Some Finished Quilts

Do you know, I am absolutely loving having the time to pick through my quilt tops and decide which ones I want to work on.  The first one that I cam across was one I'd completely forgotten about.  It's made in Moda French General fabric and I think it must be one that I designed some years ago for Moda Bakeshop.

The colours are absolutely gorgeous.  I used a jelly roll for a lot of it and then used half square triangles to make the white diamonds.  In order to quilt it I have used stitch in the ditch down the length and across the width following the jelly roll blocks - the stripey ones in the photo.  That meant that for the diamonds I could have a lovely play.  Beginning in the middle of the diamond, I quilted a small feather into each corner.  Then between the feathers I quilted a fan shape using straight lines going from the middle to the edge.  I had seven lines of stitching for each fan, but with hindsight I would have used an even number of lines.  Then I wouldn't have found my needle in the wrong place every now and then.

I used the same design for the triangles that are set just inside the border.  I made myself quilt the feathers both up behind the needle and down in front of the needle.  That saved me having to turn the quilt round so often.  Overall I'm pretty pleased with it!

Other Work in Progress

In addition to the quilt above, I've also been working on things for the Christmas markets.  I've made some Christmas Tree decorations which were incredibly easy to make.  I used a really good tutorial from Ami Simms.

I always find that Christmas table runners sell well, so I'm trying to build up a stock of them using lovely bright Christmas fabrics.

My actual first completed quilt

Don't laugh but this was really the first quilt that I finished.  I had been asked for a single bed quilt for a young boy who liked really bright primary colours.  I took one of my red, white and blue square quilts and added strips of yellow, purple and green to the top and bottom.  This turned it into a rectangular bed size quilt and also used several bright colours.  Hope he likes it when he sees it.

Quilt Patterns

I said before that I was planning to turn all my quilt patterns into books, but I have now found that Etsy offer digital downloads.  This is much quicker (and cheaper) than books, so I have started to sell my patterns on Etsy for $3 - that must be about £2, I would think.  You can see the ones that I have added on this link:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/LudlowPatches

If there are any other patterns that you would like to see there, do please let me know.  The comment section didn't work on my first post about Montenegro, but I found that I hadn't set it up properly - it should be easy to leave comments now.