A Second Case of Busy & Colorful

This mini (not really mini, just small) quilt is the 2nd one my client Carol sent me.  I showed her other one done in similar busy and colorful fabrics a week ago.  These are a variety of Kaffe Fassett, Philip Mabry and batiks.  It is without question busy and bold.  She has used the Inklingo to hand stitch them, so the stitching is wonderfully neat.  Overall, it is 38"x48".

I wanted to create a spinning look with this quilt, so every other section of the "pie & tart" was quilted to appear it is spinning.  I avoided traditional feathers on this wild-child, and went with an edgier look.  Straight lines show up on the prints better, so they are used in the alternating "pies" to offset the spinners.

 The background is stitched in a lavender thread in a tight spiral.  It is to reinforce the spinning effect, and to densely stitch the background so as to pop the circles from the background.  A pink thread might have been a more likely choice, since many of the fabrics have fuscia in them, but I didn't have an appropriate bobbin.  I had lavender, and in all honesty, the lavender doesn't show much anyways!  Such is the beauty of prints.

 The smaller circles are stitched with curves and suns.  Something about this quilt seems hot.

 Here's a look at the back.  It too is a busy Kaffe print.  The border design is more evident from the back. Stitched in blue thread, it is concentric circles, like the semi-circles on the inner part of the quilt.

Stats...
batting: Hobbs 80/20 covered with Tuscany wool
thread: Glide and Magnifico on top with Bottomline bobbins
time: about 6-1/2 hours