Here is one of my most recent client quilts. I knew Kari from years ago when I hosted the Four Seasons Quilt Swap and the Spring Fling Round Robin. It has been several years, though, since I have done or hosted a swap on account of longarming quilting. Last week when my youngest two kids were at Nana's for 2 days, and my oldest had day camp, I dared to get it out and see if it could be done. A better way to say that is "dare to see if I could be focused enough given that the weather was hot and beautiful to quilt 6 hours a day!". I actually finished it up last weekend, but close enough. I have a bunch of easier and smaller quilts for this summer, but this one still needed quilting, and I didn't want to leave it for September.
Stats:about 69" square, single layer Hobbs 80/20 batting. Threads used include red Superior Omni and black Glide. I remember Kari mentioning she thought she wanted some color on the massive black background. I did not want to create this garish background that would compete with the star though. I decided that the red was the dominant color, and went with it. It has color, but it is still subtle.
These corners and setting triangles are large areas to fill. I gave them a combination of feathers, cross-hatching (reminiscent of spider webbs, eh?...seemed appropriate with the butterflies) and a couple fillers.You all now how I love the look of cross-hatching!
The quilting in body of the star was kept simpler mostly because these diamonds are relatively small, and details won't really show. On the center (below), which has the butterflies, I outlined the butterflies and tacked down the center with a little star. There's gobs of bulk at the center to do too much.
It has wonderful texture, and a subtle coloring.
The red shows as an octagon. Hopefully, Kari will like this when it sails her way in a couple weeks (she's on holiday). Can't wait to see it finished and bound :-)
That bit of red on the black really makes it special, along with your generally spectacular quilting of course. :-D
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful quilt, I love the colors. Your quilting is amazing. I'm just now figuring out how to machine quilt and I can't even imagine getting to your skill levels.
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Amazing! I just can't get over how think this stuff up! Just the simple thought of putting pebbles in the red diamonds......genius! Totally makes it awesome! She's gonna be thrilled!
ReplyDeleteI need to get braver with thread color - I really love the effect of the red octagon. Your work is always so inspirational. Nice handling of the center bulk, too.
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