Some of my Quilts #12 - Flea Market Stairs

This is the twelfth post in a series of posts about my pre blog quilts.  Check out the rest of them here.

This quilt was inspired Don't Call Me Betsy's Dresden Stairs quilt.  I found it when searching for a quilt to make using the EZ Dresden Ruler and fell in love.  It was simple to make but also provided an effective pattern and a different than normal use for the dresden shapes.

The fabric in this quilt is the reprint of Flea Market Fancy by Denyse Schmidt.  I separated the colour ways as I felt it gave it a more striking pattern.  I only quilted the background fabric in an attempt to feature the other fabric more. It was quilted in a overlapping square pattern.

I pieced my label into the back of the quilt and also featured some of the fabric from the front of the quilt in the back.  The main backing fabric was from Spotlight by Prints Charming.  The binding was by DS Quilts.

I do really like this quilt and I found that pattern it created was quite effective.

What quilters inspire you?

Some of my Quilts #3 - Come What May

This is the third post in a series showing some of my pre-blog quilts. See the other posts here.

This quilt is one of my all time favourites! (How many favourite quilts can you have?) This one is a baby sized version of the brilliant Come What May pattern by Jaybird Quilts. It was a wonderfully written pattern, like all Jaybird Quilts patterns are! 

The fabric is all from DS quilts lines, all purchased from Spotlight. With all the blues its almost a low volume quilt without using traditionally low volume fabric.  Plus I made it long before I knew low volume was even a thing!

I quilted this quilt on my quilting frame, so the stitches are amazingly even!

One of my favourite things about this quilt is that when I posted a photo of it to Jaybird Quilts facebook page Denyse Schmidt liked the photo! With her personal page! Talk about fan girl moment!
 

 

 

Who are your favourite rock star quilters?

Feathers Quit

I promised my friend a quilt for her 21st birthday back in 2013.  Somehow life got in the way like it always seems to.

It took me months to decide on a pattern and pull fabric she liked, especially as her one request was it match a cushion cover I had made about two years before.

Finally we settled on Feathers by Anna Maria Horner using a range of scrappy fabrics from Spotlight and East Coast.  I ordered a set of acrylic templates from the Sunset Seams Etsy Store to make cutting a little easier.   So for her 22nd birthday my friend got some blocks for her quilt.

Fast forward another few months and I had a finished quilt top.  Add another few months onto that and I got around to making the backing fabric.  We narrowed down the selections to this.

 

A strip of feather fabric from Spotlight surrounded on either side by old DS lines, also from Spotlight.

 

Binding was again from Spotlight, a nice navy, white and gold metallic stripe.  I bought a metre of it and cut it all up for binding.  Its already been used on this one and another quilt.

 

 

However it was the basting of this quilt which was a mission.  I took a photo of the process, just because it was much more effort than the normal sized quilt I would make.

 

 

 

 

It took up the entire lounge room!  Even after I moved the couch out of the way.  And yes trashy reality TV makes everything better!

 

 

Thankfully quilting didn't take too long, eight bobbins of quilting.  It should have been nine but there was a tiny patch left when the eighth one emptied.  So there it stayed.  I was well and truly done by that point. 

 

 

I was keeping my friend updated throughout the whole process.  So when I let her know it was finished in the washing machine by sending her this photo she could barely wait for it to dry.  In fact she was so keen to get it she couldn't wait for it to be 100% dry, let alone for me to get a photo! 

 

 

 

Thankfully she did send one through a few days later.  And I'm pretty impressed with how it matched the cushion that started it all!

 

 

I'm very happy with how it turned out, even though I'm not sure I'll ever make one again!

 

Emma :)