Getting Up Close With My Quilting --- Loops and Stars

Information about this quilt and quilting:

This was a customer's quilt. She did the hand embroidery. If I remember correctly, it was a block of the month for each of the embroidery patterns from a local quilt shop a couple years ago.

Free Style Quilting ---- Loops and Stars  - Over all quilting with whimsical loopy loops - double and single loops with an occasional star.

Hobbs 80/20 cotton/poly batting 

Pearl -- a soft whitish quilting thread.

Lap size

Enjoy your day!

Marcia 

Getting Up Close With My Quilting - Double Loopy Loop Quilting

What is Double Loopy Loop Quilting? 

I quilt it with loopy quilting meaning a line or chain of whimsical loops and then I quilt it again over the first loops.

I changed thread colors with each row.  I quilted three different sizes of loopy loops - small, medium, and large. 

In the grey and white sections of the quilt I quilted the loopy loops scattered - not really in a chain and in various sizes. It is more relaxed or whimsical then the loops in row.  I quilted with a white thread on the white and pearly grey on the grey sections. It gave it a very nice texture.

Here's a full view of the quilt.

And some up close photos. You can see all the sizes of the loops in this photo.

I flipped the back over so you can see both sides.

A couple more up close photos.

This is a customer's quilt.  She made it for a quilt challenge for Quilts by Barb's Quilt Challenge. It's called "The yard that keeps on going" Quilt Challenge.  We were creating with grey hand dyed fabric this year. 

The pattern is called "Good Vibrations." It's from the quilt magazine "Quilts and More." She does not know the magazine date, but it's designed by Kari Vojtechovsky. 

We selected 80/20 Hobbs Quilt Batting.

10 quilting threads - see the first photo.

It measures 51" X 51".

My customer will be binding it with the hand dyed grey fabric.  It will finish it off perfectly.

We selected a busy back from the extra wide backing fabrics.  It is a white with grey triangles. Worked perfect!

If you want to see all the posts about Getting Up Close to With My Quilting --- Click here.  It starts with this post and then just keep scrolling next and next and next.

Enjoy your day!

Marcia

Lots of Bubble Quilting on a Baby Quilt!

This is a quick and easy to make baby quilt.

It measures  45" X 55"

My friend, Amy designed the "Quick Baby Quilt".  I made it so I could help her write it up for Craftsy.com

I enjoyed making it. It was fun and easy.

I loved quilting it too!  

I quilted Double/Triple Bubble Quilting in the main part of the quilt with a row of double bubble in the narrow border and three rows of a whimsical double loopy chains in the outside border.

I selected Hobbs 80/20 Batting as that seems to be the most durable for extra washing for baby quilts. 

I embroidery machine stitched the binding.

I will be making this Quick Baby Quilt again! I am glad Amy asked me the make it!  I love it!

I will be sending this one off to my niece as she will be having a baby in April. 

I would be happy to make this again for a special order.  I will be adding it to my list of choices for baby quilts for special orders.  I think the next one I make, I will use a rainbow of colors for the center squares.

I will post again, when Amy publishes her pattern on Craftsy.com.

Enjoy your day!

Marcia

Getting Up Close with My Quilting - Special Area Quilting

Special Area Quilting adds texture to this Baby Turtle Quilt.

I selected 4 thread colors.

Wiggle Line Quilting for the turtle's shell. I followed the edges of the squares and the design of the shell.

Swirly Quilting for the legs and head of the turtle.

Rock Quilting in the light colored background. The rocks were about quarter and fifty cent piece sizes - some were smaller.

Loops for the borders with double loops in the skinny border with two colors of thread.

I took photos at angle, so you can see the special areas of quilting better.

 

My customer hired me to do the binding too. I stitched it with an all machine embroidery binding.

Quilted in Debbie's name and a heart and 2014 in the border. Sometimes I quilt the baby's name and birth date, but the baby wasn't born yet. It is for a baby to be!

I flipped it to the backside.

Debbie selected Minkee fabric for the backing.

 A full view of the back of the quilt.

 
This quilt was made by Debbie for a new baby to be. Debbie sent me a card to include with the baby quilt and I wrapped it up and used the scraps from the binding to make a ribbon and mailed it directly to the new parents to be.

My customer (Debbie) shared the information about the pattern with me, so I could share it with you. The name of the quilt pattern is Pokey Patch.  It was featured in the magazine Quiltmaker - September /October 2011. 

Enjoy!

Marcia