Wednesday 27 August 2014

Oh So Cute

I've just finished quilting a baby quilt for a lovely lady called Caroline Wilkinson.
The blocks were hand appliqued and embroidered by members of the family for the baby.
I completed it with free motion quilting around the qpplique/embroidery blocks and pretty rose or swirl borders in the dragonfly fabrics.
The quilt will be a wall hanging so the buttons were OK to add.
Carolyn loved what I did (I bound the quilt and also added the rod hanging so I was able to hand over a completed quilt which is a nice change).
She said my quilting took her patchwork to a whole new level and I could quote that for my blog. How nice!

Jennidee

Friday 15 August 2014

Black and White

Hi again

I'm quite sick at the moment with sinusitis.

So I'm just working on a black and white quilt for a customer, using the QBOT.
I got up this morning feeling yuck and thought it would be a good project as most of the work is done by the robot.

Hmmmmm .... Things conspired against me. I think it was because I'm unwell. First I pinned the backing on wrong side out on the frame and had to unpin it. Then I pinned it so that the shortest side was the bottom. When I looked at the quilt top I remembered it was directional and had to unpin it again. Luckily I was paying attention.

THEN when I started the robot I had a threading issue which I had to fix. Sigh. But oh well. It's running away happily in the background now and I'm able to blog.

I'm already feeling a bit better thanks to the antibiotics. A few more days and I'll be well enough to tackle the custom baby quilt which was supposed to be next on the list.

Thanks for reading
Jennidee