Star Quilts

 Katherine made these two star quilts.  I had so much fun quilting them, the fabric choices were so wonderful.  This first quilt got a plumage pantograph, lovely large feathers

I love having Katherine as a client---she wanted to use this Liberty fabric as backing,  it was large enough for the top, but not large enough for loading--so she added some extenders to the backing.  

The second star quilt was done in soft brushed cottons (I think, they had a lovely feel to them whatever they were). 

 

Katherine presses her seams open, so there was no issue with bulk in the center of the star.

 This quilt got a freehand square meander pattern. 

Scraps of Life

This is the 'before' picture of Heather T's Scraps of Life quilt.  When I googled that quilt name, this is what came up https://www.amazon.ca/Scraps-Life-Helen-Ogden-Widener/dp/0615265359


I think it's called Scraps of Life, because for most people, it would take a lifetime to piece.  If I counted correctly, each block has 181 pieces in it.  The squares in this quilt finish at 1".

Heather wanted to keep the quilting traditional looking, and we knew that the piecing had to shine, and that not much would show against the piecing,  so we chose the Plumage panto to add a feather texture to this quilt.  No point in paying for custom quilting that won't show. 

 As expected, the quilting doesn't show much, so the panto was a great option.

 Have a look at the directional fabric in the block below--the wavy lines are all marching in the same direction. 

I didn't expect much to show on this busy backing, but the quilting texture actually showed better on the back.

181  1" pieces per block...20 blocks....every point was pointy, my jaw is still on the floor

Thanks for letting me play with your Scraps of Life quilt Heather.

Purple Plumage

This is one of Ethel's quilts, made at the request of her daughter, for one of her daughter's friends.  Lucky friend.

Every once in a while, a quilt just wants a pantograph, and so this quilt got the pantograph Plumage.

 A bubble minkee in a lovely grey for the backing

 This last picture reads very blue, but the quilt is actually a lovely purple.  Funny how cameras work.

Arabesque

 This quilt is one of mine.  It's a scrappy quilt called Arabesque, from a fabric swapping class at Needleworks years ago.  We met once a month, each bringing 6 lights and 6 darks (for example) and swapping fabrics to get lots of variety for a scrappy quilt.  Those sewing nights were a lot of fun, and I wound up with 5 very different quilts, and at that point in time I certainly didn't have enough scraps to make a scrappy quilt on my own.  This is the last of mine to be finished.   I was glad to see recently that my friend Nancy had a client bring in one of the other quilt patterns from one of  the same classes to finish, so I'm not the only one still working on these years later. 

I had always planned to do a custom quilting job on this quilt, and have been waiting for months for it to 'speak' to me about how it wanted to be quilted, but ultimately couldn't decide on anything, and so....pantograph!

 This pantograph is Plumage by Jodi Beamish, and adds a lovely texture to the quilt.  Hobbs 80-20 batting and a nice flannel backing to finish it off.

The binding is done, the label is on...all I need do is give it to its new owner.