Firstly, sorry that it has been so long since my last post. I have just been so busy lately, what with classes starting and trying to get things finished up. I have finally finished my Country Sampler quilt, you'll be glad to know. I was able to take a few photos of it in the garden today, as it wasn't raining.
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| Country Sampler Quilt |
This is the quilt that I'm teaching at the minute in St Peter's Parish Centre, Culmore here in Derry. I designed it myself and to be honest it has driven me a bit crazy at times.
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| Nine Patch, Flying Geese, Irish Chain |
There is quite a variety of blocks on the quilt, fifteen different ones in all. I used fabric from my stash to make it so it saved a trip to the quilt shop.
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| Border & Blocks |
I machine quilted the centre of the quilt in the ditch. It took quite a while as I wanted to be able to see all the individual blocks on the back and I was very pleased with the effect. As the backing fabric is cream, it was difficult to photograph as the quilting lines didn't show up very well.
By the way, I used my EQ6 software to help design the quilt. I would recommend it to anyone. It was the first time that I had used the custom setting but I got the hang of it and learned some new things. I like EQ so much that I got the EQ7 Update recently.
Must go now as it's late.
Talk soon.
Sandra
