Getting Up Close to My Quilting - Whimsical Doodle Quilting

Kim from Persimon Dreams sent me her Tula Pink 100 Block Quilt to quilt with Doodle Quilting. I quilted every block with a different quilting design from loops, wiggle lines, swirls, waves, spirals, bubbles, daisies, cross hatching, meandering, and more ...

I used eight colors of thread to quilt Kim's quilt. Yes, that is a lot of re-threading, but it was worth it!

I am sharing several photos of the quilting on each of the blocks. There are 100 quilt blocks, but I only took about 40 to 50 photos of the quilt. 

Whimsical Doodle Quilting is not a perfect quilting.  It is a fun freestyle quilting. Sometimes I outlined things and sometimes I quilted around them. Whatever I thought would look best.

I flipped the quilt over, so you can see the backside too.

I took photos from all angles so you can see all the designs and the color changes and the quilting in the borders.

What a fun quilt to quilt!

Kim posted about her Tula Pink City Sampler 100 Block Quilt on her blog - click here.

Enjoy!

Marcia

A Weekend Post - Quilts at Organic Valley

The other day I posted photos of my quilts that were at the Organic Valley Quilt and Rug Show on my Crafty Sewing and Quilting in My Garden, Kitchen, and Home Blog. Friends and family suggested that I post them here too!  So here they are. In March I was invited to bring three quilts for their display!  The quilts were in their show from April through June 18th.  

I used my Easy to Sew Quilt Pattern to create the first quilt for a fabric challenge for Quilts by Barb's Retreat last year.  This quilt was also featured in the Ribbon Quilting video - click here for the post about it and here for post with up close photos of it and here for the link to the video.

My Red, Yellow, and Blue Baby Quilt was created for a challenge for Project Quilting.  I posted about the whole process of construction from choosing the colors, through the sewing, and the quilting .  Click here to see those posts.

This next quilt was made using a variation of the Easy to Sew Quilt Pattern.  I used four extra wide backing fabrics to construct this quilt. The floral black and white prints, the solid black, and the solid white.  Click here for the post about using extra wide fabrics for piecing.

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!

Marcia

Quilting is complete! Glad I took the challenge! What a blast!

What a blast!!! I definitely went outside my box on the quilting part of this challenge --- trying a variety of patterns and not afraid to make a mistake !!! Glad I took the challenge!

Project Quilting

The next step was the quilting of the borders and the lattice strips. I quilted the border with a free style Zig Zag pattern using yellow and red thread on the blue border and blue thread on the red border and yellow thread on the yellow border. On the lattice strips I quilted with a wavy line that joins a daisy at each end. I used the yellow thread on the yellow and green strips and red thread on the red and blue strips!

Back side of the quilt. You can see all the patterns and color changes on this side of the quilt. Done with the quilting... binding is next!