At the local Crossroads Harvest of Quilts show there was a number of my clients quilts on display as well as a few personal quilts. My Aunt G and I work as a team, she does most all the piecing work and I do the quilting. Not that I don't piece quilts I do, I just don't have the time to do everything I want so I fall back on Aunt G to hopefully be willing to help me out!
This year we made a Giant Swoon quilt. No there is no pattern for my variation but it was greatly inspired by Camille Roskelley's Swoon Pattern of which I have made a bed quilt from and it also inspired my Super Mini Swoon a couple of years ago. I simplified the pattern to use only squares and half squares as I thought this would be easier what with the giant sized pieces. I would do a tutorial for you but as I do not want to interfere with anyone's copyright I will leave it up to you to figure it out on your own. Aunt G and I used Kona Cotton Solids for the quilt top, Quilters Dream Wool Batting, and a variety of thread brands. I just pulled whatever color matched off the shelf and went with it! Here is a photo of it hanging at the show:
I quilted swirly feathers in the main body of the quilt and simple straight lines in the background. Use I did mark the spines for the feathers as I wanted them to be as close to mirror images as possible. I sketched out the spines on to paper then used a light box and a quilt marking pen to transfer the markings for the spines to the fabric. Here is a close up photo of the quilting that I took at home.
My Aunt G and I also made a Granny Square quilt using the free pattern on the Moda Bake Shop site. This one was made with all Moda Fabrics (Of Course!) some simple puffy polyester batting and Master Quilter Thread in White for the quilting. The quilt was quick and easy to piece and the quilting relatively simple. Apparently there was something about it however that the judges likes as we won First Place in the Custom Machine Quilting Category at the show.
Last but not least is two Miniature quilts that were made entirely by me, yes I know but I really did do all the piecing on these! After all I can't get my aunt to even try piecing these tiny pieces together!
The Lamoyan Star quilt was made using the Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star ruler and pattern from Deb Tucker's Studio 180 Made using nothing but leftover scraps it went together quickly and the quilting also was simple.
This was another very fast miniature quilt made with, once again, nothing but scraps!
There were a lot of other great quilts at the show this year and you can see most all of them in my Flickr Album for the show at: Crossroads Harvest of Quilts 2014 So grab some popcorn, a comfy chair, set back and enjoy the show!
