Megsie's Gallery : Free Motion, Machine Quilting, Quiltmaker Show & Tell

Soekie's quilt

Megan Byrne — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 07:29:42 GMT

My friend Soeki asked for a quilt for her mother who lives in South Africa, that she could take home with her. I thought it had to be Australian so I used a pattern from Helen Godden (which can be found in Australian Quilters Companion no 46). I made the pattern bigger and added some different elements. I quilted the river through the middle and the swans around the border as well as some eucalyptus leaves. Now its Western Australian! All the fabric is 100% cotton and I used a cotton batting.

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.

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

Dance Music

Megan Byrne — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 03:09:39 GMT

A quilt for my granddaughter Kayla for her birthday. She has just started piano lessons and loves ballet. I modified the pattern from "delicate balance" by quilt soup. The pattern can be found at www.quiltsoup.com.

Advent church banner

Megan Byrne — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:10:39 GMT

I made this in St Anthony, Newfoundland for our church advent preparation for Christmas. The design is mine. it's simple but classic

Christmas church banner

Megan Byrne — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:07:12 GMT

I made this quilt in St Anthony, Newfoundland for our church for Christmas. It has many prayers stitched into it.

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.