I had no plan when I loaded this quilt on the frame. I just grabbed some rulers and started making shapes and filling them in with dense quilting.
Category Archives: Full custom quilting
Welcome Ava
I love this quilt. It is so perfect for a baby quilt. It is made with Drunkards path blocks cut from Bonnie and Camille fabric . It was fully custom quilted to enhance the design of the blocks.
Volunteer FMQ
I volunteered to do the free motion quilting for members of my quilt guild who made a quilt top for Our Lady of Grace. I recently completed these two quilts.
Ioleen pieced this quilt from blocks that were donated by guild members. She gave me the freedom to quilt it however I wanted to. As usual, once I get going on the longarm I can’t stop myself. Hopefully she will like it.
She also gave me this one to quilt. It was a very busy quilt with no open background so there was no point doing any extensive FMQ on it. I chose Swirl ‘n Twirl to accent the fabric.
Charity Quilts
Our guild is collecting baby quilts for Our Lady of Grace. The quilts will go to pregnant or parenting teens. I’ve made a boy and girl’s version. I went a little overboard with the quilting, what else is new, but hopefully whoever gets them will like them.
They look so cute together:
Baby Leah’s Quilt
I just love the colours in this quilt….so girly. It was fully custom quilted to enhance the piecing.
I used a stylized feather in the lighter triangles to push them into the background and have the brighter triangles pop forward.
I did dense quilting in the white background to enhance the 3d effect of the trapunto hearts even more.
You can really see the free motion quilting on the back.
Circle Log Cabin
This was a really fun quilt to work on. I love quilts with interesting shapes in the background that allow me to go crazy with the free motion quilting.
Susan’s BOM
Once again this quilting job morphed from a simple edge to edge design to fully custom quilted. I’m so glad that it did. While it would have looked just fine with a simple E2E design, I think the custom quilting really made it sing.
Susan wasn’t particularly in love with the pieced blocks so she didn’t want the quilting to emphasize them. She gave me full control to do whatever I wanted so I went a little crazy. I went through a ton of thread but I think the end result was worth it. I just love how quilting adds such texture and depth to a quilt top.
This is one of those quilts where the FMQ looks great on the front and the back.
Donation for Quilts of Valour
Last fall I was very lucky and won a fat quarter bundle from Sew Sister’s Blogathon Canada. It was Northcott’s Stonehenge OH CANADA line. I knew immediately that I would use the fabric to make a quilt for Quilts of Valour.
There was a ton of ruler work on this quilt. My hand ached from holding the ruler too firmly.
I added an extra 1/4 inch red flange under the binding to give the quilt a little extra border.
Leftovers IV
I loaded this quilt on my frame 3 different times before it was finally finished. I had to keep taking it of so that I could FMQ other higher priority quilts.
Here is the front and the back of the quilt. You can really see all the detailed quilting more so on the back than on the front.
Here are a few closeup pictures:
High Tea
Another very densely custom quilted finish. First I just did this design in pink and I was happy with it and moved on to quilting the sashing.
Once I finished quilting the sashing I decided that I needed to add a little more quilting. I came back in with orange thread and added the inner petals filled in with pebbles. Still not satisfied I added the inner orange loops.
Then I decided to fill the orange loops with thread to give it more dimension. I was happy with the final design so I advance the quilt and moved on to the next section.. Then I got the bright idea to do some dense quilting in the background to allow the design to really pop forward. I lost track of how much time I put into the FMQ in the 15 white squares but it was substantial.
Dog House Quilting 