I want to introduce you to my latest Moda Bake Shop project: ''Vintage Modern Pinwheels''
I am so glad to have this quilt finished! I have been agonizing over how to quilt it for a month! I actually started to do a feather wreath, but quickly realized it was NOT going to show up in those busy fabrics. So, I just settled on stippling in the areas with the prints and then a nice chunky hand-quilted stitch with perle cotton inside the stars/pinwheels.
I think I will be adding hand-quilting to more quilts in the future! Not a LOT of hand-quilting, but just enough :) I have plans to make this quilt again using a jelly roll of WeePlay and a jelly roll of mono Pezzy Prints (minus the pinks and replacing them with reds), and use the leftover half of Porcelain jelly roll for the stars/binding :)
Yesterday, our power was out ALL day (from 8am until 7pm) for a ''grid upgrade'' from the power company. So, I went to my moms and basted TWO quilts! One is my 'bottled rainbow' quilt.
Here are a few of my favorite blocks:
The upper/right fabric is a fabric scrap from a quilt I made I think in 1991 - a sampler quilt and I used that print, plus a solid fuchsia and a solid purple and unbleached muslin for the entire quilt. And we all know what the fabric in the center directly below the 'couches' is from, hehe :)
I think this is my favorite block of all of them. The mermaids, the fussy cut flower and pears, the little little seahorse. Love it all :)
Now, I am totally STUCK at how to quilt this! Most people did ''quilt as you go'' when they made their blocks. But, I had to be a bit different of course. Not only did I change it up by using black behind the scraps and mitering the solid border, but I also added a thin black sashing/border. Any ideas to quilt this beauty would be greatly appreciated!
I also basted the University of Idaho 'stack and whack' kaleidoscope quilt :) I think this one will either just be stippled or possibly straight line quilted. And, I just realized I have NO pics of this quilt top! So, you are all gonna have to wait until after it's quilted to see it I guess :)
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