Friday, 5 February 2016

2015 retreat quilt

The quilt I did worked on at the 2015 quilting retreat is called flower bed. I found the pattern in Joan Ford cut the Scraps plus one. Her second book of scraptherapy. It was a fun quilt to do. Easy and quick, what I like for retreat quilts.
I decided to quilt this fmq on the powerquilter using stencils.
One stencil is call
TULIPS BULB
the other one is call
ELEGANCE.
I trace both of them on a stack of dritz paper. Without tread in my powerquilter I fmq over the tracing perforating all of the copies. I then, using double sided tape , positioned them on the quilt. The quilt IA like a positive/negative kind of quilt that have 20 squares. I decided to divide one of the square into a nine patch. Each little square was quilted with tulip bulb stencil. That means 90 copies of that one was needed. But with stacking of the dritz paper it was not a problem.
The rest of the quilt I only used the stencil for the middle of the square and the rest was stippled with fmq. (I certainly getting better with stippling 😉)
Now to square this quilt and binding and I can call it done.😅

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