 Note the French spelling of trellis. That is because Gislaine speaks French in her native Haiti where she lives. An adorable and cultured and elegant woman, Gislaine is a delight to know and partner with on her beautiful quilts. She was one of the first to entrust me with a quilt after I started this website. I was honored then and even more now as she comes back for the third time with quilts 4 & 5. This time we are going custom. G is finding out how much more involved that is. Jun 29: Backing arrived Jul 02: Quilt top arrived Jul 04: Working together on pattern & thread choices. Considering custom border so I did a rough EQ7 rendition. Gislaine is busy selecting patterns. Jul 05: Have final thread choices Jul 06: Layouts started. Will be fun to see where we end up. Jul 07: Spent all day on layouts. We have a plan. All set to quilt. Jul 18: Wow! Where has time gone? Cut the backing, thread is ready, prepped for loading, loading. The binding is ready. Spent the rest of the day dealing with tension. That hasn't happened in nearly two years, not this bad. Changed bobbin to Medium Brown Jul 19: Quilting. Finished the top borders and center panto section. Busy fabrics make it hard to see the pattern. Jul 20: Bottom borders are done. Turning and reloading to do side borders. Quilting is done. Quilt is squared. Binding is attached. Ready to ship.
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 Note the French spellings. That is because Gislaine speaks French in her native Haiti where she lives. She is back with this metallic holiday quilt and wants some fancy border quilting. With 6 borders on her quilt, this is a serious custom challenge. Patience, lots of experimenting, more patience, etc.--wonder what we will create. Jun 29: Backing arrived Jul 02: Quilt top arrived Jul 04: Working together on pattern & thread choices. Considering 1 or more custom borders so I did a rough EQ7 rendition. Started the layout. Jul 05: Have final thread choices Jul 07: Spent all day on layouts. We have a plan. All set to quilt. Jul 10: The special order gold thread is in. Jul 21: Taking a lot of deep breaths as I contemplate all these borders. Thread is loaded & tension set. Backing is pieced & loaded. Water spray and a hot iron smoothed the slightly wavy outer border all the way around. Top is loaded and basted. Had obstructions errors & it took me awhile to figure out how to fix the situation. Took a break once fixed & then had to redraw the top outer border block. The outer border is actually a very dense pantograph by Kim Diamond that I enlarged & then carved out just what we need to fill the space. I am planning to do the top borders and then the center and the bottom borders. I'll then reload the quilt to do the 2 sets of side borders. This will be a lot of marking blocks per the quilt & then moving and sizing each border into its custom block. As the quilt borders bend, so will the patterns as I try one by one to center them leaving about 1/4" margin between the ditches and the patterns. Top, center & bottom borders are done. Jul 22: Reloaded and basted. Jul 23: Off to an early start & have done the first set of side borders. The slack in the fabric is drawing up nicely. Quilting is finished. Binding is attached and thus my work is done.  Doubly blessed today by this 2nd quilt that arrived from Gislaine Thony B., resident of Port au Prince, Haiti. How about that. After receiving her first quilt in August 2010, we became good friends. When the devastating tsunami hit her country, she was busy caring for those around her in desperate need but we kept in touch. It has been awhile now & oh so good to reconnect. Mar 06: Got an email today to expect 2 quilts. An hour later they arrived by UPS! Just never know what a day will bring to the cabin. Mar 20: Bought backing fabric. Apr 18: Seamed backing, cut binding strips. Loaded. Apr 19: Quilting...quilted. Squared. Binding attached.  Gislaine, who lives in Port au Prince, Haiti was my 2nd website customers. It is so good to have her back with two quilts. She calls this one Lots of Scraps. Mar 06: Got an email today to expect 2 quilts. An hour later they arrived by UPS! Just never know what a day will bring to the cabin. Mar 20: Bought backing fabric Apr 18: Seamed backing, cut binding strips. Apr 19: I've been back on forth between two variegated threads for this quilt. I looked at them closely today side by side. The only difference seems to be orange in one and dark red in the other so I am going with the orange--King Tut Cleopatra. Made the binding. Loaded backing and batting. Will press the binding & press and load the quilt top tomorrow. Apr 20: As I loaded the top I decided to show Gislaine another panto option. Now quilting...and quilted. And squared. And binding is attached. I'm done. This week, August 22-28, I am longarming customer quilt Senteurs d’Automne pieced by Gislaine Thony B using a design Sandy created to match the quilt. Per customer request, I chose the fabric for the backing and binding on Monday. We will finish the quilt with our signature hand binding. It is a joy to work with excellent piecing, beautiful colors & the trust and freedom to do something special. Thank you, Gislaine, whom I now truly call friend. |
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