November club patterns

  Susan Campbell requested that I digitise Linda Steele’s quilting patterns for a customer version of Scottish Dance(scroll down to the third quilt); with Linda’s permission I made the files, Susan quilted her customer’s quilt, and it's spectacular!  

 The pattern is Linda Steele's award winning Scottish Dance ; the photos on this blog are of the quilt quilted by Susan Cambell. I digitised the designs from a small photo, so they may not be exactly the same as Linda's, but they are close.

   Susan did a lot of fabulous free-hand on this as well, but there’s no reason our machines can’t add a fill behind these patterns.  They don’t have really complex or indented edges, so I imagine they would look excellent as trapunto motifs too.  The pattern set will be on my website for sale soon, if non-club members want it.

 Our customers are wanting a quick turnaround now, as Christmas looms ever closer.  With that in mind I’ve chosen speedy pantos for this month’s club; these are our Go-To pantos when we want something quick to stitch, yet looks fantastic on a wide range of tops.  

 I think Sassy is my most favourite pattern ever, it just gallops along; I’ve included a matching block and corner, so it can be used as a border as well.

Drift is very quick running, with great texture too, again there is a matching corner and block.

Eddy is a quick little P2P border plus matching panto, wider border and blocks; it will cover a lot of ground quickly.

These 5 pantos are from the Super Simple panto pack, and we use them again and again.  They are great on small quilts, as they can be sized from 3-8" and don't overwhelm a small quilt.  They provide great surface texture, and suit any sort of top.

 Hunter

Saxon

The silly season is nearly here, I wish for easy pantos and sweet customers for all of us!

Like other Australian quilters, I'm devastated by the images of the Queensland floods.  I lived in that state for 26 years, and nearly every place I lived is now under water or in danger of being flooded.  The little town of Forest Hill in the Lockyer valley, where I lived while I went to Ag College, has been completely evacuated; it's some of the richest farm land in Australia, and it's terrible to see it under water.

My family is in Rockhampton, all safe and well, but completely cut off.  It will be a while before life goes back to normal.

The dreadful images of destruction inspired me to do something to contribute to the Relief Appeal. When I think of floods it brings the story of Noah to mind, so I designed a set of patterns based on a rainbow and dove, and they are for sale for $15.  You get a border, corner and two blocks, plus a panto.  They'd be nice for a Noah's ark quilt, or anything needing a nice formal pattern. You can pay by Paypal just by clicking on the button.  I will donate all the proceeds to the flood appeal, and email the patterns once Paypal notifies me of the payment.

There are months of hard work ahead for all the people affected.  My ex's family went through the Brisbane flood in 1974 and lost nearly everything; the government ended up giving them a payment of $151, which even then was laughable.  Hopefully we'll raise enough money this time to help all those in need.

Rainbow's End Pattern Set for Computerised quilting.  All proceeds donated to Queensland Flood Relief Appeal.

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 I've had a little bit of free time over the Christmas break, which was lovely, but I didn't forget the club designs.  It helped that I  needed to get designs for customer quilts finalised, so those new designs go straight into the club for this month.  I'll show some photos tomorrow of some of the designs quilted out.

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The panto designs range from old favourites, like Butterflie and Ferny, to new ones like Blossomtime.  That's destined for an oriental quilt, and the trial stitchouts look great.

 The Filigree Vine is a good way to fill a wide border without over-quilting it.  It can go 9"wide easily, with great coverage, no blank bits.  Skinny Feather is a nice simple border that looks good quilted, and is quick to stitch.

 More simple borders and p2p designs, because you can never have too many of those.  We often use the Dovetail as a filler around embroidery designs, just something to cut down the unquilted space.  The Scrollz designs are great for the same thing, or sashes and little borders.

 I really like frames just lately, and made up a few to have on hand.  They  can be used on placemats and small wallhangings, around embroidery blocks; pillows and totebags are another use, with a monogramme in the blank space to personlise it.

 I've been playing around with the idea of tile designs for a while, and these are just the first few.  The Bali tile design  was made for a Log Cabin quilt, as the two halves of the design neatly matched the light/dark division of the block.  Because the designs are P2P they are more continuous than a single design placed over each pieced block.  I'm going to work on lots more of these, there are so many possiblities.  And as you can see from the Papillion design, they make nice offset pantos too.

 The design I had the most fun with is the Broken Feather set.  It was so much fun to fit them to the embroidery quilt I was working on (still am working on it, it's a big one) and I enjoyed it a lot more than a continuous feather border.  I could place the motifs to follow the wavy piecing of the borders, and there was no pressure about getting everything to fit exactly; the little space between the motifs doesn't have to be exact each time, so it was no problem if things were a little bit out of place.

The bobbin tension on the machine was another thing, necessitating the unpicking of several repeats; the culprit was a tiny ring of grime and lint around the post in the hook assembly.  Once that was cleaned out, the tension was perfect.  Thank heavens it was such a simple thing to fix.

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!