Quilt of Valor for January

Lots of ruler work in this one! I used thequiltedpineapple.com 20" curved ruler in the sashing to create a second design.Then feathered in the center of the sashing design and the center of the blocks to unite the feathers.  Like the look of this quilt. My wish is the person who receives it will enjoy their quilt. I know I gained a lot of pleasure in the quilting of this treasure.

My Sampler Quilt

Drawing the feathers.

As you can see, I drew the feather designs in with a Marvy pen. I forgot to get a full picture of the quilt top before it was quilted so forgive me.

I am using two layers of batting. Hobbs 80/20 on the bottom and a Hobbs white polyester medium thickness on top as the quilt top is white. Using two layers gives a great definition to your quilting. 

Before the feathers, I stitch in the ditch around every block using a 60 wt thread. All stitching in the white areas is done with Glide thread. Color used is called Linen. For the colored areas I chose Affinity thread in aquamarine. It's a variegated and looks metallic.   I used the 8" curved ruler  from my new set purchased from thequiltedpineapple.com Love the rulers. I also love my "littleone" straight ruler from deloasquilts.com. Took her class at MQX in Portland, Oregon BEFORE I purchased my long arm. So glad I did that! She gives a great class.                            

The final quilting! This took about 30 hours of my time. Soo worth it. I just love the contrast of the blues and greens with the stark white. The quilting just "pops". Now to bind it. 

Happy Turkey day.

Ribbons

Spring Garden Quilt received a 2nd place ribbon at our local fair.
It also received an Honorable mention for Machine quilting Excellence at the Spokane Quilt Show.

Tablecloth to Quilt Treasure Challenge

So Here is the finished Quilt.

Quilt of Valor

 The lady who designed this quilt top did an amazing job. Everything was beautifully square. Trimed and pressed beautifully. THankyou. Made it easy to quilt..
Loving ruler work. I preceded to stitch in the ditch and add the patterns.  Love how it came out.
I hope the veteran enjoys their wonderful quilt.

Over all view of the quilt. Love the yellow gold with the red and blue. Really enjoyed quilting this one.

Tablecloth to Quilt. A "treasure" challenge.

I belong to a wonderful longarm group called, INMQ. Stands for Inland Northwest Machine Quilters.
The group purchased antique and old unfinished quilt tops from many sources. Included were two tablecloths. Of which one I recieved. (Yea!) The challenge was to transform our tops to hopefully quilting masterpieces.  The only thing allowed was actually quilting. No other embellishments allowed. Because of the lace inserts,  a lining was allowed under the top.
After auditioning several colors, I decided on pink. Since the top was feminine anyway might as well go with it!
This is a close up of one side of tablecloth on top of pink fabric.

 After pinning the entire top to the underlay and making sure everything was laying smoothly, it was off to the sewing machine to stitch it all together. This was a very time consuming project!
It took lots of pins!

Falling in  Love with this fabric!
When It was purchased, I didn't know if the colors would match well or if I was adding 7 yards to my stash! I just knew I had to have it.   You know how that goes. Thought it would make a pretty backing for the tablecloth quilt. Then a person could always flip the quilt over for a different look.











 So, after drawing up a few ideas, it was time to load this project onto my wonderful A1 premium elite long arm.
I rolled to the center and quilted away. Using Glide thread in a pale pink.











 I preceded to quilt the beginnings of a lot of curved crosshatching. And I do mean a lot. Using my new rulers from "The Quilted Pineapple". The idea was to give the quilt a more "Victorian" Feel.




So much space to cover. What to do next? I know, I'll make some more feathers! ha.