Generals Ladies

This is a pattern called The Generals Ladies and beautifully pieced by Marilyn R. I used more traditional quilting motifs like feathers, wreath and I even found a paisley design to go in the setting triangles. I was so pleased to find a paisley as that design is the gold fabric. Really tied together all the elements.

 

 

This is a type of sampler style quilt and has many different blocks , triangles, borders...a lot going on. The trick is to find common ground or it will look very busy. We did that by using feathers as the main theme and repeating elements throughout the quilting.

In progress and having fun!

Here is that paisley design.
Threads were chosen to blend in and all are Permacore in ecru, dark beige, blue grey and a funny red.

These fabrics looked awesome quilted. Hobb 80/20 batting. I think this picture shows the whole quilt, and you can see all the different quilting.

Space Quilt

Back to blogging! The holidays are over , I am caught up on my customer quilts and very busy with new ones. I thought I'd post several that were finished.

 First up, the Space Quilt.

 My client made this for her daughter who had a test she designed as a high school student get picked to be on  one of the space shuttle missions. They both got special tours, met the crews of several shuttle missions and attended the launches. Mom did a special job on this. It is a very unique quilt.

 

 

 

 

This great quilt is all embroidered. that center sphere is made up of lots of 6 inch block, each embroidered and then sewn together. A puzzle, when put together forms the sphere. Incredible!

 

The borders have  the names of the  astronauts, shuttles,and the companies who designed and built the rockets and shuttles.

The gold thread is couched on top in a wavy pattern. I wanted the quilting to add texture but not be "in your face". The embroidery designs are the stars here. I alternated a swirl in one section with  gentle lines in the next in a blue thread that just was a shade different to show up. Glide  Pacific was perfect.

Glide Cream for the stippling in the white border and in the sphere. The sphere had outlining  to highlight special elements of the design and to tack it down. It already had batting behind it when embroidered. So it had a double layer, but seemed to quilt just fine.

It is always fun to do something so unusual and add the finishing touch to this quilts' vision.

On/Off the frame

Lovely applique and lovely quilt. Just pulled it off and have to check it for threads and missed spots. This is a Cathy Van Bruggen quilt pattern www.cathyvb.com. Pattern is Garden Walk. Cathy"s patterns have such fun elements. The bugs, butterflies, animals and flowers  are unique and work up to a beautiful quilt. My client Mary, did a wonderful job on this and the animals are darling! Very fun to quilt . I used a White Glide , brown invisible, and a variegated blue Glide thread.