Chasing my tail....

It's been a busy month and I know I have neglected to show some of my customer quilts this month, I know some of my friends like to see their quilts here on my blog.....

Can you believe Anne pieced this lovely batik top from scraps left over from previous quilts, it turned out really well. Anne chose a panto with an open design 'Begonia angel wings', it shows well on the lovely backing fabric, these batiks had a lovely soft feel with a high thread count not unlike Liberty fabrics. I have it on good authority that this quilt is already bound.....

A new customer Lisa posted me this lovely quilt runner in 'dogwood' fabrics. We thought wildflower panto would be appropriate, the wadding supplied by Lisa gives a lovely puffy definition to the quilting.

Lisa took the option of having a full binding treatment supplied and applied by me so that the quilt was ready to use straight out of the package, it looks lovely Lisa.

A little bit of 'stitchery'....

I recently quilted a custom job for my customer Charlie. Charlie patiently embroidered all of the blocks in this lovely quilt and pieced them with batiks which gave the quilt a modern feel. I quilted feathers and loops to push back the background as Charlie requested giving the 'stitcheries' centre stage....turned out great, take a look....

Charlie layered up the quilt using 505 spray with 2 layers of batting and an additional circle of batting under the embroideries. A circle of 'zigzag' stitch held everything in place although we were pleased there was not even one pucker after quilting on my longarm.
You can buy many stitchery patterns like these 'life is for loving' embroidery blocks from Anne at 'Stitchin Heaven on the 697'

Best to be on the safe side.....

What do they put in those colour catchers??? Synthrapol???

The colours of this batik wide back are perfect for this pieced top....I washed it when I bought it last year but thought I had better wash it again...threw in a colour catcher, washed it again and again and again...The first time was probably without a colour catcher, the next three times with a colour catchers....Then once with a piece of cotton muslin that came out tinged with turquoise and once with a colour catcher and cotton muslin, the muslin came out white this time but still lots of colour on the catcher.....well, proves that the catchers work. I think this backing has been washed six times in all...there's a lot of white in my top....wonder if I should wash it again????

I think enough is enough???

Access all areas?

Well, when you're away from home you still have to have internet access, so for my recent trip I realised quite late in the day that I needed some kind of protection for my 'netbook'. I thought I would make a quick pouch, which turned into a bag, which turned into a quilted bag with double padding and pockets....not as quick as I had intended!

I didn't remember or have time to take loads of photos....

Here are the two main pieces already quilted.....

This inside pocket is made up from pieces of fabric from my first ever freemotion quilted quilt, it has wadding/batting and backing fabric and is stitched in the ditch, there's also an interior hidden full size pocket.

So there's room for my power cords and USB sticks, mobile modems etc. to be stored in a separate pocket so that my netbook doesn't get scratched.....

It's already been to Birmingham and back and protected my netbook well.

How can we live without the world wide web?