I saw a gorgeous quilt at my local quilt shop and fell in love with it. Since I had a gift certificate I’d won, I decided to buy the kit for this quilt, even though I don’t often do kits. The pattern was by June Pease for Red Rooster Fabrics, and it went together quite easily.
I machine appliquéed the circular pieces in the four corners, but everything else was simple piecing. For the machine quilting, I did a lot of outlining of the major motifs in those corners and in the center panel, using gold metallic thread to echo the gold tracery in the fabrics. The same gold thread made scallops in the various squares and rectangles of the borders; but I used black thread in the top and bottom portions of the center panel, doing swirls in the top section and leaves in the bottom. This is a detail of the center panel:
There is also corded piping between the outer border and the binding. I pieced, appliquéed and quilted this by machine, finishing in September, 2012. The quilt measures approximately 60″ x 70″.