Pretty Medallion

 

A small lap quilt that I worked on in the April school holidays (while confined to the sewing room with a mild dose of Covid!) 

The pattern is the Medallion quilt from Cheryl Brickey's 'Just One Charm Pack' pattern book, and measures 39.5" square.

I used a charm pack of Papillon fabrics (by 3 Sisters for Moda)  and a tone-on-tone white/cream print, all from my stash.

I was able to practise free-motion quilting of some different motifs with my Bernina Q20 longarm (so happy!) and when it was all finished I tucked the quilt away until the end of May when it was given as a thank you gift to our wonderful neighbour (and dog-sitter) Janet Pollard when we moved house.

I gave feathers a try in the outer border...

...and did some other motifs in the white areas.

Squarosaurs quilt

This small twin bed quilt (or super large lap quilt) is a finish from the Easter holidays, and will be winging its way across the Tasman to become the new bed quilt in Brisbane for the son of one of my former pupils that I still keep in touch with!

His mum Leah requested something with animals or Pooh Bear, but nothing in my stash took my fancy (or I didn't have enough to make a twin quilt with it) - I found these cute dinosaurs at Spotlight and matched them up with some coordinating prints and solids.

The pattern is 'Scattered Squares' and is a free layer cake pattern on the Moda website, designed by Melanie from the A Bit of Scrap Stuff blog.

This version measures 47.5" x 56.5" - it was originally a bit too wide for my 5ft longarm frame, and I really wanted to quilt it on there, so I halved the blocks on each side and the ends and used a couple of those cut-offs for the backing.

I used ruler work to quilt straight line borders in the square-in-square blocks, and free motioned large stipple in the plain squares.

The binding is a sage green stripe.

We move house at the end of May and I am looking forward to having quite a few new quilt-photo locations in my backyard at the new house!

Dinos NNU quilts

 

Catching up with photos that have been taken or need taken, of quilting projects from the summer holidays...

these four neo-natal bassinet quilts filled in some time between Christmas and New Year.

The dino fabric is already printed in the picture-blocks, and has been in my stash for a long while, so all I had to do was create and add the nine-patches at the top then quilt each one. They each measure 18" x 23.5".

The backing is a spotty flannel, and I was able to use some vintage threads of different colours for the quilting. Mostly I followed the outlines of the picture boxes, but also did some outlines of parts of the dinosaurs, or along the stems of the leaves, depending on how I was feeling.

Gosh, I do love that teal polka dot binding!

FMQ/Q16 practice pillow

Catching up on sharing some projects from last year and earlier this year...

 This pillow was made from a panel that we were given to work on during our Bernina Q16 ruler-work class at the NZ Quilt Symposium.  The class was a chance for attendees to try out using a table-top Q16 machine.

I was planning to purchase a long-arm machine so took the class as a chance to try out the table-top version (and learn a bit about how to use rulers when quilting).

I was really pleased with how I went with the quilting; it was great to try out some curved rulers.