Celebration Quilts Revisited --- 5 Posts of Up Close Quilting!

Two years ago, for Quilts by Barb's Retreat, I posted all the beautiful Celebration Quilts that I quilted. I shared up close and full views of all of them.
  

This quilt is the one I made with my Mom for our donation quilt that year.

Click Here for the link the post that starts with my Celebration Quilt and then all the links to all of the rest of them. 

This is Debbie's Celebration Quilt.
   

This is Candy's Celebration Quilt.

This is Thankful's Celebration Quilt.

This is Linda's Celebration Quilt.

Linda created a smaller version of the quilt.

It is all the same quilt pattern! It is soooo cool to see them all with all the colors and the different quilting choices.

More information click here for the full posts from two years ago. You will LOVE it!

Enjoy your day!

Marcia

Up Close with My Quilting --- Marcia's Celebration Quilt

I am entering my Celebration Quilt in Amy's Creative Side Blogger's Quilt Festival under the category of Professionally Quilted Quilt.

Every year my Mom and I make a donation quilt together.
  

The last couple of years we made quilts using the Courthouse Round Pattern (Link to Free Pattern).  
Those quilts were in blues one year and greens the next year. 

Green Donation Quilt

Blue Donation Quilt





This year we decided to step outside my comfort zone of "blues" and make a black and white and red quilt.  

Mom always buys the fabric and then we usually make it together, but I made it at the Quilt's By Barb's Quilt Retreat last November and I worked on it again at a February Quilt Retreat and at an April Quilt Retreat in Iowa. Finally, I quilted it this September. I never seem to fit my own quilts into my quilting schedule. Also, it was a busy year for me.  I became a "Grandmama" and traveled to the Netherlands to see my new Grandson.

I posted about working on the quilt in February.  Click here for that post and finally finished putting the quilt together at an April Quilt Retreat.  Click here for that post.

I quilted it with a large Paisley Swirl Quilting using a black quilting thread.

Yes, I quilted this all free motion. That is what "Free Style Quilting" is.  I manually move the quilting machine to create free motion designs.

I really like how the black thread "pops" on the red backing fabric.

I stood on a step stool to get up higher to take this shot.

In November, I am off to another Quilts by Barb's Quilt Retreat.  Barb has been hosting quilt retreats for 11 years.  I have attended every year.  When she offered the Quilt Retreats two weekends in a row, I attended both weekends, because I invited my friends to join me!

This year we are making the "Squarey Quilt".  I have selected "blues" for this year. 

Hop over to Amy's Creative Side Blogger's Quilt Festival and Check out all the beautiful quilts!

Enjoy!
Marcia


*Questions about my quilting? 
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Click Here for the Link to the Celebration Quilt Pattern.

The Celebration Quilt --- Quilts by Barb --- Quilt Retreat

This morning, I shared Candy's Celebration Quilt.

Yesterday I shared Linda's Celebration Quilt.

The day before I shared Debbie's Celebration Quilt.

The day before that I shared Thankful's Celebration Quilt.

Up Close with My Quilting --- Candy's Celebration Quilt

Candy's Celebration Quilt was made with all batik fabrics.

She also selected Overall Feathering.

 The quilting thread color is Sea Crystal.

Stitched Candy's name in the corner also.

I tried to take the photos at different angles for you.

Another Sneak Peek. I will share this one later today. I will also be sharing my Celebration Quilt in the Blogger's Quilt Show.

Enjoy!
Marcia

*Questions about my quilting? 
FAQQ Frequently Asked Quilting Questions 

*Want to see more quilting photos? 
Check out my Photo Gallery.

*What is Free Style Quilting? 
---Click on the links in my sidebar too ----->

Click Here for the Link to the Celebration Quilt Pattern.

The Celebration Quilt from Quilts by Barb --- Quilt Retreat

Up Close with My Quilting --- Debbie's Celebration Quilt

Debbie also selected Overall Feathering.

It seems I took several photos of the back side of Debbie's quilt. Debbie selected a medium blue for the quilting thread.  It looks great on the front of the quilt and the back of the quilt.

I stitched Debbie 2013 in the corner.

I folded the quilt to pack it in the bag to take it to Debbie.

Are you ready for a sneak peek?

Enjoy!
Marcia

*Questions about my quilting? 
FAQQ Frequently Asked Quilting Questions 

*Want to see more quilting photos? 
Check out my Photo Gallery.

*What is Free Style Quilting? 
---Click on the links in my sidebar too ----->

The Celebration Quilt --- Quilts by Barb --- Quilt Retreat