I come from a long line of sign writers and am happiest with a brush and some paint! Add
paint to fabric and I get really excited!!

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

A Scrap Quilt for Christmas

This lovely scrap quilt is one I recently finished stitching for two of my quilting friends. The friends, sisters, recently moved their mom from her country home to a new-to-her apartment located nearer to them. After all the cleaning and purging of a lifetime spent raising a large family on the homestead, they realized their mom, also a quilter, hadn’t kept a quilt for her own bed! Some fast action ensued and they asked me to quilt this top in time for their Mom for Christmas.


They used a gentle tone on tone white for the backing, a soft cotton batting and I used an white Omni thread and some free wheeling stitching. I think it a fresh, feminine quilt that will certainly brighten up their Mom’s new digs.

6 comments:

  1. Now that is gorgeous!!

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  2. Oh how fun and gorgeous this is and soooo simple a design! Love your quilting too! Great job!

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  3. I hope she likes it! So far the girls do, so that’s good! Thanks!

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  4. The most interesting part of this process is seeing the transformations that take place when you combine all the pieces and add that stitching. A simple, traditional quilt that is stitched on the long arm certainly does have a whole different character than one that would be hand quilted. I like both but I really like the ability to add more with the longarm than I might completing it by hand. So far the daughters like it so the true test will be their mom who has hand quilted for decades.

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  5. This is so beautiful, soft and calm, well done!

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  6. Thanks so much, Carli! The daughters both like it, so hope their mom does, too!

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