When Sheila brought me this Stephanie Brandenburg quilt, I knew I would need lots of thread! In fact, this is the reason I have a large thread collection! I had great fun with thread play on this quilt and used eleven different So Fine! #50 colors.
I used double batting for this project, Quilter’s Dream Poly black and Hobb’s Heirloom wool. Stephanie Brandenburg paints with color, I painted with thread! Fair warning! Lot’s of pictures! Read the rest of this entry
Hunter Star One is a large quilt by Janann using her favorite blocks and wool batting. The big borders gave me lots of room for freehand stylized feathers with traveling circles.
Isn’t this a great layout?! The first picture shows the color better, if spring returns I’ll be able to take pictures outside! I decided to use a simple freehand medallion design with an outline of the 8 point star.
Wool batting lets the design pop out. For a large quilt, it’s very light in weight, too.
Hunter Star Two is the reject blocks that didn’t make it into One! Janann set the blocks in a secondary square pattern unlike an alternating light dark in One. Scroll back up and look at the difference.
The medallion quilting is similar but looks totally different because of the setting of the blocks. The batting is Quilter’s Dream Poly select which quilts very flat like cotton. Which setting do you prefer? I like Two!
Here’s the detail of Two’s borders.
And here is Hunter Star Three! Quilted pillow tops! Janann has lots of finishing to do here!
Thanks! 🙂 Linda
Don’t you love the modern colors for this twister quilt? And Connie used the leftover squares to make the small twister border! That’s a nice feature of using the twister tool. Connie wanted minimal quilting that featured the twister pattern, She also selected a darker plain backing fabric so the quilting would show on the back. 
I designed a tessellating pattern running through the large twisters and a smaller version for the borders. The cream background is a small loop meander.
I love the secondary pattern this is created and evident from the back. This will make a fun reversible quilt!
The batting is Quilter’s Dream Wool which is great for accentuating quilting!
The top thread is Superior OMNI, light tan and the bobbin thread is Superior So Fine #50 Teepee. By using darker thread in bobbin the thread color was subtle against the orange fabric. The lighter top thread was perfect for the background and twister fabric without having to change thread colors.
Still have a couple of quilts to post before I finish for the year and then on to 2012!
Thanks for looking!
Linda
Number 401!
I tallied my quilts to date through August and Agnes’ quilt was number 401! That’s pretty exciting! Thank you to everyone who partnered with me to help finish their quilts and projects. I’m looking forward to 400 more! Agnes’ quilt has Hobbs Heirloom wool batting which makes this very large quilt soft, cuddly and surprising light.
Kristin’s quilt is an awesome mix of modern fabrics and when you combine the curves of the Lime Tree pantograph and Quilter’s Dream Wool batting the result is fabulous! The pictures really speak for themselves, thanks, Kristin for letting me post them!
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