My Blue Angel

Truly enjoyed embroidery work and handquilting on this wall quilt and is one of my favourites.

Anniversary Quilt

The above started as a project to challenge myself different styles and types of embroidery in one block and when done was going to become a large ruffled pillow.  I could not find the fabric I wanted to border this so decided to turn it into a wall quilt.  My dh made the wall mount for this as he does all of my quilts.

Miss Kay by Erin Russek

I did this block as my first large applique project.  I have not used large flowers before and this one has captivated my heart.

I have added the in progress pictures to show a fellow quilting friend, how I chose to handquilt this one.

I can only do straight line quilting on the ones that I have given to a local nursing home, but will always do handquilting until I can perfect machine quilting.

This block is missing the dimensional circles at the peaks of the tulips and I plan on adding some dimensional butterflies twitting amongst the flowing daisies.

I enjoyed hand appliquing this piece and the pattern is available at Erin's blog ' One Piece At A Time."

I always have more than one project on the run at a time.

 

Detail of one corner

Not pleased until I added cross hatching and it made the flowers pop as well.

Easter Blessings in progress

This is a little 7.5 inch block that was designed by Esther and shared with her online group.  I have to add more detail to the leaves etc., and there are two more borders to follow the dark innner border.  A slow work in progress for me.

Pictures as promised

Took some quick pictures of the five little quilts that I did on the machine and am sharing here..........the pattern is below.

Verendah Views

This was the most adorable quilt I have done in a long long time. I truly enjoyed embroidering the little pictures from Willowberry Designs and then chose my own soft colours............well I added what I considered a two wide border and then decided to add some ruffled lace and ribbons to take away from the width, so now it becomes a wall or lap quilt. I have yet to do the label.

Willowberry Designs - Verendah View

I have finished embroidering this gorgeous little quilt from Willowberry Designs called Verendah Views and used a few more colours. I also went with a log effect rather than the little one inch borders that set them apart.

I have them pinned and ready to be basted and put in a frame. I love to hand quilt and this small quilt will be one of my favourites when done. I have pressed where I will end the quilting and add a wide border or lace or scallops, not sure which as yet, but I am so pleased to be able to start hand quilting this one this week.

I have totally enjoyed reading and stitching Verendah Views as we all can attest to the designs in each of these blocks.

Gail Pan Sesign - Christmas Wish Quilt

Having returned to sewing mode again I decided that if I drew on the designs on the little blocks and then embroidered them they would not get finished and just sit in a basket like a lot of my little blocks do, so this time I selected two feature fabrics, one I had more of than the other and i chose to set it together with the first border in a solid green so that the above colours would be added when the embroidery is finished. I love the sentiment and time that Gail has put into these designs.

This is phase one, the blocks are all drawn onto and set together with two prints, one red and one green and bordered. I am now picking out the threads that I will chose and will put this in my special stitching corner to start right away. These are so inspirational. I also have one block extra for the back and hope to be able to put the word " Family , and Pray, what a treasure this little wall quilt will be and hopefully it will share this Christmas with us.