Liminal quilt update

 

I am waiting for some thread to be delivered so that I can complete a customer quilt, so I decided that today, I should unpack my new sewing machine and put together the Liminal quilt so far. I think the next installment in Love Patchwork and Quilting may be sent to subscribers next week.

The instructions for block 2 tell you to cut a 24.5" strip which is impossible from the fat quarter included in the kit. I have reluctantly pieced together the two 1" borders and the join isn't obvious. I am concerned that fabric P may be in a later block but that is a problem for future me. The next border on this medallion quilt looks a little like impro forks.

UFO Challenge September 2026

Summer by Barbara Ana has been my focus over this weekend. I completed the gorgeous strawberry headdress on Saturday and progressed to the fishes on the left-hand side. I have now progressed to the right-hand side and I'm excited to see it finished.

Don't they look great together. A slightly darker fabric might have made the white pop more, but in real life the white is more visible. I plan to continue working on this piece this week, whilst quilting a second quilt for a customer.

 

Customer quilts

I have finished quilting the first of two quilts for a customer. This is a classic spider's web pattern and the customer asked me to choose the pattern and thread. I used a cream thread and a digital pattern called malachite which picks up the print on the dark blue fabric.

My plan is to load the customer's second quilt onto my long arm this weekend, ready to quilt it on Monday. This weekend I will stitch the strawberry section of my UFO challenge cross stitch piece.

September 2026 UFO challenge

 

This is probably my UFO challenge piece with the most work to be done and what I had done, I soon found was one stitch out. It is summer by Barbara Ana ddesigns. My counting is not the best. I decided that I needed to focus on this piece as daily goals were not working for me. On Saturday I worked across the bottom of the piece to the base of the neck It is not quite complete, but I am added to it whilst working on the face when I had half a thread left.

On Sunday I worked on the face and hair and some thread colours are complete which is exciting. Once this summer lady is finished, the four seasons will be complete and ready for framing. I am planning to start on the strawberries on top of the head. I have two customer quilts ready to be quilted this week and I can put some more stitches in whilst the computerised machine does it thing.

Stash Bee Bock of the Month

 

August is definitely over and it's much cooler, allowing us to get back to our sewing rooms. I've had three lovely packages this week. Three more are in the post with one more to follow. I love all of the fabrics - Karen Lewis, Lizzy's House and Alison Glass seem popular choices to us.

Don't the blocks received so far look great together. I think I'll have enough to make a ladder quilt and perhaps two quilts to donate for Quilts for Care Leavers.

I received two customer quilts on Monday and will start working on them today, then I have two more to call in. I don't like too many piling up as it makes me anxious. I also have a table runner to quilt for Lizzie and then my star quilts towards the end of the month.

A small forest for Anne

 

It' bad news for my Atelier 7, it can't be fixed locally so needs to be sent to England for repair. I need to review my options and decide what to do. In the meantime, I have used my Siger featherweight to make these blocks for the Stash Bee for Anne. I have made this block before so spent two hours making five pairs of blocks for Anne which were posted yesterday.

The tutorial for the block can be found here.

Liminal quilt month 3

 

I am very pleased that my attempt to stitch month 3 of the Liminal Quilt by Jo Averry for Love Patchwork and Quilting on my Singer Featherweight was successful. When my Atelier 7 comes back from the spa, I'd like to stitch the three parts together.  I am using the kit from A Beautiful Thing. There is insufficient fabric to stitch long borders to one element of month 2 so I will have to accept that I will have to put a seam in the border.

I have packed everything away in the box again, putting aside any scrap that I think will be too small for the project, ready to pass to a friend in November.