Blue Wren Quilting

Hey, its a good day.

2010-04-28T02:50:00.000-07:00

Well, I've finished another bag, this one is for myself, just an easy pattern.

I also have one of my quilts on my quilting machine, this doesn't happen very often, all I have to do now is actually quilt it, you will be pleased to know that I have started it.

It has been waiting for about 3/4 years. Being an applique quilt, I will be doing lots of background fillers in it. The quilt is a month by month one that I finished, the other month by month one that I got at the same time is still in the bag waiting. Yeah we eventually get them done!

See ya next time,

Lynne

2009-11-19T18:09:00.000-08:00

Hi all, I hope you are having a good day, I haven't posted for a while, so I thought I would update with all the quilts and things that I have finished this year, well most of them I think there are a couple that I have done but forgotten about. The first photo is the back of one that I finished for my dear friend Jeanette, she and her husband are very good friends of ours that have helped us when we needed it. And yes it is finished and in its new home. The front of it is above.

This one the cat approved of, here he is checking it out to see if it has enough batting in it so he can be comfortable when he sleeps on it, not that he is going to. It was one I did a few years ago in a class with Jan Preston. And my good friend Nellie who finished hers years ago and has it on her wall. It was a great class.

The photo below is part of a whole cloth I did on satin for another friends 50th, it was only a few months late. As I couldn't get to her party, as my father was sick at the time. I had a lot of fun with this quilt, it started being completely different until I discovered the pattern I wanted to do had too many stops and starts so I decided to start with a block in the middle and work out with different freehand borders. They are always fun to do. A picture of the whole quilt is down lower.

This is a bit of playing with threads and painted fabric.

A cushion cover for the lounge which is now falling apart so I will have to rethink the way I quilted it next time because most of my cushions get used an awful lot so they need to just about be made out of canvas. The fabric I used in the background is woven strips of bem silk that I have a lot of.

Well this is the satin quilt, which I was very pleased with I even managed to bind it in the satin. That's all I have, I am now going out to my air conditioned workroom to finish a custom quilt for a customer. Its 41 today and overcast so not feeling so hot. Hope you had fun looking

Hugs Lynne

2008-12-03T01:29:00.000-08:00

2008-12-03T01:26:00.001-08:00

2008-12-03T01:01:00.000-08:00

Hi, well I have been really busy quilting these last few months, and am nearly caught up for the end of the year. I have also finished a bag that I made with a friend , its called an Everyday Carry All by Blue Willow Designs, its a wonderful bag, has 8 pockets for all sorts of bits and pieces, I have also started another one which is still in progress. Its just such a great bag.
Other than that, well, we went down to Melbourne last weekend to meet up with friends and went out for tea in a street near Lygon St, it was lovely, lovely food and great company. Lots of fun then a girlfriend and I went to Chadstone on Sunday for the day while the others went to the golf, we had a lovely time, that shopping centre is so big these days, very easy to get lost in.
One of my friends quilts was published in a magazine ad in Patchwork and Quilting, its one that I quilted, its very exciting. And I also learnt that two other customers quilts that I have quilted won 1st prizes in local shows. Its all very exciting. And on that note, I'll now put some pictures of my new bag up for everyone to see.

2008-10-15T03:40:00.000-07:00

Ok, I haven't finished any more quilts, they are all waiting for me to do little bits on them. One of my favourite quilt shops is closing down, it is very sad and will be missed greatly. I have managed to put another quilt top together and start another one, oh when will I learn. I just can't resist all that fabric and the ideas that seem to come as soon as I start a top. I will have to start giving some away to where they are supposed to be going. Now just to do some labels and then I will have 3 totally finished and be able to post them, I'd better get on with it, so see you later.

My next WIP finished

2008-09-16T03:50:00.000-07:00

Hi, Well its not quite finished yet so there's no photo yet. Its a quilt I started for my mother, oh about 8 years ago, so it has been a long time in the making, the trouble was that I started quilting it and then couldn't decide what else to do on it so it got shoved in the corner ( you know the one) and left until last year when I was having a finishing wip year, and i pulled it out of the corner to have a look, well, I decided to unpick the border and the pattern I had put in the fans and redo them, they look much better now. The quilt pattern is out of a Patchwork and Quilting magazine, with my quilt pattern in the middle. If anyone is interested in the number of the magazine I will try to find it before I put its photos on.
Til next time, see ya.

2008-09-05T02:32:00.000-07:00

Hi, this is my first blogging experience, so please be kind, I am a machine quilter and run my own longarm quilting business called Blue Wren Quilting. I have been quilting probably all my life well, from high school anyway, the first quilt I made was a whole cloth cot quilt and I can still remember drawing up a grid for the crosshatching on tissue paper and sewing it. Its still here somewhere in a draw. I decided to make a blog to help me with my WIP's (works in progress) because there is quite a few. They are getting less tho as there was a few finished this year, one of the more recent ones is a Japanese one that was a block swap with some lovely women in Qld which is the first one up on the blog, I have quilted a double baptist fan over the whole quilt in a darker blue thread. Well thanks for looking at my blog, I hope you enjoyed it. And I'd like to thank my sister for making her blog which encouraged me to make mine.