very pretty

Beautiful!

Stunning!

Beautiful! Love your fabrics!

Oh my, this is breathtaking and your stitches are so fine. WOW!

This is beautiful. I just received this pattern last week but haven't started on it. Did you machine echo quilt this? I have several finished (applique work), but haven't tried to quilt one yet. Any recommendations?

Very, very, nice!

I love it! I love the colors, the design and the quilting.

:-D :-D :-D Fabulous! That quilting is amazing!

judee

Other than machine stitching one side of the binding on, the entire wallhanging is done by hand, even the echo quilting. That's why it took me so long, LOL. This one I made sure to mark each row so that the echo part was evenly stitched. I didn't do that with my first one and it showed.

Here's a new one that I just started.

wow ---i like the back also--do you tack in place or just pin

The three layers are sandwiched and loosely basted together. I use a lap hoop to quilt it. I start in the middle and work my way out to the edges.

That is beautiful!

Stunning!!! Love the colors. Thanks for sharing.

Oh my goodness! That is stunning!

I am very lucky that hulahoop 1 has agreed to adopt me and help with my Hawaiian quilting.

thank you

I am so anxious to try hawaiian quilting, I have a few questions, if you don't mind. I have done quite a bit of applique, traditional with freezer paper, and I have done some celtic applique. Do you think I would be able to buy a pattern and figure it out on my own without taking a class specifically on hawaiian applique? I have one in mind at Pacific Rim. Also, I bought a batik with the pattern in mind, and then remembered that I had been told that hand quilting on batik is so hard, so should I plan to use the batik for the top(pattern) and find a quilting cotton for the background where most of the quilting will be done? Thank you for any help you can give.

WOW ! Gorgeous

You don't have to take a class, especially with your applique experience. I had never done it before and had an awful time trying to learn out of a book (and I have several!) I got Nancy Chong's DVD which, to me, was worth it's weight in gold. One website that might be helpful and has step-be-step instructions is: http://www.quiltshawaii.com/howtosub.html

Because I am still fairly new at Hawaiian Applique' myself, I use 100% cotton for both layers. The first one I tried (because I didn't know any better) was batiks and I failed miserably. It was too difficult at the time. For me, the batik did not fold easily with needleturn applique' and I got too frustrated and didn't even get as far as the quilting part. That project is folded neatly in a drawer until some other day.

I recommend using 100% cotton for your first project or two until you get the hang of it. I did on my second project and was hooked. Even though I enjoy machine quilting, I seem to always have a "hand" project going at the same time.

That is beautiful both in pattern and quilting.

Wow! That is beautiful and alot of work!