After
Piece Newsletter
September
2014
Hello there, dear quilting friends.
I thought it might be a nice idea for me to send you a
letter with news about what I have been doing and what is coming up. You are
receiving this letter because you have expressed interest in my quilting
service or you have already had a quilt sewn together by me.
Firstly, thank you to all my lovely customers who have
placed their quilts in my hands to work with. I enjoy seeing all the different
quilt tops that pass through my little studio.
Most of you know by now that I have upgraded my smaller Husqvanna
Viking set up for a larger and computer driven set up. This change over took a
few months to sort out, but has been well worth the wait. Those customers that
have already had a top quilted using the QBOT system have all agreed that the
new patterns are lovely. The QBOT works so well as an edge to edge, over all
quilting system. However I have also been experimenting with my own quilts to
do custom finishes.
I submitted one of these custom finishes, which had QBOT
block patterns combined with my own free motion quilting into the Penrith show.
The quilt received a second place ribbon in the commercially quilted class, which
I was very pleased about as I had no idea of the standard of entries before I
took the plunge. Now that I’ve seen the first place quilt, I’m sure I can top
it for next year. J
Just after I upgraded to the larger, more advanced set up
I had some professional Development sessions with Master Quilter Michele Turner
of Pinetree Cottage Quilting. Michele has won many awards and been quilting for
10 years, though she is now winding down her quilting operations while she
studies. I learned a lot from Michele. She built upon my knowledge with lots of
small detail type hints which have helped to polish the way I work.
Below is a photo of the work I did for Caroline Wilkinson
on her baby quilt. The filling stitching around the applique is highly
influenced by Michele’s teachings. Carolyn was very pleased with the work I did
for her and said I could quote her as saying the quilting had taken her
patchwork to a new level. That feels like very high praise indeed, and exactly
what I aim to do for you and your quilts.
Here is my newest pattern to be published. It's in this month’s
edition of Patchwork and Stitching Magazine. These placemats are foundation
pieced and the coasters were made with scraps.
September
Quilty tip.
I can’t claim
to have thought of this little gem. I saw it on the back of a quilt at the
Springwood quilting show (sorry I can’t remember which one).
Use vintage
doilies as labels for the back of your quilt. I picked up an assortment for a
good price on Gumtree. Then I used an iron erasable pen to write my message and
back stitched onto the doily. It’s easy then to slip stitch it to the back of
the quilt.
And yes … it
took me 14 years to complete this particular quilt (it’s the one I entered into
the Penrith show). I made the quilt top in 2000 with help from a quilting show
on Foxtel. It was one of my first quilts and I was so proud of what I had made
I was hesitant to quilt it for fear of wrecking it. For the show I custom
quilted it using QBOT block patterns in the middle blocks, in the ditch and
scallops for the house and free motion feathers in the border.
Thanks for reading
Jennidee
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