Love Janome

I have some fun news... and even more fun is I didn't tell my mom and I am going to give it to her today as a total surprise.
This is in the Winter edition of the 'Quilter's Connection'.   On the other side of the cover!

I keep pinching myself. I love my Janome Horizon since getting it almost 4 years ago now, and was thrilled to have my quilt supporting this fabulous company. Rockin' the Rainbow has been to Houston and AQS shows and just came home 2 weeks ago and was just in time for another fun photo shoot!

I also have done a little studio clean up too... check out my beautifully arranged buttons and my new wall hangings!

This is my favourite dot fabric from Riley Blake Fabrics in different sized embroidery hoops.

Now off to plan my next quilt in my super clean studio!

Done!

I love it. I wasn't sure if I would. I had pieced the leaves together a few months ago and then left them as I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with them. When I finally decided to try and do a 'modern whole cloth quilt', that is the definition I am calling it, I didn't know if it would work=)

 I arranged my leaves on the cotton background on my design wall and took several shots of them being rearranged in many different ways.  Once I decided on a pattern, I machine stitched using different thread on each of the leaves matching colours of the leaves.

Then came the fun part. I decided not to plan out what free motion pattern or where I was going to quilt it, instead I started in the middle with no idea and just went!  It was very much 'free' motion quilting. White on white thread and background. Something I have never done on such a large piece before. Only once near the end did I consider getting my hot pink thread out and go a little wild!  But I held off.

I am very happy with the results.

In case you want to see what Canada is up to these days in quilting, I made a guest appearance at the GenerationQ blog! It is so much fun going there, they are the sweetest quilters ever!