Love Calms the Seas - A blog for Spring!

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Thanks must go out to Amy's Creative Side for hosting the Spring Bloggers Quilt Festival.  What a wonderful opportunity of joining blogs together and gathering a lot of magical eye candy.  I like to thank all of the sponsors and also all of the bloggers who are linking to make this a wonderful interactive festival such fun.

Completed Love Calms the Seas

Love Calms the Seas Quilt was made for my youngest daughter as she completed her final year at Secondary College. I planned to finish this so she could have it with her on her new journey in life at University, to have a little bit of home and me with her.

starting of the piecing and placement of colours

I decided to piece this on the machine using the freezer paper foundation method.  This really helped as it was a very large quilt.  In fact this is the largest quilt I have ever made measuring 93" x 96".  Initially it was to only have one heart in the centre, but my daughter loved it so much we decided to put four more hearts in the quilt.  I am so glad we did for I feel it is very balanced now.

Quilting the waves

I love to hand quilt so with Aurifil 28 wt thread, in a blue, green and a purple and a turquoise. and my John James needles quilting began.  I was using the storm at sea quilt block but as the quilting  flowed I decided this quilt really needed to be called 'love calms the seas'.  I quilted waves into the quilt with blue going one way and the green areas going the opposite direction.

another shot of the waves being quilted

after the waves are quilted ready to quilt the hearts

When it came to the quilting of the hearts it called for something different.  I felt like the waves needed to be calm within them, as my desire for her life ahead to be full of more calmness than stress.  I was quilting my love into this quilt, so she can forever have a hug from her mama bear.

starting the quilting on the centre heart

another heart in the midst of quilting

Label just had to be a purple heart

At last the label screamed to me to be a heart.  This quilt took me 18 months to make and another few months of planning and gathering fabrics.  Whilst my daughter had completed her first year of University before I finished it, she now has her quilt and loves it very much.  I am so glad I took the time to quilt it the way I did.

here she is hiding in my back garden

Thanks for reading my post and for voting for my quilt, I also have another quilt entered in the hand quilting section - Hand quilting 'Time Warp' and I would appreciate your vote over here also. 

Please enjoy the eye candy and be inspired,

Keep on quilting and quilting,

Wendy :)

Hand quilting 'Time Warp' - Spring bloggers quilt festival!

Please vote Time Warp here for:- viewers choice

Please vote for Time Warp here for:- hand quilting

Thank you to Amy's Creative Side for hosting the Spring Bloggers Quilt Festival and for all of the wonderful sponsors and you the reader for visiting and voting for everyone.

Time Warp

Let me introduce my Time Warp Quilt.  This quilt was made for the Pantone 2015 Quilt Challenge and I made this quilt using the Creative Grids Hexagon Trim Tool and Pam Buda Prairie Gatherings and for the border I found Judes Album Quilt fabric by Jude Rothermel.  My hand quilting thread of choice for this was Aurifil 28 weight thread Numbers 1103 red and 2315 cream as you will see in the close ups.

some detail of the quilting

a little more detail

love the sunlight dappling in the shade

Time Warp measuring 52" x 44"  has Hobbs Tuscany Wool wadding to highlight the quilting design.  I decided to quilt hexagons in the border and pebbles and swirls in the negative space with the main hexagons of the quilt being quilted with perspective to create a three dimensional effect.

hexagons in the border

upper part of the quilt

lower area of quilt with pebbles and swirls

centre of the quilt

Just another fun shot in the back of the garden.

Thanks so much for reading my blog and for voting for my quilt.  I also have another quilt entered in the Large Quilt Section - Love Calms the Seas and I would love you to check this out also.

Until next time, enjoy all of the eye candy available this week.

Quilt and keep on quilting

Wendy :)

Time Warp quilt!

Pantone Colour of the Year Quilt Challenge!

Wow! What a challenge for a colour!  Not my normal I use. Firstly, I would love to thank our hosts Anne and Adrienne for this.  Please check their blogs Play-crafts & On the Windy Side and please vote for my entry at either of these links you clicking on the heart icon.  Whilst your there enjoy the eye candy and check out all of the wonderful quilts of the other entries as well. Thanks.

