quilting detail - the twin quilts Part TWO!

I can't believe I forgot to talk about the embroidery part and the feathers! Here are the twin quilts again.

I quilted feathers in the red areas on the green/gray quilt. I can't even see them when I zoom in - probably cause I used Superior's So Fine thread.

I also quilted this one first. I wasn't sure how to handle the machine embroidered area and on the first one I did wavy lines in the white around the embroidery. It didn't thrill me but it was okay. In the embroidered hearts on the red quilt, I did one-way hatching right thru the embroidery with So Fine white and I was surprised with how good it looks.

If you're not into quilting, this is probably way too much detail; but if you quilt, maybe this is helpful. I study other people's quilting blogs, especially longarm quilters. I always learn a lot from their sites and everyone has great ideas. If more detail would interest you, please let me know. thanks

quilting detail - the twin quilts

For those of you who want to know about the quilting part (that's when you sew the 3 layers together -the top the batting in the middle and the backing), here's some detail on the quilting designs. For the green and gray one (the one I think of as more boyish), I quilted hooked spirals in the green border, circles in the skinny border, wavy lines in the gray and peacock paisleys in the jelly roll part.

sketch of peacock paisley

In the more girly quilt I did seedlings and hearts in the jelly roll parts around the panel and meandering hearts in the bottom bird print area. Here's a closeup of the back so you can see the meandering hearts quilting design.

sketch of seedlings

I used an oval ruler for the arches in the border. Ruler work is a little tricky so I'm still getting the hang of it.

Ah ha! here's the rest of the jelly roll part on the back:

I had a lot a fun with these 2 quilts and I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. You can see the complete quilt tops in my previous post. It always helps me to see how other people quilt their tops so I hope this helps you and gives you some ideas.

When a jelly roll race quilt doesn't finish the race

When the jelly roll race quilt doesn't work, cut it apart and make TWO quilts.  These are the twin quilts I'm sending to QBB tomorrow. Just finished the labels this weekend.

I wanted to do something a little different when I finished the jelly roll race top (a good example is the orange, pink & black quilt at the top of my blog). see? ah, very nice. BTW a jelly roll is a roll of 2 1/2" strips from a single fabric collection so they all play well together.



 

This time I cut it in 4 big pieces and flipped them to make a giant pinwheel. Well, it looked more like a giant swastika, NOT the look I was going for. My lqs (local quilt store) quiltbaskettucson.com had the cute panels on sell from the Flirt fabric line that went with the jelly roll. So I ripped the 4 pieces apart and designed 2 different quilts. Can you find parts of the jelly roll in each quilt? Can you find the machine embroidery I added to each top? And yes, I'm having way too much fun with machine embroidery too - more on that story later. Also "how did you quilt that?" at a later date too.