Bosna #4. Hand dyed and commercial cottons, machine pieced and machine quilted. 66.5"x 64". This turned into a rather long and involved quilting project. After quilting the first orange square and its borders, I was faced with deciding what to do with the rest of the piece. Hmmm.
The second block was the purples and since it was more rectangular in shape, I decided on two circles. Using the smaller dinner plate as my circles, I dinked around with more feathers. I photographed it hanging slightly off my table to catch the shading. Dark colors are hard to shoot.
Next was the green square, and I was feeling adventurous. I used a soap sliver to denote the squiggles and quilted next to them, leaving the squiggles empty, but they kept looking messy, so eventually I returned and quilted them too, in a lighter green. This photo is tweaked in Picasa to show the texture.
The last square is a hand dyed blotchy teal, and was quilted in offset rings of plumes.
Bosna #4 was quilted on my Janome 6500P, so I guess I am convinced that I don't have to have a fancy schmancy quilting machine...O well.
I say your quilting on this project was very successful! I think it's smashing!!!!
ReplyDeleteYour quilting is just gorgeous. How fun it must be to be able to FMQ like that!
ReplyDeleteHaving that table set up really helps the quilting on a domestic.Bosna is a great quilt, and a great name (thought of the river in Bosnia), that has alotta thread quilting it. Do you have a fav thread,top and bottom that you prefer?
ReplyDeleteHow do you get that quilting so smooth?
ReplyDeleteLove it!
Your quilting is so beautiful! I love it!
ReplyDeleteVery nice quilting!
ReplyDeleteVery nice quilting!
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