadow quilt.  This is the second Meadow quilt  I've quilted and they are such pretty quilts!  

I took a few "close ups" to show the variegated thread, but I'm not a great photographer and the lighting wasn't great either so it really doesn't show up in the pix the way I had hoped.  Anyway, I'm really happy with the way the thread looks.  I used it in the "grunge" borders and it's just perfect.

A word about thread:  I mostly use Glide thread as it runs really well in my machine and it looks nice - it has a nice sheen to it.  But I wasn't so happy with the Glide variegated thread as it breaks too much.  This variegated thread is Wonderfil Fabulux. 

A Jinny Beyer Galaxy of Stars - Quilted!

My customer drove all the way from Spruce Grove to bring me her beautiful quilt to quilt.  That's a 4 hour drive!  I'm very honoured.  She wanted it custom quilted - which is what I love to do!  Not much more to say other than take a look at the pix.

I've been trying to be better about tracking my time.  This one took about 35 hours.  I used 18 pre-wound bobbins, which works out to about 4279 m of thread (~ 4.3 km).  

Three Finishes

Three quilts for Jean.  Quilted!

She left me the pattern for this one and it turns out its a pattern by Andrea Harris, one of my quilting colleagues from Calgary.

Andrea quilted hers with wavy lines so I started this one with wavy lines, but I didn't like the way it was going (not steady enough - Andrea must have a steadier hand than I do!) so I took out my initial 8 wavy lines and started again with Angela Walters "signature" design - although I have seen it in other books as well.  Much happier with this. 

I will never take any prizes for my photography - I see the string from the lens cap got in the way and I don't have time to go out for more pix today.  Anyway - below is quilt number two.

I picked up some variegated Fabulux thread and I'm really happy with the way my machine handled it!

Finally this little beauty.

And the back - for a special boy!