Spring 2012 Bloggers Quilt Festival

If you have arrived here for the first time through the Bloggers Festival, welcome to Tamarack Shack.   I am a professional longarm quilter that lives on the shores of Schist Lake in Northern Manitoba Canada. I love to photograph my quilts and my clients quilts outdoors all year round. It is just as much fun as quilting the quilts. In winter the snowy backdrop and the ice from the lake make a wonderful setting and in the summer the water on the lake provides a wonderful shimmer when the quilts are displayed on the dock. My neighbor clothesline also provided a great spot to see the whole quilt...when the wind isn't blowing!

The quilt I chose to share this time is my Scrappy Squares quilt. This was a project that our guild did and we exchanged 3" fabric squares.  What I loved about his quilt is all the background space to play with quilting designs as the quilting is my favorite part.

My longarm is hand guided so all my work is free hand or ruler assisted.
I did CC's in the squares and then added feathered wreaths and other feather motifs in the borders.

I created a faux border in the background to mimic the pieced squares in the inner border.  Then feathered the outer border in a flowing curled pattern.

Here is a peek at the back.

I finished this quilt in December of 2011 when the ice on the lake was crystal clear where my boys had there ice hockey rink.  I couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a picture of the quilt over top of all the cracks in the ice...just wish the sun shone that day so you could see the quilting in this picture as well.

Thanks for stopping by and visiting.   Enjoy the rest of the festival, I know I'll be on my computer a lot this week checking out all the great eye candy!

Kathy