Bloggers Quilt Festival Home Machine Quilting Category

                              This is my entry in the Home Machine Quilting Category
I'm linking up with Amy Ellis at Amy'sCreativeSide.com
http://www.amyscreativeside.com/2016/09/19/bloggers-quilt-festival-fall-2016-edition/

This is a vintage bureau scarf, hand embroidered linen, circa 1950's
I marked and quilted the Sue Nickels trapunto heart wreaths in the center,
used Cindy Needham background stencils for the orange peel and fans,
and FMQ unmarked Sue Heinz inspired hearts in the corners
and along sides, and FMQ for the dense quilting and feather borders.

Some details of the quilting.

Bloggers Quilt Festival 2016

This is my entry for the Applique Category.

I'm linking this post to the Bloggers Quilt Festival

 hosted by Amy Ellis at Amy'sCreativeSide.com

                                                        Blogger's Quilt Festival 2016 




Rabbits Prefer Chocolate a Bunny Hill Design
made scrappy from my stash,
machine applique and FMQ on my DM.





Some details.

Linky Party #3 for the Ultimate Quilting Challenge 2016

September Finish.
My daughter Kelley gave me this beautiful vintage linen this past Christmas.
I wanted to use FMQ to enhance the awesome embroidery.

I used a Sue Nickels heart design for the trapunto in the center.
The Cindy Needham Ultimate Background stencils were used
to make the orange peel and clamshells.
I used the background stencils to mark one spine on the outer sash feathers.
I stitched that spine and then free motion quilted
the echoing spine and the feathers.
The free motion quilted micro stippling, clustered pansies,
swirls and feathers achieved some nice background quilting.

I used the Ultimate stencils to make registration lines 
for the Sue Heinz inspired hearts and half hearts.
 

Thanks so much to Darlene at QuiltShopGal.
Her blog has been so inspirational to me as I learn how to FMQ.
I'll be linking this post to the Linky Party #3 on her blog
http://quiltshopgal.com/the-ultimate-quilting-challenge-2016/
 

August finish.

My August finish is Leah Day's Hearts and Feathers Wholecloth.
 It was fun to learn Leah's trapunto technique in the hearts and feathers and
 her hairball and micro stippling everywhere else.

I like the echo quilting inside the hearts.