More quilting on an oldie

I seemed to have dropped off the blogosphere there for a while. Sorry. But don't get the idea I've been sitting around twiddling my thumbs. (well maybe just a bit) No, I've been continuing to finish off some ancient UFO's and adding more quilting to some others. Here's one that got more quilting added to it. I was never particularly happy with the quilting I originally did on it. So following the adage that there's no such thing as too much quilting, that's exactly what it got.





and a close up

.....and I bought myself a new toy (HINT: this makes 21) .....but more about that next time

Another Journal Quilt and a UFO finally finished

I've been so busy quilting the last couple of weeks I've neglected the blog. This is one of the pieces I finished recently. It's another journal quilt for the Aus/Nz Artquilters Group. We don't necessarily have to do the monthly themes in order so this is actually the June theme - The Centre. These journal quilts are A4 size and quite fun to work on.

As I was doing this I remembered a quilt top that I did many years ago along similar lines and never really finished off so I dragged it out and was inspired to finish it. The background green is piece I hand dyed. The black border was sewn around it and then I printed with grevillea leaves using gold fabric paint. The 'woven' bits are actually cut from the one piece of fabric that I dyed and appliqued after the printing. I felt it didn't stand out from the background very well in places so I ended up couching a heavy metallic thread along the edges. The title is 'Unravelled'. I'd love to hear your comments.

Done at last

I've just put the last stitches in the binding. Doesn't have a hanging sleeve yet but that can wait. The quilting seemed to take forever. As you can see from the detail, there's quite a bit of it. I've hand-dyed all the fabrics in this quilt. I'm on a roll with quilting at the moment so I think I'll drag out a couple of tops from the 'I'll get around to quilting these some day' pile and finish them off.