Nessie's Grandmother's Fan Quilt

I recently finished quilting this lovely customer quilt.
  It was made by a lovely lady called Nessie who is 87 years young.  Made up of Grandmother's fan blocks it was a lot of fun to quilt!

Quilted freehand on my Q'nique, I used 3 different colours of thread, all Filtec Glide.

                                                                   Back view

Next time I'll show you my newest commission.  Thanks for visiting my blog today :)
Rhianon.

Quilted Vintage Tablecloth

A while back I joined a group on Facebook called Quilting Vintage. It's all about quilting old embroidered tablecloths, runners, doillies and handkerchiefs.
Taking something old and beautiful, giving it new life and making it even more beautiful.

A lot of beautiful work on that page and I wanted to try my hand at it.

After scouring the local charity shops, I found these at £1 each.

Couldn't wait to get home and load up the frame.  I started with the pale mint green one which has pretty hand embroidery.

I didn't really have a plan so off I went.  I started with the embroidered corner motifs and then moved down to the middle.

A flower in the center seemed a good starting point.

I then rolled the frame back and filled in the background with pebbling, eventually moving down and finishing the final two corner motifs.

Its all freehand, unmarked and was a lot of fun.

These are a brilliant and inexpensive way to practice quilting.  I'm thinking what to do with the next one now........
Thanks for visiting today
Happy stitchin'
Rhianon.

Butterflies and Feathers Cushion

This was a gift I made for a friend over Christmas.
I fussy cut the butterflies from some gorgeous fabric and machine appliqued them to the background.
I did the same with the leaves.
The flowers are 3D made from Suffolk puffs and were sewn on by hand at the end.

 Basted and ready for the free motion quilting which I did on my Janome 1600P on the table top.
I used one layer of Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 wadding.

 I used a polycore cotton thread made for machine quilting by Empress Mills, a family run UK manufacturers.

 I was really pleased with how the quilting turned out on this.

 I finished it off with a ruffle in a slightly darker shade of blue.

A little pearl bead finished off the center of the flowers.

 Cushion measures 13" x 18" excluding the ruffle.

A little sad to see this one go - turned out so nice.  I must be on a roll !
Thanks for visiting today.
Rhianon.