Wow look at me, two blog posts in a week! Maybe I am finally getting back on track!
Today I want to share another of my recent finished quilts. Now, this is soooo not my normal color palette, but when I ran across a Martinique honey bun on sale at my LQS, I couldn't resist! It was just so PRETTY! Not me at all, but so feminine and pretty!
I went with super simple and just sewed all the strips together. I have wanted to do this with a honey bun for AGES, and that was the plan when I purchased this particular honey bun, but it had been sitting in my stash for 6 months before I finally got to it.
Since the top piecing was fairly basic and straight, I knew I wanted quilting that was more elaborate than my normal free motion or straight line abilities. I had tried to free motion quilt flowers before, but I was REALLY bad at it, mostly because I couldn't figure out where to stitch next fast enough and messiness ensued...Then I had a BRILLIANT idea that I will now share with you! Before I basted the quilt, I ironed freezer paper onto the ENTIRE quilt top and drew my quilting lines on first! Then I pin basted straight through the paper.
It worked AMAZINGLY well! I knew exactly where to go to stitch, so I have stitching that actually looks like flowers on my quilt! Now, quilting was a pain, cuz the paper made the whole quilt a little stiff, and I had to tear off chunks of paper as I quilted so I could stuff the quilt under my machine, and at the last bit most of the paper wasn't ironed on anymore, but it was still held on with the pins, so I will definitely NOT do this on any quilt bigger than this, but for this size and smaller, it was SO worth it!
I love this flowery print I used for the back! I am still debating going back for more (in any of the colorways!) to make myself a skirt!
This one finished at 43"x43". That seems to be my average quilt size lately...it's so nice to not have something ginormous to work on!
I used a pretty polka dot from the line for binding. There were so many good choices to choose from for binding fabric, but I finally decided to stick with dots :)
This one is listed in my shop, and will also be available at a local boutique this Friday and Saturday. Actually, I guess this is a good time to inform you about said boutique!
I would like to invite you all to {Handmade} Boutique, happening this weekend here in Gilbert, AZ!
2 comments:
Hi, I know your mother inlaw and husband! I just got the Cute Christmas card Jennifer always sends and read that you have a quilt website. Since I love to quilt, I looked you up and found you! Great quilts!
Also coincidence, my husband just retired from working where your Dad works. Bob is a really good friend. Small world, huh?
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I just visited your store and blog courtesy of your advertising. I was reading of your idea of ironing on freezer paper on the whole quilt. What I have done that worked for me was to only attach, in your case, the flowers and then leave getting from one to the next sort of freehand. This would solve the too stiff problem
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