Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Getting Up Close with Free Style Special Area Quilting

Sharon at Vrooman's Quilts  was one of the two $50.00 winners from the "My Favorite Block Quilt Along" that was hosted by Kim at Persimon DreamsErin was the other winner. I will share the photos of the quilting on Erin's quilt tomorrow. Erin posts at Fallergirl Blog.

Sharon chose brown prints with a few highlight colors for her quilt. A variety of light and medium and dark fabrics.  I chose a medium brown for the quilting thread.





When you make a Block of the Month or a Sampler Quilt there are so many different quilt blocks. The Free Style Special Area Quilting is a perfect choice.  This way you can highlight the special details of each block with a background of meandering. I chose meandering with a twist - meandering with leaves and swirls for the background filler.  I quilted swirls and wiggle lines for the special areas in each block.  The quilt is completed with a border of leaves all chained together to frame the quilt.



I took photos of every block.  The quilting gives this quilt a whimsical feeling!




































 












Sharon will be posting about her quilt this week too!  Hop over and check it out ---  Vrooman's Quilts.

And tomorrow I will post Erin's quilt!

Enjoy your day!

Marcia


6 comments:

Deb@asimplelifequilts said...

Beautiful quilting on a beautiful quilt... very inspiring! I love seeing all the details.

Sheila said...

What a beautiful quilt beautifully quilted! Two very talented ladies!
And Congratulations, Sharon.

Val's Quilting Studio said...

Good pictures! THanks for sharing...the quilting looked fun to do!

Vroomans' Quilts said...

Thank you so much Marcia - I am so pleased with the quilting. It is bound and been well shown off already. You turned a fun quilt into a spectacular quilt.

Lesley said...

Beautiful quilt and beautiful quilting! Love seeing each block!

KaHolly said...

It's just lovely. Very motivational!!