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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Finished Quilts


My little raffle quilt is finished. This will be one of the mini quilts raffled off at our quilt show next spring. All members are encouraged to make one. Size is 16 x 16, mine is fused and machine quilted.



My inspiration came from  another sunflower quilt I made a while back and tweaked it to fit the size. Do you ever do that, use a quilt you made as inspiration for another? I think this is a first for me.
I am happy with my machine quilting, the thread in the petals make them look more real.



The little seeds were made using a paper punch from Martha Stewart. I fused my fabric, let it cool, peeled off the backing (very important!) then punched out the circles from about 4 different colored fabrics. Trust me if you don't peel off the paper first you will be saying some very bad words. I like how they turned out and because this is more of an art quilt, I don't feel the need to make sure there is stitching on top of them.


I very much enjoyed this QAL with Quarter Inch Mark. It was fun and low key and I am happy with it. Perfect it is not but colorful it is!

Kelly



20 comments:

  1. Love the little mini with its scrappy 12 patch blocks! One of the nicest ones I've seen...

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  2. Love your sunflower quilt! Your machine quilting is the frosting on the cake! Good tip about the paper punch.

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  3. the sunflower quilt is so amazing!!! I never thought of using the hole punch, and I have needed some pieces just like your seeds. Anyway I love it. The sew along quilt is fun and colorful and makes me smile! Great job.

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  4. love your new sunflower mini. The whole punched seeds are perfect. Love the way you quilted the petals.
    Your QAL turned out great, great simple quilting.

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  5. This mini quilt is awesome, love the quilting! someone is going to be so lucky to win that sunflower quilt. Just would make me smile everyday.
    QAL looks good, I like the simple quilting I plan on doing more machine quilting this year and simple is the key!
    Kathie

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  6. I love your sunflower quilt! That's a lot of tiny circles there.

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  7. Your colors look so fresh! I love simple quilting on quilts. Love them both.
    Most of the time while I am working on one quilt, my brain goes crazy with ideas based on that WIP. I love how quilting is like a never ending source of creativity.

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  8. Great quilts Kelly, your sunflower would cheer up any room xo

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  9. The sunflower mini-quilt is so bright and cheery. I like your 'fudging.' Wish I could attend you quild's quilt show.

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  10. Your sunflower is so pretty. I agree the stitching adds to the movement of the flower. And your patchwork quilt is so fun and colorful.

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  11. What a wonderful sunflower quilt, it looks like it was fun to maker I especially love the criss cross bits around the center. The QAL project looks great, a nice fresh colourful quilt, I love it.

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  12. The sunflower will go over Great at your show. Hope to see it in person! The added x's was the perfect finishing touch!
    And for your unique lay out of square QAL piece your color choices are spot one! Love It!

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  13. Kelly- your Sunflower mini is really beautiful! I love all the stitching on the petals, as well! And your Pack Patch mini is so cute!!

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  14. The sunflower quilt is very pretty….so bright and happy! Thanks for the hint on the punched circles!

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  15. Kelly I love your colour choices for your sunflower it is amazing, would be happy to have it hanging in my home. Congratulations on a cgreat design.

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  16. Great little block. Your quilting is fabulous!

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  17. The quilting on your sunflower just makes that quilt. The Sunflower set on the blue background really makes it pop. You did a fabulous job and it will be very popular when the bidding starts!

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  18. Great work with your sunflower. Your thread work really hits the mark with creating the right effect.
    I like the end result for the QAL too. the blocks look lovely against the white.

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