TraceyBquilting: A new year & finally I’m back again

Yes it has been awhile here on my blog. I just can’t seem to get here on a regular basis between all the other things I do online???

Anyway I thought I’d share some photos of some quilts that I’ve been busy with. The first one is a customer quilt & I have two of these to do. Only one is just finished. It is called Tilly & Friends and the pattern is from my sister, Helen Stubbing’s book, Pajama Party

There are lots of different types of quilting on here using 3 colours of threads. I mainly used Rasant cotton wrapped poly for the pink & white BUT then I found a gorgeous lime green isocord that has a bit of shine to use as well. This thread is fantastic & lots of colours in the range as well.

I finished this amazing double wedding ring quilt in January for a customer who has made this for a wedding gift. It was lovely that there was a long deadline so no pressure!! She is a very organised customer – isn’t it nice to have these!! This was done with my Intelliquilter using feather motifs from Kimmy Brunner and a simple loopy pattern that came with the IQ in the corner squares. The rings were quilted freehand – it is so nice to be able to swap easily between IQ & freehand on my A1 that this went really quickly. I used white Rasant thread on all the white fabric and bottom line in the bobbin. The rings were quilted using ‘Mother of the Bride’ lilac Masterpiece thread.

I have also been busy quilting our Guild’s raffle quilts. They have made 2 single bed quilts for this year’s Cornish Festival with all funds going to a local nursing home again. The first one was done last year in October, so that they could get it finished & start selling raffle tickets for it. The second one only got done last week! The festival & exhibition is in May this year, so I just made it vbg… They are quilted similarly, but not exactly the same as the applique blocks are all different between the quilts. Each applique block was done by a different member. The motifs are done with my Intelliquilter and the rest is freehand. The swags are done with my 5” swag ruler You can visit this page to even see a video on how to use this ruler!