Tracy May wrote to say that she finally finished her Lorna’s Vine quilt. This is her third hand quilting project; slow but steady.
She made her quilt with all re-purposed fabric.
Well done, Tracy! And thank you for sharing your lovely quilt with us. I hope you stay snug and warm beneath it for years to come :-).
Julie Edwards sent me this photo of her newly finished, very pretty quilt that features a block from Aunt MIllie’s Garden as the center medallion.
Julie wrote:
This quilt was a round robin and completed by multiple people in 2015-2016. I belong to an online FB group, and we do swaps and other quilt alongs often. I completed the center block and then sent it to another quilter, she completed a border on that quilt, and off it went to someone else, etc. until it was completed and returned back to me. I finally quilted and finished it in January of this year.
Round robin quilts are always interesting and this one is no exception. The borders don’t overshadow the block at the center, the focal point of the quilt. Very nice!
Thank you, Julie, for sharing your quilt with us!.
If you are interested, you can find the Aunt Millie’s Garden ebook here :-).
Margaret Heller just finished her Simply Delicious quilt—it’s amazing!
From Margaret:
I followed the techniques taught in your books, except for the grapes and raspberries. For them I modified Karen Kay Buckley’s techniques for Perfect Ovals by laminating the front and back of the template (put the number of the template on the back side). Then I gathered the seam allowance of the grape or berry around the template, starched it/pressed it, and removed the template when it was time to sew it to the block .
I substituted blocks from the Beautiful Berries pattern for blocks from Simply Delicious so all the blocks illustrated my favorite fruits.
It was custom machine quilted by Christy Gray. (And she told me it’s the last custom quilting she will do.) I’m grateful that she quilted it for me; I doubt otherwise it would ever have been finished.
Thank you, Margaret, for sharing your lovely quilt with us all and I know you will enjoy seeing it hang in shows.
This quilt was one of our blocks of the month and the patterns are still available in a downloadable format. If you are interested, click here to find the Simply Delicious epatterns.
Linda has all of the block of the month patterns because she’s my (not all the way retired) partner and special. These 4 blocks are in your future!
Linda is choosing the colors that she thinks the birds should be, whether they are that color in real life or not. I love them!
Jami Smith, one of Linda’s stitching friends, sent me photos of her blocks so far. Looking good, Jami! I love the backgrounds you put behind these birds :-).
Judy Ullman wrote to say that she is enjoying researching the birds and used a collage method on Mickey Lawler Skydyes fabric. Well done, Judy! You found a really creative way to use the patterns! Thank you for sharing and it will be fun to see what you come up with next :-).
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