Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Quilting my Island Batik Playful Pinwheels

I am a doodler.  I almost always sketch out an idea for quilting before I do any stitching.  Below you can see the original idea I had for quilting Playful Pinwheels made with gorgeous Hollywood Hills Island Batiks.  I knew it was going to be a lot of straight lines, but I really liked the effect.



Now that I knew what I wanted to quilt, I picked out threads.  You can see that there are two green threads and two pink threads.  To check which I wanted to use I lay a little of the thread out on top of the fabrics and make a choice.



Below you can see some of the quilting I started with.  I put a rope in the darkest purple areas and in the pink and green areas I simply did curves from corner to corner.  I know this has a name, but I can't remember it right now.





In the background I decided to simply do a filler over the whole surface.  As a show quilter I usually do very small fillers.  I decided to do something in a larger scale for this quilt and I'm really happy with the results.  This is an original filler I designed I'm calling Double Bubbles.  Come back Saturday to see how it's stitched!



Here is the whole quilt with binding, but without binding stitched.  I ran out of time!  Such is life sometimes.



Happy Quilting!
Suzy

7 comments:

  1. Holy Crapoid Suzy this is beautiful, nice job girl.

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  2. Holy Crapoid Suzy this is beautiful, nice job girl.

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    1. Thanks. Like the word. Crapoid. I will have to add it to my vocabulary!

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  3. Very nice design! Great colours! Am in love with the quilting!

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    1. Thanks! Can't wait to share the method on Saturday!

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  4. Those "Double Bubbles" look fabulous!
    I love the fabric choices too.

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