Monday, August 19, 2013

Design Wall Monday - 8/19/13

Just a little added to the design wall since last time.  I'm starting to play with scrappy hexies.  Not sure if I want to just go with the flow and put them next to each other, or plan a constant color path running through them the traditional way.  Right now, I'll just keep making flowers.

And while I'm talking about flowers, it's a good time to introduce you to "Floral Fantasy".  This is our raffle quilt for the Bits 'n Pieces Quilt Guild.  It was made by a sub-group called The "A-Team", of which I am a part. The A stands for Applique, naturally.  These blocks are all done by the needle-turn technique. We have around 20 in our group when everyone comes to our monthly meetings.

I showed you a few pictures of the quilting from the back on an earlier post and now, as promised, here are a few more from the front.  I'll be showing a picture of the whole quilt later, but because of it's size 97" x 110", that shot doesn't even come close to doing it justice.  It's best seen up close and personal.  






There are many more intricate and difficult ones to come.  This will be raffled off in March, 2014 at our bi-annual quilt show.  More details on that later; stay tuned.

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12 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness! I love the hexies. But that quilt and the quilting is just totally amazing. I love how the four circles are quilted really amazing.

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  2. Wow! Those blocks in the raffle quilt are gorgeous!

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  3. These are beautiful! I confess that applique stresses me out, at least needle turn. The only thing I can manage is machine applique.

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  4. I didn't realize you were getting on the hexi band wagon? This quilt is even more stunning in person! The A-Team gets an A+!!!!

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  5. Hexies are so much fun to play with! Enjoy making them, I'm addicted, haha. I love your flower quilt, you've done a lovely job with the blocks and the quilting.

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  6. I love the fabrics in your hexies but OMGosh! That applique' quilt is awesome. The quilting is fantastic!

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  7. Wow - that is one gorgeous quilt there girlfriend!!! Whoever did the quilting did a marvelous job! And those flowers are so life-like - amazing!!! I love your little hexies :*) I just made my first hexies this week - I joined the Hexie Diva blog hop to force myself to make a few and see what all the fuss is about. I may have to make a few more :*)

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  8. What beautiful applique and quilting! :)

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  9. just stunning. I bet you sell a lot of tickets.

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  10. Boy, sure do wish you could bring that quilt to my guild, to sell raffle tickets. We have a quilt show in March, too. Lovely, lovely quilt.

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  11. Catching up a bit - going to send this post to my friends as well to show of the raffle quilt's blocks. That's how I started doing hexies, too - with scraps from binding and such. Arent' they addicting?

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