Great day today – very hot outside so I spent a lot of time quilting inside today –

Started the day with a small wall hanging that was very traditional center medallion applique piece that required custom free-motion quilting and ended the day with an all over computer driven quilting of a sock monkey quilt (found a digitized all over design of sock monkeys to use!)

I have recently received quite a few quilts featuring Kaffe Fassett fabrics and love quilting them! I have purchased some myself for a future project but have not had time to use it.  Working with these quilts wants me to buy more fabric!.  What I did not realize by purchasing a few fat quarters is how soft the fabric is… so comfy for a quilt!

I just finished up two Dresden Plate quilts for a client –  one was with blocks made from old fabrics and used a traditional setting, the other was with modern fabrics and an updated setting – interesting to see both at the same time!

On my frame (actually just completed so now off my frame!) – a beautiful Delectable Mountains quilt with a Medallion setting pieced with gorgeous Asian fabrics….  great choice of fabrics!

 

 

    Wow – it’s been 1 week since the last day of Vermont Quilt Festival – I underestimated the amount of time it would take during the month of June to be Registrar chair –  many hours but very rewarding to be part of such a wonderful show.

I had 5 clients that entered quilts I had done the quilting on and am happy to say all 5 earned ribbons!  2 yellow, 2 red and 1 blue!  Plus my quilt ‘Coffee in the Cabin’ also earned a yellow ribbon.   So all in all a very successful show!

 

 

What got me started with quilting?  It was definitely ‘for the love of fabric’ –  and though I love all the modern stuff out there, I have a tender spot for traditional vintage quilts.  I just had a treat on my machine!  A GFG (Grandmother’s Flower Garden) quilt – 70 GFG blocks – with very dated vintage fabrics.  Some were original feed-sack fabrics from the 20’s, I’m sure of it!

 

 

 

These blocks were found at a garage sale by the friend of the person who brought me this beauty.  Her friend was blanket stitching the GFGs to the background and sadly passed before she finished but this friend is seeing the quilt to completion.

The coolest thing (and unless you are a quilter it will make no sense at all..) is that some of these 1 1/2 inch hexagon blocks have pieces of fabric sewn together – to me this is part of what’s so special about this quilt – the original quilter improvised to get all the pieces needed to complete each hexagon….

 

So with that said (sorry for the bit of rambling but I can’t help myself) – here is one additional photo of this great vintage patchwork:

 

 

 

I posted about this quilt a few weeks ago after I finished quilting it but did not show you the front.  The quilt is now completed with binding and will be displayed for the first time at our guild meeting tomorrow CVQGVT.org

So here it is in all it’s glory!

 

 

This is the guild’s 2014 Raffle Quilt and tickets will be available at various local quilt stores, the Champlain Valley Fair in the Blue Pavilion building and also at our Guild’s show which will be at the Fairgrounds in October (for details see the guild website by using the link above)

 

 

Wow – beautiful paperpieced quilt on my machine – very time consuming to quilt but coming out great! I’m using a combination of free motion with some computerized quilting as well..

I was asked to quilt our guild’s raffle quilt (CVQGVT is my guild).  I won’t post a picture of the front of the quilt…. yet.  I’ll wait for them to have their advertising pictures available – but here is a photo of the back of the quilt showing the quilting design I developed customized for this beautiful quilt….

On my quilting frame today is a beautiful batik & Kaffe fabric modern quilt – having fun quilting this!