I made this little quilt as a practice for a larger quilt I want to make. I tried out a few new things on this quilt - I did all the applique and quilting on my longarm quilting machine. The tiny little circles around the flowers and the mock buttonhole kind of stitch on the leaves took f-o-r-e-v-e-r to do but I'm quite pleased with the way they came out.
13 comments:
Avery pretty little quilt and I love your quilting.
Ithink its great wish I could do something like it Christine W
The quilting looks fantastic!
Just awesome. Now what is your next challenge going to be? I have a long arm, but have yet to accomplish what you have done
It's a beautiful little quilt Cat. The quilting is superb. Kelly.
Love the design.
Your quilting looks fantastic, you have done a great job.
You have done a wonderful job with your quilting. It looks fantastic!
I really like this quitlet Catherine. It looks so delicate and the quilting adds zing to it.
I agree with you those tinsy circles appliqueing the flowers down take for Ever to do - but are pretty impressive when finished. I think Sue Dennis calls that 'organic' stitching - and just like organic farming, it involves a lot of extra work !
Love the diamond too - I must start thinking about defining different areas of quilting patterns ... I'm much too 'let's do it now' when I get going on quilting. Need to do more planning - apart of course from filling scrapbooks with practice patterns.
wow.. it's absolutely gorgeous.... looking forward to the large quilt you have planned.
I'm a relatively new long-arm quilter from Pennsylvania Dutch country in the USA...how on earth did you manage the blanket stitch?? The piece is fantastic!
Carol "Dutch" Richardson
Thanks everyone, for your wonderful comments - I appreciate them very much! I try to reply to each comment when I can but there are a couple I haven't been able to reply to.
Carol, you asked about the mock blanket stitch around the leaves? It took a bit of time to do but basically it was 2 stitches on the leaf fabric, then 1 stitch out to the side and 1 stitch back in. My machine has a stitch regulator which was wonderful for this, so the slower I moved the machine, the slower it stitched. I hope you can understand what I mean?
PS Pennsylvania Dutch country is one area I would love to explore but reading about it is probably as close as I will ever get.
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