Quilting like a madwoman since somewhere around 1984!
The San Francisco Stitch Company issued some Christmas designs, and I decided to make two sets of them as gifts for our daughters. The blocks were 4″ designs, and the quilts ended up at 21″ x 27″. I used ruler work for the very simple free-motion quilting and finished them in April, 2019.
Blog posts: blocks, more blocks, finished
One winter I saw a lovely quilt made with a variety of embroidered trees — and I loved it! I immediately went to the digitizer’s site and bought the designs in order to make my own version. As soon as I’d finished ‘Tis the Season, I got busy with this quilt. I ended up buying sashing fabric three different times before finding one that I thought worked well! The quilt is machine embroidered and free-motion quilted on my Bernina 780. For the quilting, I used several different all-over fillers in the blocks, followed by circle-filled swags in the borders. I finished it in September, 2016, though I did go back later to add some crystals to it. The quilt measures approximately 26″ x 40″.
Blog posts: embroidery, continuing, quilted
The San Francisco Stitch Company gave away the embroidery files for four really cute little animal blocks with an autumn theme, and I couldn’t resist making them. The border and corner files were more than reasonably priced, so I opted to use them instead of plain borders. The quilt is approximately 18.25″ x 18.25″ and was machine embroidered and machine quilted. I finished it in November, 2018.
Here are a couple of detail pictures of the quilting. First I did free-motion feathers around the animals in the blocks:
Next, I used ruler work to do the diagonal lines in the borders:
In April, 2019, our local guild had its annual quilt show, and Autumn Twist earned a first place ribbon!
Blog posts: blocks 1-2, block 3, block 4, borders, finished