Cathy's Town Square

 Cathy made this sweet farm themed quilt for a good friend's first great granddaughter.  Cathy used the Fabric Cafe Town Square pattern but added some sashing between the blocks to change it up a bit.

Cathy selected the Bora Bora pantograph for a breezy finish to this quilt.  The pattern shows up beautifully on the brown Cuddletex backing fabric.

 

Val's Simply Dashing 2.0

This is Val's second unique interpretation of our Highway 10 Designs Simply Dashing pattern.  The pattern is written as a two fabric quilt that utilizes strip piecing for a fast and easy finish.

  Val made it her own by starting with some ombre fat quarters and doing a whole lot of organizing and planning along the way.  

I think the navy background really makes all of the other colors pop.  Val chose the Soho pantograph and a shiny blue thread.

Val chose her backing fabric from the small collection of Northcott wide backs that I have in stock.  This blue Stonehenge is a lovely option with lots of color variation.

 

All Boxed In

Darlene made this stunning quilt.  The pattern is called All Boxed In by Anything But Boring.  It features a beautiful collection of Kaffe Fassett fabrics.

The bold prints do a pretty good job of hiding the quilting but if you look closely you can see the Divine pantograph the Darlene chose.

Darlene added a beautiful multicolored  Northcott wide backing that complements the front really well.

Rose Anne's Scrappy Triangles

Rose Anne brought this lovely quilt in for some custom quilting.  A few members of my local quilt guild got inspired to do some paper piecing and followed The Year of Scrappy Triangles blog post by Leila Gardunia.  https://www.leilagardunia.com/blog/year-of-scrappy-triangles   I had seen some photos of this quilt as Rose Anne was working on it and had thought her chosen background was black, but it is actually a beautiful deep green!  It is a lovely compliment to all the batiks she found in her stash.

Initially I thought feathers would be the perfect suggestion for the green strips, but I just could not get them flowing nicely to the inner green border. Everything I tried looked really awkward at some point. When I suggested the echo curve design for the outer border and the center strips, Rose Anne loved the idea and the rest of the design fell into place quickly after that.

The gold border received large curls, the inner green border an oak leaf and curl, and the paper pieced triangles received some branching curls.  I always try to repeat motifs somewhere in the custom quilting so that the quilt feels cohesive at the end.

I used an olive green thread for everything but the oakleaf border.  There I switched to more of a rusty gold thread to make it stand out a little bit more and add a bit of interest.

Modern Art

Liane has become very fond of the three yard quilt patterns from the Fabric Cafe and here is another example.  This one is called Modern Art.

Liane made one this one her own by adding a fourth fabric to the mix with the lilac coloured squares.

Liane chose the Pretty Posies pantograph which carries on the motif in her focus fabric.

Pink Trip Around the World

Ann made this pretty in pink Trip Around the World  variation quilt for her granddaughter.

Ann chose the Divine pantograph which really matches the design in many of the prints she used in the quilt and I think it adds a nice delicate touch.

Divine was a recent addition to my pantograph collection.  Here are the latest pantographs I have added.    I am always on the lookout for pattern that have nice even coverage but are not too dense as that is the preference of the majority of my clients.

 

MPQ Mystery

Val made this quilt as part of a mystery quilt sew along offered through the Manitoba Prairie Quilters earlier this year.  The pattern was designed by one of the MPQ members - Kathy Paul.

Val chose the Windswept pantograph.  I love the movement that it adds across the sharp lines of the piecing.  We used a charcoal grey thread that doesn't draw attention away the great piecing and beautiful colours of the fabric.

Have you ever participated in a mystery quilt project?  I have done a few- some I’ve loved, some I’ve changed to make me happier.  It can be fun if you get the opportunity.