My Customers Bring Me the Coolest Quilts!

What a beautiful quilt!  My customer, Thankful made the Grand Illusions Mystery Quilt by Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville.

All information about my quilting and my customer's quilt at the end of this post.... Enjoy the photos!

This is the new format for my "Getting Up Close with My Quilting Posts". All the information will be listed at the end of all the photos.

Quilting:
Two Color Ribbon Quilting - Medium size

Thread Colors:
Pirate Green and Mauve Pink

Batting:
Hobbs 80/20 Cotton/Poly Batting

Size:
90" X 90"

Other information:
Photos taken on a king size bed in the afternoon with natural lighting.
Backing fabric - extra wide (108") 100% cotton white with a grey triangle design.

Quilt Pattern: 
Grand Illusions by Bonnie Hunter
My Customer, Thankful participated in Bonnie's Mystery Quilt though a facebook group named Quiltville's Open Studio.  As you can see Thankful did not do her quilt with scrap fabrics. She used one color for each suggested color by Bonnie.

Bonnie shared a clue starting around Thanksgiving through the beginning of the year for the 2015 Mystery Quilt. Bonnie's Website is Quiltville.com and her blog is Quiltville's Quips and Snips. You will find a wealth of information on all of her sites and groups.

YES!  My customers bring me the coolest quilts!

Marcia

Getting Up Close with My Quilting --- Two Color Large Ribbon Quilting

This is the new format for my "Getting Up Close with My Quilting Posts". All the information will be listed at the end of all the photos.

Quilting: 2 Color Large Ribbon Quilting.  I long arm quilt the whole quilt with one color and then I quilt the whole quilt with the second color.


Thread Colors: Sea Green and Pearl (whitish grey)

Batting: Hobbs 80/20 - Cotton/Poly Batting

Quilting Words: 
Skylar T.   12-17-2014  Made with love by T. Sanftleben

Pattern Name:  The Road Less Traveled

Other Information: 
Soft Backing - Cuddle fabric similar to Minkee
Large Baby Quilt measures 48" by 65"

Photo: Photo taken with natural lighting on a cloudy day. Photo taken on a queen size bed.

Enjoy!
Marcia

My Indepence Challenge for Project Quilting

It is very typical for me to start out making a quilt and then come up with another idea and change it all around!  That is why this quilt, that I created is perfect for the Independence Challenge. 

I will be publishing a PDF Quilt Pattern in August on Craftsy.com using charm blocks for the quilt, instead of doing a transformation on the Rainbow Quilt. That is the quilt made from 6 fat quarters. The PDF Quilt Pattern will have all the exact measurements, so you can make the quilt too.  I will post when I share it in my Craftsy Pattern Store.

If you missed the first post about my Rainbow Transformation for the Independence Project Quilting Challenge click here and then come back to here for this post.

Yes, I did make several changes.

First, I made five large 4-patches using the 7 inch squares and a couple of the small 4-patches.

Then I cut some of the 7 inches squares into 6 inch squares.

Spread them out on the guest bed. Time to pause and view.

I liked the white spaces in between the blocks. So, more pausing and viewing and brainstorming.

I stitched a white strip to one side of the large 4-patch blocks and the 6 inch and 7 inch and small 4-patch blocks.

Next, I stitched a white strip to the bottom side of each block.  I stitched the smaller blocks together to form a rectangular block that measured the same width of the larger block.

I spread them out on the guest bed again and stitched them together in 3 vertical rows.

Next, I stitched the 3 rows together and added white borders on one side of the quilt and top side of the quilt.

I found the perfect backing fabric - a blue checked fabric.

I quilted it.

I selected a lite blue and green for the thread for the Two Color Ribbon Quilting.

Here are some up close photos of the quilting and the quilt blocks.

The Ribbon Quilting looks like windy roads!

This quilt will be given as a gift to a new baby! I quilted in his name and birth date and Made with Love by Marcia and Ritch.

I used a Zig Zag Stitching for the all machine stitched binding.

Here's a full view of the quilt.

I folded it up. It is ready to take to the new parents for their new baby.

I will linking up this post over at Persimmons Dreams for the July Project Quilting Challenge.

Here is a sneak peak of the same quilt made with charm squares.

I will be publishing a PDF Quilt Pattern in August on Craftsy.com using charm blocks for the quilt. The PDF Quilt Pattern will have all the exact measurements, so you can make the quilt too.  I will post when I share it in my Craftsy Pattern Store.

Enjoy!

Marcia

Getting Up Close to My Quilting --- Two Color Ribbon Quilting with Tropical Flowers

I have found that I need more information for you - my readers. I am starting to gather more information, before I share my posts about "Getting Up Close with My Quilting".

For example: 
The quilt pattern and where you can get it.   
Did my customer redesign the original pattern for their quilt. 
Or did my customer create the quilt pattern.
If the fabric is unusual, I may need to gather that information too.
If it is vintage, how old is it?
and the list goes on....

Today's quilt was inspired by a quilt my customer saw that Tula Pink designed. She made it fit the fabrics she had gathered from over the years.
  

I emailed my customer for more information as this is a really COOL quilt design and I knew I would have lots of questions. 

My Customer replied: 

"The quilt was made up from orphaned fabrics that just seemed to go with a little triangle head scarf my mother bought me while I visited the Key West print block fabric shop when I was in second grade.  I must have been bothering her for another, so she swooped up the orange print from a scrap bin.  Thus the inspiration.  The design of the quilt is a rendition of one Tula Pink had done.  

I just love the colors!"

My customer is talking about the two larger pieces of fabric in the center.  This will make a wonderful memory quilt from her trip with her Mother.  She added the label from the scarf to the quilt.

To add some interest to the backside of the quilt, she added a center stripe. Personally, I love pieced backs.  It gives you a cool flip side of the quilt.

Tula Pink's quilter uses a double batting.  It makes the quilting really stand out. My customer asked me to use a double batting for her quilt.  I have tried a couple different combinations and have found that an 80/20 batting on the bottom and a poly on the top works the best.

I used three thread colors for the quilting.  Yellow and a Lite Orange for the Two Color Ribbon Quilting and the Tropical Flowers. And a Bright Green for the border and for quilting on the large green ric rac.

This is getting really close to my quilting!

I also offer a service to my quilting customers of an all machine embroidery stitched binding.  My customer selected a green fabric for the binding.

She stitched (basted) her ric rac on with a lite colored thread, which she will pull out now that the quilting is completed.

The green binding looks great with the green ric rac!

I selected a zig zag embroidery stitching for this quilt, as it echos the ric rac design.

When my customer received her quilt, it is was all complete and ready to use.  She will be hanging it on the wall in her quilting room, where she can enjoy it's beauty and memory everyday.

Enjoy!

Marcia