Rainbow Transformation Quilt

I started my quilt for the "Indepence Challenge" for Project Quilting for the month of July.

Click here to read the challenge.

How am I inspired by the word "independence"? 

Recently, a friend of mine said I always change quilt patterns when I make them. I guess I do! But I like to add my creative spin to them. 

She was making a quilt that I really liked and I said, I would like to make it too.  She said, "you will just change it" and she laughed. I smiled... I think that was the first time I realized, I really like to switch things around.  I don't think I have ever made a quilt following the pattern exactly.

I have wrote and published several quilt patterns and all of them give you the freedom to make changes.  

For example, The Easy to Sew Quilt Pattern is a pattern, I designed to create a unique quilt every time you make it. It is a step by step way to create "Artsy" quilt blocks in an orderly fashion. It places five fabrics in a balanced position in the quilt block and it looks great every time you make it.

Recently, I designed the Rainbow Quilt Pattern.  This pattern uses six fat quarters to create a fast and easy baby or lap quilt. It efficiently uses the whole fat quarter.

Both of the patterns are available as a PDF Downloadable at Craftsy.com. Click Here.

Yes I like to make changes.

Yes I like to create unique quilts.

And Yes for the Independence Challenge I am going to use the Rainbow Quilt Pattern and make changes.

I selected eight fabrics - not six fabrics.

I did not have a fat quarter of some of the fabrics. I selected plaids, blenders, and one novelty print.  I used the novelty print as the focus fabric to choose the other fabrics. I cut the pieces following the instructions for the Rainbow Quilt.

I started to lay them out in a scattered pattern, but you know how I am, I will probably come up with another idea tomorrow!

We have a whole month to create a quilted project for the Off Season Project Quilting Challenge. Hop over and check it out.

 Thanks for following along.

Enjoy!

Marcia

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

A Star Panel with my Daisy Fabrics

 All my daisy fabrics... how do you choose?

Maybe blue?

Yes to yellow!

More yellow.

And I love the blue fabric too!

Peel off the heat and bond paper.

Press/ iron the panel unto white fabric. I adhered it to white fabric as I changed my mind on chopping up the star. I was going to chop and scatter on fabric and press them in place and then quilt.  Going in another direction means I need a backing on the panel.

Where should I cut?

I think right in the center --- I can cut four sections there.

I started cutting, but I did not cut each piece exactly the same, but kind of close to the same section for each one. 

Where should I cut the next pieces?

I cut the pieces right into the border.

I think I can get a small piece from the last sections.

Now I have 16 blocks. I love the blocks with the yellow fabrics!

I randomly stitched yellow fabric strips on all four sides of each block.
The strips were all 1 1/4 inch.

I put the quilt blocks together like I constructed my Denim Quilt Block, but for this quilt I used strips all the same size. The PDF Downloadable Pattern for the Denim Quilt Block is only $1.00 at Craftsy.com 
Here is the direct link: Click Here.

I had to add more strips to the smaller blocks on the corners.

I like it, but I had laid it out on the blue fabric and then another idea came to me.

I should add blue border strips!

So I did! I like it!

It is ready to quilt.

I selected to quilt it somewhat traditionally with a small meandering and lazy daisies.  It's my favorite quilting next to thread painting.

I embroidery stitched a blue floral print on for the binding.

I placed it on my dining room table with some of my blue dishes and glasses.

I flipped it over so you can see the backside.

And the corner where I stitched my name and you can see the embroidery stitched binding, up close.

My Star Daisy Quilt is ready for my table and ready to link up for the Off Season Project Quilting June Challenge. Click Here for the link to that post where all the quilt projects are linked up there.

Enjoy!

Marcia