This quilt was commissioned by my daughter-in-law and will be donated to York School for a fund-raising event.
Ms Selley’s Class 2012 45 in. X 54 in.
Fabric paint was spread on each child’s hand then the hand was used as a stamp to imprint the light aqua fabric. The hands were cut out and raw edge appliqued using a blind hem stitch.
The machine quilting complements the geometric design of the sashing and the borders.
I have been doing some testing for Robyn Phillips, the owner, designer, digitizer for Skeldale House Designs. The project that I just finished is twelve in-the hoop quilt blocks. 
Skeldale Tester 2012 46.5” X 56.5″
The software for these blocks can be purchased from www.skeldalehouse.com
The finished blocks are 8 in. square. I have added a border which is paper pieced.
I am not a fan of all over machine quilting. Consequently each block is quilted to compliment the design. I have used meandering stipple, echo stitching and quilt-in-the-ditch.
This project stems from a workshop I took with Vikki Pignatelli, www.vikkipignatelli.com . Her work features lots of flowing gentle curves and bright colors. The feature flower on the front and back of the jacket is her pattern, Cabbage Rose. The front flower serves as a pocket. The remainder of the design was completed using her techniques.
The top for each pattern piece is constructed separately, sandwiched and echo quilted, then cut to the correct size and shape. After the jacket pieces are sewn together, the seams were spread and bound.
A close up of the sleeve detail.
A close up of the back detail.
This entry is a log of “traditional” quilts that I have made over the years but not posted.
Bugs 2007 82 in. X 98 in.
Fancy Squares 2009 84 in. X 100 in.
Fat Cats 2009 78 in. X 96 in.
Out of the Midnight Sky 2009 82 in. X 94 in.
Butterflies for Emily 2009 82 in. X 96 in.
Geisha in the Garden 2010 80 in. X 98 in.
Midnight Madness 2009 98 in. X 98 in.
Competition bundle A
Competition bundle B
Competition bundle C
The above fabrics are mostly polyester or polyester and cotton blend. In fact they are used clothing, shirts, blouses and skirts, purchased from Goodwill and carefully folded to disguise. What would you do with these bundles of fabric?
The challenge -
Within the 3 hour time limit, work with a partner to turn a bundle of these fabrics and 5 provided embellishments into a completed 16 inch block (i.e. sandwiched, quilted and bound ) on the theme, Re-creation. The participants were required to use some of each of the fabrics and all the embellishments on the face of the quilt. To ease the pain, each team was provided with vouchers from the show vendors to purchase additional fabrics and embellishments.
My partner was Maggie Hannigan and we received by lot bundle A above. The flowered fabric was a thin polyester skirt but the flowers were an appropriate size to gather into a bouquet. Consequently we decided to relegate the other 4 fabrics to simple borders and binding. But we needed just the right fabric onto which to applique the flowers.
Maggie set off to the vendors to find that just right fat quarter and glitter paint. I cut 1 inch stripes from the yellow and the turquoise fabrics to creat a palisade border.
Maggie applied Steam-a-Seam 2 to the flowered shirt and cut and arranged the flowers on the moss-green background. I free motion stitched the edge of the raw edged appliques while Maggie finished the borders and sewed some of the remaining fabric for the backing.
I sandwiched and free motion quilted while Maggie c onstructed the binding.
Maggie sewed the binding and added the embellishments which were held in place with the glitter paint.
There you have it, Flowers from My Garden, 2011 in 2 hours and 58 minutes.
This is a coat that I fell in love with when I first saw it at Art Of Fabric. The pattern is by Akasha Clothing and the inspiration for this adaptation is from Marion Roberts. The outer shell is a Japanese fabric from the Imperial Collection by Kaufman Fabrics.
The fabric is fused to batten. The design on the fabric is then outlined in gold thread and the flowers are thread painted for additional detail. The inner fabric is then added and the sandwich is lightly quilted with 2″ lines running the length of the coat. The coat is fully reversible.
The reverse side is decorated with appliqued designs cut from the outer fabric.
The coat is embellished with hot fix crystals and fabric glitter.
The coat is strikingly beautiful.
Dad’s Garden 2 2011 79″ X 95″ $1800.
My show quilt for the York Heritage Quilt Guilt is now finished. The design is original. The blocks are all made in-the-hoop. The appliqued flowers are made with software licensed from Skeldale House Designs. The appliqued butterflies and the transparent embroidered flowers are made with software licensed from Hatched In Africa.
The ribbon blocks I designed. The quilt is quit heavily quilted with rows of echo stitching and stippling and is finished with a scalloped edge and hand sewn binding.
Below is a similar design completed a year ago.
Dad’s Garden 2010 80″ X 93″
