Quilting in a hurry!!

Just thought you would like a sneaky peek at 2 quilts of mine that I am trying to get quilted to go in our local quilt show.  As usual, it is an 11th hour job.  I usually have about 30 customer quilts waiting on my rail to be quilted so my quilts have to sit lonely and unquilted in a corner until some deadline looms (show, birthday etc) and I have to get a move on.  Fortunately for me, my husband was away working in Singapore all last week so I was able to do some late nights

The first one is a Dresden plate quilt made using 'Fandango' by Kate Spain and a Moda Bella solid called 'mist'.  I outlined all the plates and the flying geese and then filled in with a mixture of pebbles and peacock swirls.  Once I had done 1 block I was committed!!  There are 24 more to do.  I was staring so hard, and obviously not blinking much, that my contact lenses we sticking to my eyeballs!!  YUK - I also have a feeling that I stick my tongue out whilst concentrating on all the small pebbles too - not a pretty sight!  I think it will look nice once it is done but it is going to take quite some time to finish all that filler.  Pity there are only 24 hours in a day and I need to sleep for some of them!

I have taken this off the machine now and will put it back on at the weekend to do some more.

 

The next quilt is an 'urban 9 patch' made using the Quick Curve Ruler by Jenny Pedigo of Sew Kind of Wonderful.  I used some Circa 1934 by Cosmo Cricket for Moda and a Bella solid in Etchings Charcoal.  Again I have committed to lots of pebbling - more fool me!  My eyeballs won't know what has hit them.  Might need to wear my glasses to sew over the weekend.

I apologise for the poor quality of the photo's.  My camera is not very good.  Now I am officially a 'Blogger'! I will have to put a nice camera on my Christmas/birthday wish list.  I will take some better ones later and also of them finished but just thought you might like to see what I have been up to.  There are some pretty awesome longarm quilter bloggers our there, as well as patchworkers, so if you are reading this - please be gentle with me!!  Most of my work is sewing pantograph patterns so I don't get much time to practice custom work.

Happy Quilting

Chris