Saturday, 4 January 2025

11th Day of Christmas 2024 - Carol's 'Good Friday' Quilt

Carol's 'Good Friday' Quilt
Carol's 'Good Friday' Quilt
Today I am bringing you Carol's wonderful 'Good Friday' quilt.  The pattern is called ' Lent / Good Friday' designed by Jen Frost of Faith and Fabric.  With the dark brown against the white, the crosses have a striking luminosity.  It was quite a big quilt, so Carol took advantage of Fabadashery Longarm Quilting binding service.

Carol's 'Good Friday' Quilt
Carol's 'Good Friday' Quilt
For the quilting pattern we used 'Bird's Eye View' designed by Barbara Becker.  This quilting pattern is great if you want to maintain a calm serenity to your quilt top and works on a lot of quilts.
'Bird's Eye View' designed by Barbara Becker
 'Bird's Eye View' designed by Barbara Becker

Friday, 3 January 2025

10th Day of Christmas 2024 - Susan's Australian Flower Quilt

Susan's Australian Flower Quilt
Susan's Australian Flower Quilt
Last time, I featured one of Susan's quilts, it received a very positive reaction from all of you.  Well, she has done it again, this time printing images of Australian flowers onto fabric to incorporate them into her quilt.  There are also some of her signature animals and shells. 

'Glide 'Prickly Pear Thread
'Glide 'Prickly Pear Thread
Susan is one of my postal customers, so although we have never met, we are able to correspond to make her quilts the best they can be, choosing the thread colour and quilt pattern to get the best effect.

Susan's Australian Flower Quilt
Susan's Australian Flower Quilt
On this occasion, we chose 'Malachite' designed by Patricia Ritter for Urban Elementz, with Glide Prickly Pear thread.

'Malachite' quilting pattern designed by Patricia E Ritter
''Malachite' quilting pattern designed by Patricia E Ritter

January 2025 - Drop-Off Dates Fabadashery Longarm Quilting

Happy New Year! I hope you have been enjoying some of the lovely quilts that my customers have made in my 12 Days of Christmas on my blog, Facebook and Instagram pages.  I always try to include as many as I can on my website, so that you and other customers can gain a greater understanding of what quilting patterns might be suitable for your quilt top.  Below are some dates I am taking in quilts in the next few weeks.  If none of those dates are suitable, get in touch and we can usually arrange something at your convenience, or maybe take advantage of my postal service. 
Email: frances@fabadashery.co.uk Tel:01291 629120

Tuesday 7th January
Wednesday 8th January
Thursday 9th January
Friday 10th January
Tuesday 14th January
Wednesday 15th January
Thursday 16th January
Friday 17th January
Monday 20th January
Tuesday 21st January
Thursday 23rd January
Friday 24th January
Monday 27th January
Tuesday 28th January
Thursday 30th January
Friday 31st January

Thursday, 2 January 2025

9th Day of Christmas 2024 - Anne's Kaffe Fassett Window Quilt

Anne's Kaffe Fassett Window Quilt
Anne's Kaffe Fassett Window Quilt
When someone brings Fabadashery Longarm Quilting a quilt I never quite know what I am going to unfold.  When I first saw Anne's quilt, I was amazed by the design and colours, but I wasn't sure what quilting pattern was going to work on it. A quick flick through my pattern book and I felt I had found one which would be perfect.  

Anne's Kaffe Fassett Window Quilt
Anne's Kaffe Fassett Window Quilt
With the movement of the black and white lines, we chose 'African Samba' stitched in a mid-grey Glide thread.  The pattern seemed to echo the windows of colourful Kaffe's Fassett fabrics.  I am sure this gift was well-received.
'African Samba' digital pantograph by Apricot Moon
'African Samba' digital pantograph by Apricot Moon

Wednesday, 1 January 2025

8th Day of Christmas 2024 - Sue's SOS Liberty Log Cabin Quilt

Sue's SOS Liberty Quilt
Sue's SOS Liberty Quilt
Since 2016 the Quilt SOS Project organised by Alice Caroline has been distributing Liberty fabric quilts to a range of charities at home and abroad.  Throughout the years, Sue has always made a contribution and, with some help from a friend, this year has made a rainbow log cabin quilt in a wide range of Liberty Tana Lawn fabrics. This year the quilts will be supporting families through GARAS (Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers). If you want to get involved, get in touch with Alice Caroline.

Sue's SOS Liberty Quilt
Sue's SOS Liberty Quilt
The purpose of these quilts are to keep people warm and to be easy to care for, so on this occasion we used 100% Hobbs Polydown and quilted it with a pretty new pattern to my collection called 'Shell Game' designed by Willow Leaf Studio.
'Shell Game' designed by Willow Leaf Studio
'Shell Game' designed by Willow Leaf Studio

Tuesday, 31 December 2024

7th Day of Christmas 2024 - Hilary's Pink Ombre Quilt

Hilary's Pink Ombre Quilt
Hilary's Pink Ombre Quilt
This quilt looks 'pretty in pink', made out of an ombre fabric gradually moving from a deep to light pink shade.  Hilary spotted the fabric at J B Quilting in Newport and once she worked out what she wanted to do with it, went back to buy some more.  She took time to cut her pieces cleverly to create this amazing effect with the different shades of pink.  

Hilary's Pink Ombre Quilt
Hilary's Pink Ombre Quilt
Hilary used the same fabric on the back of the quilt, so you can see the full ombre effect.  The quilting pattern, 'Cosmos' by Keryn Emmerson, looks brilliant on this unique pink spotty ombre fabric.

Hilary's Pink Ombre Quilt
Hilary's Pink Ombre Quilt

'Cosmos' designed by Keryn Emmerson
'Cosmos' designed by Keryn Emmerson

Monday, 30 December 2024

6th Day of Christmas 2024 - Carrie's First Quilt, Online Quilt-Along

Carrie's First Quilt, Online Quilt-Along
Carrie's First Quilt, Online Quilt-Along
Carrie is a keen seamstress, but this was the first large quilt which she has made.  Carrie followed an online quilt-along to build up this medallion style quilt in plain fabrics and brought it to Fabadashery Longarm Quilting to be quilted. Carrie went online before her visit to see what quilt patterns I had in my library, via my Pinterest page, and by scrolling through my posts of other quilts I had quilted.  In the end she chose Malachite, a quilting pattern designed by Patricia Ritter of Urban Elementz, which looked amazing.  I don't think this will be her only quilt.  Will you be starting to quilt in 2025?

Carrie's First Quilt, Online Quilt-Along
Carrie's First Quilt, Online Quilt-Along

'Malachite' quilting pattern designed by Patricia E Ritter
'Malachite' quilting pattern designed by Patricia E Ritter