Month: June 2025

This quilt was inspired by my eternity ring, bought by my husband on a family holiday to The Isle of Skye, Scotland. The Celtic symbol of eternity is depicted in the intertwining bands. The floral design and colours are based on Scottish thistles, inspired by my husband’s Scottish heritage.

It is a small wall quilt, measuring 130 cms square.

As the appliqué was quite intricate, it needed to be fusible raw edge to keep the pointy ends of the thistle leaves. I then machine appliquéd the edges using a small blanket stitch in a matching machine embroidery thread. The intertwining celtic knot border proved a bit tricky, but I am very happy with the finished look.

I used fine french cotton prints for the appliqué as they are finely woven and worked well for fusible appliqué with minimum fraying.

I wanted to leave some negative space in the design to provide the opportunity for free motion quilting designs to extend the appliqué pattern.

I had a lovely surprise this week. Canberra Quilters are having their annual exhibit of members work at Craft Alive, Canberra. I was honoured to have both my entries awarded prizes.

’Eternity’ was awarded first place in small quilts professional and highly commended in mid-arm machine quilting.

’My Imaginary Garden’ was awarded first place in large quilts professional. It also was judged best appliqué quilt and best in mid-arm machine quilting. It also took out Bernina Best of Show……a very exciting morning.