Jenny's Modern Quilt

My girlfriend daughter Jenny who is only 28 with four small children, has been battling Leukemia for some time, the good news is that her sister is a perfect matched donor so Jenny is having a Stem cell transplant tomorrow. The hope is that the transplant, using her sister bone marrow can rebuild the supply of normal blood cells and then Jenny's immune system will kick back into action and regenerate.

Jenny loves this modern art, so I have been busy over the Christmas holidays and New Year designing and making her a quilt, based on the Modern Art that is hanging in her house. These colours are not in my colour range but Jenny loves them and that’s what important.

This is the quilt top I designed for her.

This is the back of the quilt, as you can see I've used leftover blocks and almost all of the leftover fabric from the front has gone into the back. No wastage here.

I had some leftover star blocks from Dylan's quilt which were perfect for labels, Jenny's mom asked the members of her family to write messages of encouragement, hope and love on the hexagon's, now Jenny can take the quilt with her into hospital to comfort her when she is in the isolation room for four weeks.

My favourite message on this quilt was "In those moments when you are alone know that we are with you - our love is wrapped around you always". Good luck Jenny we are all in your corner.

Until next time happy quilting
Anne

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas

First off, Wow!! I can't believe how fast the year has gone... I hope 2013 was kind to you all and 2014 will be an even better one.

I'd like to wish everyone a happy and safe Christmas...(happy holidays) I hope your day will be filled with Happy Christmas memories of family and friends.

Have a good one
Merry Christmas
Enjoy every moment....
Anne

"Affairs of the Heart" - Corner Scroll Hearts

As you can see I've trace and stitched the corner heart motif four times at each mitered corner of the heart scroll borders, taking care to align the centers of the hearts with the mitered border seams.

Then I cut the purple fabric hearts out leaving a generous turn-under allowance. At this stage the heart is a solid shape.

Then I carefully cut the inside of each heart revealing the black background fabric.

The last step after reverse appliqueing the fabric in place is to sew a small yellow circle on each heart and a purple circle the same colour as the heart below complete the scroll heart boarder.

Happy quilting until next time
Anne

Affairs of the Heart - Quilt Top Assembly

I'm back! and posting again, so what have I done while away? I've completed the hand sewing and squared up all my blocks to measure 7½" x 7½" taking care to ensure the design was centred on each block before trimming. My plan was to arrange four embroidered blocks in the centre and the others at the corners in each row. Sewing the block together. Then sewing the rows together.

I’ve spent time playing around with the border and corner designs.

The border scroll design had to be appliqued 4 times along each border strip. I am using the back basing applique technique to sew the scrolls in place.

As you can see I am sewing the narrow multi-colour border strips to quilt and getting ready to mitre the corners.

Happy quilting until next time
Anne

Our Holiday begins....

Woohoo! Our bags are packed.

DH and I are getting excited here in WA, early tomorrow morning (at the ungodly hour of 2am) we will be heading to the International Airport to flying out to the United Kingdom - we are spending the kids inheritance on a holiday of a life time, our 1st tour is the "Britain & Ireland Grandeur" we will be starting and finishing this tour in London visiting places like Stonehenge, Belfast, Dublin, Edinburgh, and maybe see the Loch Ness monster, then crossing the channel by ferry, on our 2nd tour the "WW1 & WW11 Battlefields " ending up in Paris for four days then flying to Amsterdam to connect with the  APT Tour on the boat MS Amabella which will take us down the Rhine ending in Budapest, then heading across to Prague - staying 5 nights before we pick up our final tour "Highlights of Austria, Slovenia & Croatia" – should be a great holiday - 3 months away all up - back home to WA on the 5th October. (All tours are with Trafalgar except the river tour which is with APT).

Yes - I have packed my travel project "Affairs ofhe Heart blocks" the last 12 blocks which are ready to be embroidered.

Until next time - Happy quilting
Anne

"Affairs of the Heart" - blocks 16, 17,18, 19, 20, 21, 22 & 23 down only 12 to go

I've realized this hobby has become an addition for me, Yes - I am admitting it ... I've become a quilting junkie who needs a daily fix... LOL - a perfect day for me is when I am planning a new project or reading about quilting tip or technique that I can use. But the best feeling of all for me is hearing the steady hum of my sewing machine as I work on a project. How about you? Do you feel the same?

So what have I been working on? - it's the final applique blocks of "Affairs of the Heart" this is block number 16

block 17

block 18

block 19

block 20  isn't she a beauty? I love this block

block 21

block 22 is all marked up and ready for the next step.

& finally block 23

I have run out of time to applique any more block so the remaining 12 blocks have been marked up and will be embroidered on my holiday.

Happy quilting until next time
Anne

"Affairs of the Heart" - Blocks 13, 14 & 15 down only 19 to go

Today, I want to share more of my appliqued "Affairs of the Heart" blocks so without further ado here is block number 13

 

Block 14 which contains 8 hearts and was very quick and easy to sew and construct

 

and last but not least block number 15 as you can see this one has been marked up for the next step of embroidering embellishment, by using stem stitch.

 





 

 

Until next time happy quilting

 

Anne