Sunshine666 made this beautiful lattice quilt for her daughters bridal shower which is this weekend. Her daughter's wedding flower is Calla Lilly so she got a gorgeous Calla Lilly fabric to use in the backing from another board member. I used the lillies in the fabric as a template to quilt a field of calla lillies in the borders. I had to improvise a light box out of a clear tote and it worked really well!
Then I quilted calla lilly blooms in the small squares on point and got them to poof by Mctavishing all around them. I designed a feathered wing motif I call Cherub wings for the white cross sections between the lattice work. Then to get the lattice work to pop I SID around all the lattice pieces.
Charismah has converted me to Hobbs Polydown batting, I love it!
I have a lot of pics to load so please be patient. As always I look forward to your comments. :-)
Here is the improvised light box
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The top before quilting, color is truest in this picture
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The quilted top
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close up of calla lilly
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Cherub wings
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Fields of calla lillies border
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The border from the back!
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A closeup of a calla from the back
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Another back shot showing the calla lilly fabric
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