Golden Anniversary Quilt

This is a quilt that was started in January 2006, for my aunt and uncle's 50th wedding anniversary. It has 50 different "golden" prints - 49 arranged in a 7 x 7 grid, and the 50th one set on point in the border. (You can just see it in the photo).

At this stage on Saturday afternoon the quilt, backing and batting are all pinned out, ready to start quilting.

Now I've started the "easy" quilting - the long straight lines quilted "in the ditch" while I think about the border and block quilting.

Ashley's Art Deco Lady

This quilt actually dates back to 2005/6, but Ashley only received it a couple of weeks ago for her 13th birthday.


The design is from an Art Deco Stained Glass Windows book (copyright free), and the central design is done using the stained glass technique.

Most of the coloured sections use hand-dyed fabrics, though some of hair sections are tone-on-tone prints.

The lady is set diagonally, with a double cross-hatching in the background of the central diamond. Each of the four corners has a feathered wreath, with single cross hatching background in the opposite direction (which overcame the issue of how to get the cross hatching to match up across the black "leading" between the sections).

"Hearts & Flowers" completed

This quilt is now pretty much finished. It should have a label, but since I'm not giving this one away, that can wait a bit.

I finally decided that I did need some additional quilting in the paper pieced heart blocks, and added a heart shape in the centre of each, and around the outside.

Although I photographed this on our bed, it won't stay there - it would get too grubby(!)

The last two photos are to show the corner quilting and how the corner motifs meet at the centre of the edges.




As mentioned in a previous post, the paper pieced hearts were a gift from a Squilter - Kate - and her friend Sue. So I think the full name of the quilt may be "Kate & Sue's Hearts & Flowers"