Bella Garden

 Dawn has been very busy making this beautiful quilt by McKenna Ryan called

Bella Garden. The amount of patience and time this quilt must take is mind blowing.

I was very nervous quilting this quilt, because I knew how precious this quilt is. I started out with a plan for the centre piece and then as I was quilting it each section came to me.

 Bella Garden

For the background fill for this centre piece I did small C shapes and

just repeated throughout. I ditched all around the outlines of the flowers......

yes it took me a long time.

How cute is Mr Frog, I just love him. I just did a water background behind the lillies

and fronds.

 Feahters!! who doesn't love feathers. We had to squeeze them in 

somewhere, I love the movement they give to a quilt.

There was a lot of in the ditch on this quilt, but it was so worth it.

it just adds to the finish.

Pop on over to Dawns Blog http://sewmuchtoquilt.blogspot.com.au/

I'm sure she will be blogging about this and her journey with this quilt soon.

Have a great day

Mandy

Garden Tea Party

Here is a sweet quilt that I have machine quilted for

my good friend Dawn. Its called Garden Tea Party.

I quilted daisies in every two inch square and did

feathers and swirls in the borders which gave it

a whimsical look.

In the blue borders I quilted hearts and loops and stippled 

in the embroidered sections, so as to not take

away from Dawns beautiful stitching.

 

 

 I think this is such a pretty quilt that Dawn has made

for her Mums 80th Birthday.

"Happy Birthday Jean" I hope you have a 

fabulous birthday and enjoy your quilt.

Have a great week

Metro Medallion

As promised better photos and even the binding is on.

 

Being a longarmer, I love the texture the quilting gives this quilt........love it

.......hearts a flutter.......sorry......getting carried away!!

 

 

I never used to put labels on my quilt, until I discovered this quick 

and easy way, now all my quilts have labels.

 

Snapped in the car on my lap........ did I say I love the texture.....me bad!!

Have a great day!

Hopscotch Daze

  

Finally its finished.......yay!!!!

I first saw this quilt in Bloggers Quilt Festival 2012 by

Happier Than a Bird by Lindsey Gustafson 

I knew this would be perfect for my little granddaughter and I was excited to get going

on it........ what little girl can resist hopscotch ....... right!! So hubby and I sat down 

and nutted out the pattern and off I went. It has 

taken me about 15 months to complete but it is done now just in time

for GD's 5th Birthday.

 

 I have added flowers, butterflies, lady bugs and birds, her favorites and

traced her hand prints and appliqued them on.

I used blanket stitch on my machine for the applique and did a 

scrappy piano key border. This is a great quilt for using up your

scraps, I just grabbed all my bright colours and off I went.

I machined quilted this on my longarm, I stitched in the ditch around the hopscotch and 

numbers then did an all over free hand for the background. I got the idea from

Angela Walters Book "Free Motion Quilting" the design I used for the background

was called "Flower Power".

I am really happy with how this has turned out

I just love how bright and cheery this quilt is, I know that everytime

I look at this quilt it puts a smile on my face and hopefully hers as well.

 

 

Love this angle, you can see the great texture the quilt has.

 And the best photo of all 

was that as soon as she opened her present

she laid it out and started playing........heart melts.....love her to bits.....so gorgeous!!

Have a great Day!

Metro Medallion

Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year, this year has started off

very busy, which is why I haven't posted in a while

Busy quilting this quilt at the moment, decided to custom quilt it, not sure

exactly what the plan is, just making it up as I go.

Still deciding what to do in the black blocks, I

might use red thread as Black can be hard on the eyes.

Just hoping It all works out as I thinks its going to.

Wish me luck!

Happy Quilting!