Quilt retreats.....catching up

One of the pleasures in organising the many varied quilt retreats and workshops here at The Royal Bridlington, is that I sometimes get to join the class.

Over the years this has meant that I have picked up many different ideas, techniques and tips from all the various top class tutors we have had.  The downside, however is that I have ended up with a whole stack of UFOs!

Over the last couple of weeks I have been concerntrating on finishing some of these, despite itching to start a new project.

Here are some of the finished results....

This one was started in a workshop with Jennie Rayment.
I added beads to the middle.

This was started in a workshop with Jan Hassard.

The quilting pattern is called Insignia

Sunflowers was a workshop with Gail Lawther.  Gail will be back at the Royal Bridlington again in September and will be teaching this class again due to its popularity.  See www.quiltsandwich.co.uk for more details.

This Link Quilt was started in a workshop with Sally Ablett.
Here it is on my longarm quilting frame

 the quilting patten I chose is called Amazed

and here it is totally finished.

This quilt - the Lone Star was another design by Sally Ablett.  I decided that I wanted to extend it to a double quilt size, so Sally redesigned it on Electric Quilt especially for me. I have a personal, exclusive design by Sally Ablett!

Here it is on the longarm quilting frame

The quilting pattern I chose is called Ribbon of Violets

and here it is totally finished.

and here is the back

Time to replenish supplies..................oooh just like Christmas. Lots of lovely new colours to try out :)

On top of my own catching up (which I still have lots more to do - lol!) I have been very busy with customer quilting too.

This is a really pretty scrap quilt, which my customer made by using foundation piecing techniques.

the quilting pattern she chose is called Bubbles Everywhere

Here is another customer quilt - using scraps again

The quilting pattern is called Flower Power

On top of this I have been working on my wholecloth in the evenings and I think I have overdone it a bit....I have three very sore fingers now.  Cant sit still, so time to knit!

Customer Quilts & International Quilting Day

Although we have now had our ABM Innova Longarm quilting machine since October, we have only just started to offer the service to others.

We wanted to be totally confident before we worked on other peoples precious quilts and so we quilted over 50 charity tops first, to get a good feel for the procedure and to experience various different problems and challanges a longarm quilter faces.

This week I have quilted several customer tops.  One lady received her parcel from the carrier on Thursday and she rang absolutely thrilled to bits with her quilt - Phew!  She has also allowed me to share it with you.

The pattern she chose is called Triange Triangle and the full finishing service was requested.

My next customer brought in a bedrunner and requested Waskily Rabbit.  Its so cute.

here is the back

Next is a japanese style quilt

Pattern is - Calm Water

Again the full finishing service was requested for this quilt.

Here is a wholecloth quilt which was designed in the retreat with Lilian Hedley here at The Royal Bridlington. I have layered this up and basted on the longarm for this customer so its now ready for hand quilting.

What a great week, four very happy customers with four very different quilts, plus the company of lovely quilters who were here on a retreat with Lilian Hedley and then rounded off with International Quilting Day.

Today, to celebrate I worked on my own top and also made a You Tube Video.

The pattern is called Bubbles Everywhere and here is the quilt off the frame - just the binding to do now.