Grace's Soupcon and five days until the quilt show

I've finished quilting Grace's Soupcon quilt. I decided to quilt more feathers in the outer border. I can quilt them comfortably and there are little birds in Grace's quilt so it all dovetailed nicely. I used Superior's Rainbow thread for the feathers. It is variegated and the colours are fuschia, plum, red and orange. It is subtle but it gives a bit of a glow to the feathers.

This is what it looks like on the back. I chose to leave the diamonds in the border uquilted because I like the dimension.

So here is the entire quilt from the back. Don't you just love the look of a quilt from the back? I sure do!

Finally, the from of the quilt!

I have only five working days left until it is time to set-up for my Guild's quilt show. If you are in the Toronto area I hope you'll consider attending!

I organized a challenge for the Guild members. The objective was to make a quilt that is at least 50% half square triangles, has no applique or embellishment and it has a perimeter measurement of no more than 100". The quilts have been judged and I promised ribbons but I have no budget so I am making the ribbons. Nellie published a wonderful tutorial on her blog and you will find it here. This is the beginning of my ribbons. Hopefully they will be done by Tuesday!

Time for me to get cracking! Until I post again, happy sewing!
Karen H

Quilting a Soupcon quilt (not mine)

My friend Grace from my quilt guild participated in my first QAL, Soupcon. Her quilt making was interrupted as her daughters needed her sewing space for their study area so calls her quilt QAL Interrupted! I believe it is intended to be a gift for her sister. Grace decided not to add the last paper pieced border because she was happy with the look and size of her quilt. I agree - it is very pretty indeed!

She did some really lovely embroidery in the centre. Look at all the pretty bullion knot roses!

Grace asked if I would quilt it for her and I told her I would if I got my quilts finished. I did get them done so Wednesday night I picked up Grace's quilt and first thing Thursday morning I started working on it. Thew show is in eight days! YIKES!!!! I stitched around the star and on both sides of the pink ring. Next step was to add some feathers to fill the spaces between the ring and the embroidery.

I then quilted on either side of the narrow pink borders, around each little square and finally little curved lines in the background behind the little squares. I've not decided what to do in the squares so that's on hold.

This is what if looks like on the back. I love a simple print like this because is shows off the quilting.

Back to the pink ring and another round of feathers but before quilting them I quilting a line just inside the outer edge of the ring. It provides a place to stop the feathers and I flattens the edge so that the feather is accepted. I am crazy about this pink border. I don't know what it is but I love it. When I was preparing to add them I made sure that they moved in the same direction as the feathers on the light blue background. I thought it would be more comfortable for the eye.

I filled the royal blue background with a bunch of doodling or free form quilting if you prefer. I used Superior Fantastico in a steely blue colour (2152). When you see it in person it almost looks gold on the royal blue background but there is no yellow in it at all! I quite like the effect because it looks like brocade!

I think it looks great from the back.

I have to quilt the centre star and the outer pink border but right now I'm stuck for ideas. A cup of tea and a good think will solve that problem! Then I can finish the quilting and prep the quilt for the sleeve and binding!

Until I post again happy sewing!
Karen H