Today was my Guild's quilt challenge reveal at the Hartsville Museum.
There were lots of great quilts submitted and I will post more of those tomorrow.
There were lots of great quilts submitted and I will post more of those tomorrow.
For now I will show you the quilt I submitted.
The theme was "Quilting in the Carolina's".
I had a hard time coming up with something to fit the theme.
I finally decided to use my Lithia Park quilt since I worked on it in both NC and SC.
I worked on English paper piecing the flowers and appliqueing them down as I traveled, visiting relatives in NC and SC. I figured that would fit the theme literally.
I impressed myself with my cute little applique circles.
That was the first time I hand appliqued circles.
I quilted the border with some inspiration from Sew Kind of Wonderful.
I moved out front to the sunshine to try and pick up some more of the quilting details.
Now I need to start thinking about next years show. The theme for that one is
"America the beautiful: My home sweet home."
I have no clue what to do for that one but I want to come up with something wowing for next year so I better get crackin.
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WOW!!! That is just GORGEOUS!!! Stunning!! I'm so impressed with your talent! Are the stars appliquéd?
ReplyDeleteHey Lynn, thanks so much!! I am not sure if you check back at comments, but since your reply came with the return email address as "noreply-comment@blogger.com" I wasn't able to email you back. So I thought I would respond here in hopes that you see it.
ReplyDeleteYes all the star flowers are hand appliqued. Not only did I work on them while traveling, I also worked on them Monday evenings till they were all finished. It was a fun project that kept my hands busy while I watched my Monday night shows. It took me about about a year to sew them together and then applique them down. It might have gone quicker if I had watched more TV. ;)
That is gorgeous!!
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