The World is your Oyster!

With too many commitments and too little time, I nearly missed the deadline for the competition quilts submission for the Festival of Quilts this year! 

Yet, Phew! All packed and shipped today. :)

This boats quilt from Cotton & Steel is my personal toy! With simple - but effective!)) - pattern for the boats and a huuuuge negative space, the quilt gave me endless opportunities to quilt it to death!))) And so I did) Inspired and empowered by the talented longarm quilter and teacher Angela Walters! xx

The techniques I used:

Freezer paper-piecing method to make the boats

Organic free-motion quilting for negative space, i.e., no marking

Materials used:

Solid cottons mostly from Michael Miller Cotton Couture range

Prints from Art Gallery Fabrics and Liberty.

Quilters Dream Request 100% cotton wadding (very thin!)

Size: 145x145cm

This quilt is not the only quilt that will have my name on it at the Festival of Quilts this year! ;) 
Three amazingly talented quilters - Jo Avery (@mybearpaw), Jenny Haynes(@peppersaxsten) and Sheila Scott - have submitted their quilts to the FOQ where I had an honour and a priviledge to longarm quilt their beautiful quilts! 
So, overall, there will be 4 quilts from me! At the very least, I should get a recognition for the quantity, if not for the quality!!! :-)))

Moda Building Blocks Quilt - BIG ONE

Massive quilt from Moda, with the blocks of various designs and sizes - and I totally enjoyed longarm quilting it for my new customer, Birgit. It looks fabulous in both solids and patterned fabrics. Hope it will be appreciated - the quilt is a great example of collaborative work between two creative people. ;)

It was not easy to take photos of it due to its size - hence I dusted off my blog and uploaded large pictures here for those who would want to see the details! I love to hover over the details when looking at other people's quilts. :-) Click on the photo to open it in the original size.

For the brave quilters who would consider tackling this piece, here is a link to this quilt pattern.

Pattern: Moda Building Blocks

Size: 84"x96"

Longarm quilted with SoFine thread 50wt

QuiltCon 2017, Part I - Angela Walters quilts

Back from Savannah from Quilting Convention - and keen to share the pictures of all the fabulous quilts I saw there! 

First part dedicated to my favourite longarm quilter Angela Walters, who was a featured speaker at QuiltCon2017 with her personal exibit, demonstrating some outstanding quilting work from Angela! 

Some photos show only close-up details as this is what I wanted to highlight most - Angela's machine quilting talent. I was drooling over these for hours )))) All and more quilts are beautifully photographed and collected within a fab book 'Quilting is My Therapy - Behind the stitches with Angela Walters'

I was lucky to get into two of Angela's longarm quilting classes at the QuiltCon - she is as talented teacher as a quilter! Very inspiring and generous in sharing her stuff. I can go on for ages... :))

In next blog post I will cover the winning and my favourite quilts from this year QuiltCon. ;)

Impracticality, pieced and quilted by Angela Walters

Impracticality, close-up

Cascade

Cascade, close-up

Cascade, close-up

West End

West End, close-up

West End, close-up

Shattered, close-up

The Butterfly, close-up

The Butterfly, close-up

The Butterfly, close-up

Ventana

Ventana, close-up

Ventana, close-up

Bauble

Baubble, close-up

Sweet Tooth, close-up

Crapehanger, close-up 

Crapehanger, close-up 

Moxie

Peaks and Valleys

p.s.: For some reason, the names of the quilts do not seem to show. Will try to fix that.