Megsie's Gallery : 100% Cotton, Woman

Boys toys

Megan Byrne — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:57:04 GMT

This is an original design. It is old fashioned toys for boys in a crib sized quilt. 100% cotton fabric and wadding. Hand appliqued and machine pieced with free motion quilting on a home machine. Pattern is available at crafsty.com

Applique Wisteria Floral Wall Quilt

Megan Byrne — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:06:36 GMT

This is my own design of the Wisteria growing in my garden in Spring. It's turning into a series of quilts, but I love designing with flowers. I made this into a pattern and its on the Craftsy site.

Simon's Garden

Megan Byrne — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:07:48 GMT

This quilt is inspired by my husband's garden. I love the way the roses take over and even try escaping over the back fence. It's hand appliqued and machine free-motion quilted.100% cotton fabrics and batting. Various colours of stranded thread for the applique and various polyester thread for the quilting.

Santa table runner

Megan Byrne — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 02:39:21 GMT

I wanted to make a christmas runner for the table on the verandah as we are having a BBQ for Christmas.I found the Christmas tree printed fabric and could see the possibilities as applique. I also love santa and have many, many santas around the house at Christmas. I modified the santa for applique from an old christmas present tag and simply quilted stars around the background. Really easy and quick to make. The pattern is available on the craftsy website.

Lord's Prayer

Megan Byrne — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:04:03 GMT

I found this printed panel in my travels and hand embroidered the lettering on and off over some time. The wadding is bamboo, very soft and a dream to quilt. I used DMC stranded embroidery threads for the lettering and polyester thread for the quilting.

12 days of christmas

Megan Byrne — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:32:57 GMT

This quilt is from the Quiltmaker collection pattern "12 Days of Christmas". Its a wall quilt that finishes at 48" x 511/2". 100% cotton fabric and wadding. All the fabric from my stash except the dark green spotted border and sashing.

Wisteria

Megan Byrne — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 01:48:27 GMT

I collected all the fabrics in this quilt's background while travelling through the east coast of USA not knowing that they would become a brick wall. I made the brick wall thinking to put graffiti on it, something wild and urban, but I saw my wisteria flowering on my verandah and wisteria wall it became. Sometimes i think quilts make themselves! All the fabrics are 100% cotton, raw edged appliqued on my machine (for the first time!), various threads and the wadding is a thin iron on type I wanted to try.

Zen stitching

Megan Byrne — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:09:49 GMT

Another example of the effects with zentangle.

Zen stitching

Megan Byrne — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:07:49 GMT

I was exploring the concept of zentangle as a design element in itself. I used 100% cotton fabric, batting and a contrasting thread for definition

Squares

Megan Byrne — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 04:46:28 GMT

I chose the brown and cream spotted fabric first thinking of making something with an irish chain design, then i was given some modern prints and the quilt turned into this. I quilted some feathers around each square.

garden of grey

Megan Byrne — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:47:20 GMT

This is another colourway for the hidden stars pattern. The yellow and the grey work well together and the stars really shine. I tried an all over design of leaves and flowers hoping to get the pattern within the stars as well. I'll have to work on that!

musical mayhem

Megan Byrne — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:40:22 GMT

I thought the beautiful border print needed a different sort of quilt so I tried the slash and put together technique, a little like writing music! It's 100% cotton fabric and batting and quilted on my home machine with an all over design of a treble clef.

feathers in the foliage

Megan Byrne — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:04:03 GMT

I love the leafy print in this quilt.I made the design myself. Its 100% cotton fabric and batting and made on my home machine. The feathers are stitched freehand as are the dragonflys.

close up of centre star

Megan Byrne — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:13:44 GMT

Hidden stars

Megan Byrne — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:09:50 GMT

I loved this material and wanted something to showcase it. What better than a classic