Category Archives: Pantograph

Baby Barks Quilt

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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.

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And now the back.  There is a lot of white space which really helps to see the quilting.

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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”.

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Here are a few pictures of the quilt in the nursery:

 

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Quilts of Valour FMQ

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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.

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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).

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Rosalie’s Log Cabin

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I just finished this lovely log cabin quilt.  Once again Rosalie did an amazing job of piecing and pressing.  It makes it so much easier for me to do the long arm work when a quilt top is well pressed.  I did custom piano keys in the outer border and “Tickle Too” in the main body of the quilt.  Unfortunately I couldn’t get a good picture of the quilt without the sun casting a shadow of our pergola across the side of it.

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Volunteer FMQ

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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.

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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.

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Rosalie’s Quilts

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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.

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For her larger quilt she picked Yo Yo and I used Glide’s mocha thread.

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Thank you Rosalie.  It was truly a pleasure to work on your quilts.

Pat’s One Block Wonder

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This one block wonder was a full commission quilt for my massage therapist.  She gave me this pillow sham to use as my colour inspiration and left the rest up to me.

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I used two layers of batting(80/20 and wool) to give extra warmth and loft to the quilt.  It was quilted with a floral and loop design called Clematis and a custom feather in the border.

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For a OBW, it is very common to use a piece of the original fabric (usually in the border) to show what was used to create the unique hexagons.  I used one of my fabrics as the border.  For the second fabric, I fussy cut the repeating image of the swiss chard and appliquéd it to a section of plain hexagons.  I put a scrap piece of wool batting on the back of the quilt top to trapunto the chard.  I then used two layers of batting and dense quilting in the light purple background to give even more dimension to the chard.

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I used 6 different fabrics to piece together the backing.  I wanted to give Pat the flexibility to flip the quilt over and show the back if she was in the mood for a change.  It has a similar colour palette to the front with the introduction of a green.

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Patty and Peggy’s Charity Quilts

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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:

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For the hockey themed quilt I used a pantograph called Baptiste Swirl:

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On this beautiful, green animal themed quilt I used a pantograph called puppy paws:

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For the baseball themed quilt I used a design called bumpity:

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