LibbyG Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Linda, I wish I had 1/4 of your creativity. I love the star border and I understand that the judges are looking for 1/4 inch crosshatching now. Can you show a picture of the corner of the star border? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Linda S Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Wowzers! If I were to see this at a show, I would no doubt be stopping for quite a while to look at all the gorgeous quilting in it. What a stunner, Linda! Beautiful work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat C Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 I'm speechless, just simply speechless. Beautiful piecing and beautiful quilting!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffq-lar Posted April 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 I got better photos today. This is to show the tiny feathers surrounding the tiny on-point squares. I used 15 pre-wound BL bobbins on this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffq-lar Posted April 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Thanks for all your wonderful comments! Here's another shot of the center. It gets picked up in an hour--I'll let you know how she likes it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat C Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Well, if she doesn't like it she's crazy! And I know you'll have a lot of 'takers'. HA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carolinequilts Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 WOW! Yup, that's a show stopper all right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bekah Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Well my friend, you have done it again, made my jaw drop and heart stop. It is absolutely gorgeous. How do you think of all those designs? What did you use for the cross hatching? Lets see how many ribbons it gets attached to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Della Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Just beautiful! Love everything about this quilt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffq-lar Posted April 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Thanks thanks thanks! She just left and was pleased! Questions asked? Batting is 80/20. I used a set of crescent templates Den made for me for the crosshatching. I'll show them at the next Moxies and they may make it to the website if I can talk Den into making some. Quilting sequence? All over the place. I left the outer print border for last. I used tan Bottomline for all the cream-colored areas plus many of the pieced blocks. I quilted all the pieced blocks all the way down, leaving the feathered star and the background of the offset star border until later cuz I couldn't decide on a design. I then rolled back and quilted all the setting triangles. Then the two problem spots--the background of the star border and the feathered star. Lastly, the print outer border. It was on the frame for 12 days. The thought process for the border background? I tried CC'c following the same path, instead of the straight lines--it was unsuccessful to say the least. Frogged it out and drew the straight lines. I didn't add the points in the adjacent borders until last when I realized that the width of the solid border (green) was exactly right to extend the point to the opposite seam line. Otherwise, the ribbon thing would have stopped at the seam. How to decide what to quilt? I use graph paper, clear overlays to draw on, sometimes I draw directly on the top with a purple air-erase pen, especially when I am concerned about the scale of the design. When I did the initial consultation I explained that if she wanted hyper-quilting, the scale of the motifs (feathers, leaves, etc) are gauged to the smallest pieces of fabric in the piecing. If I stitch CC's in tiny squares or triangles, the rest of the quilting should be somewhat to scale, except for those areas where the eye can rest--like unquilted narrow sashings. Forgive my rambling--I should be calmed down tomorrow and back to work as usual!! Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craftychick Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Wowza!!! Both piecing and quilting are amazing! She's sure to love it. You're sooooooo talented Linda! It was so nice to have met you...yikes...four years ago. Where does time go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheri Butler Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Linda, I sent you a U2U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbi Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 PLEASED? Hopefully she was hyper-ventilating! I would have been! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borderline Quilter Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Well, what can I say that has not already been said? Magnificent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K. Szymaszek Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Beautiful quilt, beautiful quilting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meg Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Dame Linda does it again! DELISH! You are so talented and such and inspiration..thanks for taking the time to share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annaquilts Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Wow, this is gorgeous. I love it! I'd say this is definitely a show stopper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Oh wow! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrna Ficken Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Very pretty:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakequilter Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Wow. You certainly delivered a showstopper for her. Outstanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzanp Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 WOW!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdaurio Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Oh that is something I can sit and look at for hours. The quilt is gorgeous and what you did with the quilting just pushed it over the edge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWBowser Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 That is beautiful and that customer is very lucky. She will continue to win, win, win!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anniemueller Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 You deserve to be excited, that is an amazing quilt. Well done Linda! Can't wait to hear about the ribbons it wins:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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