Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Hi to all

It has been a while since my last post but life is slowly returning to some normality, it is very quiet in my studio without  my little Puck.  it is very surprising how the loss of a pet can upset the equilibrium. Our family had a extremely difficult November as the same day Puck left to travel over the Rainbow bridge we lost a dear family friend Bill within the space of a few hours. But life does move on as we all know. Over the last few weeks I have been designing three new patterns and creating samples and will post photographs of the samples in the next week or so. These patterns are available from me directly or at Sawmillers Quiltery or at Quiltworks Lower Hutt.

     May you all have a happy and successful a Happy New Year .

and may your Christmas have sparkled with moments of love, laughter and goodwill,
And  the year ahead be full of contentment and joy.

  

Included in this post are photographs of the recently completed quilts off the long arm

Talk to you soon Jeannette with some good news in the middle of January 2013

Sampler Quilt Cherry Pie Topper

Hi to everyone,
Over the last week I have finished a rush quilt for the new quilt shop that opened in the area. I picked it up the Wednesday before last  on the machine on Friday afternoon and finished it Monday of this week. I could not post photos of the finished quilt due to it being a block of the month
The quilting is a combination of ruler work and freehand custom work, once again I had a great time quilting it. It was a very thin batting so some of the designs do not jump out as much as I would like. This was the first time I had used one of my new rulers the "The Mini Clamshell"  by Belinda Betts, from Eucalypt Ridge Quilting. A great ruler I used it in the sashings to create the mini clamshells.I also found out that you can create reasonable circles with it as well.

Back on the machine this week is the Cats Delicious, I managed to finish most of it before the sampler and hope fully I will finish it over the next day or so and post photos. 
Thanks for dropping by Jeannette