Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Flower Quilting

So I am continually trying to stretch my quilting skills, especially with a long arm option that soon will be available.  I finished up a new baby girl quilt yesterday (tutorial coming soon :)  and wanted to quilt it with something new.  I opted for the Flower quilting pattern taught in Angela Walter's craftsy class and book.      Here's how it came out.  (And sorry, the threads really blend so it is a bit hard to see the design, but at least no one will see my mistakes :)


Now, this is a dense quilting pattern, which Anglea warned about on her video.  To quilt this baby quilt on my home machine, I used 12 bobbins of thread and 6 hours of quilting.  I don't think I quite knew what I was getting myself into.  It really does create a beautiful texture though, I started thinking of it as a type of girly pebbling.


In the end, I am back and forth on this design.  I haven't decided if I like the way the flowers all blend together so that you can't tell where one starts and one ends.  Sometimes I look and think cool because I just see all of that beautiful texture and other times I think man, you can hardly see all of those beautiful flowers I created.   I am sure I will do it again, because it is girly and creates amazing texture, which I love, but I think it will always stay a smaller quilt design :)
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13 comments:

  1. I can see smaller ones that looks like roses and areas that look like larger designs, came out really nicely.

    Debbie

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  2. My fav is still the loops and flowers from your tutorial. Love it

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  3. It is nice to see the effects of such a dense design. I can see the flowers AND the pebbles, as you say.

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  4. This is one of my fave designs to quilt! I did it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrea_r/7136060563/in/photostream/

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  5. wow this really turned out pretty. I love the FMQ flowers you did. It truly does give it an extra dimension.

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  6. It looks great, but boy! does it look like alot of work!! I know that I wouldn't even try it!! :-) Hugs!

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  7. I love that designs! I used it on one of my quilts and I agree, the texture it creates is amazing.

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  8. The photos do show the flowers, and they look great!

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  9. It turned out beautiful! Nicely done. I've been thinking about signing up for her classes on craftsy. Now I really think I must.

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  10. Your quilt looks very nice, you did a great job!! Did you enjoy taking the class?

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  11. It does look fab, but that's a long time at the machine!

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Thank you so much for your sweet comments. I just love hearing from you!!
Have a Happy Quilting Day :)

Melissa