Karen Wood sent me some wondeful pictures of quilts that she has quilted using the Kitchen Sink Club designs.

She wrote:

Here are some pics of a quilt that I did today with your Whatever panto.  This design was perfect for this quilt.  My customer always tells me, do whatever - you know what is best!  I can hardly wait to tell her the name of the design.

I am attaching pictures of  2 quilts that I have used the French Forest pattern - I absolutely love these designs and my customers were very happy with their quilts. 

Karen's quilting is beautiful, she did a lovely job on these two quilts.

I really like the way she used the Argyle P2P pattern, it looks great.

Paypal had a bit of a glitch this month with the automatic payments, but all should be fixed now. Several people were not billed on the right date early in the month, and those payments finally processed on the 17th and 18th. Let me know if you have any queries about the late payment some of you experienced. 

I have a couple of photos from club members who used this month's patterns.

Wilma Hurt wrote:
Love the August designs!   The day I received it, I used Lovebirds on the attached quilt.  You can't see the design very well, but I thought it was ideal for this quilt.  I used A & E Linedrop Thread.   I plan to use Oaken late next week.  Thanks for such lovely pantos. 

 Kerri Youngdate wrote:
I attached a few pics of the Rowan double border used on a batik quilt I finished last week. The border turned out beautifully using superior rainbows, even with the busy batik. 

And Mereth used Oaken on a lovely randomly pieced green quilt, and it turned out beautifully.  Sometimes patterns just seem made for a particular quilt, and Oaken compliments this perfectly.

I love seeing what people are doing with the designs, you are all a clever bunch.

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The August designs are done, including several pantos with an animal theme, a couple of P2P patterns, lots of wineglass patterns, some useful, simple borders and a block set. Click on the photos to see more detail.

The Lovebirds panto was designed for a friend, the full story is here

I've made several pantos with animals in them for specific projects, so I've included them all here; you never know when you might need one.  The fish one is a nice open panto without too much detail, and quilts up really quickly.

 The Oaken panto quilts up into a beautiful allover pattern with a swirling movement.

The Baptist Fan panto is one we use over and over, on traditional quilts as well as more modern ones.  It's a great texture, and quilts up quickly as well.

 I use these simple wineglass patterns a lot, and this set is useful for sashes, backgrounds, to place over whole blocks instead of ditch-stitching.

 The Darra Set has an Art Deco feel, quite sophisticated.  The frame can be used around a stitchery block, or a smaller block quilted in the middle.  Ther block and triangles have a nice movement to them, to liven up plain areas.

The Pleat P2P design is a way of quickly adding parallel lines to a border; you can choose to have the curved connecting lines facing in towards the centre of the quilt, or out towards the edge.  There is a corner supplied for each option.

I've included several simple borders as well, to add to the pattern library.  When we need borders we often have to use simple ones to keep the quilting density even across the quilt top.  We use these more than the elaborate borders.

The Plait border repeat looks very strange, but it fits together to form a perfect plaited border.

The Club costs just $30 a month through Paypal, and includes a free panto as a joining gift;  just click on the button below and the payments will be deducted automatically each month.  Make sure to choose the file format you require for your system. Each month's patterns can also be purchased as a set for $50.  If you want to purchase any, just email me and I can send a Paypal invoice.

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Carol of Rocking Chair quilts sent me photos of a quilt she quilted using several of the June club designs.

Carol writes;

This was a lovely quilt before the quilting - but your designs really made it POP!  I have used the following patterns on this one : Teardrop p2p,  Teardrop p2p corner, Old Rose border, Old Rose Corner Tulip chain and Square Fan block motif.  

 

 

Along with some freehand these designs really made this quilt sing - the 'simple line' style of your designs are what my customers love.  They never stitch out too 'thready' on the quilt- and because of their clean lines they all can work together on one quilt so beautifully.

 

Keep up the wonderful work, I am thrilled to be a member of the Kitchen Sink Club

Sincerely,

Carol Detloff

 

 

 Your freehand work is wonderful, Carol!

Carol Detloff of Rocking Chair Quilts sent me these photos of a quilt she quilted using the May Club designs.  She wrote;

"Hi Keryn,

I have attached some photos of a quilt with your designs on it,

I had some fun with a few of the May club designs. I used the fan p2p, the Uneven Feather Border and Corner on this little quilt with 30's reproduction fabrics.

This quilt had some fullness issues in the setting triangles as well as the narrow outer green border,

 

your designs aided my efforts to tame that fullness, along with some faux trapunto to help your quilting motifs stand out. "

 

I love what Carol has done, the quilt looks fabulous.  I love how she used that triangle fan around the corner blocks, that's a great idea.

 

I love seeing examples of my designs stitched out, it's so good to know that people are finding them useful! I have a lovely wholecloth to show you tomorrow.