This grandmother is rather excited about her youngest son’s firstborn arriving in early 2026. She made this and used the most beautiful, floral embroidered blocks to place between the pieced blocks. The embroidery was done by another local quilter and embroiderer, Wilna Geel.
This combination works perfectly for a little girl, and as can be seen on the
quilt, will be named Sofia.
The quilter made these for a friend who lost her husband. She started out with only a large quilt for the friend. The friend then requested two more smaller quilts. These would be for grandchildren.
The same
shirts were cut for all of these, and I then tried to make each one unique
by selecting a different motif for each.
This was a sew-along hosted by Jacquelynne Steves, and the quilt maker claims it took her 20 years to finish it. Be it as it may, it is finished and a beauty to say the least.
Table runner
This little
one posed a couple of problems. The
newbie quilt maker, after finishing this, tried her hand at free-motion
quilting. When she realised it was not
for her, she sent it to me; she already had some quilting done in certain
areas. Sadly, ripping previous quilting out is not part of the service I deliver, and I told her, I will try
my best, but I won’t give any guarantees.
I got
plenty of puckers due to the fact that the quilting was not done from top to bottom, as she had already quilted some of the middle sections, so the fabric had nowhere
to move.
I then could not do the designs I would have liked to do, but selected motifs to soften the look of puckers. The quilt has not yet been fetched from me. I dearly hope she will find this satisfactory.
This quilter claims to be a newbie, but the quality and neatness of her work are impeccable.
