Mom's red, white and black quilt - quilted!  Her comment "You turn simple quilts into family heirlooms!" Wow - what a nice compliment!!! You know what they say...a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are a few pics and thousands of words!

one large block

back of large block

 

border design back

border design

back of quilt

There you have it - front and back.  This stitching on the border is called braided feather and is an original design by....me!

ENJOY!

Hey, it's time for Christmas!  This is how I spent my Monday.

 ENJOY!  For sale in my etsy shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/embroiderybyshirley

Bubbles in the Wind quilted

I think I may have promised quilting pics of a project from a couple of posts ago.  So, here it is!  Called "Bubbles in the Wind".

 I tried to give the effect of wind blowing by quilting in some wavy swirls on the blue; had to add some circles to represent more bubbles.  Then I added some feathers (surprise!) with some little curly fronds in the yellow areas - along with more bubbles.




 I just love all this dot fabric - I created this pattern myself and again hung the quilt on my design wall (really just a large square of foam insulation from Menards...in case you were getting overly impressed by the term "design wall") so I could look at it for inspiration!

I stitched feathers and curly cues in the dot border and a simple swirl on the red inner border - I also created a border of sorts by stitching a border design inside the red border - I really like the effect. Enjoyed this lots! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the way it turned out!!

ENJOY!

When I make a quilt, it takes me awhile to decide how to quilt it.  For this beauty, I hung the quilt on my design wall for a few days so that every time I walked by it, I could take a look and think about it. I recently ordered a DVD explaining how one quilter makes those quilting decisions - basically divide and conquer.  One piece of advice which I thought was particularly interesting was to take a pic of the quilt, then print it out in black and white - keeps the colors of the quilt from being a distraction and you see the quilt from a little different perspective.

Anyway, I came up with this design and I really love it.  There are a few different variations I have in mind as well, which keeps it interesting, but they all include the basic curved petal shape with free motion feathers inside.


  Woot, Woot - I do love to do those!  On a sample, I echoed the outside of the petal and loved the look, but for this quilt, I used the seams of the fabric and marked lines between the sets of petals... LOVE!



Hope you enjoy it as well!