Queens Garden. Made with 80%silk and 20% cotton. Up until I added the final green border the salmon pink dominated this quilt top now the green border makes the 4 centre blocks the vocal point in my eyes?
To me in this photo your eye just sees the salmon pink borders????
My beautiful Queens Garden quilt top designed by Esther Aliu is finally finished. Thank you Esther for so much enjoyment over 2018.
My favourite block!
Loved how the buds turned out on this block.
Loved how the stems crossed over on this block and the blue flower heads, and those tiny wee blue flower heads.
These flowers were a challenge for me to get that tulip look?
Biggest challenge on my Centre was the crowns to look like wee crowns till Jenny told me to do a double row of appilque in those tiny dots!
Those crowns were a challenge? They are a silver and black silk fabric which frayed and was so difficult to photograph. Plus my yellow jewels looked dead flat till jenny suggested doing a double row of appliqué inside each other and it work a treat. Zoom in to see?
Love these flowers, I added a dark pink double straight stitch on the edge of the petals inside the flower shapes.
Blue silk just glows in real life.
Close up of the double straight stitch.
Blue birds have been part of my life since I was about 2 years old and my Aunt let me grind the coffee using a delft coffee grinder that had the Willow pattern on it? She would read the story to me every night before I fell asleep?
Close up of those leaves for those of you who want to see that double applique stitch
Close up of my appliqué on the stems and the embroidery stitch I added in the stem for texture
In the garden this week.
This beauty was just opening last week.
To day a friend gave me a bunch of flowers just because!
That’s it as far as my sewing goes for this week, thank you for visiting, off to link with Esther’s WOW or WIP’s . Will take some garden photos and add them later in the day for you Gretchen!
Cheers Glenda
Chére Glenda,
Je vous envoie toutes mes félicitations,un très beau quilt,que du bonheur a admirer.
Les appliqués cousus a la machine sont parfaitement reussi et sûrement bien plus vite cousu qu’a la main.
Vous voilà prête pour d’autres projets.
Amicalement de France
Hello Marie, lovely to hear from you, it will be much colder in France now, winter is closing in on you fast, where’s I’m sitting beside my swimming pool where it is very hot today 30C? Yes you are right machine Appilque is much much faster, this beautiful quilt Queens Garden would have taken me several years by hand, and I made it in 10 months plus several other quilts this year. Cheers Glenda from Australia
Dear Glenda,
so beautiful flowers in the Quilt and in your garden! So beautiful colors, so beautiful stitching!
Habe a nice day, Marita
Thank you Marita, my quilts are very much influenced by my garden flowers as you can see they are very bright and exotic???? LOL When we first moved here I thought many of the flowers I saw in the hotel arrangements were plastic? I could not believe that the flowers were real as the colours were so strong and shiny and looked like plastic? now I have them growing in my own garden ??? Cheers Glenda
Queens Garden is a beautiful quilt, you’ve done such a lovely job with the machine applique which also made it completed much faster. As always the flowers are lovely, thank you for them. We had a hard frost last week but this morning we had a killing frost, the 2018 growing season is definitely finished. Now I need to clean out the flowerbeds and put them to bed with some mulch for their long winter sleep. Have a lovely week!
Goodness, Glenda! You must be hopping with delight. Beautiful quilt! The dark background really makes the flowers and orange peel blocks pop!
Thank you Sue, one of the parts I enjoyed making was those lemon peels in that formation I loved making them and couldn’t stop playing with them. For me they made this design special. But I’m glad I’ve finished it this year and it won’t be a UFO like many of my quiltsLOL. Cheers Glenda
How fun your new border change the quilt! Love the new effect. Your flowers are amazing. You know how much I love your quilt 😉
Thank you Fred, I find so much satisfaction in my sewing and quilting, and all though I miss not been able to do just hand quilting and appilque any more I’m learning to enjoy my sewing machine appilque the more I learn. There are not so many flowers out at present as we have h ad no rain for two months and very hot days th e place to parched. Cheers from Down Under.
