Thread Painting on a Landscape Quilt

I have had this beautiful Wyoming landscape quilt for a while and was a little nervous about working on it.  It was very stiff through the middle of the quilt because of the amount of fusible that was used during quilt construction.

I loaded the backing, then a layer of a fairly stiff stabilizer and then a thin layer of polyester batting and then the quilt top.  This really works nice.  There was no stiffness in the edges, the sky and the border and the stabilizer will help this quilt to hang as flat as a picture.

Leigh did a beautiful job of fabric selection when making this quilt.  Here you can see a close up of some of the rocks and the different blues in the water.  I did a flowing meander for all the water.  I outlined with different brown threads on the rocks.

i did a lot of thread painting, fairly dense, on some of the pine trees and a little looser on the lighter green area.  I did a raw edge applique straight stitch around all the pieces so none will ever come loose. 

I started by using invisible thread and basted the edges all flat and top stitched in the ditch around the borders.  I stitched in the ditch around some of the applique to keep everything square before I started the heavy thread painting. 

I stitched the wood bark on the tree trunk and you can see some of my stitching on the rocks by the tree.  I used four wavy lines in the border.  I wanted to keep a consistent amount of quilting but didn't really want my quilting to show in the border.

I really had fun with the snow capped mountain.  I started by just outlining the detailing and kept the white flowing.  I used a purple variegated thread for the mountain top and it really worked great.

This quilt turned out far better than I even hoped.  It is going to hang as flat as a picture and to me that is the number one requirement for a landscape quilt.

I still have one more of Leigh's landscapes left to quilt.  After this quilt, I am excited to complete the "Forest Landscape."

Happy Quilting! 

Barb

Connie's Fishing Quilt

This is another fun quilt I sent out recently.  I don't do very much applique so I really appreciate just how much work it is.  This is a full view of Connie's quilt.

Here are some closeups so you can see all the fun details she added.

The frog in the corner with the grasses and lily pads.

And we have a turtle in the other corner.

A tree extends into the quilt from an upper corner.

And in the center they are fishing in the lake.

This is just one of the fish blocks.  I used a ray type quilting in the fish blocks.  In the background I used a free form lazy meander to resemble the wind or breeze.  All the applique was outlined in free form applique outlines.  The large blue border was quilted with soft piano keys.

Thanks for sharing another great quilt with me.

Barb

Linda's Quodlibet Quilt

Judy Hasheider of Quilt with Judy designed the pattern Quodlibet.  The quilt is normally made with a black or dark sashing or leading fabric. 

Linda changed her sashing fabric to white and used an orange color theme.  The fabric choices throughout her quilt are amazing.  I recognize a number of the fabrics as hand dyed fabrics from Quilts by Barb.

Judy's original pattern is show above.   The pattern for this quilt is available at www.quiltwithjudy.com

Linda said this quilt just continued to grow.  She added two pieced borders and two plain borders.  When quilting the quilt, I treated the inner pieced border as paft of the inside of the quilt.  I used a peach colored thread throughout all the quilting on the quilt.  It shows, but blends nicely with both the inside of the quilt and the borders.  This quilt has very sharp geometric designs so I used modern, fun circular designs in the quilting. 

I just kept taking pictures of this quilt!  There was so much fun stuff to see.  I just love the colors. 

For those of you who attended the 2011 Quilt Retreat Getaway Weekend sponsored by Quilts by Barb, can you pick out the Yard that Keeps on Going??

Linda hasn't even seen her quilt yet since I completed the quilting.  I will be delivering it to her next week.

Thought you would enjoy sharing another beautiful quilt with me.

Happy Quilting!

Barb

Judy's I Spy Quilt

I have been working on some great quilts lately.  Today I am going to show you Judy's quilt that she made for her grandson, Max.



A close up.  Note the picture Judy added. 

This also shows a picture and some of the fun blocks. 
She used a very simple snowball setting for the blocks.

A full length view of the quilt.  I did an all over meander or "Bare Bones" quilting on it. 

 Works great for kids quilts.

The back is as fun as the front.  She used up the left over fabrics and

 put strips of them on the back of the quilt.

And, get a load of that wonderful label on the back of the quilt. 

 That is a picture of Judy with her grandson, Max.

Just thought this was too great to not share.

Happy Quilting!  Barb