Friday, 25 October 2013

Reproduction Fabrics and Traditional Quilting



When Marion brought me this quilt my heart skipped a beat.  Even my husband, when he saw it on my machine, said that it is my kind of quilt as it is the design and fabrics I personally favour.  



Marion gave me artistic freedom to quilt it asking me to quilt it heavily with lots of feathers.  I was in heaven.



 
I quilted the straight lines in the sashing with the feathers in between to really emphasise it as a connector between the circular blocks.


The square piecing between the sashing I also quilted with some straight lines so the quilting here was more noticeable.


Each circular block was quilted differently with a combination of feathers and ditch stitching 




17 comments:

  1. Beautiful quilt and the quilting really enhances the piecing. It is absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for sharing.

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  2. It's a beautiful quilt and your quilting has made it a stunning quilt......

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  3. I can see how you were in heaven, I would have been too! looks like Marion's piecing is spot on, which helps us quilters so much. To be given the freedom is wonderful, that is a big responsibility. You did a beautiful job of it. Must have been hard to part with :-)

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  4. How wonderful it is. Absolutely wonderful. Your client has to love it and you will not like to see it go.

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  5. Ooh, how beautiful! You can just see the love that went into every stitch. :-)

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  6. Simply stunning! I enlarged the photos, but wished I could get in even closer to admire your work.

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  7. That is stunning! I'm a huge fan of reproduction prints too.

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  8. Fantastic! Beautiful piecing, and your quilting is magnifisent

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  9. WOW! An amazing quilt--sure to be an heirloom

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  10. That looks amazing...lovely quilting as always.

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  11. The end result is amazing. Your quilting is wonderful.

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  12. Wonderfull! really pretty. Marvelous quiltwork! I love it.

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  13. Your quilting is beautiful as ever. How is the ankle treating you lately? Hope you have more mobility and no pain by now..

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