Oh Glenda thanks so much for posting the close-ups of your quilt! It truly is beautiful. I now know that I need more threads…much more! LOL
I cannot wait to be able to set up my Bernina and begin to sew again, another month at least. But cannot complain as we are camped out beside the ocean on Vancouver Island till we can move into our new place.
It is also a joy to see those flowers of yours. Here I can see/buy them only as house plants and most do not do very well unless carefully cared for.
Cheers,
Ingrid
Hi Ingrid glad you enjoyed the close ups, now you need to go shopping for 5hreads LOL. You say camped up beside the ocean? Hope that’s not in a tent with winter coming soon? But there is nothing nicer than been beside the sea. Hope to spend a week by it in Dec with one of my boys. He lives beside one of the most beautiful surfing spots in Australia. Hope you DO move in to your new home next month before Christmas arrives. Cheers Glenda
Your quilt is fabulous and your flowers are very pretty too.
You can see why my quilts are so bright when you see the flowers in my garden Pamela LOL. Keep warm over Christmas as I know how cold it can get in Tokyo. Or are you flying home this Christmas? Cheers Glenda
G’day Glenda
Beautiful work on your Queens Garden – the photos look stunning.
Cheers from Melbourne. Wendy
Hi Wendy, I’m also spending a lot of time in the garden this time of the year, I go out just to look and some how I’ve been there for 4 hrs doing just a wee jobLOL. Yesterday I pulled up pavers and relocated them now I need more new ones to fill in where I pulled them up! It’s never ending. But I will have a dry path to my work rooms come the wet season this coming wet! Very little sewing will get done this coming month. Cheers Glenda.
Your garden is reflected in your finished quilt top. I agree the green border frames the quilt and does draw your eyes inward to all that beautiful applique.
Hi Kyle thanks for stopping by, all ways so nice to see your name when I open up. Funny thing is my quilts are so like my exotic plants that grow in my garden here in the tropics, I often start out with Taupe colours in my mind as I love them but before long those strong rich colurs take over LOL. At any show I’m drawn to Taupe and soft autumn colours but I don’t think
I’ve ever made one ? I’ve lived most of my life in the tropics surrounded in bright colours. So have no trouble using them? This year I’ve used black in 3 of my quilts so the colurs are even stronger looking. Started sewing another last night and again using black! I wander what next year will bring LOL. Cheers Glenda.
Glenda, love the closeups of QG! The double embroidery yellow circles are really enhanced. I may try that in the future! The details are exquisite. It is really interesting how different perspectives bring out the salmon colour.
Also appreciating your wonderful flowers as our flowers have all gone for the season except one brave geranium and a couple lingering fuschia blooms. We do have some wonderful leaf colors, however.
Hi Lennea, glad you enjoyed the close ups too. I really appreciate it when I visit someones work and they show close ups, I all ways want to know how they did this or that LOL That double appilque in those tiny circles was painfully slow to do I was putting the needle down almost by hand to get the stitch in the right place but boy it sure is effective and made all the difference how the crown looked. I use Gold Sulky when ever I want to use a gold colour it makes such a difference, gives a light to the piece of appilque. Sadly the plants are suffering here we have had no rain for nearly 3 months and the ground is drying hard and it may be two months more before we get good soaking rain. So the plants will die or die back in the next couple of weeks. So I need to enjoy them now while I can, Cheers Glenda
Glenda, your garden is yet another thing that I envy! So many gorgeous plants that I can not recognize! I would love to be able to grow these exotics, but as close as I can get are a couple of orchids, which I love, grown as indoor plants here in British Columbia. I too love my garden!!
Hi Dawn, yes its rather cold up there were you live for Orchids I live within 3 hrs flying where the first orchids where found and propagated in to commercial flowers so they grow wild here in my garden. But I do miss the spring bulbs and flowers. We have native wild bush turkeys here that will dig any bulb up and eat it, so finally I have given up trying to grow them LOL Cheers Glenda