Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Another quilt on the frame

Juniper Hollow was a free online pattern from McCall's Quilt Magazine or Quick Quilts. It needed a border.

I had an odd scrap of some dark green that I framed the quilt with and then I auditioned various beige fabrics that I had.

This backing fabric just jumped off the shelf so I had to wash it and iron it before using it. There's still enough left for a smaller quilt or to use as a border for another quilt.

It's on the frame now and I just started quilting it. The star blocks just needed some extra quilting put in them.

A close-up of the quilting I plan on using for the sides.

This is what I used for the end of the quilt. I don't always use different quilt designs for borders but in this case I did. Sometimes the hardest thing for me in quilting is deciding on how to quilt it. With this one, I just wanted to have fun.


Since it's that time of the week again, I am linking up with the Needle and Thread Network and with Esther's blog. Go have a look at what other people are doing. You may get inspired.

15 comments:

  1. Your hand quilting looks always so beautiful!

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  2. That backing is perfect for that quilt. I love your hand quilting:)

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  3. Dolores...You are a quilting machine! This one is beautiful.. I LOVE LOVE LOVE It..The backing certainly is perfect...You go girl:)

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  4. Beautiful hand quilting, I love the block of the stars appliqued and then the stars that are handstitched as well.

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  5. Love your quilting. Beautiful! It will be a gorgeous quilt. Great backing.

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  6. Very nice work! The backing is an excellent choice, and the border quilting ads that extra little touch.

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  7. That back was perfect for your quilt. So nice to have it hand quilted.

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  8. Beautiful quilt Dolores and I just love how that backing fabric "jumped" off of the shelf :)

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  9. Lovely quilting, Dolores! Beautiful!

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  10. A really nice christmas quilt! The quilting you do is excellent! I am going to hunt up that pattern and perhaps make an attempt at a few blocks of it.

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  11. What a pretty quilt! I love the backing fabric! :0)

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  12. love the flowers in this one Dolores....

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  13. lovely! your quilting is beautiful. Deciding what to quilt where is what I struggle with, too. hand or machine, we all go through a similar process.

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  14. I love your quilt and your hand quilting.

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