Time Warp with Bernard and Ben!

love this pot of colour

Well this colour lead me on a search for a range of fabrics to fit this theme and I had an idea to use the Creative Grids Hexagon Trim Tool to create a new looking hexagon block.  To my delight I found 12 Fat 1/4s of Prairie Gatherings by Pam Buda.  I then proceeded to make the top and managed to find the perfect border called Judie's Album Quilt by Judie Rothermel.  I had bought my Aurifil threads from Always Quilting.

Fabrics and threads!

Completed top

My quilt is 52" x 44" and I am really happy with this size to showcase this new block.

quilting the hexagons

a few of the pebbling

and some more pebbling with swirls

I have called this quilt time warp as I feel it is unusual to use reproduction fabrics like this and also to Quilt it in this manner.  I love hand quilting and have really enjoyed this challenge and this quilt.  I am not sure where this quilt will finally reside but at this stage Bernard and Ben some of my favourite  bears have claimed it as their own.  Please leave a comment and let me know what you think about my quilt.  Thanks again for you vote.

Cheers 

Wendy

Benadettes blooms

What a delight to find some Pantone 2015 in my stash to create this wonder for my cousin!

Thanks to Play-crafts & On the Windy Side for hosting this wonderful challenge.

I have created this table runner from fabric out of my stash and I have just loved the way it has all come together.  It measures 16" x  50"

Coming together

binding being sewn down

close up of appliqué

I machine quilted this simply with 28wt Aurifil thread and love the way the colour just shines.  Please vote via the links at the top of the page and I hope you love this as much as I do.

Cheers, and don't forget to leave a comment and say hello.

Wendy

Doing the Time Warp!

Hello!

Boy it seems like it has been ages since I have been here and chatted to you all. 

I have been quite busy creating as you will see and not just with this one but many.  I will gradually show them to you over the next few weeks as I get past these few deadlines.

Let me introduce Time Warp to you!  I am so excited to be doing this quilt.  This will be one of my entries for the Pantone Colour of the year quilt challenge which is held at Adrienne and Anne blogs.  I am linking today atMy quilt infatuation

as a flimsy

I am so happy to have found this fat quarter bundle from Pam Buda, Prairie Gatherings.  I do not normally use reproduction fabrics but have found them a delight, I have used Judies Album quilt by Judie Rothermel for the border.

Some pebbles in the making

The reason for the name Time Warp is because I am using reproduction fabrics but I have pieced it with more of a modern feel using the Creative Grids Hexagon Trim Tool and I am also quilting it with a modern feel.

So I hope you enjoy this quilt as much as I am, please check back in with me on Sunday as I give you an update.  I am hoping to be towards the end of the quilting by then.  I am sharing this with you today So until Sunday have fun quilting or creating and just love life,

All the best, Wendy.

P.s. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think

Layers of Trifle dish quilt coming together

Just thought I would share a few of the photos from my latest quilt top.  I am currently piecing this top from my scrap heap pile.  I have only added a couple of fat quarters so I might just take my scraps after all. 

I am nearly up to half way and am very excited at how this is looking.  I can't wait to piece the next few layers, I have resized my quilt as I do not want mine as big and I wanted to make it more of my own.  If you would like to make one go to Moda bake shop and download the free Trifle dish quilt instructions.

Until next time continue to have fun in your quilty adventures

Wendy.

Ps don't forget to leave a comment and say hello 

Whooping for finishes!

Happy Valentines Day!

I have had a wonderful day today.  So my first whoop is for this little top which I have finished.  It is called Samples of Summer, I have designed and made this quilt for beginner quilters in mind although I think most people will love it.  It came together easily and has lots of elements which will make it a great quilt to tutor with.  Classes will be held at Palm Beach Quilting in March, so give the girls a call and book a place for fun and frivolity in quilting

Samples of Summer

Because it is Valentines Day I thought I would share some hearts and quilty love with you all.

