More photos of the APQS swap quilt

This is the whole quilt, you can see some of the texture that the quilting gives it.

This is a bug I learnt to do in a class with Irena Bluhm at Houston last year.  These are in the alternate side setting triangles.

This the back of the quilt, it is a cream sateen and shows up the different coloured bobbin threads I used.

This is a picture of the detail of the feathers within each diamond block.

APQS Spring 2010 Block Swap

I belong to the APQS forum chat group.  We regularly have swaps where members make a number of blocks which are sent to a central point collated and them forwarded on to other participants.  Last year I received eleven 12 1/2" blocks.

I put them into a diamond setting so that I could enter it in my State Guild challenge for this year.

I have started quilting it, but had to stop as I couldn't leave work waiting to be done.  It will be finished and bound by the 21st July as I have entered it in a show!

I am also trying to quilt it along the theme of  Diamonds!  The lattice is on the wrong angle - they are diamonds.

Cold Start to the Day

 Today was the first frost for this year, and the first time I have had to put the heater on of a morning.  30 minutes was enough to warm up the family room.  Even the pizza oven had a little bit sitting on the top!

The Automatic weather Station said it was only 3.5 degrees centigrade, but that was under the terrace.  Didn't take long once the sun came up for it to warm up.

Custom Quilting

 This quilt is now on the front cover of a pattern for a designer she loved feathers and asked for them to be a standout on the top.  I had a very wide border to play in, I used the paisley shape from the backing fabric as the spine for these Feathers.

APQS Dealership

 I have had my APQS Millenium machine since February 2008, and am very happy to say that I am now one of the New Dealers that have been appointed for Australia.  If you are thinking of purchasing a longarm machine and would like to try one out, please let me know as I would be happy for you to come and have a play on "Good Golly Miss Molly".

More information on APQS machines can be found at http://www.apqs.com/

She has had a few things attached to her since I got her, but they help my job of quilting.  The handiest thing I find is the pin cushion on the handles and the magentic clip I place my scissors on.  There is another pair of scissors at the back so I am never searching for scissors.  The thread catcher on the top is well used.  Once it is full I give the threads to keen embroiderers who use them for "something".

Serenstar

As I am classified as a Professional Quilter (yeah right!) there is only one category I can enter my own quilts in Queensland Quilt Show and this category only has one prize.  Unless I want to do Textile Art or Pictorial quilts - they are art works not quilts!!!!

 So I decided that one of my class samples this year I would quilt on my Janome 6600.  This is the resulting quilt.  Sample of an 8 pointed star.  Called Serenstar as Seren means Star in Welsh and this is a double star!!!  I knew I bought my longarm for a reason.  It is very tiring on the back and shoulders quilting on a table top, but it is completed and I love the back!

Afternoon Clouds

As I took out the rubbish this afternoon I looked up to see these beautiful cloud formations in the east.  They had more of the setting sun colours in them just before these shots, but I had to go back inside to get the camera.