Thursday, August 27, 2020
X & +
There's no question that Brigitte Heitland from Zen Chic is my favorite fabric designer. I have loved most of her collections, to the point of collecting them obsessively, but I was a little disappointed when Day in Paris first came out. But when I actually saw it in person, it began to grow on me, and when I saw X & + made with Day in Paris, I fell madly in love with it.
I really enjoyed working on this quilt because of the gorgeous fabrics, and I knew the quilting just had two jobs: play up the huge borders and show off the fabrics on the blocks.
This quilt was rather easy to design quilting for as I didn't have a story in mind (unlike Rainbow Road), so I just wanted to play up the design of the quilt. I created some channels in the borders that extend the block design, and filled them with a combination of swirls and more linear designs.
I quilted each block with a few different designs, including serpentine lines, ribbon candies, straight line echoes, and dot-to-dot designs.
This quilt is pretty big at 83" x 83", and I had such a great time working on it. The colors are perfect and I'm really happy with how the quilting turned out. I hadn't quilted a swirl or ribbon candy in several months, and I missed it!
Labels:
finished,
free-motion,
quilting,
zen chic
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Wow! Love your quilting. What a fun look!
ReplyDeleteOh, do I heart this quilt, Liz!!! The quilting, the block, the fabrics!!! Welcome back to the land of ribbon candy and swirls!
ReplyDeleteI really like that you did the same quilting in each block. Sometimes that consistency really calls me. It allows the different fabrics to strut their stuff a bit, while also showing off the lovely way the quilting motifs interact. Curvy ribbons against the straight lines...so great!
ReplyDeleteI would think that having a quilt as a blank canvas to play with quilting would be a fun thing, just playing around and stitching whatever felt right. This is so pretty!
ReplyDeleteYour quilting is incredible!! This is a masterpiece. I hope you'll enter it in a quilt show one day, just as soon as those start up again.
ReplyDeleteSo wonderful!!!!!!! Please be in IG more, it would be great to follow how these grow.
ReplyDeleteI so love how this looks and marvel at your skills doing this! Congratulations on another stellar finish.
ReplyDeleteWow. Your quilting just puts this over the top!
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