Monday, July 15, 2019

"Patriotic Sparkler" 2019

It all started off with a few Red and Blue scraps from previous projects. Add in the White from a neighbor and I made a prototype block from the pattern Chelsea that I made a few months ago.
If you'd like to see that quilt just do a search on my blog for Chelsea quilt.
Here are 4 blocks together.
Here are the same 4 blocks turned around. It forms a circular pattern.
I thought it needed something more. Way too much white space.

I decided to sew a random piece on an angle to each block. I thought it looked like a fan blade star. The blades are all different sizes.

Here is my design board starting to fill up with blocks. I made all the quadrants of the blocks first then I sewed the blades on the corners.

All the blocks are finished and floral border added.

I attended Handi Quilter Academy in the Salt Lake City area in June. I learned a lot about altering quilting patterns with my pro stitcher software and Art n Stitch program. Here I am putting my new knowledge to work on this quilt.

"Drum Roll, Please"!

When I hung it up to take these photos I just said "Wow".

Here's the back. This was a fabric that my neighbor gave me.
 I didn't purchase anything for this quilt except for batting. 

You can see the border design here and the corner of the block.





The custom quilting created a secondary design where the block corners came together. It shows up great on the back.






6 comments:

  1. Wow! I love this. You are so clever. It is just beautiful from the construction to the fabric selection (wonderful border) to the quilting. Just fabulous!

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    1. Thank you Robin, I'm rather proud of this one. My original plan was to make a converging corners quilt with every color. So I just made one block with red,white,blue as a test block. The rest is history and I still need to make the converging corners one day.

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  2. Love the fan blade idea. Very clever, and the quilting is excellent.

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    1. Thanks Sue. I'm exploring more custom quilting ideas moving forward.

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