Friday, April 24, 2015

Wall hanging with echo quilting

 Wall hanging in process


One of my favorite customers mailed me this small top to quilt.  She often requests that 'I do my thing' with the quilting design.  Both of us love echo quilting so I include echo quilting lines in most of her projects.

As with all my projects, I start quilting in the center of the piece.  I outlined the women and their dresses in matching colored thread.  The square surrounding them is quilted with matching gold, black and tan thread using the fabric designs to determine the quilting lines.   

The echo quilting was done in the beige crescents. using beige thread and in the rust and black fabrics next to the crescents.

Using thread to match the fabrics gives the illusion of movement in the piece without the distraction of another color in the thread.

This project was sent back to its owner for binding.