March...

The Greater Moncton Quilter's Guild's Past President issued a challenge to its members in October 2014 to take a panel and transform it into something, whether a quilt, a bag, a wall hanging whatever. Here are 3 challenges and the winners.

Date: March

Lolah's friend: Marilyn

Name/Pattern of the quilt: Panel transformation

Thread: King Tut Cotton

Panto graph: Sorry... couldn't find my paper with the info!

Batting:  100% cotton

Photos and a finish: Marilyn worked on this at Retreat!

It turned out to be a gorgeous quilt. How fun too!

Date: Feb/March

Lolah's friend: Lorette and Marie

Name/Pattern of the quilt: The Geishas a Robert Kaufman fabric

Thread: Vegas Gold Glide

Panto graph: Romanesque

Batting: 100% wool

Photos and a finish: 

Marie and Lorette worked on the top together and Lorette quilted.

The goal was to sell tickets to raise funds for a charity but it sold for the amount we hoped to raise before we could get the raffle started! The money was sent to The Brain Aneurysm Foundation in memory of my sister who passed away in January 2013 of a brain aneurysm.

Date: March

Lolah's friend: Odette

Name/Pattern of the quilt: panel challenge

Thread: Gold Glide

Panto graph: Halcyon

Batting: 80/20

Photos and a finish:  Odette also worked on this at retreat!

 

There were many, many beautiful quilts and quilted objects but these were exceptional! Well done Vivian, Jerry and Christel!

Fabulous examples of talent... don't you agree?

Toodles,

Lorette

New Format and Blogging Errata!

I have come to the realization that blogging is quite behind and at this rate, it would be difficult to catch up. Lolah has been very busy and tweaking of the photos is most time-consuming. Since readers to this blog have come to enjoy the pictures of the work done on Lolah, I don't want to eliminate them. Instead, starting with this post, I will condense the blog posts to HIGHLIGHTS. 

March wasn't such a busy time because we were away for the last two weeks. I've already told the story of Hollie and Shannon. I mistakenly introduced them as coming to quilt in MAY; it should have been MARCH. Another error was in the last post. In it, I introduce the winner and tell you there are 5 more chances to win. That should read 3. Corrections have been made!

The first of the Highlights will finish Lolah's March quilting except for one: Marilyn's Past President Challenge quilt which I cannot show you until after the June guild meeting. So here we go:

Date: Mar 5th: 

Lolah's friend: Lorette

Name/Pattern of the quilt: Spruce Logs (top made by Hollie)

Thread: Filtec's Glide Celery on top, Coffee in bobbin

Panto graph: called Paris by Natalie Gorman for Urban Elements

Batting: Eucalyptus! This was a sample given to me to see how I liked it, how it quilted. It created so much lint that halfway through the quilting I had to stop and clean Lolah. I have never seen so much lint!! The manufacturers will have to make improvements to this product before I will buy it!

Notes: This is about the time I started adding binding while the quilt was loaded, a feature you might like to do on your quilts if you come with  your binding prepared.

Photos and a finish: 

Date: March 9th

Lolah's friend: Daughter/Mother team Amy & Debbie

Name/Pattern of the quilt: Olivia's Big Girl Bed quilt

Thread: Filtec's Glide Salmon on top; Pearl in the bobbin

Panto graph: Whole Lotta Love and freehand hearts around the outer border

Batting: silk

Notes: Amy had basted and stitched around the outside border. We chose not to remove the stitches and to load it since the basting was well done.

Photos and a finish:

Date:  March 11th

Lolah's friend:  Odette and Irene 

Name/Pattern of the quilt:  A Quilt for Mother

Thread:  Filtec's Glide Peppermint on top; Celery in the bobbin

Panto graph:  Easy Peasy (now a new favorite for Odette!)

Batting: 80/20 cotton/poly

Notes: Irene was to quilt a nautical lap quilt but there wasn't enough backing to make a 2-sided quilt. Remember the backing has to be larger than the top.

Photos and a finish: 

I hope you enjoy the new format. They say a picture is worth a thousand words so from now on I'll keep my words to a minimum! As always, if you have questions about any of the quilting, please feel free to comment below or email me... you know where to find the info: up there... on the header!

Be sure to stay tuned as there have been numerous gorgeous quilts leaving the shop. I promise to work on the next Highlights report sooner rather than later!

Toodles,

Lorette

PS: Watch for the Row By Row blog post...

A Grandson's Northern Star!

Philip is Odette's oldest grandson and she made him this handsome quilt. He's 14 yrs old and wants to be an engineer. His quilt consists of green and blue batiks; the pattern... an altered Northern Star. 

We loaded the length of the quilt horizontally because Odette chose Ebb and Flow pantograph to resemble flames.

Filtec's Glide thread is called Citron...

It has a glow in the dark effect and perfect for a teenager's quilt especially flames!!

I just love to see the back of the quilt when we unload Lolah. Customers admire the back...

A sparkling quilt Odette... in more ways than one!

While Odette was working at Lolah, Hollie was working on an appliqué quilt she put together for Pedvac. More on that later...

The Greater Moncton Quilt Guild's past president issued a challenge to its members: the challenge was to cut and sew a panel. Photos of each participant with her panel were taken in October and the deadline is at our June meeting.

Odette finished work on her panel at our February retreat. She chose to quilt it with Filtec's Glide in Sand and the Halcyon pantograph; we loaded the length horizontally. 

Sneak peak...

But that's all you'll get... can't show the final result... it's a secret until June!

Toodles!

Lorette