Last August I took a hand applique class from Cheryl Kerestes at Endless Mountains Quiltworks in Tunkannock, Pa. Her patterns, mainly hand applique, have been featured in many national quilt magazines in the past few years. Her work is impeccable and what I like about her work is that she uses fabrics that I love, like Kaffe Fassett, Martha Negley, Philip Jacobs, etc. She brought along several of her quilts to show us and they are all very large ones. This pattern for this one consisted of 14 blocks, but I stopped at four. She has a hand applique butterfly quilt in the July/August issue of Love of Quilting I believe that is very near the top of my to do list. (Unfortunately I have way too many on that list, but anyway...) The applique is done by hand, needle turn but I machine quilted the background myself. I wish I had more of that background fabric but I could not find the name of it anywhere on the piece that I had and I've been unable to find it anywhere.
Hope you enjoy looking at it. Again the photos are from my older camera. Still have not had time to buy new batteries for the newer one. Sally
Lovely, lovely quilt and a beautiful job of the machine quilting!
ReplyDeleteWonderful quilt! So glad I found your blog too. I wanted to send you an e-mail from the comment that you made tonight on my blog, but your profile is set to no-reply. So in answer to your question, the entire block, even the outside curved pieces are machine sewn. The only applique on the whole block is the very center circle. Tons of fun and pretty quick too!
ReplyDeleteWonderful quilt! I love this style, and you've done it so beautifully. I enjoyed looking through some of your other things, and I really like your color sense. Your quilts are so happy and cheerful.
ReplyDeleteI think you could easily make a fleece cami from a pattern with a higher back, such as Jalie #2568. It's very similar to an OOP KwikSew 2286 I've used (not with fleece, although I may try it) and if the back's not high enough, you could just cut it higher. I think I'll talk about this on my blog, too. Thanks for the comment, and the idea!