SEABOUND

This is the new wallhanging I put up today. The fishing boat material is called seabound and I have always loved it. Sarah, my daughter, came to qld a couple of years ago and we made my son,Simon, a quillo with this fabric, with some reds and blues. It was my 1st quillo, just a stack and slash 7 fat quarter one, but it turned out great. Here in Boyne Island we have just had our annual fishing comp, The Boyne Island Hookup, the biggest fishing comp in Australia, and I thought the fishing theme quilt was fitting for the occasion. You will notice the footy had finished, and my husband helped with photo .

a window closes

This is a attic window wall hanging I finaly finished last month. It has been hanging up at work and I took it down today to make way for a new one. The garden park was a panel from michael miller, and I thought the purple and lime green(looks yellow in photo] went well together. Since finishing it I have seen a kit form of this nearly exact quilt. It was in a magazine and the window was so nearly the same as mine I couldn't believe it. A lady at work wants to buy it, so I will have to come up with a fair price. So hard to do! Photos aren't real good, Had to lay it on couch because my husband was watching football and couldn't move from his armchair for 1 minute to hold it up for me to take a good shot!MEN!

photo transfer images

Hi, Debbie wanted some info on photo quilts, so I will do my best to explain the way I do it. I upload my pictures into the computer, and in photo editor I tweek the photos to how I want them...brighter...darker.... black and white...remove red eye....my programe even has remove scratches and blemishes. In my mother in laws cushion, I did all the black and white photos in the sepia tone, it evened out all the photos because some were true black and white, some weren't. When I am happy with photos I load a sheet of photo transfer material in my inkjet printer. These sheets are fabric one side, paper the other, A4 size . Sometimes I print 4 photos on 1 sheet, sometimes 3 0r 6 smaller ones. On the printer make sure setting is best quality, and watch your images print. Some sheets require drying time, then a rinse in cold water to insure colour fastness, then lay flat to dry. They don't take long to dry, I have even ironed them to speed up the drying. The photo fabric sheets come in a 5 pack, sell for about $25.-$35. per pack and they have very easy to follow instructions on the pack [ a couple of aussie ladies sell them on ebay, and they are usualy cheaper than the craft shops] Sometimes I haven't followed a pattern to make them up, just joined squares together, sometimes it's easy to modify a pattern, replace squares with the same size in a photo block even if you have to border photo to get the size you are after. Hope this helps, and I hope you give it a go, but I warn you, as soon as people see photos in a quilt or cushion everyone wants one!! Here is a work in progress,[ NOT A GREAT PHOTO, DIDN'T HAVE GLASSES ON] a lady I work with wanted a cushion with her daughters wedding photos on it. She wanted a BIG cushion, and it will finish at the europe pillow size. I was having trouble with the wedding colours, bright pink,teal blue,black and white, then played with the moda daydreams panel and yardage and I liked the effect.I am going to quilt it today, then put the back of the pillow on, a lovely dusty pink. Ps ,Just remembered, I have never quilted over the photos, the material is a bit heavy, and the needles leave big holes. So I just do in the ditch around the edges. happy sewing.............

I'M BACK!!

Been a long time since my last post and I want to thank Sarah and her lovely ladies for the gentle prod in the back ... for my return............Been busy with the quilting, but naughty for not taking picture of some of the item I gave away.Here is a wallhanging I did for my husband's birthday in march. I was just going to do it with just pictures of him in his youth, then I decided it needed a few oldies from our courting days, then I found some great photos of him as a child and his parents, then I added my favourite wedding pic and one of our 4 children together {that is a rare find} so before I knew it, the small wallhanging became a bit larger than intended. The material is yultide blessing and I love the florals, nearly matches my bikini!