Hope that you are looking forward to Valentine’s Day and what your
special person may do for you-and you for that person.
In order to stay with the heart theme, I will show you a cute baby
quilt that I just quilted for my friend, Arlene. She is a super piecer
and everything is always square and flat when it comes to me.
This is the quilt before I quilted it.
And here is the after shot.
Isn’t it amazing how much the quilt changes once the
stitching has been added?
I decided that I wanted to make the design more interesting
so I went with an arc shape in the middle blocks. Swirls were
added to give it more movement.
In the blocks near the border, I merely quilted half of the design.
I used Bottom Line thread to quilt around all the applique pieces
in the blocks. A white polyester thread was used in the white space
in the blocks and on the border areas.
For the border, I merely used the same swirl design. The Green Fairy,
aka Judi Madsen, is the designer of this swirl pattern. I thought that I would
try out this freehand swirly design for myself.
In the small squares, the quilting is more basic. Again, I used the Bottom
Line thread, in a white color, all of the various colored fabrics so that I
didn’t have to change thread colors alot.
I also managed to finish my Jenny Pedigo quilt that I began in the fall.
It is hard to believe that I actually sewed the top and quilted it-all in
1 year. Yeah!!
Again, I used a curved design-I seem to really like these right now.
I did a loop de loop around the inner triangle. Inside the inner
triangle, I decided to stitch various designs such as pebbles,
straight lines, swiggles and wobbly lines. All in the name of
interest. On the outside of the arc, I did straight lines with a
rounded edge. It reminds me of the lines on a military jacket.
Wierd, I know.
In the blue block, I quilted straight lines in the center and
a several slightly curved lines in the grey area. Again, even
the quilting designs came from Jenny Pedigo. She is one
talented lady.
A white polyester thread was used for the white blocks
and 2 different blue polyester thread was used for the
blue blocks. You can check Jenny out, over at Sew Kind
of Wonderful.
Don’t forget to check out Freshly Pieced as well.
Have a great week.
Beautiful quilting! Thanks for sharing!
Arlene must be thrilled! The baby quilt is gorgeous – and yes, what a difference the quilting makes. I especially love the swirly hearts in the border.
Thanks for sharing the details about thread and designers.
HI Jenny,
Yes, I like to mention who the designer is, especially if I did not come up with it.
ruth
Such gorgeous quilting, Ruth. Love the heart you added to the swirl quilting on the border of the baby quilt. Great job on both quilts!
all those hearts and swirls with the stars are precious:)
Luv your blog header! Nice work.
Wow!! What a spectacular awakening the quilting made on that baby quilt! truly remarkable – very nice design job. 🙂
Your quilting is incredible, and does more than bring a quilt to live!