This is Iris’ strip quilt made out of beautiful Asian fabrics. She chose Chrissy pantograph and I used Lt. Olive Glide thread.
Category Archives: Edge-to-edge
Rosalie’s Wall Hanging
I really like the rich colours that Rosalie chose for her quilt top. I used one layer of a stiff fusible batting to give the wall hanging some body and weight so that it would hang flat against the wall. I added a layer of Hobbes 80/20 on top to still give some loft to the quilting. Rosalie chose Swirls Simplified and I think it worked really well with her piecing.
Baby Barks Quilt
I am pleased to share with you this lovely, gender neutral, baby quilt. It is rather unique in that it is actually a two sided quilt. Rather than custom quilting one side and having it look strange on the other side, I chose to do an all over design that would compliment both sides of the quilt. I used a design called Arrowheads.
Here is a close up look at the beautiful texture that the design created. I used two layers of batting (Hobbes 80/20 and a high loft polyester) to give lots of dimension.
And now the back. There is a lot of white space which really helps to see the quilting.
It is important to always label your quilt but this two sided design made that impossible. Having a label on one side would detract from the quilt itself. I saw somewhere online where a quilter stitched words into the binding instead of adding a label so that is what I did. I used a very subtle tone on tone so that it would almost disappear into the binding. It says “Made with love 2016 Grandma Debbie”.
Here are a few pictures of the quilt in the nursery:
Quilts of Valour FMQ
Last year I offered my longarm quilting services to Quilts of Valour. People donate quilt tops and fabric for backing and they ask longarmers to provide the batting and longarm services for free. I received these two quilts in January. One is a very busy batik quilt so I used an edge to edge design called Dazzle.
The second quilt has a lot more background space so I chose to custom quilt it. Ironically the donated quilt top was from Quiltessential’s 2011 Block of the month program and I made the identical blocks (here is a link to my finished quilt).
Rosalie’s Quilts
When I first saw Rosalie’s quilt tops I immediately noticed the quality of her work. The piecing was beautiful, there were no wonky borders and the pressing was top notch. I knew I was going to enjoy working on them.
She chose Bumpity for her beautiful flannel quilt. I used a soft grey that worked so well within all the blocks.
For her larger quilt she picked Yo Yo and I used Glide’s mocha thread.
Thank you Rosalie. It was truly a pleasure to work on your quilts.
High Tea again
This is a “boys” version of the High Tea quilt pattern. I used a modern edge to edge design called Bauhaus. It really complements the Zen Chic Barcelona fabric.
The Quilt that keeps on giving
Batik Beauty 109″ x 109″
I donated this kingsize Batik quilt to be used at a silent auction fundraiser for The Bockman Foundation. It is a non-profit charity that helps people with spinal cord injuries. I got a email informing me that the quilt sold for $600. I then found out that the people who bought the quilt re-donated it to another silent auction fundraiser for a family with 3 kids that just lost their father. I couldn’t be happier. I hope that my quilt brings at least another $600 for that family.
I just did a free hand edge to edge swirl design in the body and some custom quilting in the set in triangles and border.
Patty and Peggy’s Charity Quilts
Patty and her sister Peggy made these 7 beautiful quilts for the Little Warriors Be Brave Ranch. They asked me to quilt them and I was happy to help out. I tried to quilt each one with a design that fit with the quilt:
There were two Mickey/Minnie mouse quilts. I designed my own pantograph and used it on these two quilts:
For the hockey themed quilt I used a pantograph called Baptiste Swirl:
On this beautiful, green animal themed quilt I used a pantograph called puppy paws:
For the baseball themed quilt I used a design called bumpity:
Celebrating Bruce
Susan made this quilt for a close family friend who is in the hospital. I did a free hand edge-to-edge swirl design.
Dog House Quilting 