Wedding canopy for a covid wedding

                                         Wedding Canopy

6' x 6'

This lovely young couple struggled to make their wedding plans work during the pandemic.  Although they wanted to invite many loved ones, in the end, their vows were made before an intimate crowd of immediate family.  Luckily they had a beautiful setting: parents' property on the Otonabee river.  One thing they were sure of; they wanted a hand made Chuppa!

                  The bride's first actual view of the creation we had planned over long distance.

                         Both bride and groom seem really happy with the final product.

The groom and his best man created the structure.  I am posing with the bride as we gave the structure a trial run.

detail

 Detail:  I was working in a colour palette that I am not that comfortable with and used a lace I found that was similar to the lace on the bride's gown.  The bride asked for a big bright sun in the centre, which I painted.  I was very happy to have the challenge to create something original, in colours that I might not naturally choose.  It was an opportunity to push myself into a new space that made me slightly uncomfortable and in so doing, offered a great learning experience.

The bride and groom study the installation.

The original idea was to create a bicycle wheel in the centre since they are both avid cyclists.  

However the idea morphed over time.

And in the end, this wedding was beautiful, and heart warming for all, those present, and those present in spirit.  

Queen size quilt highlighting luscious purple hand dyed fabric

 

79" x 85"

Yet another scrappy enterprise.  I was challenging myself to try and understand how triangles work, and since I love this piece of the colour wheel, I had a lot of fabric to play with.  Sophie was a reluctant model for the pictures but she does love a comfy quilt.

Detail;  of course a quilt of mine would be lacking without at least a few wonky log cabins.

another detail;  note that this one, as all my huge quilts was also quilted by Jeannie Jenkins.

Queen size scrappy quilt

80" x 80"

Another queen size quilt in my series of 'using up my scraps during a pandemic lock down' .  I have made 7 queen size quilts so far.  It still reads as scrappy but you can see that I do love a log cabin block.

Jeannie Jenkins at "itchn2stitch" is an extraordinary long arm quilter and she takes all my hodge podge efforts and pulls them together with beautiful quilting.

playing with placement

another perspective

sometimes neat and tidy is whats called for.

This quilt is square; 80" x 80" 

cherished babies, and their quilts

Baby Girl Quilt

We were finally able to travel again! Yay!  and I was able to give these new babies their quilts.  Although they are no longer 'new born', they seemed very happy to discover the details of their quilts.

As their parents have wisely asked that their faces not be published, you will have to believe me when I am pleased tell you that these are gorgeous, happy, healthy babies!!

Keeping with my goal of working with my scraps, I used stash of hand dyed as well as commercial fabrics to create the wonky stars.

and then of course what cannot be improved with a few flying geese?

This is the top of another one that I created for another baby boy born to the same family.  3 babies, born within 6 months of each other, all will be cousins, born to siblings who are very close with each other.  How lucky they are! 

And here is a sweet photo of one of the baby boys with his new quilt. I quilted all of them in free motion, with hearts and swirls, quite intensely, so the quilts will be strong enough to withstand many washes and baby play.