The ongoing quilting

I have been instagramming my progress on the hand quilting on the frame.

I've added some leaves to the borders and plan to continue the background pattern around the leafy design.

What's on my Design Wall

I took these blocks out again and made another one.  I've been a bit aimless so I thought I needed to remind myself of the projects waiting for my attention.

This will be bright I think, hmmm.... But I like it.

Clara's Quilt is all Done - Yeah

So here it is finished.  Lovely, a citrus-y quilt for a fresh little one.

A Baby Quilt

My DD has commissioned me to quilt her baby quilt gift for her friend.  The top arrived in the mail today and after some photos of possible backings I spray basted the carcass together.  It's so sweet....

Blue Christmas progress

I have been working most afternoons for a bit on this hand quilting project.  I am kind of torn when I hand applique something - and I usually think I should hand quilt it too.  This was an easy choice as it is relatively small.

I love the feathers especially when hand quilting...

My Circle quilt is off the Design Wall

Finally, I got my christmas quilt off the design wall and on to the hand quilting frame.  After a bit of marking, the quilting is begun,

Getting my blue circle quilt off the design board

I think I started the blue circle quilt a long time ago but I had it on the design wall last year in the hopes of getting it done for Christmas but I finally took it off the design wall with some good idea of what I will quilt on it.

I think it will be a couple of traditional but skewed designs....
But I am getting ahead of myself - first I pieces some quilt batt.

I just butt the edges together as best I can and use the wavey zigzag on my machine although I am sure a regular zigzag would work too.  It helps if I use the rotary cutter to straighten the edges.

Then I spring for the 505 spray basting.  I get mine at Fabricland.  It's made in France - who knew but is waaay better than the Fabricland brand.  I used the Fabricland (Unique I think ) brand for the Row Along quilt.  It worked but it wasn't as stable as this stuff - and it stunk more.

Ok, another Tablet Cover - for my Daughter

Further to my sister's comments, yes, I guess I did forget to blog about the ipad cover I made for my daughter and her kids.

I got her to trace the kids feet and then just straight-stitch appliqued them onto the sandwich.  I chose mostly pink fabric because it is a very popular colour in her house.

Their feet were actually bigger than I expected and pretty much covered the entire cover so I reduced them to about 65% on my scanner and used the smaller sizes.
Cute, huh?