QUILTING QUILTING QUILTING AND OTHER STUFF

How terrible, I have been neglecting my Blog. All in a good cause I can assure you. I have been quilting, quilting, quilting, and then quilting some more. I just love doing it. I'm sure I have been doing other stuff too, but as you can tell quilting always comes first...with me anyway. 

So exactly what have I been quilting you ask? Well, do you remember I did a special give away a while back. I offered to quilt a quilt for someone in the UK and make a bag for someone overseas. Katy won the quilt bit and Erin won the bag bit.

I received  the quilt from Katy, she didn't actually have one done, so she just made a small Welsh style Quilt...

complete with wadding and backing it arrived...

 here it is opened out, well done Katy, it is lovely, looking forward to quilting this for you...

Katy had told me I could do what I wanted on it quilting wise, but I decided to search out some Welsh style quilting designs as she had gone to the trouble of making one. My friend Di rang the Quilters Guild as she is a member and found out the Welsh use toned threads for the quilting, good job she found out I would have used good old black!!!! 

I have to tell you it is only small though, about 29" square actually. Oh well, maybe next time I will get a bigger one, if there is a next time!! Anyway, I have finished the Quilt and have returned it to Katy, who likes it, hahaha the message I got was really funny, I will have to ask permission to put it on here, it made both me and hubby laugh out loud. Katy you are so funny.

Just to remind you I do all quilting freehand, I never mark the fabric, I just go for it, so if the patterns are sometimes a tad 'wonky' that's me done that. No apologies, it's the way I quilt.

Here it is then, finished - sorry, lots of photos....

close up of centre, using Welsh style designs...

 close up of final border-the black one - which is my own design...

 the whole thing...

 close up of the back outer edges...

 partial centre...

 centre of quilt...

 complete thing finished - this is the back of course,

can you spot my signature? Wonder if Katy found it!

I was extremely pleased with the way this turned out as before this I had never done any Welsh Quilting, I do like their designs, even if I did kind of alter a few here and there. Oops!!! hahahaha

So that is one down, one to go. Yes I have done the bag for Erin, it is as I type winging it's way across the Pond to her. When she receives it I will put the pikkies up on here only fair she gets to see it first.

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So that is that part done, hmm what else have I been doing, oh yes I have been trialling patterns for Geta, made a quilt with one of the patterns I trialled for her, picture tomorrow as wahey it is all done, put the binding on it tonight.

Which reminds me....DID YOU REMEMBER TO PUT YOUR CLOCKS BACK FOLKS????

I have also made a few Postcards for some swaps I am in. Again no pictures until they are received other end. Sorry.

I can put the pictures here though of the ones I have received...

HAPPINESS Postcard swap from Margaret - lover it, thank you so much...

 More new threads, I cannot resist...

 the final block for the Underground Quilt with Tessa on PP Forum -

I can now start assembling the quilt yippee...

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Just look what my friend Liz sent me - isn't it great,

I am known as BattyJan you see, good one Liz, thank you so much, love it...

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 Again on the PP Forum, Ros has been asking us about various things we have in our sewing rooms,

we have done threads - I wont put them all on here again, oh dear, SO many hahahaha,

but this week she asked for our favourite Gadgets, I seem to have found a few...

Safety pins, Rulers, Special machine feet, curved scissors, KandiKane, Small iron, Soldering iron, Heat gun, Chenille cutter and a thread stand for those slippery threads, not forgetting the cutting mat they are all posing on...

 THIS, is my most important foot,

this is the foot I use when I am free machining or quilting on my machine,

doesn't look much does it, but oh boy I would not be without it, no way...

and last but not least - here are a few of the things I have for sale on my other Blog,
http://jansmags.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-10-29T01%3A04%3A00%2B01%3A00&max-results=1

lots more on there, so if you fancy taking a look and see something you like,

please get in touch with me...

Lots of books....

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