Monday 28 November 2016

Sunflower Quilt-A-Long

Some of you may recall that I have been following a Quilt-a-long being hosted by Lori Kennedy at 'The Inbox Jaunt' to make a 'Sunflower Quilt'. The quilt has lots of different free motion quilting designs to try so was just perfect for me to do some more practise. Instruction for the last section to be completed in the QAL was given this last week and I have now finished my quilting and bound my quilts.



I was quilting two quilts the first made from some hand-dyed fabric which I won in a giveaway from Mary Anne at Magpie's Mumblings and which I thought would be the perfect fabric for a sunflower sampler.




I am really pleased with this little quilt now it is finished.  At first I thought it was going to be too cramped as the fabric was smaller than Lori had recommended for the quilt but, I adjusted the sizes a little and it has worked out very well. I even managed to quilt my name in the corner! 




The second was using a piece of solid yellow fabric (sorry the photographs aren't brilliant, the Winter light isn't easy to take photos in!)  As you can see, this is a little larger and it was a lot of fun trying out some different threads.



I am very happy with them both.


13 comments:

  1. Ganz großer Applaus. Das hast du toll gequiltet!

    Gruß Marion

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  2. And Sew you should be! They both came out beautiful. I use Lori's designs for practice, too. I stitched her sailboat sampler and it came out so cute, I did it twice, like you. Well done!

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  3. Oh wow! I'm so thrilled with what you did with the rusty fabric. So perfect for a sunflower!!

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  4. You should be pleased. What great mini's and a fun way to practice! Very cool.

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  5. Wow Christine,
    du bist ja mittlerweile ein richtiger Quiltprofi, ich ziehe meinen Hut vor dir!
    Liebe Grüße
    Steffi

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  6. Wonderful job!! There are some really interesting filling designs in there ;-) I'll check Lori Kennedy's website for sure! Have a nice week! Ariadna.

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  7. Gorgeous work Christine! When you stitch (FMQ or embroidery), do you listen to TV or music or anything?

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  8. you defenitely know how to do it now!
    KATRIN W.

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  9. Successful indeed, love the quilting : )

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  10. Beautiful work , I especially love the hand dyed fabrics, juts perfect for the project.

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  11. Wow Christine, your quilting looks amazing, you sure have the hang of it now. xx

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