My Visit to the Long Arm Quilter Cumbria with the Pink and Red Quilt

Patreon Patrons get extra content here   / thelasthomelyhouse   thank you Patrons! The shop is almost empty - but all of that is about to change in the next few days! https://thelasthomelyhouse.bigcartel.... I took the red and pink quilt to Cumbria on an epic trip to meet with Cath http://cumbrianlongarmquilting.co.uk this is the story! I can't wait to get it back to put on the binding! The end of this video is some lovely film of Cath quilting this awesome quilt. I would like to thank her very much for allowing me to invade her workshop and ask silly questions! Thank you Cath! The designs she is using were created by Karleen Porter and are called Graffiti Blocks. The design this quilter made is Jen Kingwell, the large version of My Small World and the music is something YouTube allows me to use without infringing copyright and is called Fresh Fallen Snow (which is what I came home to!) LOOK _ here is a comment from the maker of the quilt Cath was quilting! The Littlest Thistle Thanks for sharing the quilting of My Supersized Small World 😊. To answer a few questions, I doubled the size of the original pattern, taking it from 52" x 33" up to 104" x 66", then I added a 104" x 38" panel of my own design to the bottom to make it a wee bit more like my actual world and also make it bed sized. The fabrics are 50/50 Pam Kitty Morning for Lakehouse Dry Goods and Lecien from back in 2015 when I did the top panel of the quilt as part of a sew along (I have a post on my blog about how I increased the size) Around the time that I started making the quilt, Karlee Porter had been over in the UK teaching her graffiti style quilting done freehand on long arms, however when I finally finished the quilt last autumn, no-one in the UK was offering that. I had worked with Cath on a previous quilt (which was also complex as it was giant clamshells which each got their own pattern) and we had used some of Karlee's pantographs for it, so we searched to see if she did graffiti style ones too, and found a great set with 16 block patterns and 5 frames. I couldn't leave the frames out, so I decided to put the names of all the places I'd lived in around the world in them in graffiti fonts ( apparently Johannesburg takes a long time to quilt out 🤷) In the end it took 1,200,585 stitches and I'm hoping it will be warm enough to get up in the loft to trim it tomorrow so I can bind it (the snow today has made it a bit too chilly!) Any remaining ends will be buried in the same way that Cath was doing in the video using a magic loop (I have a video on my YouTube channel on how to do that if anyone's interested) Cath did a lovely job, and I'm sure yours will be great too 😊