Always has, always will!
May I present my latest quilt finish? It’s called All You Need Is Love based on the pattern Love Rocks from the new book Text Me from Sew Kind of Wonderful:
The book features several sizes of alphabets made using Sew Kind of Wonderful’s new Wonder Curve ruler. I like to piece the backs of my quilts so I decided to have some fun with the alphabet and carry a message from the front of the quilt to the back:
My little quilt — 38″ x 44″ — sports an edge-to-edge quilting design. I wanted something modern and was attracted to this design that looks a bit like doodling:
“Modern Ties” is a whimsical design that offers a pleasing counterpoint to the precision of the letters. Sherry Wadley did such a nice job on this for me. The quilting enhances the design of the quilt without overpowering it, just the effect I was going for.
A lot of quilters I know don’t enjoy binding their quilts but I do. Stitching down the binding on this quilt was a breeze both because the quilt is small and because I used a nifty little “sticky thimble” to push the needle through the fabric:
The thimble is called a Poke-a-Dot — how cute is that? — and comes in a little round tin containing 24 dots. Each thimble can be used multiple times so I probably have a lifetime supply. I could have ordered just the small tin of Poke-A-Dots but I treated myself to a bigger tin — the full Appliqué Set from Jillily Studio — several weeks ago:
Having learned how to do needleturn appliqué last year in the making of Give Me the Simple Life, I’m interested in learning other approaches. And I do confess that the tin this appliqué set comes in influenced my decision to purchase it. (This is not a paid endorsement, by the way; I just happen to like these products.)
Another confession: I jumped the gun in showing you my latest quilt. It’s not quite finished. Still to come: the label.
Interesting that while the small letters on the reverse have no obviously curved surfaces, they look like junior letters to those in LOVE.
Take another look, Charlie! The small letters on the back DO have curved surfaces. I’ll show you the real thing. 😉
What a fun loving quilt!!
And just love all the polkadots, including the one on your finger. 😉
Oh, this turned out so well. Your work is such a joy to look at! I really like the quilting pattern you chose; it enhances the quilt very nicely.
Thanks, Vickie! If I were doing this again I would ask my quilter to reduce the scale of the motif a bit. I’m not a fan of super dense quilting but, given the amount of negative space in this quilt, I think a smaller scale design would have worked well here. Something to keep in mind for future quilts.