I got very interested in researching my family history a few years back, and intended to spend one year researching and writing the book. That one year stretched and stretched...now I am nearly in a position to write the book, finally. In the meantime I started to get fabric withdrawal, so I started a simple quilt just so that I could handle gorgeous fabric. One that I didn't have to think about too much, so that I could sit at the machine and sew while family history puzzles and half-finished poems solved themselves in my head.
At the beginning of the year I treated myself to a brand new Bernina Aurora sewing machine. The one with the built-in stitch length regulator for machine quilting. And I had this quilt basted up ready to sew, so it was the first thing I quilted on the new machine (which I love). Now it is nearly finished, all I have to do is darn in a few more thread ends and label the back. I think this block design came from a book by Judy Hooworth and Margaret Rolfe called "Sensational Scraps"
So here it is in all it's glory, the full quilt - almost - my daughters couldn't hold it up high enough - and a detail showing the quilting. Most people around here seem to stipple a quilt to death when they are machine quilting. But I've noticed that makes it rather stiff, and I wanted this to drape on a bed, so I just quilted leafy vines down the yellow sections and around the borders. It seems to be about the right amount.
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That's a very striking quilt and I like the vine and leave quilting very much. I'm not a fan of stippling as an overall technique (although it's quite useful to flatten a background area) so I'm always pleased when I see someone do something else!
Thanks for visiting again. Yes, I do think stippling can get a bit boring. I have a nice sampler pinned to my design wall of different designs, from a class with Robbi Eklow when she visited New Zealand. And there are people like Caryl Bryer Fallert who do wonderful machine quilting without a stipple in sight.
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