Sunday, December 1, 2013

Squeezing a project in

The Thanksgiving holiday break is a great time for me to get in some quilting. The cooking, cleaning, feeding, cleaning all hits on Wednesday-Thursday, so while a seemingly large number of people are shopping, I am holed up in my sweatshop, happily stitching away! I was able to begin, and complete a wall quilt, all on Friday.

This is yet another awesome pattern by May Chappell "All Squared Up". It finished at 24" square.

I purchased the pattern as part of a kit from SewLux Fabrics. I swapped out the center square fabric, using instead a fussy-cut piece of "Winter's Lane", and instead of a solid background fabric, I used a low-volume print.

I had a blast quilting this. I used a bright polyester thread on my sweet Tiara & just let it fly!

Yep, that is some insane matchstick quilting in that border.

And some gratuitous back shots!


This will hang in our foyer as our "winter" wall quilt.

5 comments:

Paige said...

The back shots are the best! It really shows of the amazing quilting!

May Chappell said...

It's soooooo gorgeous! Love! Love!! Love!!!

Unknown said...

Quilting looks great! Funny, I made a wall quilt this weekend too using some of that bird fabric. Haven't gotten it bound yet though:)

Anonymous said...

I just found your blog tonight, via Flickr, and will certainly be a follower. You mentioned that you quilted this on your Tiara, I also have a Tiara, but still consider myself a beginner. Your quilting on this project is inspiring.
I also love to see the quilting from the back side, so thanks for showing that as well.

Unknown said...

AMAZING quilting!