Lindsay at The Cottage Mama recently blogged again about one of her quilts done in her fabric line “Dainty Darling” that I quilted. Riley Blake is offering a free pattern for this and she included a link back to me! These were completed for Market here in Houston this past fall.
Information about her blog can be found HERE. Check out the link for the free pattern for the Darling Tulip quilt HERE. These were so much fun to work on! Pink and feminine, I don’t get many requests and pink just happens to be a favorite of mine. Having 4 boys, not a color that has been used much in my life though!
Kathryn Zimmerman has been busy again creating this feathered star appliqued piece that she had custom quilted by me. It is back in her hands again getting blinged up a little. I look forward to seeing the completed project.
Do note that this piece did arrive with rouched trim and flowers, stuffed flower centers and some beading already on the top. These embellishments to make it difficult to quilt. Note the placement of the ruler over one stuffed center. Very difficult to press hard enough on the ruler to get a flat edge anywhere on this top. Pressing that hard with my shoulder injury creates problems for me for the next 6 months when it gets aggravated and I have no breaks in my quilting schedule to heal. Or the potential to hit the ruler with my needle breaking it and messing up my timing.
Shortly after this was quilted, a friend was at an applique class and posted pictures of a beautiful flower arrangement in raised 3D applique. This made me wonder how the heck DO you quilt a quilt with that many embellishments and raised detail. Many flowers appeared to be 1″ or higher, there was a separate ribbon and bow winding through one piece. I’m not even sure as the maker I would want that rolled onto the bars of the longarm. I suppose those are reserved for the hand quilter?
Thank you Kathryn and good luck with this piece. If you are in the area in March, you can view this in the Pigeon Forge quilt show, their 23rd annual event, A Mountain Quiltfest 3/21-3/25. This was the first larger quilt show that I ever attended and took classes back in 2001. I had no idea they were that new in the quilt show world though. They all were new to me!
Kathryn finished her top at our retreat last summer and has waited patiently for her time slot for some playful light custom quilting. These bright colors made my job so much fun! This is another Judy Niemeyer Quiltworx paper pieced p…
I was going to include a link for this pattern as I find it so interesting, something I might even like to make someday but I’m not finding it. Obviously the name I’ve been calling it is wrong! I saw the pattern book cover, maybe an Australian designer? So, name wrong and at time of completion, I did not have time to hang for nice photos. So, wrong name, no full on photos. Sorry! ***La Dolce Vita***
Alice loves paper piecing and needle turn applique, making many quilts each year with detailed designs. Alice chose a circular edge to edge design for this fun quilt.
***Edited… Pattern name is La Dolce Vita by Kimberly Rado.
It finally happened! A prolific quilter said, let’s try this. We chose an edge to edge design for her beautiful Paradise in Blooms, complete with needle turn applique. I must say I am completely happy with this and would not hesitate to recommend doing this again. Surf digital edge to edge design by Anne Bright, Quilters Dream Wool, Glide thread in Warm Gray #4.
Thank you Alice for such a lovely quilt and being brave enough to try this. We both think it turned out awesome!
I’ve had almost 48 hours and my emotions are beginning to return to a normal range, but it has been one heck of a day and a half. My concern really isn’t Road to California, it’s about all shows, it’s about publications, it’s about anyone that ha…
I’ve had almost 48 hours and my emotions are beginning to return to a normal range, but it has been one heck of a day and a half. My concern really isn’t Road to California, it’s about all shows, it’s about publications, it’s about anyone that ha…
Sally had a lot of piecing into this scrappy green quilt. Quilted with a green variegated thread on top and a little less green shade on the back. Quilted with Bubbles Big/Small.
This is a lovely scrappy quilt and that black inner sashing really enhances the colors. To get the backing to the right size, she also added black borders on each side of her main fabric. The golden beige color of the thread was…
This is my 6th time to quilt a Paradise in Blooms quilt, a Quiltworx, Judy Niemeyer pattern! This one will become a bed quilt and originally was to be lighter custom but Suzie saw the one I quilted for Lou Ellen in a similar colorway and really liked the quilting dimension she saw in the photos. We changed a few things around, different feathers, double batting. It really pops! I used Quilters Dream 70/30 with Quilters Dream Wool on top for nice dimension and a variety of Glide, Isacord and Superior threads.
Suzie took it straight from the box and had to see in in the bedroom it will grace once binding is complete. Beautiful!
What an awesome embroidered label she made directly onto one of the backing fabric panels.
even with busy fabrics you still see a good deal of detail from the back
I added a little geometric design to the bottom corners.
What a lovely quilt to sleep under. I really like the QD combo of battings. Not too puffy in in the larger areas but enough to really make a difference compared to 1 batting. Thank you Suzie for the opportunity to quilt for you and I’m looking forward to seeing what is under your needle next!
As for me…I’m approaching 2 years that my Paradise in Blooms has been a stalled work in progress. Someday!
