Custom Quilting
Today I thought I would share with you the last of the Charity quilts that I am doing this year. Every 12 months I will do a maximum of 4 Charity quilts where I either donate not only my time, but also my threads and sometimes the wadding and backing. Some time ago I rescued a top at a Linus day that was destined to be given all over quilting, but it was much too nice for this. So I brought it back with me and decided to do custom quilting on it in order to bring out the full beauty of it.
It is a large quilt and had obviously had a lot of time spent on it, and other than the fact that I had to finish off a bit of hand applique work, it was ready to recieve its backing and wadding and a lot of time to make the most of it.
Here you can see it just before it is loaded onto the frame.
I tried out a few different patterns before I set to work in order to decide which group of designs I prefered and then got it loaded up and set to work. I wanted to copy the flower design around the outside edge in the corners to tie it all together and here you can see where I have drawn this out on the first corner.
First of all it was completely ‘stitched in the ditch’ so that I could work backwards and forwards as much as I needed to and without having to turn it to complete the borders. After that I set too with the quilting designs and started to fill in all the different blocks.
Once the centre panels were completed I moved onto the corners and the copies of the central flowers. Here you can see it part finished.
This is a shot of one of the panels.
This is a shot of the back so that you can see exactly what I have been doing.
And here it is ready to be shipped back to be auctioned or raffled in order to raise funds.
I hope you like it, it is a bit of a favourite of mine I have to admit.
Next time I will post you some of the customer quilts I have done recently.
Until then, take care and keep on quilting.
I tried out a few different patterns before I set to work in order to decide which group of designs I prefered and then got it loaded up and set to work. I wanted to copy the flower design around the outside edge in the corners to tie it all together and here you can see where I have drawn this out on the first corner.
First of all it was completely ‘stitched in the ditch’ so that I could work backwards and forwards as much as I needed to and without having to turn it to complete the borders. After that I set too with the quilting designs and started to fill in all the different blocks.
Once the centre panels were completed I moved onto the corners and the copies of the central flowers. Here you can see it part finished.
This is a shot of one of the panels.
This is a shot of the back so that you can see exactly what I have been doing.
And here it is ready to be shipped back to be auctioned or raffled in order to raise funds.
I hope you like it, it is a bit of a favourite of mine I have to admit.
Next time I will post you some of the customer quilts I have done recently.
Until then, take care and keep on quilting.
