President's Houses IV

Quilt Documentation # 142

President's Houses IV

This is the last in a series of four quilts made from blocks received from members of the Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters' Guild when I retired as president of the guild in 2000.

President's Houses IV is made up of four 12” x 12” blocks.

Cathy's house on the rock

My friend, Cathy, made a block of her house on the rock, cut in a circle and appliqued to muslin. I liked the circle so I reversed appliqued a circle to each of the four blocks, using an

analogous colour scheme - Red Orange, Red, Red Purple and Purple.

At some point, I had started a postage stamp quilt (one inch squares) in neutral prints. I reworked it a bit adding some of the reds and used it to fill in the sections around the blocks.

The hardest part of this quilt was deciding on the right shade of neutral for the narrow strips and prairie points. Nothing seem to work until I thought of green being the complimentary of red and chose this beige that has a greenish tinge to it.

skinny border joining all the sections together

This was my first attempt at prairie points so I thought curved corners would be easiest. A bias bleached muslin strip was added over the edge of the quilt and the prairie points.

Prairie Points and quilting

I stitched in the ditch over the designs and then echo quilted around each one. I used invisible thread on the front and a variegated thread that matched the fabric on the back.

President's Houses IV - back

The back of the quilt is a hand dyed muslin.

signed and dated

I blogged about President's Houses I, here

President's Houses I

President's Houses II, here.

President's Houses II

And President's Houses III, here

President's Houses III

Linking up to The Needle and Thread Network. and Nina Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

Happy quilting,

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: President's Houses IV

Description: House Sampler

Pattern: Original

Size: 33” x 33”

Fabrics: 100% cotton - muslin

Predominant colours: Multi colours

Construction Techniques: 12 “House” blocks, reversed applique, postage stamp inserts.

Back: Hand dyed muslin

Batting: Polyester

Edge finish: Prairie Points

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label:

Date completed:2005

Inspiration: Blocks received from members when retiring as president of guild

Quilt History: Display at the 2005 Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters' Guild Show, at Museum of Northern History

Maker: Terry Whyte

Take a Stitch Tuesday

Stitches 10 to 16

TAST Stitches 10 to 16

I did not post last week, so lots of samples this week for TAST with Sharon b. at Pin Tangle. 

Stitch 10 – Running Stitch

Running Stitch

This was inspired by this photo of a January sunset. During the summer the sun sets further to right but in winter it sets directly across the lake from our house.

It did not quite turn out the way I envisioned, maybe another stitch would have worked better.

January Sunset

Sitch 11 – Whipped Wheel

Whipped Wheels

I learned to make these in a Sue Spargo workshop, I love them.  The fluffy green one was made with what I think is called eyelash yarn.

Stitch 12 – Barred and Alternating Barred Chain

Barred and Alternating Barred Chain

I need more work with this one. I liked how the ribbon turned, could work for stem and leaves.

Stitch 13 – Satin Stitch

Satin Stitch

This is very difficult to do. A friend said that “That's what your machine is for”. I agree.

I do like the flowers, though.

Stitch 14 – Stem Stitch

Stem Stitch

The very first stitch I learned from my grandmother.

Here is my first embroidery, all wrinkled and stained.

First Embroidery when about 8 years old.

Stitch 15 – French knot

French Knots

French knot is my  favourite stitch ever.

Stitch 16 – Wheatear Stitch

Wheatear Stitch

I had never heard of this stitch but really like it. Saw the fishes on some of the blogs and just had to add some in.

I will link up to TAST at Pin Tangle

Sharon is now at Stitch 68, only 50 more to catch up!!!

Check out the comments to see all the beautiful work going on there.

Happy Stitching,

Terry

President's Houses III

Quilt Documentation # 141

This is the third in a series of four quilts made from blocks received from members of the Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters' Guild when I retired as president of the guild in 2000.

President's Houses III

I posted about President's Houses I, here

And President's Houses II, here.

President's Houses III is made up of nine 12” x 12” blocks. These blocks were mostly orignial designs, a friend made the one of my old greenhouse that looked like a little barn, another of her own house where a few of us were invited for a fun week-end to attend a quilt show after she moved to another town. Great memories.

close-up of blocks

This quilt had me stumped for a while and took a few years to complete. I added my pieced lattice between and all around the blocks.

close-up of blocks

I didn't like what that looked like until I decide to cut off half of the lattice on the outside edges and add a muslin border.

close-up of blocks

close-up of block

More stalling on the outer border until I bought Valerie Wells” book Radiant New York Beauties. In this book she shows how to draft a freestyle block. Using those instructions, I designed my free-style border.

paper-pieced border

I'm not a big fan of paper-piecing but sometimes it is the prefect technique to use as it was in this case.

wobbly echo quilting

After quilting each block, the muslin background was echo quilted with wobbly lines using a variegated thread.

President's Houses III - back

The back of the quilt is bleached muslin as is the double fold bias binding.

Happy quilting,

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: President's Houses III

Description: House Sampler

Pattern: Original

Size: 58” x 58”

Fabrics: 100% cotton - muslin

Predominant colours: Multi colours

Construction Techniques: 12 “House” blocks , lattice, paper-pieced border, curved edges

Back: Hand dyed muslin

Batting: Polyester

Edge finish: Double fold fbias binding

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label:

Date completed:2004

Inspiration: Blocks received from members when retiring as president of guild

Quilt History: Display at the 2005 Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters' Guild Show, at Museum of Northern History

Maker: Terry Whyte

President's Houses II

Quilt Documentation # 140

This is the second in a series of four quilts made from blocks received from members of the Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters' Guild when I retired as president of the guild in 2000.

