A quilt for her

* I am linking this quilt to the Fall Quilt Festival 2014, hosted by the fabulous Amy Ellis. I am linking this to the Home Machine Quilted Quilts. Go check it out! Don’t forget to vote for your favorite quilt, for the winner gets lots of neat stuff! hint hint hint  Be sure to check out all the other categories too. There are so gorgeous quilts out there!! *

(I have posted on this before, but I finally took the time to take better pictures.)

Last Spring, I made a quilt for my youngest daughter. I followed along with the Happy Quilting’s quilt-along “Starburst”. It was my first QAL and it was so much fun!

I used fabric from the line “Apple of my Eye” from The Quilted Fish, along with some added ones form my stash. I opted to quilt each square separately before putting the top together (know as quilt-as-you-go). I had just received Angela Walter’s first book “Free Motion Quilting with Angela Walters” and I wanted to play with different motifs in her book. So in each different fabric, along with the different “layers” of white, I quilted several designs. I managed to never repeat a design. It was quite fun! The small triangles around each square are the left overs from cutting the flying geese blocks. I quilted them with a swirl,, leaving them with a raw edge.

It’s a bit hard to see, but I quilted a flower in the star. In the white around the star, I echoed the triangle shape and in the yellow triangle I quilted a swirl in the middle, with wavy lines radiating from it.

In the daisy diamonds, I quilted  the design what looks like pea pods and in the surrounding white I quilted loopy swirls.

In the center star, I quilted a paisley motif. In the white surrounding the star I quilted wavyy intersecting lines to give it a crinkle look and in the green triangles I quilted a feathery fern design.

In the yellow diamonds I quilted pulleys and in the surrounding white I quilted H20 molecules (this design is from Leah Day’s The Free Motion Quilting Project).

In this center star I quilted the pebbling design (small circles quilted very close to each other). In the white surrounding the star I quilted strait lines, intersecting one another but not real close,(I was trying to mimic shattered glass) and the red triangles I quilted a type of flower (starting in the lower corner, curving out and up to the top point, curving in and down to the center bottom, then repeating the same steps to give a symmetrical look.).

In the pink diamonds, I quilted wavy lines from one long side to the other and in the surrounding white, I quilted a simple stipple.

The center star here was quilted in a square flower pattern. In the white surrounding the star, I quilted stars in various sizes and the daisy triangles I quilted a wishbone design. In the teal diamonds, I quilted a clam shell design.

I love writing words in my quilting! So for this Starburst block, I quilted the words “I love you” in the large white sections surrounding the triangles and diamonds. I thought just quilting “I love you” over and over would be boring. So I looked up how to spell “I love you” in 20 different languages and I quilted them in. I knew I would never remember what word went with what language, so I quilted the language name after the word.

Below are close ups of the words.

(Spanish, Basque and Chinese)

( Czech, French and Mandarin)

(Italian, Thai and Swedish)

(English and Danish)

My daughter loves purple! So when I found this purple sheet at Goodwill, I knew it was perfect for her. I thought the lace at the top of the sheet was darling, so I left it on.

I bound it in a simple solid yellow. I don’t enjoy hand quilting anything, so I always machine bind my quilts, using Stitched in Color’s wonderful tutorial. That’s how I always do it!

This photo was taken on the night I gave it to her. She has slept with it ever since, even through the hot Summer!

Thanks, Melissa, for hosting such a fun QAL! I truly enjoyed myself!