It looks like windowpanes, especially pictured just below my windowpanes!
She wanted an overall design, so I did leaves and flowers in a yellow-green Signature thread called "Pear Green." Marge was almost as pleased with the back as the top.
I had a lot of trouble with the tension on this project. Sometimes that just happens, but this one might have been caused by a perfect storm of tone-on-tone backing that was not pre-washed, tightly woven white cotton on the front, a somewhat scratchy batting, and perhaps that color of thread. Places on the back looked like they were "flat-lining." In other words, the bobbin thread was just kind of lying there, not pulled in to the center of the quilt by the top thread.
Lots of picking and re-sewing later, it turned out pretty nice.
Here are some more photos from yesterday's walk. Wouldn't this quilt look great on display by any of these spring landscapes?
I'm working on a quilt now that has a tone-on-tone white as one of the fabrics. I am getting the weirdest stitches in the white parts. I'm counting on the washed Warm and White batting to draw it up enough to "fix" the wonky stitches.
ReplyDeleteI am using the exact same colors for some things for my daughters birthday. I love purple and green together....especially florals with stripes or dots. So Pretty!
ReplyDeletelove that quilt, so springy
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ReplyDeleteCame across a pic of your new Spring quilt (purple/lavender rose border). Fabulous work! I have been looking for something similar to the border fabric you used for quite some time now. Do you have any more of it or know where I might pick up 2-3 yards? Thanks...and keep up the gorgeous work.
A fellow creator (costumes)
T.K. Ammons
(TkashasTreasures@aol.com)