President's Houses II

 Yesterday I blogged about this quilt, President's Houses I, here.

President's Houses I

President's Houses II is made up of twelve 12” x 12” blocks. Since blocks made by different individuals do not always measure exactly what it should, I decided to add a skinny border of some of my own hand dyed fabric to each block. That way I could make each block the same size by adjusting the border widths.

detail

I then added wedges in different black and white prints around each block.

detail

The next row of wedges were all checks or plaids arranged to form a long skinny star shapes in between the blocks and around the edges of the quilt.

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Instead of a binding, I used the pillowcase method for turning the quilt inside out before doing the quilting. It was a little tricky with all the points, but do-able.

detail

hand embroidered detail

I quilted each block with a different free motion design. 

President's Houses II - back

Linking up to Nina Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

Happy quilting,

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: President's Houses II

Description: House Sampler

Pattern: Original

Size: 50” x 66”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Multi colours

Construction Techniques: 12 “House” blocks set with wedges

Back: Hand dyed muslin

Batting: Polyester

Edge finish: Double fold french binding

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label:

Date completed:2002

Inspiration: Blocks received from members when retiring as president of guild

Quilt History: Display at the 2002 Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters' Guild Show, at Museum of Northern History

Maker: Terry Whyte

President's Houses I

Quilt Documentation # 139

 This is the first in a series of four quilts made from blocks received from members of the Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters' Guild when I retired as president of the guild in 2000.

President's Houses I

I was asked what kind of blocks I would like and said “house or some type of building” with a muslin background and they could be any sizes. I received 37 blocks. I knew I wanted to make more than one quilt and that each one had to be different and special in its own way.

I divided the blocks into 2 sets of 12, one of 9 and one of 4.

For President's Houses I, I chose the smallest blocks which measured from 6” to 9”. I added grey strips at the tops and bottoms and blue strips to the sides in the courthouse steps design until all the blocks measured 12” x 12”.

ribbon embroidery

Libby Lehman's embroidered ribbons were all the rage and I decided to try that technique and have it looked like the ribbons twisted around the blue “columns” between the blocks.

detail

I machined quilted around the ribbons and a free motion loopy design all over the rest of the quilt.

tail end of ribbon and binding

hand dyed back of President's Houses I

Three more President's Houses to come!

Linking up to The Needle and Thread Network.

Happy Quilting,

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: President's Houses I

Description: House Sampler

Pattern: Original

Size: 41” x 49”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Blue, Grey

Construction Techniques: 12 “House” blocks set with Courthouse Step, Ribbon embroidery

Back: Hand dyed muslin

Batting: Polyester

Edge finish: Double fold french binding

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label:

Date completed:2002

Inspiration: Blocks received from members when retiring as president of guild

Quilt History: Display at the 2002 Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilters' Guild Show, at Museum of Northern History

Maker: Terry Whyte

Ghost Ship – Ciudad de Inca

Quilt # 138

This is a quilt I finished recently.

Ghost Ship - Ciudad de Inca

A little history

In 1984, my sixteen year old son, Glenn won a one-week trip on a tall ship on Lake Ontario through the Ontario Lottery Second Chance draw. The draw was for holders of losing tickets, and the Ontario Lottery awarded 100 cruises for people aged 14 to 18. Thank you Uncle Don, who kept putting his nephews names on his losing lottery tickets.

from my scrapbook

At that time this ship was the oldest wooden square-rigger still afloat. It was launched in 1858 in Barcelona, Spain and used as a trans-Atlantic cargo ship.

A few years ago, Glenn and his wife Sue, were in Halifax and the tall ships were in port. Glenn was quite excited to revisit the Ciudad de Inca but could not find her.

After doing some research they found that she had changed name (yet again, see below) and had actually been wrecked on the coast of Cornwall in 1995.

From Wikipedia:

Career (UK)
Name:	Maria Asumpta
Builder:	Nicholas Pida
Launched:	Badalona, Spain, 1858
Christened:	Maria Asumpta
Renamed:	Pepita (1930s) Ciudad de Inca (1953) Maria Asumpta (1988)
Fate:	wrecked at Padstow, Cornwall, 30 May 1995

This quilt was made for him as a memory keepsake and who knows, her ghost may still be sailing the Atlantic.

I took lots of photos as I made this quilt showing my process and progress.

I hand dyed the fabric by letting the dye wick up the fabric that was tied up.  The dark area (top of quilt) was the standing in the dye pot.

Dyed fabric and stitching for trapunto

Back showing trapunto batting

Insert for reversible sleeve

Quilt info at top of sleeve instead of label

Top of quilt stitched down

Starting second coat of white Tsukineko ink on sails and ship

Auditioning binding

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Reverse side

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Linking up to WIP Wednesday at The Needle and Thread Network and Nina Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

Happy Quilting,

Terry

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Ghost Ship - Ciudad de Inca

Description: Reversible hand-dyed, painted and quilted

Pattern: Original design (ship from photograph)

Size: 20” x 26”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Blue, white, black on reverse side

Construction Techniques: Hand dyed by wicking, trapunto, painting with white Tsukineko ink and free motion quilted.

Back: 100% black egyptian cotton

Batting: Warm and Natural cotton

Edge finish: Double fold french binding

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: reversible sleeve

Label: On top edge of quilt as part of sleeve

Date completed: 2013

Inspiration: for memory keepsake and photo of ship

Maker: Terry Whyte