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

Across the Pond to Grandmama's House - An Imaginary Map

"Across the Pond to Grandmama's House " is what I named my quilted project for Challenge Number 4 "Across the Universe".  My grandson feels like he is across the universe to me. Yes Skype and emails and What's Up and frequent airplane trips really help make him feel closer. I can't imagine not seeing him a couple times a week - almost every day through the computer.

I had talked about making him a quilted mat for driving his little cars on and this challenge was the perfect one to make an imaginary map of where I live and where he lives. 

I took several photos of it while I was quilting, so you can see all the textures of the thread painting.

I linked this post up with all the finished projects HERE. I am number 31. Hop over and check it out!

Thanks for following along...
Enjoy!
Marcia

Progress on my Across the Universe Challenge Quilt

Luckily, we did not lose power today, during the winter storm.  We got a lot of rain, some lightening and thunder. We are suppose to get snow and high winds this evening. I unplugged my quilting machine, mid afternoon, while it was storming and I cut all the pieces for my quilt.  I arranged them on the cloud blue fabric. I peeled off the backing paper and ironed them into place. 

I took several photos of the whole process. This is not a tutorial.  I have explained raw edge applique before, so I am not going to explain it today.  I just wanted to show how I created my imaginary map. There is not a pattern either. I did not measure or try to get anything to an exact size. 

I created an imaginary quilted map of Boscobel, Wisconsin (our home) and the Atlantic Ocean and Amsterdam, the Netherlands (where my grandbaby lives). The distance between here and there seems like it is "across the universe". 

I draw the lines with a fine point sharpie.  That way I have a guideline to follow when I quilt it.

I plan to quilt (thread paint it) and bind it on Saturday. I will take it with me to the Netherlands.  Yes - I am going there!

Thanks for following along!

Marcia
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