A Few Finishes From Fall

Below are more photos of some quilts finished over the past few months.

This diamond quilt is from a pattern in Quilting from every Angle by Nancy Purvis.



I changed up the colors and quilted it with loose, informal feathers and swirls. Quilting on solid-color fabrics shows up better than on prints, particularly if the thread color contrasts.



This squared-off dresden plates quilt was based on a Missouri Star Quilt Company online video tutorial. I used three different colors for the setting squares. The dresden plate blocks have a lot of graphic punch and the solid squares let your eyes rest. I like the way this one turned out.



I finally finished the tumbling blocks quilt top I found on eBay in 2015. This queen-sized quilt took about 14 hours to machine quilt.



This was my first try at machine quilting feathers (I've been machine quilting for more than a decade, just hadn't tried feathers before).



This improvisationally-pieced modern quilt was started and finished this year. I quilted it with straight diagonal lines done with a walking foot on a 1-inch spacing. Some of the half-square triangles are leftovers from the diamond quilt shown at the top of this post. The floral print in the border needed to be used in large pieces to let the design show.

Holiday Quilting

I finished three quilts before Thanksgiving. The first was a bargello pattern. This one went together very fast; I added a pieced border for more interest. These were fabrics that my niece selected from my bin of 2-1/2 inch strips when we went up to Tennessee for a visit last August.



I call this one 'Videogames' because it reminds me of the Pac-Man screen. This herringbone pattern came from the book Modern Quilt Magic by Victoria Findlay Wolfe. It looks a little like a log cabin pattern, but the construction was different. It went together like a puzzle with partial seams, building down and back up to the side in columns.



This is the second time I've made this pattern from Making Quilts by Kathy Doughty (I gave away the other quilt). I like the energy and balance of the pattern.



I decided not to start any more new quilts this year, so I've been focusing on working on a few unfinished projects. This string diamond quilt was started a few years back. It was inspired by patterns in Kaffe Fassett's Simple shapes, Spectacular Quilts.



I finished the quilt top, but wasn't satisfied with it, so rather than quilting it, I put it away. I wanted the large diamond shapes to be more defined, but I didn't want to rip the quilt top apart to add borders to them. I finally decided to applique thin purple strips on top to define the diamonds without deconstructing the quilt. I pieced a backing for this quilt, but it won't get basted until next year. There isn't enough floor space in the living room for basting with the Christmas tree up, and I really haven't even begun to consider how I want to quilt it.