Geishas, fans, and gingko leaves
 

I found a pattern on Fons and Porter’s web site for a lovely Asian style quilt. I have never been one to follow a pattern exactly but soon after I started this one, I wished I had followed it a little more closely. I ran into problems early on and did a lot of ‘unsewing’. This quilt took much longer to complete than it should have and I’m VERY glad it’s done. I decided that if I am going to ever get good at FMQ on my domestic sewing machine, I’m just going to have to put the pedal to the metal and go to it. Ignore some of the less than perfect stitching and just overwhelm the entire quilt with so many stitches, you won’t notice the ones that went wrong. My little sewing machine performed amazingly throughout all the quilting I did on this one. I just finished giving it a good cleaning and oiling so it’s ready to go back to work tomorrow.

I especially love the leaves. and it's really reversible too. wonderful quilt!!!

Beautiful!!!!! I love asian fabric.

Looks fantastic! Glad you showed a close up of the gingko - from the whole quilt photo I thought they were thread painted. They look fantastic!! The whole quilt looks great. Well done.

Beautiful!!

beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. You do such an amazing job, with both the piecing and the quilting. And I don't know where you get the ideas you use for the piecing and quilting. I keep telling my bernina what a nice job you do with quilting, trying to impress upon it what to do, but it doesn't seem to get the idea. Maybe operator error. Great Job Dilyn.

The quilt is beautiful! The quilting is awesome!! Great job all around!

I love it! The thread painting is very cool.

I like your quilting

What a beautiful quilt and your quilting and special techniques are also gorgeous. Great work!!

Wow this is absolutely stunning!!

I'm always fond on everything asia.........so I LOVE your quilt.
It was a lot of work but worth every second of the time you put in it!!!!!!!!

Wow! That's well worth all of the work you put into it. I'm crazy about those ginko leaves.

Wow as wonderful in the back as on the front. Love your quilting

That is stunning!! I love it.

very cool love it

Gorgeous quilting!!! You deserve a ribbon for this beauty!

fantastic quilt. Love everything about it. Like all your notes too.

IT's just beautiful!!! I love your thread painting. The back of the quilt is beautiful also. Great job on it.

Great job! I have an oriental quilt waiting for me to make also.

I am in love with your quilt. My next one is going to be oriential. You did an awesome job!

Wonderful, it is so pretty

Just gorgeous, great job and thank you for sharing.
Have a Blessed day
Ellen

Beautiful!!

You did a beautiful job for fmq! Did you premark your quilt top beforehand, or just eyeball it?

very very pretty. joyce j

I think that you have succeeded admirably in FMQ, no more practice needed. From now on, just let 'er rip!

What a great job you did on this, I love it!!!

I have been just eyeballing it lately, and since this quilt had already used up way more time than I had alloted for it (I am planning to try to sell it at a craft fair). I am trying to improve my 'eye' for how to get a quilt quilted to the best effect without spending a lot of time stressing over it.

Outstanding!! I love everything about this, fabric, quilting and thread painting. This is one to be truly proud of.

Lovely quilt!

Wow, your quilt is just beautiful !!!! Thanks for sharing.

Love, love, love the Asian quilt...one of my favorite fabrics/style!! It looks pretty darn good for all the problems you said you had!!

A work of art -- I don't like Asian quilts usually, but yours is very striking!

I love Asian fabric, too! I was just looking at the newest Fons & Porter magazine today & I think there's another Asian-inspired quilt in there. This one? Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous! Your quilting is spectacular! Great job!

What a gorgeous quilt! And the quilting looks fantastic! :)

It's a beauty!! So is the quilting.

absolutely beautiful and love your thread painting.