Divine Quilting: May 2012

May 5, 2012

Rae's baby quilt

Rae is very experienced at using her embroidery machine. This is just too cute, with the baby's name embroidered on a block, and the rickrack used as edging on an inner border. Embroidery looks beautiful, but I find it hard to quilt. Sometimes the embroidered sections are large, and it's hard to figure out how to quilt them and not leave places too puffy. On this one, I stitched in the ditch of the blocks and then quilted diagonally, vertically and horizontally through all the blocks, but stopped at the edge of the embroidered designs. The outer border has little curlicues for the quilting.

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Rae's Teacups

Isn't this embroidered quilt just darling? The tea cups and little doilies, the flowers, the ribbons separating them? This was quilted with a freehand ribbon meadering.

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May 4, 2012

Diane's Twister

This Twister quilt made by Diane was quilted with the pantograph Field of Flowers.

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Diane's The Grinch

Diane made this Grinch quilt for her grandson. It's quilted with the Willow Leaf Studios pantograph Tannenbaum.

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May 2, 2012

Emily's half square triangles

This quilt for Emily was quilted with the pantograph Field of Flowers.

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Emily's Monkey Wrench or Churn Dash

Emily has one heck of a purple stash! This one was also quilted with freehand loops.

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more purples

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Emily's Marakesh Bazaar

Emily's version of Marakesh Bazaar is quilted with freehand loops.

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Emily's Four Patch

I love scrap quilts--just love them. When you put scraps with a white background, it always looks so fresh. Emily chose the pantograph Butterfly Charm for this quilt.

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