Thread: Stunning Quilts

This is shaping up to be an amazingly wonderful thread....hope it keeps on going and going! Thanks for starting it Tanya! I was soooooooo impressed by each and every quilt shown here. Such amazing talent! My bucket list just quadrupled in size.

I don't usually like "flower basket" quilts, but yours with the 3-D applique flowers is wonderful.

Originally Posted by Grandma Mary

I posted this in December. It's a paper pieced, Judy Neimeyer pattern called WINTER WONDERLAND. It's my pride and joy right now. Each snowflake alone has 144 pieces (Yes...I counted them!).

I love snowflaky designs so this one is special. It's 8 point instead of 6 so I know it's a star, not a snowflake, but the effect is there. Love the blue batik background, too.

Originally Posted by Fab-ra-holic

I would have to say both of these would be a couple of my biggest accomplishments. The baby quilt because it was my first time doing dresdens and diamonds. I didn't have a pattern just figured as I went and the center was cross-stitched. The cat quilt because it was all paper-pieced and again, no pattern just put it all together as I went.

Love the kitties. The baby quilt is cute, too, but the kitties are darling.

This is the most involved quilt I have ever made. I designed all the fruit and veggies myself.
This quilt is machine pieced, needle turned applique, hand embroidered, and hand quilted. It took me about 6 months and it is only a lap size quilt. I gave it to my DMIL for Christmas. She is a dear sweet lady and is not in the best of health right now.

I don't know if others would call these stunning, however, these are the most time consumming quilts I have made. The first one was for my daughter, Celeste



The 2nd was for my GD Chrystal


The picture was taken before the binding was done.

The first one was an applique and took about 50 hours.

The second one has approximately 3,000 pieces as each square is about 4" x 4" and there are almost 600 squares. The most difficult part of the second quilt was the placement of the squares. This one took about 75 hours and was completed about 1 month before my accident that took me out of quilting for about 6 months. Both were labors of love.

I can see I'll have to add another subscription to my list. This is one thread I want to follow. Yes, the word is stunning! Each and every one of them!