I ended up finishing this quilt before Christmas and I love it! I love the colors and the fabrics. I am super in love with the red polka dot flannel backing. It is so nice to snuggle under. It is still on our couch and I don't know that it is going anywhere soon. (Kinda like the ribbon on the columns.)
I was planning on straight line quilting on either side of most of the seams but about 1/2 way across the first row I remembered how much I hate straight line quilting. I feel like any wavy-ness in the line shows up a ton and I was wrestling with the quilt non-stop. I didn't wear my quilting gloves like I normally do and wonder if that was part of the problem. But I didn't think that I would need them with the straight lines. Anyway, I quilted the bottom of each row 1/4 inch-ish from the seam.
I was really frustrated with my inability to do the cool straight line quilting everyone else seems to do so easily and well, but a day later I decided that I actually liked it with less quilting. I think sometimes we can forget how beautiful our quilts are just with the piecing. It is nice to take a quilt "to the next level" with quilting but a quilt can be just as beautiful and enjoyed just as much with simple quilting.
I hope you had great holidays. It has been bitter cold here and all of our quilts have gotten a lot of use. But I can tell it is getting warmer because the cat meows at the door to go outside instead of me having to forcibly throw her out the door twice a day to do her business. :)
And now that the kids are back in school there might also be more time to get down to the business of writing about some of the other things I have been working on!
Very pretty! Love the simplicity of it and the nice flannel backing :)
ReplyDeleteI love how your Christmas quilt turned out. A treasure.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous quilt. And I totally agree with the 'less is more' quilting on some quilts
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilt Leila. It reminds me of the scene from "A Charlie Brown's Christmas". The one where Linus and Charlie Brown are walking thru the Christmas tree lot... Fantastic! I was wondering what to do with some fabric that I had bought, and this is the perfect answer! :)
ReplyDeleteI love your quilt too ! I prefer less quilting and a softer quilt than all the heavy quilting that seems to be the rage right now.
ReplyDeleteI love this!
ReplyDeleteThis is very pretty! And I agree - they don't all have to be quilted to death!
ReplyDeletei feel the same way about my straightline quliting! i'm betting not everyone else's is as straight as we imagine it to be. i don't know whether to practice more or give up on it altogether. it's so frustrating. but you're also right about "less is more" when it comes to quilting sometimes. variety is nice! anyway, your quilt looks awesome as it is here. and it's a good thing you didn't take down the ribbons yet because they look great with the snow and your christmas quilt in this photo. =)
ReplyDeleteMe too re straight line quilting, although I'm getting better at it. I totally agree re the piecing - I think a lot of quilts lose their beauty after too much quilting.
ReplyDeleteLove this. And you have a very posh front porch. Bit like the White House really 😂
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