I was thinking about quilting this quilt with a serpentine stitch. Thank goodness I tested the serpentine stitch on a leftover block, because I saw that it really didn’t work with the skinny lines – it made them look really wobbly. I’ll save that stitch for another quilt.
So, back to my original plan of horizontal straight-line stitching. I was thinking of a medium gray binding, but instead went with my default color – chartreuse. I’m really happy with how it looks – in fact, I think this is my favorite modern quilt I’ve made to date. I didn’t have a sketch or plan – just an idea in my head, and it turned out even better than I had imagined it. I’ll be showing at the VMQG meeting next week, as my entry to the Michael Miller Cotton Couture challenge.
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That is soo pretty and modern. I love the binding color.
Awesome! The new quilt looks great, and I will look forward to seeing it at the next guild meeting!
Love love love it!!!!!
Great colors!!! Great quilt!!!
Perfect quilting! Love it, too.
I love chartreuse and purple together, and the colour gradation is great — it reminds me of books on a bookshelf.
It’s beautiful!!!!
It’s gorgeous, Terry!
Just beautiful Terry!! Love everything about it!
wonderful piece of art!
I know somewhere else u can enter it…..
Jackie – you’re reading my mind. I do plan to enter it in the CQA new Modern Quilt category.
That quilt is really stunning, best of luck with the shows.
Just found a picture of this awesome quilt on Pinterest. I’ve been making something similar but much smaller, with my contemporary journal quilts. I was wondering if you could tell me what colour thread you use for quilting when you are crossing dark and light fabrics? Or is it an invisible?
Hi Heather,
I keep a lot of notes on each of my quilts, and I’m so proud of myself when I go back to check something like this, and find that I actually wrote it down! I used a very light gray thread in the white section, then a light gray, then a medium gray, and in the black section I used a dark gray thread.