Rebecca made this gorgeous Dresden Plate quilt, sort of for her husband, who said that he used to have one as a child. She did a lovely job appliquing the plates.
I outlined each plate by 1/4 inch, and stitched down the center with a circle. Then I did swirlies in the negative spaces and the border. Thanks for the inspiration, Debra!
A dresden plate is another quilt that is on my list of quilt to do!
Miyo brought me this cute Inukshuk wallhanging. She wanted it done for the quilt show, so I used Lisa Thiessen's "Flurry" pantograph on most of it in a sweet variegated thread, then free-handed some snow drifts. Pretty quick and easy.
It's a really cute quilt! In time for the Olympics, too.
Denise started this Jinny Beyer Sampler Quilt over 20 years ago. She says it was her first quilt, that she made at a class taught by Muriel Neale (of Grand Forks) Can you believe it? Jinny Beyer and her fabrics are still going strong and don't go out of style! In my opinion, these are the most gorgeous of sampler quilts made!
I also took this class about 15 years ago, from Karen Holden (of Castlegar). This method was not rotary cut! You made cardboard templates, traced around them, cut approximately 1/4 inch around them, and carefully pinned the pieces together, matching the points long the drawn lines. It is slow, but very accurate. The best part was that by fussy cutting the border fabrics you came up with beautifully unique designs within your block!
Seeing Denise's quilt makes me wish I had used Jinny Beyer prints, too.
Ideally, I would love to have quilted each block separately and accordingly, but time was a factor (it had to ready for the quilt show), so I chose the same medallion to put into each block. Also, the design had an open center, so I was not fighting the junction in the center of most of the blocks where many pieces came together. It worked out really well! The sashing had it's own design, so rather than fight it I just followed the cable-like lines.
The border was pretty much solid, and I wanted something to replicate the onion-dome shapes of many of Jinny Beyer's border prints. I used the panto 'Arabesque' to help me out.
Denise was back, with another fantastic quilt for me to stitch together for her. I tell you, that women is prolific! And she knits up socks by the dozen, as well!!! I want to be like her when I grow up!
This is a version of Delectable Mountains that she whipped up. It called for some feathers and straight-line quilting. I am thankful for Denise allowing me to chose what to do on her quilts, and she hasn't complained once, at least, not to me! Thanks, Denise!
Here is a cozy flannel quilt that Roberta made for her grand-daughter. She purchased the kit on-line, and so all the fabrics match and probably come from the same fabric line, all co-ordinated. Sure takes the stress out of chosing fabrics yourself!
Roberta chose the Papillon (butterfilies) panto again, it happens to be a favorite! Lucky grand-daughter!
Through my friend Mona, I got to meet one of her best friends who was visiting from McBride, BC.
Joette is a very active member in her guild. By the sounds of it, they are always making some project or another, and holding workshops all the time. She also attended a Ricky Tims/Alex Anderson workshop this summer. This gal is not afraid to travel!
She brought along with her 2 quilt tops, one of her own, and another belonging to a friend.
Joette's was a BQEasy pattern. From what I know of her so far, she has a thing for african animal prints, and this quilt brought out the wild thing in her!
We chose to gently outline the cat faces, a fern-like meander in the other spaces, and some cat paw prints around the border.
Joette's friends quilt was a "card tricks" pattern, a very modern version with a coffee/latte theme going on. I chose to do a simple feather in the card trick blocks, with another treatment in the sashing. (Is there a name for that design?) I can't remember what I did in the setting triangles, probably a simple feather as well. Too bad I didn't take a better photo of it! I do remember doing piano keys in the border, just by following the stripe in the border fabric.
My sister-in-law Janet made this quilt for her Mom, who is of Scottish descent. I would not describe her Mom as prickly at all! But she is as lovely as the bloom!
The two of them took a memorable trip to Scotland a couple of years ago, and walked the same paths that their ancestors did!
I am very proud of Janet, she took this block and designed a nice layout for this lovely quilt. I really like this particular block and especially the colours!
It took me ages to decide what and how to quilt those blank spaces. I finally decided on a thistle-looking motif, and carried it into the border treatment, if you can see it.
