Recent quilting.........and a sewing project

If you have been reading my blog lately, you could be forgiven for thinking that customer quilts aren't on my agenda. When I looked back to see whose quilt I had posted last, I had to go back to last year to find any posts with customer quilts. And it seems like another 10 days have flown by, so this morning while I am waiting for it to be light enough to go outside to do some jobs, I shall make a start on this. The weather has warmed up again this week, so early mornings are the best time to be up and at it, and I shall wilt later in the day. There is lots happening here at the moment and I shall cover that in another post.

First up is a quilt by Pat, and although there were 2 just like this, I have only posted one. Both made with Kaffe fabrics into simple blocks to showcase the fabrics. This was quilted allover with Daisy Days and the other with Kaitlins e2e.

Erica made this quilt with Anita Hooley fabric range Sherbet Pips, for her granddaughter. I could not find a pattern that suited the fabrics, so we decided it just needed texture, and I loaded it lengthways, so that the pattern runs up and down, and quilted Modern Beads on it.

Jenny brought me a large pile of quilts last year and I am gradually working my way through them. The next 3 are all quilted edge to edge..... The first one is a large drunkards patch quilt, made with Oriental fabrics, and I used Flowers and Butterflys, a pattern by Deb Geisler...........

...............this quilt was made with the Black Tie Affair range of fabrics and Jenny said she wanted a pattern that was Elegant. I used Pearl Feather, an allover that I not used before, and we were both really happy with how it came out..........

........this quilt was made with Aussie fabrics featuring wombats and platypus' and was quilted allover with Inside Out.

It is daylight outside now, so I shall be back to finish this post sometime later................

Sometime much later............

                         This big star quilt was made by Donna and was less dense Custom quilted. 

Lois made this quilt for a young girl and wanted it quilted allover with something soft and pretty.

I used an edge to edge pattern called Soft and Sweet.

This is Helen's Mysolation quilt, made in an online Mystery with Rachelle Denneny. It was quilted allover with a pattern called Fandangle.

I have had this quilt of Cheryl's here since last year, so it was time to get it done. This was custom quilted and we are both very happy with how it came up. I was able to use the tools available on the Statler software to adjust the block pattern to fit the piecing. A combination of computer patterns and freehand.

The next project is not exactly quilting, but is sewing related. Years ago mum and dad had a swing seat when they were out on the farm and used to sit on it out in the verandah a lot. Then it moved into the town house and it was debatable when mum moved to the village just what to do with it. It was starting to rust and look a bit forlorn. My sister has lots of memories of sitting with Dad on the swing, so was a bit reluctant for it to be discarded. Mum decided that it was to be restored and given to her as a 50th birthday present. Those seats were looking a bit sad too........

                            .......a bit grubby and worn in places...............

So what is a sister who sews to do?? Of course I offered to make new covers for the seats. My fairy went to Spotlight and found some striped canvas fabric on sale. It was a bit tricky working out the best way to do this...........and I only wasted a little bit of the fabric.............until I came up with this.

The opening so that they can be removed and washed is just a fold and under the seat part. The original waterproof covers are still under the new covers.

And here they are, my baby sister and my mum, and the seat is back in action and good as new again.

I left this blog at daylight to go outside and work, washed windows and watered the garden. Came back in for breakfast, attacked some spiders behind the desk, and sorted mail and paperwork. Went to the Post office and supermarket and called into our Patchwork sewing day to say hello and came home just after lunch. By that time I was hot and weary, the temperature has gone up and the wind was blowing. I had a video chat with family in Melbourne and a visitor here and by that time I wilted and spent an hour in the recliner with some shut eye. Then it was back to the computer and now this post is done and I can hit publish. 

My apologies for being way behind in reading blogs. Be back soon with another update, I hope!

Blessings, From Jude