I can’t believe it’s been more than two years since I wrote a post. Where have you been you wonder? I’ve been to work. I was a mom at home for more than 6 years. With both kids at school, it was time to go back. I’m not working full time for now (about 25 h/week). Still, I didn’t find time to share my projects on the blog. However, I did take time to sew. And I do share a bit on Instagram. And I continued going at guild meetings. What a great community.

After two years, I thought I would share with you the quilts I’ve worked on during that time. I won’t go into the details for each of them (or else I’ll never finish writing this post). But I have lots of pictures to share with you.

First, here a quilt a did for the Michael Miller Luxe challenge that took place for QuiltCon two years ago. I wasn’t able to finish it in time for the deadline. But I did finish it in time to offert for Christmas to my mother. She was so happy! On that Christmas, I also receive something special from her: a painting from her that represented me as well as a quilt exhibit showing my own designs from the past years. For those curious, you can see it here.

Here a close-up of the quilting followed by picture of the back:

I didn’t have a lot of finishes in 2017. But here is one I had started in a class with Libs Elliot.You can read more about it here. It is called Le temps des sucres and I offered it to my stepmother on Christmas 2017.

And here is a close-up of the quilting:

The next one is a quilt I made as part of a challenge organised by the Mtl MQG. We had to create a quilt inspired by a Metro station in Montreal, read all about it here. The one I designed was inspired by the concrete artwork named Relief by Claude Théberge at Métro de l’Église on the green line. Here is a picture a took as source of inspiration:

I used the quilting to represent the texture in the concrete.  I never took a good picture of the finished quilt. But here is the picture I had shared on Instagram. You can see the different quilts that were made by the guild members here.

This summer, I finally quilted an improv quilt I started back in June 2016. You can read more about it here.

I did quilt it using my quilting frame as mentioned in the first post. I used a scallop wood template coming with the frame. I really appreciate those templates and I love the texture that the scallops added to the quilt.

This December, I finished a quilt for my sister that I’ve been working on in the past year. I called it Keepsake from Japan as I made it with fabrics brought from there by my sister a few years ago. I took a while to find an idea of what I wanted to do with them. I decided to go with a design inspired by the Disco quilt pattern by Jaybird using the Hex N More Ruler. Unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture before offering it to my sister. But here are in progress pictures I had shared on Instagram.

The last quilt I finished was for my grand-mother. I finished it just in time to offer it to her for Christmas. It was made from a charm pack from the Gleaned fabric collection by Carolyn Friedlander. I was my first time with flying geese blocks. I combined the prints with different solids from my scrap stash that I used as the sky for the blocks. I did this after a great demo by one of our guild member (see here). I used Essex linen for the rest of the quilt.

Her is a close-up of the quilting. Again I used one of the wood templates coming with my Little Grace quilting frame.

Here is picture I took when I finished assembling the top. It shows in more details the different prints.

Finally, here is a quilt I worked on about a year ago and that I just installed on the quilting frame. I’ll try not to wait two years to show you the finished result!