Aaaand.. Drum Roll ... DD is finished!

This is it.... I have pieced, and quilted "Double Delight" quilt. I love it - thanks Bonnie - you have outdone yourself this time.







I wasn't sure about the brown batik border - but once I perservered with measure, pin, sew ... for each edge - I was sold. Put it on the longarm and quilted "Paisley Playtime" pattern on it .... see http://www.lorienquilting.com/ if you want to see where I get some of my patterns from.


I am very happy with how this quilt has turned out ... now to stitch on the binding... yay! I'm using the same pink as the set in triangles on the outside ... just had enough fabric.

My husband challenged me to finish this quilt today because my rule is I don't do customer quilts on the weekend (sometimes I do though!) .. and I did it! Binding is a night time job.

Now I had better finish my Dear Jane Quilt BOW & TOW...

Happy Quilting until next time ... Jane

Tonight ... I Sewed!

Tonight ... I sewed my Double Delight Mystery Quilt together. I auditioned a number of fabrics as the set in triangles - I liked the blue, which is the colour I used in the alternate 9 patch blocks, but alas ... I didn't have enough. So I used a pale pink that I had used in the 9 patches also ... I quite like the pale look.




Can't wait until Bonnie has put up Part 7 - which I think will show what she has done with her borders .... I am almost tempted to put a narrow chedder border and then a larger brown border of the same fabrics used in the quilt ... or I could put a chedder / blue / chedder and then brown borders - all narrow.... not sure. It is a nice sized quilt already - borders added would make it a bed quilt. I have never made a quilt quite like this before and I am quite happy how it has turned out. Thanks to you Bonnie!

Nick over to http://quiltville.com for a look at Bonnie Hunter's stashbusting quilts - Scrappy quilts are one of my favourites (although any quilt is a nice quilt).

Happy quilting until next time.... Jane

What a Week!

I have been busy quilting customers quilts - but I can't quilt at night - too noisy and by then my feet have had enough of being stood on all day. So.... I have made these two lovely little pin cushions with beading around the seams. Very cute they are too IMHO!

I put the borders onto my B&W quilt and am very happy with the result - it is a big quilt though - about 78inch square

I thought I would show you all my leaders and enders that I have been making whilst piecing Bonnie's Double Delight Mystery .... aren't they lovely. I will be making a four patch quilt - these are my own hand dyed fabric ... so I really have been stashbusting.

Anyway - back to the Salt Mines.!

Happy quilting for now...Jane

A sneak peek at what I have been up to

I have been busy creating over the last month - hand dyeing fabric and designing a "Cat" quilt for a friend. So here is the sneak peek as no borders have been added yet!

My snail trail cat quilt in autumn tones













And this quilt using my B&W fabric and my hand dyed colours...A friend of mine said she loved cutting and piecing but didn't actually need any more quilts - so I gave her my B&W stash and a selection of my hand dyed fabrics with the pattern for this quilt and said "here you go - have fun" .. So big thankyou to Barbara - you have done an absolutely lovely job of piecing this quilt for me. I just need to add borders to these two quilts and I can have fun quilting them.













And......More Double Delighting from Bonnie Hunter's Mystery Quilt. This is Part 5 - the final block - that is 9patches (the other one is Part 4). I am now ready to put them all together.... Can't wait to see the final quilt and decide on borders and binding.

Happy Quilting until next time ... Jane

Dear Jane is on again & a bit more Double Delight

One of my New Year Resolutions was that I would finish my Dear Jane quilt this year - hopefully before September when our local Quilt Group - Launceston Patchwork Quilters - is having their exhibition (between 10th and 12th September). I would love to have it ready for exhibition then.

So here is this weeks TOW (Triangle of the Week) and BOW (Block of the Week). The block looks pretty horrible and I think I will go back and piece it properly next week sometime (instead of reverse applique).

My quilt is called "Jane's Dear Jane" and my numbers are now:

58 blocks, 10 triangles, 4 corner kites and a total of 1316 pieces - so about one third the way through.

And more of Bonnie Hunter's Double Delight Mystery Quilt - I have finished Part 4 - well done one block and then decided I needed to vacuume and tidy up my quilt studio ready for work tomorrow. Back to customer quilts tomorrow - yay!!

Here is my block - I do love it .... and below are all the little blocks waiting in line to get done - perhaps one or two every break from the quilting machine.... who knows I might have this part finished by the end of the week.

Happy Quilting for now.... Jane

Mystery Quilt - moving along now

I woke up very early this morning - around 3.30am - as I couldn't sleep. So off I go downstairs and trim up Block 1 . Then I see Bonnie has uploaded Part 3 of her mystery quilt. I also see that she has used some more light fabrics - and I wanted to use something other than the pale blue I had used in Block 1 .... quietly delving into the stash in the middle of the night, I found a metre of this lovely Sanctuary fabric and have used that for the 9 patches.

I found that I had to make 20 strips at 1.5inch Width of Fabric for the Lights and 25 strips at 1.5inch WOF for the pinks - this gave me strip sets: Light/Pink/Light = 5 and Pin/Light/Pink = 10 - enough to make the 130 9patch blocks.





Here they all are hanging around early this morning about 8am.









Then cutting took another hour ... here we are ready to piece into little 3.5inch 9 patch blocks...very cute.









Here are my three blocks so far .... Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.


I had better go and do something else now otherwise nothing will get done this weekend.

Happy Quilting .... Jane

Getting Updated To 2009 & Mystery Quilts!

This is another quilt I have made from Moda Peace On Earth fabric - their pattern too!

I really quilte like this one too! I am a big fan of Moda fabrics - the quilt is on it's side as it is quite a long quilt - had to fit it on my clothesline to take a photo.

Finally the Red/Black/White quilt has been custom quilted - took me quite a while to do this as I made up the quilting as I went....

I just love the design effect on the back!

This georgeous little darling in coming to live with us in a couple of weeks time - he is a British Shorthair (the other darling is my son - lol! and this is his 16th birthday present) - we went to visit the cattery on Tuesday and pick him out of the litter - very cute - I want to call him Flash Gorgonzola (fast blue cheese) - but no one else is keen on the name - I wonder why.....I'll probably call him that anyway ... I'll have to wait and see what my son and husband come up with - but our son has the final choice!

And ...... THE MYSTERY QUILT........................................................................

Bonnie Hunter from Quiltville announced in December a New Year Mystery Quilt ...... you can see it at ... http://quiltville.com/doubledelight1.shtml

I wasn't sure I wanted to take this on at the moment as I have never done a Mystery Quilt before .... but after looking at all the fabric choices, I spent New Years Day going through my stash and found some suitable fabrics .... hope they work well in the final quilt.

These are my first two blocks - Part 1 is the blue centre, Part 2 is the Chedder coloured Centre - 120 units of each - whew - now I just have to trim them all up to 3.5 inch square.

Chain piecing last night .....







The first block ready to go....

And ... my fabric choices - I didn't have any shirting fabrics so have substituted the pale blue on blue, a light pink on pink fabric for the main colour as I didn't have any dark double pinks, the blue batik for the indigo, chedder/gold, and a brown/green/pink batik for the brown fabric.

Can't wait for Bonnie to post the next installment on this one...

Cheers for now and Happy Quilting ....Jane