cocktail

Wide borders can be a bit challenging to quilt. Oddly enough, I had TWO quilts that came in with wide borders, and even ODDLY-ER (Yes I know that's not a word. Who cares?) the same border design worked beautifully on both of them.

Yikes - all paper pieced!

The body of this was all done with s.i.d. There is no quilting I could ever imagine that would improve on that piecing.

The turquoise thread in the border really adds a gorgeous pop of colour on the black.

Applique, with a bit of additional batting behind the leaves for ...

added by helen-mary 3 years, 6 months ago. under beach girls , cocktail , complaint , cooking , covid , covid-19 , custom quilting , longarm quilting , quilt , quiting

This is the hard 'C' post, pronounced 'K'.

Colour. This one is self-explanatory...wowsers. I love it!!

Christmas. Actually it's Winter, not Christmas. But that would ruin the alliteration. A great strippy quilt. This was fun to quilt.

Love the crochet doilies!

Complaints. I'm running a personal challenge - 30 consecutive days with no complaints. This started on July 12th, and I'm now on my FIFTH start date. At this rate I will still be trying in 2022. Interestingly, the first two restarts were because I was trying to one-up somebody; "Hah, you think that's bad...". Also ...

added by helen-mary 3 years, 7 months ago. under beach girls , challenge , christmas , cocktail , complaint , covid , covid-19 , custom quilting , longarm quilting , quilt , recipe

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