Megsie's Gallery : Girl, 100% Cotton

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.

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.

Amelia's Teddies

Megan Byrne — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 12:27:38 GMT

This quilt is from the book Quilts to make for children by Margaret Rolfe. A friend at work asked me for a quilt for a family member who was expecting a girl soon. This quilt came to mind and she loved it. Consequently Amelia's Teddies now have a new home.

Child's Chef Hat, apron and table topper

Megan Byrne — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:57:35 GMT

My daughter organises a cupcake day each year for Telethon, our local children's hospital fundraiser. Volunteer bakers donate their cupcakes and time and all proceeds of their sale goes to Telethon. I can't bake so I am making these sets for her. They are from a web bonus pattern in Quilt magazine Oct/Nov 2012.

Life's a game

Megan Byrne — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 04:45:01 GMT

My grandson Joshua loves games. I was planning on a birthday quilt that was about cars and trucks 'cause he loves those but his sister said it had to be something brighter! he loves to play all the "old" games like ludo and chinese checkers and snakes and ladders. it was a no brainer really. Snakes and ladders is it. The hardest part was working out the pattern and how big to make it. I used cotton fabric, various coloured threads for the applique and invisible thread for the quilting, keeping it simple.

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.

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.

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

Hickery Dickery Dock

Megan Byrne — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:20:59 GMT

This lovely nursery rhyme wall quilt came from an excellent book from Quiltmania called Special Children 2011. Only downside to the pattern is the metric measuring. Coming from France all the measurements although written in english are metric! All my rulers are feet and inches. Had to get some new rulers. Fun and unexpected patterns can be found in this book.

whole lovely owls

Megan Byrne — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:14:42 GMT

The whole quilt top showing the lovely colours

lovely owls

Megan Byrne — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:08:54 GMT

I love owls and the bright colours of this quilt. Its hand appliqued, machine pieced and is yet to be quilted but I love it

fishing women

Megan Byrne — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:16:20 GMT

I love fishing and unfortunately didn't get a chance to ice fish when i was in Newfoundland, but i did make this lovely quilt from a pattern I sourced in Alaska. The ladies look so happy

Close up Russol's Quilt

Megan Byrne — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:48:47 GMT

Close up of the central design