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My customers make such pretty quilts. I love my job ❤️ Working on my final customer quilt before Christmas 🎄🎉 #plainstitchlongarm #plusquilt #gammillquilting #longarmquilting #lastquiltbeforechristmas

Choosing thread colour for a sweet baby quilt for a customer on the @gammillquilting frame last week. This mossy sage green @aurifilthread is such a favourite of mine and it blends beautifully with the backing on this lovely baby quilt. 🍃🌿🌱💚 We chose beautiful lush leaf texture for the quilting, such a fresh baby quilt! After a few weeks immersed in green for my #mapsofchildhoodquilt I’m enjoying the return of green in my quilt world. #ilovegreen #gammill #longarmquilting #plainstitchlongarm #babyquilt

Quilts on beds ❤️ winter storms raging outside 🌧What’s cosier? NOTHING! That’s what. This quilt is probably my favourite and nothing beats sleeping snug as a bug under a handmade quilt... you can read about this modern memory quilt and others I’ve made in this month’s @todaysquilter in the feature Old Traditions, New Twists which was very dizzyingly thrilling but also very discombobulating, seeing your quilts in print in this way. This quilt was inspired by an 1820’s appliqué quilt showing scenes perhaps from the makers life, set in midwinter/early spring. The original was sold at auction in New York several years ago and went into a private collection - I’ve only ever seen a picture from the auction guide. It showed scenes from a winter fayre with stalls and young men and women browsing. The style of the figures is strikingly similar to the #annwestcoverlet in the @vamuseum but the colour ways are completely different. Although both share a use of men’s woollen fabrics the version I used as inspiration was embroidered and appliquéd on a dark grey boiled wool but the colours were all pale blue and crimson red. I loved the original quilt, it felt like the cool crisp air of winter ❄️ I made my version based on the pictures in my Instagram grid, chickens, tree houses, baking, dogs, ponies and kids, a domestic jumble of chaos wrapped in love. I wanted to capture that world as my kids grew up and away from it in something more tangible than the technology in which those memories were held. Ann West’s Coverlet in the v&a has the poignant phrase ‘remember me’ embroidered in several places. I added the same words to mine, less about me the maker but more about capturing that moment in time for my kids to look back on when they are grown. You can see more pictures of the making of this quilt in my original blog post, linked in bio or via the hashtag #1820woollenappliquequilt #memoryquilt #todaysquilter #debmcguirequilts

Quilts

Modern Notes On Quilting
The Wendover Remembers Quilt
The Red Manor House Quilt
The Misses Barron Quilt – Part 1.
1982 Modern Quilt
A Pinch of Mothering Quilt – Part 1
The Hearts and Whiteleaf Cross Quilt
The Bertha Mitchell Quilt
Inspired by Ann: Pictures of My World. The 1820s Applique Quilt
The 1718 Quilt
ClamShell Quilt
Bloomfield Coverlet : The Text Of Childhood
The Arts & Crafts Quilt
The Dahlia Quilts
The BFG Old English Frame Quilt
Quilt Blogs
The Mid Century Modern Quilt

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