FRAKTAL QUILT

 A Customer Quilt

A little while ago on Instagram there was a sew-a-long for this wonderful rainbowtastic quilt - Fraktal by Paula Steel Quilts run by Modern Quilt Club using the beautiful 'Phosphur' fabrics by Libs Elliot - my lovely customers joined in and have done an amazing job!

 

Measuring a healthy 72" x 72" this quilt is full of colour and modern flavour. They told me that the first few weeks of cutting and making all the units were challenging but the weekly tasks and community spirit made it all worthwhile. 

I know I am bias but I think they have done an incredible job! My customers wanted and all over quilting design that created movement across the quilt and some texture without distracting from the overall design - they chose a great design (details below) that subtly matches the quilt.

I'm very pleased to report that they absolutely loved the quilting I did and sent me another one to do - more on that later!

Pantograph:Apex 2 by Urban Elementz

Thread:

Glide 40wt Blueberry (top)

Decobob Antique White (bobbin)

SO I DID A THING.......

I bought a Longarm machine

Often, when you least expect it, life throws you a curve ball. Something you weren't expecting happens and you don't really know what to do, this happened to me at the beginning of the year when I was forced out of a job I loved because of poor leadership and lack of support, but as the saying goes when one door closes another one opens!

I have longingly looked at longarm quilting machines for quite sometime, but they are big so where would I put it and they are expensive so it isn't a decision to make lightly. At the end of February my wonderful husband and I took a trip to view a few and try them out - I was already sold to be honest but it never hurts to carry out more research.

Then the dreaded Corona happen shortly after so things took a little longer than I had hoped but in the middle of May this happened...

She is absolutely amazing, even better than I was expecting, slightly daunting and so much to learn but equally exciting. I spent a few days practicing and was really pleased with my first attempts at free motion quilting on a longarm machine.

It wasn't long before I couldn't resist stitching out edge to edge designs using Pro-Stitcher, the results were really satisfying.

With new found confidence I loaded my first full quilt on to Maggie (that's what we've called her) and stitched out an all over clover design, I absolutely loved it and the overall result is great.

 I haven't looked back since and have quilted several more quilts - I am definitely addicted! 

I'm so excited about this adventure and where it is going to take me, if you need me you know where I'll be - in The She Shed practicing and playing with my longarm.

Happy Quilting

Kerry x