Mrs Billings...

 Sue brought me this lovely 'Mrs Billings' quilt, all hand pieced with a running stitch using beautiful bright oriental fabrics. It took around 18 months of stitching time, the hexagons are appliqued onto the background, the border design is very clever. The pattern can be found on the Quilters Guild of the British Isles website in the UK or at Somerset Patchwork in Australia.

I did what I call minimal quilting but it was still quite intense with all of those pieces, I used only two threads, Sue provided the wadding which I think was Hobbs 80/20, it's a heavy quilt with all of those seams...

The original Mrs Billings quilt is in the hands of /the Quilters Guild of the British Isles....

I'm going to let the photos speak fr themselves...

What a lot of pieces, beautiful isn't it?

Phew, caught up....

It's already February 8th, where did January go?

I've had my head down getting through my customer quilts. I got caught up with those booked in and here from 2014, cleared that space and guess what it's filled again, not complaining at all.

I had a lucky escape with my rotary cutter last week...I was only cutting one layer of fabric with hardly any pressure when my blade broke

Luckily, no one was hurt and there were no nicks on my ruler either. This is how I store and dispose of my blunt and broken needles and my blunt and now broken rotary blades. I screw the top off for blades but just drop needles into the slot. How do you dispose of your dangerous  and discarded sharp items?

I was lucky to quilt a lovely summery quilt, my customer Katy requested snowflakes in lime green thread in among the rainbows, I was happy to oblige.

Hobbs 80/20 wadding with Metro thread, the quilting is a mixture of freemotion and digitised designs.

Katy asked for a 'half binding' treatment meaning that I machine stitch the binding to the front of the quilt so that she could finish with hand stitching to the back.

Snowflakes and Rainbows.....

This lovely log cabin quilt is a 'friendship' quilt, Nancy requested this lovely design by Anne Bright, it's Galavine, this pattern always stitches out so well. the wadding is a polyester provided by Nancy.

This wonderful Irish Chain style quilt belongs to Maureen, who left me to choose the design. I used Tickle Too it's an open design with feather shapes and swirls, it worked well.

Maureen decided to have a full binding treatment meaning I machine sewed the binding to the front of the quilt and also I hand sewed the binding to the back of the quilt too. Maureen received a fully finished quilt all ready to take home and put on her own bed, that's a real luxury!


I spent the afternoon working on a new project today....

It looks very organised here, it's an illusion!