Hooray! My Improv Sampler quilt is complete! I’m really happy with the quilting, each “block” received a different pattern that is inspired by the piecing in that block: Here are a few more pix, I had fun photographing this: Continue Reading
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Studio Snapshots | Quilting My Improv Sampler
As the heat keeps me inside, I’ve pulled out my Improv Sampler top to quilt. It’s just small enough that I can quilt it in one piece, so I started by fuse-basting the sandwich using my favorite fusible batting: I’m going to quilt each (large) block with a different free motion motif, so I started… Continue Reading
Completed Wonky Triangle Medallion Quilt!!!
Tadah!!!! My wonky triangle medallion quilt is complete! It came out just as I had imagined – I love it with that happens! I’m especially happy with the new free motion quilting motif I created for it. (Someone asked me if I trace this – nope, I just lift the feed dogs and goooooo!) And here… Continue Reading
Studio Snapshots | My Wonky Triangle Medallion Quilt Top is Done!
Wahoo! Yesterday I got the top of my wonky triangle medallion quilt all sewn together: Now I really REALLY have to decide how to quilt it, because I want to get it done and hung in my bedroom ASAP!!!! Continue Reading
Studio Snapshots | Blocks on My Wonky Triangle Medallion Quilt are Complete!
Woot! All the blocks on my wonky triangle medallion quilt are done! Now it’s time to start piecing them all together, hooray!!! Continue Reading
Studio Snapshots | Starting a Wonky Triangle Medallion Quilt
Back in the Spring I put together a quilt that illustrated several different improvisational quilt piecing techniques: I had a lot of fun making it, and really want to get to quilting it. BUT! That wonky triangles radiating medallion type block has been hammering away in my brain wanting me to make another one and… Continue Reading
Studio Snapshots | My Improv Sampler Quilt is Complete!
Tadah! The top of my Improv Sampler Quilt is complete! I didn’t spend a lot of time worrying too much about the overall composition because the main point of this quilt is to be used as an example in a “club” (monthly class) I’d like to offer next year at the Redlands Sewing Center. I… Continue Reading
Studio Snapshots | Block #6 of My Improv Sampler Quilt
Block 6 of my Improv Sampler is actually a row of wonky stars, to balance the row at the bottom of the quilt. I started my just making wonky stars in different sizes, one in each color that I’ve been using in this quilt: Before making any more stars, I decided to piece the rest… Continue Reading