Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Quilt and appliqué wall hanging for daughters new flat

I wanted to make a housewarming gift for my daughter for her first own home.
Found this idea online and sized it down to a wall hanging.
I actually machine quilted it on my own machine! 

First I created the background patchwork  I used earthy colours at ground level then green, pinkish followed by blue.
Then I used fuisible webbing and cut out the heart flowers, placed them in a pleasing design. Stitched around each heart with an embroidery stich and then in green stitched the flower stalks finishing them at different places in the brown soil!
I then added the borders, a red and a flower border.
I then quilted in the ditch in the patchwork avoiding the flowers. 
Quilted straight lines in the red border and a on the bias crossed quilt in the flower border. Before using tartan binding  to finish and two broad loops for hanging.

Tuesday, 23 September 2003

New born baby stack and whack

I mad this for a friend I did not know the gender so I chose yellow.
I hand quilted it. 

Friday, 25 July 2003

A Kite quilt

This one was made for my sisters little son when he was born, it's hand quilted using in the ditch for border and kites and around the clouds in background 

Tuesday, 5 February 2002

Japanese Fan Quilt

This quilt was made for my parents I saw the Japanese inspired material and had just enough, never have I had to be so precise in my cutting, I had this hand quilting in the Philippines 

Stack and whack is ideal for fans



It is one of my favourite quilts 



Wednesday, 7 November 2001

Jungle Stack and Whack

This quilt used some wonderful jungle material and was made for my brothers son
I send this one out to be machine quilted 
Ten it was posted to Germany and took nearly 2 months to arrive!!! And he had to pay tax as they valued it at 400 euro!