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.

Purple and Gold Wall hanging

This customer wall hanging before being shipped to the owner for binding.  The gold fabric and batik were very tightly woven and it was challenging to echo quilt. 

The batting was wool.  I've worked on two or three projects with wool batting this year.  It is soft and easy to needle.  The only drawback has been the batting beards through the fabric.

The project may be shown at a NH quilt show this autumn.

A mini

This is a portion of a series of hand pieced minis done by a wonderful long term customer. Her hand piecing amazes me. The circles are approximately 3 inches each. The green tape was used as a guide for the hand quilting. Echo quilting done every 1/4 inch.

Spring Flowers

This is a portion of a customer quilt. Echo quilting is 1/4" apart.

Hibiscus complete

This is the top one-third of the Hibiscus wall hanging. It was finished recently and sent to its designer. I was told the piece is hanging in an eye doctor's office in Southern Maine.

The free hand echo quilting shows well on the blue background and black border. The lines of stitches are 1/4 inch apart.

Thread Play

Quilting can be more then anchoring three layers of fabric together.
This hibiscus is a piece of another stunning wall hanging by LD. The quilting lines outline each flower (and in time each leaf) in hopes of making each flower pop. Then each petal is outlined. The flow and direction of the petals are emphasized with fuchsia thread free hand quilting.

Windswept I

This is one of my all time favorite projects. This is another design by LD.
Silk panel 15" wide. Soft gray narrow cotton border. All gray, pink and yellow outlined in matching threads. Indigo flowers outlined with metallic/navy thread. The remainder is 1/4" echo quilting in navy. Border quilted with gray 1/4" concentric rectangles.
I found that silk thread on silk fabric is slippery work.
Windswept I is the largest of the series.