Here is my challenge piece, still need to do the background filler quilting. I have plenty of ideas on what I want to do, the challenge will be picking just one!!! The fabric on the outer border is my quilt to the edge extensions, I baste it on the quilt to help make quilting to the very edge easier!!!!
So our teacher for this month was Paula Reid and she had us use a beautiful stencil on our quilts. I used two stencils, the center design is the one she had us use and the butterflies are from a stencil that I already had. I like stencils, they are very versatile. You can use the whole thing or just a part of it. In the photo below you can see what this quilt looked like with the blue marking ink. I ended up not using the flowers that were next to each butterfly and I decided to put feathers in the wings instead of the design that came with the stencil.
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| I drew out the design first on paper to make sure I liked it!! |
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| Deciding on how large I wanted the quilt |
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| Stitching with my Juki-I used YLI 100wt silk thread-my favorite machine quilting thread!!! |
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| The back of the quilt!! |
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| My stencils!! |
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| I bought the stencil because I really like using them in my quilts!! |
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| Yes, I have more than a few!!! |
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Thank you so SewCalGal for hosting this fun year long challenge, thank-you to The Stencil Company, they gave us 20% off on their stencils, so I did purchase more than just one!!! You can find them here,
http://quiltingstencils.com/
Thank-you to our teacher, Paula Reid, for giving us a fabulous lesson and to all the members of this challenge. I am having so much fun reading everyone's posts and seeing their beautiful work. This is so very special!!!
Happy Quilting everyone, take care, and keep those needles sharp!!! Martha
Look at you!! I love how you turned the design on point and added the butterflies! Your workmanship is spectacular.
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