Wedding Day

    Glenn and Sarah were married at 3.30pm on the 24th March 2012 at Corinda Gardens in Hobart Tasmania

Wedding Quilt

                    Today I presented my wedding quilt to Glenn and Sarah ( Son and DILTB).  They are to be married on the 24th March 2012, but I wanted to give them this early.
                    I started this quilt 2 1/2 years ago, before they got engaged, I found the pattern for the centre and decided to would be great as a wedding quilt centre. A couple of months later they announced their engagement  and off I started getting fabrics. The butterflies are hand dyed  fabrics hand sewn on in a variegated thread. A soft muted blue for the sky sewn on point. The border was foundation pieced in various greens to give the impression of lying on the grass looking up and seeing butterflies fluttering by in the wedding ring formation. My mother (Glenn's grandmother) hand quilted it for me. She has done a beautiful job of outlining the butterflies and grass. Not bad considering she is 80 years young. I finished off with a scrappy binding of leftover fabric from the grass.  I am very happy with the end result.

Playing with Ghost Images

            I recently borrowed this book from Roxy titled Ghost Layers and colour washes by Katie Pasquini Masopust.  I found it very inspiring and a challenge. I changed a few things just to make it a bit quicker and easier but it was a fun process. Can you see the ghosts.

Here is the process

Plus I added this one so I could keep track off all those pieces

All ready for stitching

All the edges are zigzagged down

Finished result after echo quilting

                I will try  a couple more small quilts but I'm itching to do a large one... I have a few ideas already....

Have a good week and enjoy

Alison

A rather bright Peacock

        I haven't made myself a quilt in a lot of years so I thought I would start with a centre and make it grow.   I started organising the fabrics for my quilt a few years ago at the Sydney Craft Fair and I think I might have been wearing sunglasses at the time. I mean they are bright.... even for me......


But I will keep sewing it as I do like the effect... What do you think????

I started with the peacock fabric and these are what I chose.

Have a lovely day


Alison

Naughty Lists

                      I thought I would get your attention...
I made a Christmas wall hanging for the Tangled Web Quilters Christmas Swap ( thats a mouthful) and loved doing it so I made 2 more for my sons and their partners.

             I found this pattern in A Christmas Story By Anni Downs Hatched and Patched....and I changed it a little so hopefully she would like the result....
             I made one traditionally for Nick and Tegan, that they sadly never received it, somewhere lost in the post  but I will redo it so they have one for next year and one for Glenn and Sarah that was more contemporary. As they had a black christmas tree and blue/silver decorations, so it took a bit of thought but hopefully they liked the result.
             
             Hopefully I will be more productive and have something to show you, Thank you for reading my blog and ramblings.......

            Have a lovely Day and Enjoy it all    :-)


Alison

Well well its been a while

Well thats an understatement isnt it. Last year was a very long year......

My grandson FELIX was born on the 24th August 2011 sadly he did not take his first breathe and so became my beautiful little ANGEL.. and I  am so very proud of Nick (my son) and Tegan for their love and strength given to each other........

Pretty Flowers all in a Row

   Well it's been a while since my last posting, I've been busy with work, studying and just life in general. My arm has not been good lately but I decided that I wanted to do something creative as I am at my best doing just that.

     This material I bought almost two years ago and I was looking for the ideal pattern to make sure all the flowers where properly framed. I was at my quilting group and I saw the exact thing I wanted hanging on the clothes line. so I borrowed a book by Lynette Anderson and used her snowball pattern for this quilt top.

   The above three pictures where trials in what way the blocks of nine should go and as usual I decided on the first one I tried. Isn't it always the way...well it is with me it seems.

 This is the middle of the top, I just love the peacefulness( if thats a word) of the colours and the beautiful flower motifs. Who ever designed this fabric has done a beautiful job.

   Any way thats it for a little while, resting the arm, but I also need to decided on borders. I thought of a couple of small width borders then possibly more squares or rectangles mmmmm we will have to see.
Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day


Alison