Merryjo2003 Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 Hi all, Been very busy, but wanted to share this quilt with you. Christal Carter (quilter & painter) was commissioned to design and make this quilt for a 150 year town anniversary (2012). It is going to be raffled as a fund raiser. Some of you may remember her from the 80's, log cabin queen as I like to call her. She published quilt books and patterns. Everything in this quilt represents the history of the town. The buildings were all from photos in a book in the town museum. The bear stands in the museum. The fruits are all grown in the area, and the products were all produced in the area. One of her specialties is converting photos to quilts. She also adds embroidery embellishments. The detail in the quilt is stunning in person. Pics just don't compare. Building names and famous people from the area are hand embroidered on a strip that will lay next to the binding. She actually has made 2 of these (one she'll keep). Her personal one will hang in the museum for 1 yr. if the winner of the first one doesn't want to hang it for that period of time. I quilted the first one and told her to see if there's anything she didn't like so we could change it on hers. She liked what I did and doesn't want me to change anything. That was a relief! Whenever my directions are, "Do what you want" on an artists's quilt, I truly hope my vision for the quilting matches their vision. It can be scary hoping they like what you did! I so like her applique work and thought you would enjoy seeing it! [/img] [/img] [/img] [/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 Beautiful! Such a lovely quilt representing lots of history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewlinzi Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 You have done a great job, MerryJo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeri Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 What a neat quilt and a gret job quilting it. Be very proud of this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 How neat is that! Way to go and the quilt came out great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primitive1 Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 That is really nice -you did a great job with it!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagecl Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 It is really nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CindyT Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 Wow, that's really neat and you did a wonderful job quilting this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MastiffMomQlt Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 Very cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanramey Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 This quilt is fabulous and really reflects Valley Center's past. Your quilting is awesome! Thanks for sending me the photos. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 As usual, you do fabulous job. Your quilting is beautiful, should bring a lot of money. Thanks for sending me the photos also. Corey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibbyG Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 That's a really unique quilt. It has so many details, you've done a beautiful job with the quilting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyAboutQuilting Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 Merry Jo, What a really awesome quilt! And your quilting is beautiful, as always. Would you post a close-up picture of one of the corners? I really like how you quilted those log cabin blocks! I have never seen anyone do something like that in them and it really looks great and adds a neat border effect to the quilt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merryjo2003 Posted May 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 Marilyn, I added the corner to the first post because I didn't know how to add a pic to this quick reply. I wanted to keep the scallop look because that's one of the things that was important to Christal. The quilt is named something about a sunrise, so I tried to get the scallops to look like suns. The brown area I just used a curved ruler and kinda made a curved "V" to follow the scallops. The time consuming part of this quilt was all the outlining on the buildings with monopoly. Lots of starts and stops. Thought I'd never finish that! The rest was easy. Thanks for all the nice comments! The real work was all that applique and designing that Christal had to do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o2b Quilting Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 Uff da!! That is impressive! I love how you did the detailing. Another for my "favorites" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted May 17, 2011 Report Share Posted May 17, 2011 LOVING THIS Merry Jo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iedquilts Posted May 17, 2011 Report Share Posted May 17, 2011 You did a great job! dh loved it as well. anything to do with wildlife. Irene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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