So in June we brought in our completed round robins for the year to guild meeting. You can see some of the progress on this years top here. This is the top after I added my round...
I can't seem to find my picture of it with the last round on it, but you will see it in the picture of the quilted piece. This top was worked on by Cheryl, Donna, myself and Doris, in that order, all from the Pelham Quilters.
Since Cheryl has been ill, I decided to take hers home and quilt it for her. I hope she likes it...
I tried a new quilting design, which I saw at the Kutztown Folk Festival and Quilt Show. The quilt was amazing and the swirling design was an all over pattern on that piece, but I used in only in the white sections here.
I also added some red Swarovski hot fix crystals from Cheri's Cyrstals over the points, to bring out more of the red. Red is Cheryl's favorite color :-).
The rest of the piece is quilted with designs that just seemed to fit... a meander in the mosaic, since it wouldn't be noticeable anyway: waves in the white points, swirls in the red points, half feathers in the light blue batik and an outline of the flowers in the darker blue outer border.
I used Aurifil 50 wt cotton in white and 2 different blues for the entire quilt. Besides being practically lint free, it is nice and fine so it gave the quilt the right amount of texture, without trying to steel the show from the quilt itself :-).
All in all, I think it came out pretty good.
Cheryl is now doing some light sewing, so I left the binding to be done by her.
Now I hope she likes it :-).
Cheers!
I can't seem to find my picture of it with the last round on it, but you will see it in the picture of the quilted piece. This top was worked on by Cheryl, Donna, myself and Doris, in that order, all from the Pelham Quilters.
Since Cheryl has been ill, I decided to take hers home and quilt it for her. I hope she likes it...
I tried a new quilting design, which I saw at the Kutztown Folk Festival and Quilt Show. The quilt was amazing and the swirling design was an all over pattern on that piece, but I used in only in the white sections here.
I also added some red Swarovski hot fix crystals from Cheri's Cyrstals over the points, to bring out more of the red. Red is Cheryl's favorite color :-).
The rest of the piece is quilted with designs that just seemed to fit... a meander in the mosaic, since it wouldn't be noticeable anyway: waves in the white points, swirls in the red points, half feathers in the light blue batik and an outline of the flowers in the darker blue outer border.I used Aurifil 50 wt cotton in white and 2 different blues for the entire quilt. Besides being practically lint free, it is nice and fine so it gave the quilt the right amount of texture, without trying to steel the show from the quilt itself :-).
All in all, I think it came out pretty good.
Cheryl is now doing some light sewing, so I left the binding to be done by her.
Now I hope she likes it :-).
Cheers!
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