Friday, February 8, 2013

Quilt Your Heart Out


Desi Quilter's January Challenge was to create a quilt for my sewing room that included text.  I came up with this idea.



QUILT



The word 'Quilt' was composed on the computer and then each letter was reverse appliqued. The heart was drawn with the help of a plastic template and also reverse appliqued. The other two pieces of text were free motion quilted on after the quilt was layered.


Tried free motion quilting a stipple on the quilt by machine, but needed a lot more practice, so I hand-quilted dragonflies and stippled the center panel. The borders were quilted in the ditch because I ran out of time. That'll teach me to leave things till the last moment! This quilt was done in four days and just made the extended deadline!


Here is a picture of the back of the quilt.

I'd better get cracking on February's Valentine's Day challenge!

Have a great day!

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6 comments:

  1. This was one of my favourite quilts, Chumkie! So perfectly crafted with the neatest possible hand quilting!

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    1. Thanks, Madhu! I'm really looking forward to finding out who made the various quilts in the challenge. They were all wonderful!

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  2. This is adorable! Love that you added dragonflies!!

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    1. Thank you, Rosemary, for visiting & for your kind comments!

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  3. That looks like a fun challenge!

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