Fairy Quilt finished

Now the fairy quilt is finished I must get on to doing my FMQ challenge for this month!!!!!!!!

New Fairy quilt top!!!!

A new Quilt top for a new Grandaughter. I will have to work very hard to get this basted and quilted as soon as possible.

OMG Scary

It is a little scary some of the things you find in the newspaper these days!!!!!

You can check it out here

Dissappearing 9-patch

I have been spending so much time quilting lately maybe just MAYBE I had better do some gardening now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two cats testing my quilt!!!!

Lucy is testing my quilt just after the basting stage, take note of the backing fabric I have quilted around those feathers from the back in green thread. For the border I have used pink thread but quilted it from the front. Below is Oliver testing the quilt before the binding is done.
Tomorrow I hope to bind this quilt and take better photo's outside which will hopefully show up the quilting!!!!!!

FMQ cushion. Made on a treadle sewing machine

Today I made this cushion cover on my treadle sewing machine!!!! I tried to upload a short video clip of me FMQuilting on the treadle but it was taking forever so I gave up maybe I will try again another day.

Oliver testing a new quilt

Saturday

Today I started to quilt this disappearing nine patch quilt, I had planned on doing simple quilting then I decided I needed more practising FMQ feathers. So I have used variegated thread to do feathers in the black fabric. By about 9pm my shoulders were aching so thought I would leave the rest until tomorrow, laid it across the couch to admire it and guess who had to test it!!!!
His name is Oliver!!!!!!!

Sunday:


I have now finished the quilting, I have quilted feathers on the outer border in black thread. You will notice on the closeup photo some little bugs have escaped from the quilt WELL!!
I just love the saying " There is no such thing as a mistake! it is an artist opportunity"
while stitching on the border I found a small hole in the fabric OK so unpicking is something I just do not like to do! But really I think it adds interest to the quilt and a talking point.