This quilt was made by my quilting friend, Dorothy, for her daughter Jocelyn, whose favorite color is purple. I've never met Jocelyn, but I hear that she's a sewist herself, so I'm assuming she'll appreciate this generous gift from her mom. It's beautiful!
I kept the quilting on the larger scale, so it wasn't stiff as a board and heavy as a hippo. I alternated fills in the squares-inside-squares: overlapping swirls and serpentine.
Then in the pieced border, I attempted new swirling scroll motif that I recently learned at a class taught by a quilting-hero of mine, Angela Walters. Sadly, it doesn't show up well on the contrasting colors and prints in the border. Probably for the best, since it was a new technique for me. I do like how it turned out, so I think it's gonna get added to my catalog!
The thing that totally tickled me was the piano key borders. Since there were solid-fabric borders on each side of the middle border, which Dorothy had pieced into piano keys, I didn't have to mark a thing or worry about measurements at all! I just mirrored the piano keys from her piecing. It was so easy and efficient! No marking, no measuring! Yee haw!
My quilting is all free-motion, hand-guided on an APQS quilting machine.
Great quilt and quilting! I admire your ability to maintain even quilting scale and spacing in everything you do, but in the swirls most of all!
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