Goodbye Quilt (for now)

Well, I boxed up this quilt today:

and sent it off to Chelsea at Pins and Bobbins for quilting.  As you'll recall, Chelsea had a giveaway a while ago, and I was lucky enough to win her "grand" prize - she is going to custom quilt this baby!  I've never had a quilt professionally quilted before - I can hardly wait to see how it turns out.

The pattern, if you're interested, is called Stars Around the Garden.  I don't know who created the pattern, as I got it as a BOM at my local quilt shop, and it was just photocopied pages of instructions for each block, with no identifying information.  But I just googled it, and several online shops are still selling it as a BOM.

Quilting History, Day Four

Applique!

Several years ago, I took a Learn to Applique class from Joan Statz http://stores.intuitwebsites.com/hstrial-JoansOwnCreat/StoreFront.bok .  Joan is a creative, entertaining teacher.  At the time, she taught a different method of applique, using wonder under and tulle.  Here is the little quilt we made.

I've done a little more applique since then.  Here are a couple.

The Welcome wall hanging is a pattern from Castilleja Cotton http://www.castillejacotton.com/  and the Snowman table runner is a Patrick Lose design. http://www.patricklose.net/

I have also partially finished a Saturday Sampler that ended just about a year ago.  Here's what is done so far.

There are additional scrappy borders to go on the two sides (the quilt is sideways in the picture).  I'll talk more about this quilt in the future.  Almost as soon as I completed the applique on this quilt, I bought Annie Smith's book, The Ultimate Applique Guidebook http://www.amazon.ca/Ultimate-Applique-Guidebook-Step---Step/dp/1607050056/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322425341&sr=1-1  and I learned that I had placed my leaves all wrong.  Oh well, next time!