Monday, July 22, 2013

Catching up on my quilting

 
 
 
 
It's been a while since I last posted because I have been having problems with Blogger and they have been less than helpful.  I just finished this quilt for Renee - she wanted lots of quilting and plans to enter it in her guild's show. 







It was a challenge to choose a thread color that didn't totally disappear into that vibrant green fabric.  Green blended in too well and became invisible.  I ended up with a medium turquoise blue.







This is Judy's quilt - it's a BIG one.  You can see it hangs off my design wall in the photo. 








Judy is a quilter after my own heart - she loves sparkly stuff!  The snowflakes are all made from Fairy Frost fabric and the stripe has lots of gold metallic.  I discouraged her from using gold metallic thread over the entire quilt because she does want to use this on her bed.  I did use some but mostly used Glide  thread in gold - it gives something like the same effect as real metallic thread.






 

 
 
 
 
I wish I had picked all the threads off this before I took the picture - they drive me crazy! 
 
 carried the snowflake theme into the blocks as well.








I'm almost caught up on my quilting list!



4 comments:

  1. Gorgeous! how on earth did you do the mini snowflake in the star center? free-hand?

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  2. Thanks Susan! I marked six spokes for the snowflake in chalk and did the rest freehand. It's not hard!

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  3. Ohh I really love that first quilt! Stunning! Really breathtaking quilting! Congratulations.

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