Coincident with the AQS Chattanooga show, their book (below) is now published and for sale. I was contacted in the early winter about quilting a quilt for it. It was intended to showcase the quilting of modern-day quilters, on what are very traditional patterns.
And, my quilt hung in the author's booth at the show (but the photo I was sent was painfully blurry so it's not posted here). Here's my photos of it (unbound). It's not a very big quilt, something around 32"x40" if memory serves.I double batted it with a scrap of wool to get nice relief. The quilting is done with gold, red and white Glide thread.
I added these diamonds (the one below is sideways!) but chose to not center them. I wanted to draw the viewer's eye towards the top of the quilt, and allow it to wanted from there to the bottom. I just love the effect. All but the feathers was done with templates. You know me, I love those frames and dense fills to show them off.
The feathers are allowed to meander in both directions...another trick to keep the eye moving.
It's a great little quilt and I can't wait to see the others that are in the book. My copy should be here soon!
Congratulations!!
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is Stunning! and the quilting.
ReplyDeleteYou made a very basic and simple quilt into something really special!
ReplyDeleteI've tried finding the book and am not having any luck. Can you tell me where to purchase it? I really don't want to miss your beautiful quilt. Thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteWonderful! I love what Glide gold thread does to so many quilts!
ReplyDeleteThis is just exquisite! What you did with a plain old chain is so beautiful. At first glance I thought the triangles were part of the piecing. I love your work.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteStunning! I have not used Glide but seeing yours may be just the encouragement to venture into the world of Glide.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, you are a marvelous quilter.
Fantastic !!!
ReplyDeleteIt really is fabulous!
ReplyDeleteYour quilt and quilting is amazing.
ReplyDeleteStunning quilting - I'm speechless! Funnu coincident: I just finished piecing an irish chain and now I bumped into your blog post - I hope you don't mind my borrowing some of your quilting ideas :)
ReplyDeleteStunning quilting - I'm speechless! Funnu coincident: I just finished piecing an irish chain and now I bumped into your blog post - I hope you don't mind my borrowing some of your quilting ideas :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning!!! Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWow! You've certainly raised the bar!
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