Category Archives: Quilting

Inside the Blue Fence (Flowers From My Garden)

Sue Leon gave me a gift certificate from Traditional Pastimes at my retirement party in Calgary in September 2010. The following December we were in Calgary for Christmas and Pat and I went shopping.

Pat really liked this quilt and the salesperson said if I liked handwork I would love appliqué. Pat thought all the pieces were already cut but I knew better. I was persuaded to purchase the kit and the work began when Stacia, Deloise and I got together to quilt in the spring of 2011.

Quilting on the back (click to enlarge)

I finished the placement of the blocks when Stacia, Deloise and I again met late in 2012. With the quilt show approaching in March I worked very hard to get the quilt done for the show.

 

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From the Quilt Show:

This is ‘Flowers From My Garden’ by Lori Smith with the fabric kit prepared by Traditional Pastimes in Calgary. I was talked into this project by an over-zealous salesperson and an over-confident partner. The flower blocks are hand appliqued and I machine quilted it using both stitch-in-the-ditch and free-motion techniques.

 

My Happy Sac

For the 2012-2013 Guild Challenge we were given a lovely piece of Jacobean fabric and were challenged to use the fabric in a bag.

 

 

This lunch bag was my response to the challenge. I will use it to carry my lunch to our Tuesday sewing bees – one of my happiest days of the week!

Valentines (2013)

This pattern was one of the Project Tuesday options for January. I did the sandwiching on this one before I started the machine appliqué.

 

 

 

 

I appliqued this one before I sandwiched it. Pearl and I used a simple cross-hatch pattern.

 

 

I used the paw print fabric for this as I know the Burton’s are cat crazy! The quilting is a cross-hatch with a twist.

 

Love Birds

This was one of the Project Tuesday choices for January. It is machine appliquéd. I attached the binding by machine with a decorative stitch.

UPDATE: This went to Kathryn

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