Quilting Samples
This is the first in a series of posts giving examples of what I consider the various levels of quilting to be. I tend to quilt things to death, and I’m easily bored, so custom quilting lets me utilize my creativity without falling asleep. While I do all-over designs fairly often, I enjoy the challenge of designing the top quilting in a way that I think will best compliment the quilt top. It’s the level I most commonly work at, so I decided to start there.
Medium Custom Quilting
This quilt top was a sample that had once hung in a quilt shop. The former owner of that shop donated it to our guild, who asked me to trim it down and quilt it.
Since it’s a 60″ x 60″ 8-pointed star block, determining how to quilt it was a bit of a challenge. I could have just gone with an all-over pattern, but I decided to have some fun with it. It gave me an excuse to try out the red, white, and blue variegated thread I’d picked up, but I decided to use that only on the star itself because I thought using it all over would be too noisy. I went with a not-quite-cream color called Pearl on the rest of it. Here are some closeups of the quilting. I would consider this to be an example of medium custom quilting.
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- Shot of some of the quilting from the back
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- Some ruler work on one side of the blade, feathers on the other
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- Another blade
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- Blade closeup
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- Blade closeup
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- Intersection of all the blades
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- Closeup of a triangle
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- More ruler work and some swirls for the inset triangles
I had a lot of fun with this, and I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out. As always, I see some things that I would do differently if I were to do it again – I’m my own toughest critic, which I’m sure many of you can relate to. Still, I enjoyed doing it, and it’s for a worthy cause. Now it’s time to move on to something else! Happy quilting all 🙂
Do you have the pattern for this size star and quilt? I have been looking for a pattern with the big star. I need a pattern ti folliw since u am a beginner. Thank you