Crafty Sewing & Quilting: Paisley Swirly Quilting

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Getting Up Close with My Quilting - Special Area Quilting

My customers bring me the COOLEST QUILTS!

Special Area Quilting:
Single Bubbles as the background/filler quilting.
Two Color Loopy Bubbles in a chain for the colorful border.
Wiggle/Wavy Lines with a Swirl on the top for the tulips. I changed the thread colors for each tulip color.
And Paisley Swirly Quilting on the outside border.

A couple photos of the backside of the quilt.

I love the backside too!

Rolled it up before I mailed it.

Looks so cool rolled up too!

My customer used Jelly Roll Strips to create this quilt. It is from the book Jelly Roll Quilts by Pam and Nicky Lintott.

I love this quilt!
I picked out fabrics with my Mom to make one for our donation quilt for next year.

The book shows a photo of a lite blue print background. We purchased Kona Solids to go with the blue print. See the small quilt on the left page.

Enjoy!

Marcia

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Getting up Close with My Quilting - Paisley Swirls

Overall Paisley Swirl Quilting is perfect for a modern quilt.

I freestyle quilt the paisley swirls. It is not done by a computer. I can make them large, medium, and small OR a combination of large and small. I quilt the paisley swirls so that they go in and out of each other to reverse the direction of the swirls. Look closely at the photos and you can see how I make a few curved sections, that help me reverse the direction of the swirls.

My customer wanted her name and the year stitched into the corner. Many of my customers choose this option.

I stitch my name into my own quilts, that way I do not need to add a label. On my own quilts, I sometimes stitch more information. Example: the name of the quilt OR Made with love by Marcia for __________. And I always add the year.

On the baby quilts, I make, I stitch the baby's name and birth date and year.

I love the stitching lettering in the quilting.

In this photo, you can see the curved sections, up close. I create them to fill the space and reverse the direction of the swirls.

And a full view!

I flipped the quilt over. It's as cool on the backside!

I love how the quilting creates motion in the quilt with the Paisley Swirls. Gives it a modern look!

Do you want to see more Paisley Swirly Quilting? --- Click on the label at the end of the post.
Do you want to see more of my Up Close Quilting? --- Click on the label at the end of the post.

The Labels start with this post and then keep clicking "older posts" at the bottom and you can get all of them that are tagged/labeled "Paisley Swirly Quilting" or "Up Close Quilting" posts.

I love sharing!

Enjoy!

Marcia

Monday, April 21, 2014

Getting Up Close with My Quilting - Overall Paisley Swirls

Overall Paisley Swirls was a perfect choice for the quilt on Heather's Scrappy Quilt.

I selected the color pearl for the thread. It is like a white, but not as stark as white. It looks great on white fabric and on colorful prints too.

Heather did not use a quilt pattern to make this quilt. She created the medallions with scraps of assorted colorful prints. She stitched them onto white fabric and then bordered them with more colorful prints. All of the centers are black prints. What a great way to use all of your colorful fabrics!

Heather made pillow shams to match the quilt and ....

coordinating backs for the pillow shams.

I took a photos as I folded them up to get them ready to mail.

If you want to see more of the things that Heather creates, check out her website and facebook page and blog.

Heather's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HeathersGreenHomeGoods

Heather's Green Home Goods: http://www.heathersgreenhomegoods.com/

Heather'sBlog: http://www.heathersgreenhomegoods.blogspot.com/

Enjoy your day!

Marcia
Update: Link to the post about the scrappy Fan/Medallions/Dresden Plate Blocks:
http://heathersgreenhomegoods.blogspot.com/2011/12/scrappy-fan-quilt.html