Last week Winter Days in Shades of Taupe
was Finally finished!!
Taking longer than expected - I hit a quilting block!
Just wasn't sure how I wanted to quilt it ….
so it sat on my sewing machine for months!
The dilemma
when an embroidered quilt is quilted some times the
quilting takes away from the embroidery.
Wanting to showcase the hand embroidery stitches
and the beautiful Japanese Taupe fabrics
I decided to quilt each block separately,
instead of the feather motif in the border -
which was the original plan.
Here is an example of one block
I'm happy with the results…
the quilting gave me a chance to practice
my feathers and other motifs, and it did not
take away from the beauty of the fabrics
I created the unique quilt label by
using a few of the embroidery motifs,
taking pieces of each and rearranging them,
the wording was printed off the computer,
and using a light bock the design
was transferred onto the fabric
and hand embroidered!
Notice the addition to the finish date!!
the quilt was actually all done and quilting started…
but then that pesky quilty block happened
so instead of picking out my "4"
I just added the "5"!
Works for me!!
Lesson learned: Don't finish the Label before the Quilt!!
Now she is off to Utah for the
Home Machine Quilting Show!
