Adding texture

Part of what I love about quilting, is the texture added to the quilt and how the quilt changes because of it. I recently finished this flower applique quilt for a client, with lots of white negative space. This gave me great space to add texture. The applique is beautiful and well done, and my job was to enhance it. I quilted a fairly dense background fill around the applique This made the applique stand out. The next task was to fill those giant blank corners. I love to quilt feathers, and this gave me the perfect place to play I marked 2″ from the edges and filled that space with freehand feathers. To make those pop, I quilted densely with freehand lines. I wanted this to feel more organic so the lines were quilted without using a ruler. I really like the overall effect of it all. In the end it’s about the client being happy, and she was.

Right now I’m quilting a pantograph on a very colorful quilt. You can see it on my Facebook page. It was a perfect quilt to be quilting on this dark stormy day. I love the colors, the brightness, the design. I guess you could say I love the whole thing. The pantograph is Lorien’s “Arabesque.

Here’s a bright one

This is a customer quilt for someone who’s not afraid of color.  She says that her house is orange with a green roof, she lives on a floating home. That backing fabric was beautiful and bright but it came out faded in the pictures.

I’ve got one of my own quilts on my machine to do next. I’ll get started today, after I go to Les Schwab to get our truck tires fixed. Oh fun! Maybe I’ll have to drop by the quilt shop….

I’d better get going.