Another top done!

I finished the Plusses quilt top this morning before setting off to Quilt group. I think it will look stunning when it's been long arm quilted.



















At quilt group Linda showed her Cowboy Boots quilt which her son took to the states and got quilted for £35, just a stars and loops panto, but great to get it done.

Then when I got home there was an email from Jenny with a picture of the block she has made for her Sampler quilt, following on from the Rattlesnake class I taught. She had to  reduce the size of the pattern to make the block fit her scheme. It looks really good on point, and I love it when students take the technique and go off and do their own thing!

Just the label to do..

Here is the quilt I've been working on to celebrate a friend's wedding.
The pattern is called Winding Ways and I love making it with lots of fabrics so that the mediums interfere somewhat with the continuity of the big dark and light circles and make them seem to move. It gives the quilt surface so much more interest.
On the off chance this is a bit bright for the bedroom, the reverse is a lovely soft pink dot which shows up the quilting by my friend Mandy Parks to perfection.

Serpentine curves

I've made some more blocks, but this is still a work in progress!

Serpentine curves

Star spin experiment

I've been trying out the Star Spin block, I made a template wedge of 18 degrees and used fabric pieces from the scraps table, actually leftovers from a quilt Izi made for her daughter.
I machine appliquéd a circle on, I drew round a cup for that as my circle templates are all at home. Trimmed to a square and machine quilted in a spiral.

Cushion top.

I learnt something new today. We all bring books and have a mini library and in one of them I found instructions for machine sewing hexagons. These are quite small, and are joined together with a faggoting stitch. They would be good appliquéd to a bag.

Raffle prize!

Look what I won in the raffle! Isn't it lucky when your name comes out first!! Beautiful jewel colours.

Wheels done

Wheels are now all joined up into a top, set on the diagonal I only need nine blocks.
Never again will I use cheap fabric for the background. There is no give in this poplin and it pulls and tries to pucker.
The overall design is pleasing and I hope it will look much better when it is quilted. It is about 53" square before quilting.

Finished!

Eccentric crosses quilt finished! I machined the binding to the wrong side and turned it over and machined to down on the front. Must be the only time I've bound a quilt in a day, usually takes me weeks. Very pleased with the end result.
Finished size  58 and a half by 75 and a half. iPad doesn't know fractions!
Fabulous quilting by Mandy Parks www.quiltswhiskers.co.uk