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.