I've been battling with my computer gremlins again this morning, just for you! So that you can see how very marvelous the projects are, done by some wonderful customers of my very own, rather glorious, quilt shop. That's a bit of happy cheese for a Sunday morning!
In no particular order, here goes a catch up...
Christabelle is continuing to piece her Pie In The Sky Daydreamer blocks. It's a free pattern from Tilda's World free pattern web pages. There is a lot of piecing, lots of tiny bits but well worth it and Chris has a lot of patience, which helps.
Our Pam started, yet another, baby quilt top. The pattern is in an Annie's Quilting book, excellent value books Fast & Fun Quilts for Kids available in my very own shop, of course! Pam was concentrating to make sure all the football blocks were the right way up, a thing she tortures herself with sometimes!
Shirley loves all the French General from Moda fabrics. Rich reds and creams, you can't go wrong really. These are just a few of her multi sized Churndash blocks. She's making her own version of the lovely Churn Baby Churn quilt.
Jackie has started to make blocks for a sampler quilt. She is very keen to perfect her piecing skills and this project will certainly help with that. A few Tilda Fat Quarter bundles were a perfect and irresistible starting point. So many tiny pieces to be cut.
Clare is a new arrival in my classroom. Another lovely lady joining in the Thursday crew. She pleases her very own self, which I encourage, a lot, but sometimes I have to bite my very own tongue. especially when Clare didn't trim her crusts off before adding the binding, I think she might be a rebel.
2 quilts in one day for Clare. Both were for gifting and needed to be finished Lick-etty-split. No wadding between the layers but that soft, baby-fluffy fabric on the back should be fine.
Jackie came to make her huge Log Cabin quilt sandwich. As you can see, the quilt was too big for all of my tables so it was pinned in two stages. Same result though. We discussed lots of quilting design ideas and Jackie went home to flex her muscles in readiness for the quilting process
Apparently, Beano started this Stack-n-Whack project back in 2014. She can't remember why she stopped making the blocks. All the fabrics are cut out and kitted up. Packing them away helped them to be un-remembered! Like forgotten, but less tragic. No matter now though as Beano is back on the Kaleidoscope train/horse!
Norma had collected two of her quilts from Amanda in Stone so she spent the class time making miles and miles of binding. All stitched on by the end of the day and ready for hand sewing to the back, a lovely sewing job that Norma enjoys. I'll have to give you the pattern/book details another time. Probably in Norma's Toot toot post.
Norma used a solid white fabric for the back so that the coloured thread would show up the wonderful quilting Amanda and her trusty Long Arm machine stitched.
Norma's second quilt, tadaaaaah. Boho Heart, by Jen Kingwell. I have quite a few ladies making this pattern. Like the Gypsy Wife, it's a great one for using up, and creating more, scraps! Norma enjoyed making it so much that she has decided to make the Gypsy Wife one too.
Sue wanted to learn how to do machine applique, the sticky stuff method, my favorite! This lovely design is in the book Wild Blooms and Colourful Creatures Isn't it sweet! The book patterns are for Wool Felt but we just please our very own selves and use quilting cotton, because we can! Sue will make a few cushions with this design before making a quilt.
Merlot has been rooting in her piles at home. She found several panels, 12 actually. She can't remember buying them, she can't remember what she was thinking she would use them for either, they must have been an impulse purchase, but now, all 12 are in the process of being made into lovely cushions.
They are lovely, Merlot has been artsy with her quilting too. I'm not sure you can make the stitching out but click in for a better look, there's a bucket and spade on one of them!! Toot toot toot Merlot, 2 fabulous finishes so far.
Deb has been working on this quilt top for as long as she liked. She has very much enjoyed the whole process. Every block with carefully chosen fabrics and embellishments. It's the Snowman Collector Quilt that was a block of the month back in the 1990's. Deb spent her class making a fabulous backing in readiness for making her enormous quilt sandwich on a Sandwich Saturday, which, as you know, will be on a Friday!
That's all for this post.
Just please remember that it's time to pay your deposits for the Sewing retreat in August. I'll post the details for you again shortly. I think there are 4 places remaining.
Also, if you plan to join us for our next Checkley Funday Sewday on 29th June, it's time to pay for that too.
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