Town Square Quilt

Kim made this colourful Town Square quilt, which is a pattern by Missouri Star Quilt Co.  She used a Moda Grunge Dots jelly roll and a speckled black linen.  The border is a grey Grunge Seeing Stars fabric. 

I quilted it with the Soho pantograph, used a green/grey So Fine thread and used Quilters Dream Blend batting.

Whispering Pines Quilt

Lori found a great way to use her Northcott Fabrics 'Whispering Pines' panel and fabrics!  She used a pattern called Nature's Strips by Pine Tree Country Quilts.  

I quilted it with the Ebb and Flow pantograph, used a dark teal So Fine thread and Quilters Dream Blend batting.

I don't have any pines to photograph this quilt around but do have a lot of Poplar trees. It was -30'c when I ran out to take these pictures but I wasn't going to miss an opportunity then there was no wind! 

Flannel Bjorn Bear Quilt

Sarah-Lynn made this sweet Elizabeth Hartman's 'Bjorn Bear' quilt for her 3 year old grandson's birthday next month. She used a solid beige background and sashing, and the bears are pieced using a fat quarter bundle of Woolies Flannels from Runaway Quilting.  Love the addition of the bear wearing glasses.

Sarah-Lynn suggested Cool Beans for the pantograph which worked great on the bears.  It also shows up nicely on the brown Minkie backing. 

I used a beige So Fine thread and used Quilters Dream Blend batting.

 

Stitched Pink Quilt

Our local guild, The Cabin Country Quilters, has been donating a raffle quilt to a local cancer charity event called The Luncheon of Hope for many years now.  The quilts donated are a well received by the event and a lot of effort is put into selling tickets.  It is nice to see quilts appreciated and money raised for a wonderful charity group.

This year the guild members decided on Moda's Stitched Pink quilt which was a free project that was released a block a day back in October 2020 to increase awareness of Breast Cancer. We cut block kits and members took a block or two home to stitch. Last Wednesday a small group was able to meet and sew the quilt top together.  I took it home to quilt and it just needs the binding.  I'm happy to past that job along to another guild member. 

You can find the block patterns at this link to Moda's Stitched Pink archive. 

We asked Quilt Junction if they would kit this up for us using an assortment of Pink Moda Grunges which was suggested in the pattern.  They did a fabulous job!

I quilted it with white So Fine thread and used Quilters Dream Blend batting.  The pantograph is called Windswept and has the look of flowing ribbons. 

The backing is a pink batik with the breast cancer ribbon image.

Blooming Rings Quilt

This is Lori's amazing Double Wedding Ring quilt.  The pattern templates she used where from a pattern called Blooming Rings by Julie Taylor and can be found in the February 2021, issue 69, of Today's Quilter magazine.  Lori used much softer neutral colours for her quilt.

She made this quilt for her son and his fiancée for their up coming wedding this year. What a fabulous gift!  

I did light custom quilting and used my curved rulers to SID around all the rings.  I then free handed a pedal/leaf motif in the centers to evenly fill the space.  

I quilted it with white So Fine thread and Lori brought 100% cotton batting.

 

Embroidery Kits!

Oh boy!  I have a new addiction... embroidery kits!   I got a few cross stitch kits for Christmas and really enjoyed my evening time stitching as I use to cross stitch a lot before I started quilting years ago.

Well I then went down the rabbit hole and started searching embroidery on Instagram!  So many amazing kits and projects are now available.  And one of my favorite quilt shops, Fabriculous, starting carrying a few lines of embroidery kits in her shop so I picked up a three kits from there to give it a try.    

This little hedgehog was my latest finished and I was sure it was going to mess it up as I have never stitched single floss threads to make fur before! He turned out so sweet! 

The kits is by Jessica Long Embroidery and the 6" hoop that comes with it is great quality!

The kit I tried before the Hedgehogs was called Summer Birds, also by Jessica Long Embroidery 

The kits has the hummingbirds stitched in blue but I changed the colour to match the Ruby Throated Hummingbirds I get at our feeder in the summer. It is also in a 6" hoop.

Before that one I tried a kit from Kiriki called Star map and it was mostly backstitching on preprinted cotton fabric so that was a good transition project from being use to stitching on aida/linen to switching over to a tighter weave cotton fabric. Great quality 11" hoop in this kit too. 

And the two Cross Stitch kits I got for Christmas ( purchased at Keystone Modern Creative)  where both kits by Diana Watters. The first one is called Alpine Flowers and the second one is Twilight Garden.

Now I need to start shopping again for more projects as I whipped through all these in the last month.  I am still quite busy with my longarming, but its been so cold and windy I find my motivation to take quilt pictures is really low right now. But I hope once things warm up a bit I'll get back to my normal quilt posts.   

Granny Square Quilt

Kerri made this fun Granny Square quilt using a wonderful array of rainbow colours. She fussy cut an image from the fabrics for the center square in all the blocks.

I quilted it with the Popcorn pantograph, used white So Fine thread and Quilters Dream Blend batting.

The backing is a sweet 'Robin in the Hood' flannel fabric by Michael Miller Fabrics.

Lily's Garden Quilt

Bev made this sweet quilt called Lily's Garden, pattern by Patrick Lose. Fabrics are also called Lily's Garden by Patrick Lose for RJR Fabrics.  She chose Ginger Snap for the pantograph and pink So Fine thread.  Batting is Quilters Dream Blend. 

Bev brought a lovely red flannel fabric for the backing that shows off the quilting. 

 

Atomic Starburst Quilt

Gail made this fun Atomic Starburst baby quilt, pattern by Violet Craft.  She used Tula Pink's Lineworks fabric and fussy cut the images in the diamonds. 

I quilted it with the Windswept pantograph, used charcoal So Fine thread and Quilters Dream Blend batting.

The backing is a sweet Dear Stella fabric with panda bears. I used a lighter grey Magna-glide thread on the back.