Canada, It's Provinces and Territories - The Blocks

I blogged about this quilt in my previous post, and this blog is all about the front and back of each block from Canada, It's Provinces and Territories.

Canada, It's Provinces and Territories

There is a lot of free motion quilting in this quilt (done on a domestic machine) and I have to say, it is my favourite part of making a quilt.

The inspiration for a lot of the quilting patterns are Leah Day designs.  Check out her 400+ designs at The Free Motion Quilting Project.

I made a few changes to the original patterns, added some 3-D elements to some blocks, and a few others as noted below.

Yukon

Yukon - back

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island - back

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia  - detail

Québec

I believe this pattern represents the weaving industry of Québec, the original was pieced, I decided to weave my strips instead. 

Québec - back

Ontario

Ontario back

Alberta

This was originally an 8" block which I changed to a 12" block so it may look slightly different.

Alberta - back

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan - back

Saskatchewan - detail

British Columbia

The pattern for this block was originally one fish on a rectangular block, I added the second fish to fill in the 12" block.

British Columbia

British Columbia - detail

Manitoba

Manitoba - back

Newfoundland

Newfoundland

New Brunswick

New Brunswick - back

Northwest Territories and Nunavit

Northwest Territories and Nunavit

Canada, It's Provinces and Territories - back

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


Happy Quilting,

Terry

Canada, Its Provinces and Territories

A couple of months ago, I asked if anyone recognized any of the blocks on this post.

Canada, It's Provinces and Territories

The reason I asked was because all the blocks in this quilt were designed by Canadian quilters from across Canada to represent their provinces or territories.

The patterns were printed in The Canadian Quilter throughout year 2000 as a Millenium project.

I was interested to see if anyone reading might have made these blocks wayyyyyyy back then.

Canada, It's Provinces and Territories - back

My personal challenge was to use only my own hand dyed fabrics and to add grey to each block. The only commercial fabrics are the solid black and the black and white stripe onto which I stitched the name of the provinces and territories in white. It's a little hard to read,  I wanted the names on the quilt but I did not want them to stand out.

This was a guild project initiated by one of our members, Helen B. who would distribute patterns only to members who had completed their previous month's block.  All the blocks were made while participating in this challenge but then it took many attempts (and 13/14 years) to complete.

I quilted the "boxes" to look like wood grain.

wood grain pattern

The grey border was free motion quilted in a grid (the opposite black border was quilted with diagonal lines)

Bottom left border

being blocked

being blocked

I use my display wall to block my quilts.  I have four panels of foam insulation that I covered with flannel (one side beige - one side white).  The panels are 24" wide, so I place as many as I need on my tables, in this case I only needed three.

This quilt measures 66" x 75".

The label was not sewed on when I took the picture of the back.  I placed it at the bottom of the grey strip.

label

Next post, I'll show close-ups of all the block, front and back.

Thanks for stopping by.

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

Happy Quilting,

Terry

Red Stars at Night

Quilt Documentation #182

Red Stars at Night

Quilts for Christmas

My personal quilting challenge for 2014 was to make a quilt for each one of my six grandchildren.

Red Stars at Night was made for Matthew, a 25 year old bachelor who owns his own home. His living room colour scheme is black and white with red accents.

Judy Laquidara's February Scrappy Challenge Block was perfect for this quilt.

I placed the blocks on point and filled in with plain black on point squares.  The four-patches were all made with brown or black prints and white-on-white, white beige or grey prints 

Here's a close-up of one of the blocks:

Red Stars at Night - block

I used flannel with a snowflake design on the back.

Red Stars at Night - back

plain grid quilting in-the-ditch

label and binding

By the way, he's my oldest grandson and the one who gave me my "grandma" name.  When he started talking he called me Samma and it has stuck to this day with all the grandkids.

Matt with Red Stars at Night.

Linking to The Needle & Thread Network.

Happy Quilting,

Terry 

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Red Stars at Night

Description: 12 pieced star blocks set on point with plain black squares

Pattern: Judy Laquidara's February Scrappy Challenge 

Block Size: 60" x 76"

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Black, neutrals, white

Construction Techniques: pieced

Back: flannel

Batting: Warm and Natural 80/20

Edge finish: Double fold french binding

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine, diagonal grid in- the-ditch

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: no

Label: yes

Date completed:  2014

Inspiration: Judy Laquidara's Challenge Quilt 

History: Display at the Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold 2014 Quilters' Guild Show, at Museum of Northern History

Maker: Terry Whyte

Fantasy Garden

Quilt Documentation # 162

Fantasy Garden - Terry Whyte

 I started blogging in order to document as many as my quilts as I could.

While putting away my quilts from my Waterloo Guild trunk show, I decided to sort out any quilts that had not been documented on my blog.

I was surprised that I had not blogged about the very first challenge the Northern Ontario Fibre Artists undertook.

Fantasy Garden is my quilt from the Round Robin Challenge, see below, and this is how it progressed:

Background onto which I added printer photos of some of my garden flowers

After three members added embellishments 

When I got it back I added a spider web and then added the back and batting this way:

Batik for the back with markings for size of finished quilt

Corners stitched and turned to front

Batting inserted inside the folds

Stitched the top over the "binding" edges

I then couched a piece of fuzzy wool just inside the raw frayed edges of the top.

After all the quilting was done, I added a spider and the dragonfly.

Fantasy Garden - Terry Whyte

NOFA Round Robin Embellished Collage

The idea was introduced in September, 2007 and the quilts were completed in 2008.

Background fabric could be pieced, appliqued, painted, dyed or left as is.

The owner of the background would add something to it in the form of:

• applique
• stamp
• beads or other embellishments
• stitch
• numbers or lettering
• yarn, ribbon, thread, etc
• paint
• add colour with crayons, Shiva Paint Stiks, markers, ink, etc.
• Add photos
• anything else you could think of

The background fabric would be passed along from one member to the other to embellish further until it had gone to each member.

The owner would then add more, or not, and finish the quilt in any way they wished.

These are the other quilts made in the challenge:

Spy......ral - Jane Hughes

Dancing in the Moonlight - Karen Pilch

Sunflowers - Silvia Bos

Pond Life - Kit Ormsby

Midnight Garden - Marnie Mascioli

Nature at Dawn - Marie Black

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

Happy Quilting

Terry 

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Fantasy Garden

Description: Embellished Collage

Pattern: Original

Size: 21½” x 28½”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Green, red, yellow

Construction Techniques: Applique, photo transfer, beading, thread painting, and more

Back: batik

Batting: bamboo

Edge finish: Back turned to front

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: yes

Date completed: 2008

Maker: Terry Whyte