Just Can't Cut It - Leaves

Noreen stays busy piecing, and she brought me this Just Can't Cut it Quilt.  This one had leaves in the main fabric, so I chose to use the Forest Floor pantograph.

 and a fern-y flannel maintains the leaves theme.

Owls

 Crystal pieced this quilt for her Grandma who loves owls.  I don't often quilt with a pantograph, but sometimes the quilt tells me what it wants, and these owls needed a forest floor to hunt in, so I used the pantograph Forest Floor for this one. 

 It added a really nice leafy texture. 

 Crystal sent me a photo of her and her Grandma together with the quilt.  It was very nice, but it's not my photo, so I won't share it here, you'll just have to imagine it :)  . 

 Thanks for letting me quilt for you Crystal.  

Tea Time in Bali #4

This is Vicki's quilt, and it was a gift for her SIL's birthday.  It's been gifted now, so it's safe to share.

I don't know if any of these photos capture the true colours of this quilt, which is vibrant and rich.  The first one might be closest. 

 This quilt has such a strong autumnal feeling, Vicki wanted to keep that and we chose a Forest Floor pantograph.

 The leaf below was my favourite leaf to stitch out

Forest Floor

This quilt is Heather's Turning Twenty.  It's in greens with lots of leafy fabrics, so we chose to do a freehand 'Forest Floor' all over pattern.

 It was an honour to have Heather ask me to quilt this, as, when I was first learning to quilt on my domestic sewing machine, Heather taught me a lot about quilting...how to break thread and stitch over a few stitches if you went off your stencil or pattern or turned the wrong way, and a whole lot of other very useful things.  She decided that she didn't want to wrestle with a quilt this large on her sewing machine. 

 I was a little nervous quilting this, because I've seen a quilt that Heather has quilted in leaves, and she does such beautiful work,  I wanted to live up to her standards.    Once I quit being nervous, I had a lot of fun.

 I think this Forest floor turned out well, if I do say so myself.  Thanks Heather, for trusting me with your quilt.

 a photo of my design board, as I worked, I could look at the different types of leaves.  The Forest Floor idea comes from Suzanne Earley's book.Meandering Magic