It is beautiful!

Your tablecloths are just fabulous! It looks like you are having a ball with it and the results are wonderful.

Oh how beautiful.. great job..

Stunning!!!

Love it! It is beautiful. Never considered quilting a tablecloth.

That is lovely. You have given me an idea for a half-finished embroidered and cross-stitched tablecloth I was given and am trying to finish.

:thumbup: how very beautiful!!

What a great way to recycle old linens and a great backdrop for your gorgeous quilting!!!!!!

Fantastic quilting! Such a lovely way to show off older linens~

OMG, that is gorgeous!!! What a great job.

Incredible! Fantastic quilting!!!!!!

You have a genius for making these things upcycled.

Awesome quilting! I have enjoyed viewing your quilts and quilting. Very inspirational....now all I need is talent;)

What an awesome idea...thanks for sharing

What a beauty!

What a great addiction to have. You do beautiful work.

WOW...too gorgeous for words.

Just beautiful!! What an inspiration to me!! Please share w/us how you approach a piece. How do you get started? What do you look for in linens? How do you mark, if you do?

I recently purchased new linen napkins and a tablecloth (with tags) at the local Goodwill with the hope of doing something similar (but not at accurately nor interesting) as yours and would appreciate your thoughts on getting some of us started. Thanks for sharing and helping me/us.

Stunning is the word!!!

Beautiful quilt.

Your quilting is amazing.

Just stunning :)

You are so creative! What a great idea and your quilting is awesome.

I know.......I wanted to see more, too. At the bottom of her post are 2 website addresses: http://helenernst.blogspot.com/
http://www.helenernstlongarmquilting.com/

Click on those. Gorgeous!

Absolutely gorgeous!

A Note to so... many!
First Thank You for all your sweet comments.
I thought it might be better to write to everyone to answer some questions:

**This is only my second Vintage piece and am working on the third now---so I am no expert but think knowing some freemotion quilting helps.
**This is can be done on a domestic however I do have a longarm--which is easier for me to use since I am use to it. But know several do on their domestic.
**I used water soluble markers, stencils and rulers to create the designs on this and the other one. If you have not seen it--it is posted on my blog page towards the bottom (just scroll down- Called "Second Chances"). Also it was posted on QB a few weeks back.
** The Godmother of Vintage Quilting is Cindy Needham- If you google her you will find allot! I hope to take a class from her someday.
** I really do not have a technique when purchasing Vintage or using what I own---I just pick pieces that I like.
** I think Kelly Cline has a video (pay) on QNNTV.com about this too. However I have not seen it yet.

I will look back here often today to see if there are more questions. Plus you can always PM me too.

Till We Quilt Again,
Helen

wow just wonderful

Beautifully done...bravo!

Oh my goodness...so pretty!!! You do great work!

This is just stunning!

Lovely. You've made something truly beautiful out of a linen that most of us would have walked right by without noticing. Thanks for the inspiration.

So beautiful. Thanks for sharing

Please don't stop! It is a wonderful treat for us to see your beautiful work.

Awesome, is what it is!

That is absolutely stunning! What a creation! You are very talented.

That is beautiful!

What a great idea for vintage linens! Your quilting is gorgeous!

Helen, WOW. Never saw anything like this before, very interesting and so beautiful. Job!!!!

I'm absolutely speechless!!

Absolutely stunning!