Black, red & white

This quilt was part of Pioneer Patchworkshops BOM program in 2012/2013. It comprised of 12 sampler blocks, with 3 different versions to set them. This version was quilted with modern paisley again, this time using a black thread. Completely different look to the previous one.

Stunning black & white

This quilt was one of my recent favourites. A disappearing nine patch pattern. Quilted with 'modern paisley'. Making a black and white quilt just got added to the list.

Community quilts

I recently joined the Campbelltown Patchwork and Quilters guild and amongst other activities they also have a community quilt program. These quilts go to community members for various reason, be it illness or for comfort. It took a couple home to quilt, they're only smaller projects and it's always nice to give something back.

Quilted with 'Swirling'

Quilted with 'Petra'

Beautiful Rosings

This was a hand appliqué extravaganza. The quilt is called Rosings, after the estate in pride and prejudice, taught by a local teacher Katrina Hadjimiichael. There is a lot of hand stitching in the centre. Sometimes people think that quilts like this need to be custom quilted. I don't think the edge to edge design took too much away from it. The design is called 'Maidenhair'

Stack and slash quilt

Another clever piecing method was used to make this quilt. It is called stack and slash, basically layer together 5 squares, cut into 5 pieces, sew them back together and you will have a beautiful randomly pieced quilt top. I like how some of the blocks intertwine. It gives the quilt an interesting dimension. Quilted with 'cotton puffs'.

Detailed shot, showing 'cotton puffs' beautifully

Beautiful back!

Charity Quilt

My friends from BlanketLovez are getting another finished quilt today. It is a double bed quilt, which will brighten up one of the rooms at Ronald McDonald House in Orange. Quilted with 'dog bones'

First quilt

This is my customer's first ever quilt top. Hasn't she a great job? A bit of piecing, a bit of appliqué in very pretty girly colours. And she is going to give it to her niece. Well done!
Quilted with "Triple Heart butterfly".

Movement in squares

I finally finished my first modern quilt. It was a pattern from Benartex called movement in squares. Very simple piecing, the effect comes from the fabrics. Quilted with 'zendoodle'. I entered it into the modern quilt show in Berry at the beginning of May. Wish me luck :-)

Beautiful star quilt

I finished another quilt for a customer. A rather large bed quilt, love the colour combination of creams and blues. Quilted with a design called "luck of the Irish". Apparently the lady's daughter in law comes from Ireland. What a lovely thought.

So bright, so cheerful

Another quilt for BlanketLovez, which is going to Ronald McDonald house in Orange. It will be on a bed in the Rainbow room. Quilted with 'connected circles'.

New favourite pattern

I bought a new digitised pattern today. It's from the zendoodles range. Look how random, modern and exciting it is! So cannot wait to use it on one of my quilts.

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Perfect point centre

This must be the ultimate cleverness in patchwork: have a centre with squares and they all line up perfectly. It is possible. :-) take a pre-printed panel. Quilted with 'the garden'. Love the backing too!

Asian ladies version2

My lovely customer made the same quilt again for her other daughter. Quilted again with 'asianfans'. I dropped her quilt off last week and she loved it so much, she rang me in the afternoon expressing her excitement. So very sweet of her.

Little charity quilt

Took some time this afternoon and quilted this little premmie quilt for BlanketLovez, which is going to Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital. Very bright and cheerful. Quilted with 'the garden'.

Superheroes version 1

My dear friend Lisa made 3 superheroes quilts, for son, nephew and friend. I had so much fun quilting this as I was given free reign over design and thread colour. I felt I hijacked the quilt a little :-). It still shows the superhero fabrics off, and the quilting enhances the plainer sections. The design is called Gotham, by the very clever australian pattern designer Keryn Emmerson.

pieced backing

Lovely Asian quilt

A beautiful Asian quilt, fresh off the machine this afternoon. My lovely customer made two of these, for her two daughters. She used a backing that really shows the quilting. Quilted with 'Asianfans'

The quilt

A close up

The back

The journey so far

Wow, what an exciting 4 months it has been.
My statler stitcher arrived in early November and quilting could be classified as my new addiction. To start with I finished off a few old "friends"from my patchwork past, then I volunteered my services to a local children's charity BlanketLovez (www.blanketlovez.com) which at the time was making quilts for kids traumatized in last years bush fires in the Blue Mountains. Meanwhile I had my business cards printed, a pattern folder organized and a few ladies from Pioneer Patchwork at Narellan have given me a try (thank you!)