SewBatik

I am pleased to announce that I am the newest SewBatik Longarm Associate in Alberta. Look at some of the beautiful samples that I received. I have their samples in their 108" wide cottons and 106" wide flannels. SewBatik is a U.S. company that sells their batiks directly to customers from their website and at quilt shows and also sells through a longarm associate program.

How does the program work? You can book an appointment to come see the samples or you can host a home show (you and 3 or more guests). Although my samples at this time are limited to their wide backing fabrics, you can order their 45"wide batiks, their gradation fabrics, 43" flannels or their inspiring kits . I will place the order and arrange to get it to you when it arrives. If you would rather place your own order, you can put my longarm associate number (LAP-1510)in the special instructions field of the order form and I will receive a small commission as your longarm associate.

Why choose SewBatik batiks? A great selection of high quality beautiful batiks. Comes in 108" wide so you don't have to piece your backing. Another way to support your local longarmer, these batiks are not found in retail stores.

In the future I may be carrying a selection of pre-cut backings at my studio. Let me know your favorites to help me choose which ones.

Pins & Pine Needles 2012 Raffle Quilt

Here is my quilt guild's first prize for our 2012 raffle. It is a Judy Neimeyer pattern called Wandering Stars. I custom quilted this lap quilt with a feather & flourish border, organic arced flying geese, fern filler, and tendril & flourish stars. The thread was a varigated Signature thread called "Early Sunset". It looked strange on the cone but the aqua, grey, peach and purple seemed to work well on all the colours of the quilt top. This lovely quilt is now delivered for another guild member to bind.

Turning Twenty

This quilt was done with the Turning Twenty pattern, which is a quick to piece pattern. The quilter used a variety of African/animal skin prints. She requested African animals to be quilted on it. I used Linda Taylor's pantograph called African Safari and filled in the edges with freehand "Razor Grass". To have the quilted animals highlighted I used Signature thread in Turquoise, which also complements the blue inner border very nicely. The picture shows some of the detail of the quilting. This quilt has such a fun feel to it.

Thoughts of the Beach

This is a simple quilt done with half square triangles. I believe the quilter said that she used a pack of precuts for it. Her request was for thread in blue and quilting of my choice. The sunny colours reminded me of a beautiful beach day. To compliment the angular pattern and compensate some wobbles due to the fabrics, I wanted to use some soft lines for the quilting. I used a design called Seaside by Hermione Agee of Lorien Quilting.

It is a very flattering design when looking for waves.

Blogger Inertia

My apologies to anyone who has checked the blog in the past year. I had some blogger inertia in which an object at rest (not blogged on) stayed at rest (not blogged on). But it is a new year and I will post some quilts from last year as well as updating on this year's exciting developments.

Here is a beautiful quilt that I had the privilege of quilting. The top was an Eaton's kit that was embroidered by a lady in Manitoba in the 1940's. Her niece is the current owner and requested to have it quilted to stabilize it and protect the embroidery. I used Oxyclean powder to soak out the water stains. Most of them came out very well and the colours stayed true even with several soaking attempts.















Look at the detail of the embroidery. Exquisite!

I wanted the quilting to be traditional and inobtrusive to let the embroidery shine. I custom outlined around the embroidered areas and a few spots in the embroidery. The background was done with crosshatching. I used ivory thread to match the muslin.