Originally Posted by SewExtreme
Originally Posted by StitchinJoy
Hi.
I'm a longarm quilter. I bought an A-1 Elite and spent a few months quilting constantly, then opened my professional longarm quilting business in 2005, and I've been happily busy ever since.... I like the technique and the look of both kinds of quilting.
Love your avatar. What pattern is it? Do you have it posted on the board anywhere? Would love to see the whole quilt. :-D
Thank you for your kind words, SewExtreme! My avatar description is on the board someplace but I don't know where.
It's a simple pattern of pinwheels and 16patch blocks designed by Bonnie Hunter and available for free on her website www.quiltville.com. I think she calls it Patches and Pinwheels.
I had a lot of fun sewing it. I decided that I'm always making fun quilts for kids, with lots of novelty prints and their favorite things, and I was going to make one like that just for ME.
So I made it as a study in contrasts. I chose loads of fabrics in darks, mediums and lights. I put the darkest and lightest fabrics in the pinwheels and used lots of dotty fabrics. I put the light mediums and dark mediums in the 16-patch blocks.
There are Kaffe Fassett modern fabrics, novelty fabrics from Harry Potter and ScoobyDoo to Abe Lincoln, flowers and food, reproduction fabrics, and plaids and stripes and dots.
It's finished with 3 borders: a plain raspberry marble, then a pieced border of 4patches, then a black border with confetti in a gazillion colors. I quilted it with a pattern called Spin using a bright variegated King Tut thread by Superior.
It works for me. It's a fun quilt.