This is a quilt I made my eldest daughter when she went to university  

This is my latest finish and my youngest daughters quilt as she is at university now

Finally as I am gaining control over all of my projects and my ever changing life I feel like I can do a big whoop and link up with Confessions of a fabric addict for her Whoop Whoop 

New fabric equals exciting times

Just look at this gorgeous fabric!  I am so lucky to have won little bundle of delight.  I participate in a monthly sew in with a group of ladies from around the world on facebook.  We all can sew in our own homes and post photos to the event wall.  Then if you are chosen from random number you are the winner of a prize which someone has donated.  So imagine my happiness to find out I was going to be the recipient and the absolute joy when this arrived in my mail box.  I have been thinking of a few different options to use this with.  I will focus on the few quilts that have deadlines at the moment and then work with these blossoms.

                                 

                                       

And this bundle of wonder is for the Pantone colour of the year quilt challenge.  I have my fabric, my idea and I am so excited to be nearing the starting of this project.  Now that I have finished a couple of quilts and am nearing the finishing of another quilt top, I am hoping to start on this one next week.  Be sure to check out Play Crafts, On the Windy side and these fabrics from hawthorn threads should make my quilt just the way I want it to.

Anyway until next time, keep creating,

Wendy

Summer Hexagon Fun!

I seem like I am still catching up with my projects with the finishing of two very close, but with the ending of one comes the starting of new projects.  The revolving door of ideas is never ending thankfully.

Sampler at Gippsbeary Cottage

This is my hexagon sampler using the Trim Tool by Creative Grids, it has been a blast and I look forward to having lots of fun in my class with this.

Storm at Sea known as Love Calms the Seas

                                             

This quilt is now finally out of the hoop with all of the quilting done.  Binding is now being completed and will be given to my girl next week.  She is so excited to get this quilt as she has been waiting for a year.

                                              

       

Anyway I have many new things to share with you.  I also have my blocks for the last few week that I have done but unable to to blog about, so we will have a post about them very soon.  

Until next time, continue and enjoy your quilting or whatever makes you happy,

Wendy

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful start to the new year!  I have got lots installed and planned for this year.  Many quilting projects and some to share with you and I hope you will share with me also.

Firstly I plan on making a quilt block a week and that will give me 52 blocks to make a quilt or a few next year.  I plan on using scraps from leftover quilts or an extra block of a swap.  So here is my first block it is called Square over squares

Square over squares block

For this block I cut 

1 x 4.5" square, 1x 2.5" square and 1x (2.5 "x 4.5") rectangle of black

1 x 2.5" square and 1 x (2.5" x 4.5") rectangle of red

2 x 2.5" squares and (2 x 2.5 x 4.5") rectangle of black and white

I assemble this in rows by sewing a black rectangle to a black and white rectangle

a black and white square to a red rectangle to a black square

and lastly a white and black square to a red square this piece is then sewn to make a square by sewing the last black and white rectangle to it.  

I then sewed the two top rows and the the squares and then the two halves to form this cool block.

I have joined a group of Australians on Facebook and we are called Pass the Parcel Red, We make a block and then put it in an envelope and send to the next person, they make the same block and then pass on to the next person until the parcel comes back to you with enough blocks to make a quilt.

this is how i plan this quilt to look but it will be scrappy version of this.

My next venture is to continue tutoring this sampler at Palm Beach Quilting and also start tutoring at Gippsbeary Cottage in Korumburra.  I have some new fabric on the way to make a new sampler with a little more variety so I will show you very soon.  This sampler is made with the Hexagon Trim Tool from Creative Grids.  It is such a fun tool and is simple for everyone to use and play with.

Hexagon Trim Tool Sampler 

My other new quilt is this sampler for beginners and anyone who would like to improve their piecing skills.  It will be lots of fun and we will be working on this at Palm Beach Quilting.  Contact Maureen for more information.  If you are interested in coming to class at Gippsberry Cottage contact Trudy to find out more.

Beginners fun Quilt

One of the other exciting things is that I have now joined quiltersblogs.com, I am looking forward to all of the extra readers and would love to know what you think.

I would love to be able to see the blocks that you make so if you would like to post them to 

my Facebook pageI would love to be able to share them and we could have a great show.

Any way until next time, 

Happy Quilting and Sewing,

Wendy