Charity Quilting

This great novelty print quilt was pieced by Mary V.

I added border fabric to a panel to make this happy fall quilt. Both are trimmed and ready for binding. they will be going to Annapolis Quilts for Kids in August. 

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My personal goal is to quilt at least one quilt per week throughout the year. To that end, check out the Epoch Converter for 2024 to see how I'm stacking up.

2024 Charity Quilt Count: 88

Big Bold Update for Tuesday

I loaded up the Big Bold on the big long arm frame.  Since have a full-time job, the quilting of this one will take a while to get done. 

 

I doodled and doodled until I found the design I wanted to do.  I separated the quilt into four distinct quilting areas:  the outer border and the middle border, the narrow inner border, the solid stacks of blocks and the prints.  Each of these has its own quilting motif.

I took these pictures before I ran out of light, so I didn't get good pictures of all of these zones.  I'm using Superior Threads Fantastico for the top thread and Omni for the bottom thread.  Both are performing wonderfully, as I expected.

Here you can see the bubbles in the narrow border and the swirls that dominate the solid areas of the blocks.  The prints have a big flower with more swirls thrown in as filler and to act as the leaves.  Since this will be a bed quilt, I'm not going too crazy with the quilting.  I want to keep in soft.  Although, cotton batting (I'm using Warm & Natural) stays pretty soft no matter what you do.

Big Bold Update, the borders...

Today I attached the borders. I didn't get any quilting done, though. I loaded it onto the long arm frame and hope to get some quilting done on it throughout the week.