My winter swap quilt is ready to bind and label. I quilted in-the-ditch around the brown pinwheels and flange border, then got out the silver metallic thread. I made a special trip out to get the exact needles recommended for the thread, and it certainly paid-off.
The wavy silver tlines through the grey sections were done with the walking foot; I thought I'd minimise the amount of FMQing with the silver! And being a small quilt, turning it around umpteen times wasn't difficult. I think the quilting really lifts these parts. The grey print is actually dandelions, but has a bit of a snowball look to it.
Then I needed to increase the density of the quilting across the rest of the quilt to flatten it out, but I wanted to leave the white fairy frost as unquilted as possible, to keep the shimmery effect.
After quilting the pink and white squares heavily (again, with the walking-foot) I designed a filigree pattern for the white corners, then used elements of this in the outer border.
I did have a brief moment of horror when I realised that the steam from the iron wasn;'t removing the blue marking pen, because that's for the white pen, and the blue one comes out with water, and I worried I might have set the colour and ruined the quilt, but luckily water took it out easily!
Very lovely!
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderful! Very wintry indeed! And you were worried ... glad to see it was such a success!
ReplyDeleteits just beautiful the quilting is just right do you quilt on a long arm or just your sewing machine?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, looks great, love the metalic thread.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I love your little filigree quilting, and your meatallic thread work is perfect!
ReplyDeleteYou are a machine! How did you get that done so quickly?
ReplyDeleteAnd it works perfectly - although my mind keeps replacing the browns with blues....
You swap partner is very, very lucky!!!!!
Your quilting is lovely. You made a good choice with that filigree design that compliments the tone of the quilt, and repeats that white/pink print. And the quilting on the Fairy Frost is just the right touch. Nicely done, Emma!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning - the shimmery fabrics and the silver quilting threads work beautifully - it looks like it has been touched with sparkling frost.
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