Friday, May 11, 2012

Quilting Vintage Snowball Quilt

How I love feedsack.
When I first started longarm quilting I went a little nuts and bought a bunch of quilts off Ebay to "practice" on.... Of course some of the ones I got were way to precious to just "practice" on so they got hoarded away in my studio for years. Recently I have started quilting one of the most beloved of these:
 The snowball quilt, all hand pieced with Vintage fabrics and Feedsack. sigh.


I started by figuring out my design using dry erase markers on a sheet of plexiglass:
If you try this PLEASE mask the edges of your plexiglass. ask how I know?


I don't transfer this design onto the quilt top. It is just a tool I use to work through ideas, figure out scale density and design.

Then to the quilting!
 I used my IQ for the circle quilting, the rest is done freehand. I decided to quilt non stitch regulated for a more organic stitch quality. Of course no one is going to think it is hand quilted but I prefer the look to the uniformity of stitch regulation for this one.

Batting is Dream Orient, bamboo/silk blend ...another sigh.
Thread Superior So Fine


It isn't done yet, but hopefully I can make some progress this weekend!


I may be getting a wee bit ahead of myself but I received these gorgeous feedsack scraps from Marilyn, the lovely spidedcoffee on Flickr!


It would likely be a tedious task piecing these together for the binding, with the longest scrap being about 7 inches....would it be worth it?

Happy Mothers Day, enjoy a beautiful weekend!

20 comments:

  1. Wow just one word, STUNNING!!! Thank you for sharing your quilting ideas. Such an inspiration!

    Cheers
    Linda

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  2. I'll 2nd that "STUNNING"! Wow, Krista, you sure do a marvelous job on those quilts! Your artistry is amazing!

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  3. Huzzah! That is one beautiful quilt.

    Love Dream Orient. It is great to sleep under.

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  4. I love love love your quilting! It's breathtaking! I hope that someday I'll sew a quilt and send it to you for quilting:)

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  5. It's really amazing. I love that you held on to that top for so long and are finally working on it again! I didn't realize that those scraps were so small. But I still think that peicing them to make the binding would be pretty fabulous if you're up for the work!

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  6. Ahhh, so beautiful! And I would definitely go the extra mile and do a scrappy binding - perfect!

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  7. i love your quilting Krista. this is so amazing!
    i have yardage of a number of vintage fabrics if you want to space out your small pieces a bit? let me know!!

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  8. Oh my! I looooove that quilt, and the quilting is gorgeous! Love, love, love it!

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  9. Oh my word! That is so beautiful K!

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  10. Love this, love your quilting design, it just adds so much to a wonderful quilt. Have fun with this one.

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  11. Love the quilting so much. I am a budding domestic quilter. Think I might try the plexiglass as a tool myself. Thanks for sharing. This is an amazing quilt in so many ways.

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  12. I agree with K3 - if you're up to it, piecing those scraps into a binding would be a perfect finish to this masterpiece.

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  13. YES, piece the binding. That quilt has waited this long for quilting, it can wait a little longer for the perfect binding. I love how the quilting looks! Do you roll the quilt back to quilt inside the circles later? I see some are done, but not others? It's so great that you rescued these quilt tops and are making them even more beautiful with your stitches.

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  14. I love your quilting!! The old quilt with the modern quilting is fantastic...cant wait to see it finished.

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  15. I love seeing how you work. Thanks for sharing the process with us. I would go for the scrappy binding. What's a little more time?

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  16. It's stunning! And I say piece the binding...if you can face it!!

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  17. Gorgeous! I say go for the pieced binding! Can't wait to see the quilt finished.

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  18. Oh, my this icing is the best part of the cake! I just found your blog and I am a new long armer, just int he stippling phase. OH my goodness are you ever a source of inspiration.

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