Agery RSD 1028, Kadina, SA,5555, Australia sales@constantinequilts.com Ph/Fax: 61 8 88256214
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Silk in Salt Lake City This quilt was made from some glorious double shot dupioni silk that was purchased in Salt Lake City with my wonderful friend Peggy. We both were amazed and the selection of beautiful fabrics at this shop that Peggy found & invested in quite a lot of fabric fondling and some came home with us. This is the result from one of the pieces that jumped into my arms. The beads on the bottom were purchased in Paducah this year to go with it. I used Superior Brytes thread for the contrast stitching and Superior masterpiece for the background & blended quilting. Matildas 100% cotton batting was used for this wallhanging...
Lace #2 is the second version of an earlier quilt. This time I have sent it to my sister, Helen Stubbings of Hugs'n'kisses, so that she could enhance the design by using her Colourque'® technique on it. We were thrilled to hear that we had been accepted as a semi-finalist at the 23rd AQS Quilt competition in Paducah this year and even more surprised when we arrived to find that we had won one of the top 10 special awards with this quilt. This quilt was awarded the Brother International Wall Best Machine Workmanship award...
Blessed Baltimore Blessed Baltimore is designed, stitched, Colourque'® and pieced by my sister Helen Stubbings and quilted by me. http://www.hugsnkisses.net This quilt has won the following awards:
Pip's Batiks quilt
This wonderful quilt has been pieced by a customer from a magazine project. She collected these glorious fabrics for a very long time to create this quilt and gave me free reign to quilt what I wanted on it. The quilt is for her husband. I used Matilda's charcoal wool/poly wadding to make the bright colours glow! A variety of Superior King Tut and Rainbows threads with Bottomline in the bobbin.
Rose Dream Challenge
This quilt has won the following awards:
Rose Dream Challenge has been designed specifically to allow for large spaces to enable me to extensively quilt these areas using “The Rose Kretsinger Scroll” motif from the book “Fine Feathers” by Marianne Fons and an adaptation of this motif. The background has been heavily ‘McTavished’, which is a technique popularized by the Award Winning Quilter, Karen McTavish and described in her book & DVD ‘Mastering the Art of McTavishing’ There are other stylized freehand feathers & motifs in the centre pieced section of the quilt as well. The main motifs have all been trapunto quilted using the traditional machine method of using wash-away thread, cutting away wadding and leaving an extra layer of wadding behind those motifs – hence the ‘full/raised’ look to the quilting. Pumpkin seeds have been quilted along the dark pink ‘chains’ of the piecing to accentuate that feature of the piecing design.
Julie's Whig Rose This quilt has won First in the Group section at 2005 SA Quilter's Guild Quilt Exhibition!
was designed jointly by Julie & myself & appliquéd & pieced by Julie. It has been chosen to be used as a project in Australian Quilter's Companion later in 2005. Julie is a perfectionist when it comes to her appliqué & piecing, so it is always a challenge to keep my quilting standard as high as possible. We chose to repeat the flower in the quilting by placing them where the blocks meet, therefore highlighting the secondary design. Heavy McTavishing on all the background gave this quilt a lot of movement. The five 1" borders have been ditched as well as a tiny pumpkin seed placed down the centre of the burgundy one using my 1 1/2" CC Triarc ruler. The final border was created using my 8" swag ruler to float the swags in the centre of this large border. Piano key lines were used on the outer edge to enhance the formality of the swags. McTavishing on the inside of the swags maintained the density of the quilting. I used all four depths of the swag template to achieve a double swag look, with tiny stippling in between to separate them. The swags were stitched in a slightly darker thread colour to the fabric. The McTavishing was done using Aurifil 50wt cotton in a slightly lighter colour than the fabric to create highlights where the thread is laid down denser.
Lace#1
This quilt has won the following awards:
This is my first wholecloth quilt! It has been done with Quilter's muslin using Hobbs 80/20 Heirloom cotton wadding and Hobbs Polydown wadding. The thread I used was 50wt cotton Aurifil from Always Quilting. This gives it the 'faux' trapunto look with the design and the tiny stippling in all the background to accentuate the quilting design itself. The design was created from a picture in a history book about Lace. This is German Lace created in 1898. The picture was of a section of the design which I then drew freehand onto a 30" square of paper. Some artistic license was used to convert the design to quilting!! This pattern piece was then repeated on all four corners of the quilt to create a quilt design of 60" x 60". Just a note here: after the heavy quilting, including 1 1/2" extra of stippling outside the original 60" drawn border line on the quilt top, I washed it and blocked it before putting the binding on. The quilt shrank to result in a final size of 58" x 58". The binding was then cut for each side to fit perfectly to create (I hope) a perfectly square quilt!
WOWEE!!!! Daisy Dance!
This quilt has won the following awards:
This quilt is a Block of the Month designed by my sister Helen Stubbings under the Hugs'n'kisses label. It will be released in the middle of this year but orders can be taken from shops now...visit her website to get in touch with her. www.hugsnkisses.net This quilt has extensive McTavishing in all the white areas behind the stitcheries/appliqués. It has 1/2:" crosshatching, a lot of ditching and some tiny stippling as well. It took 28 hours to complete and has faux trapunto. The wadding used is Matilda's cotton and Hobbs Polydown. The thread is 50wt ivory Aurifil cotton thread for all the McTavishing and 40wt Aurifil cotton threads for the pink & green areas. This quilt also features in Karen McTavish's 'Mastering the Art of McTavishing' book available here
Jinny Beyer's 'Moonglow'
Jinny Beyer's 'Moonglow' quilt which was pieced by Angela of 'Country Crafts' Quilt shop in Minlaton, South Australia. Ph: 88532455 to enquire about block of the month for this quilt!! Quilted feather triangles using Aurifil variegated thread. Various stitch in the ditch, 1/4" outlining, and flower motifs in stars. Feather vine with double spine in the border using the variegated thread again. Black thread to ditch the black inner border and also to swirl the background of all the stars. This quilt won viewers choice at the Golden Harvest Quilters Exhibition 2002.
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