Awesome, love it.

sew beautiful.........love it

It's so lovely. Very talented and patient person you are!

Exquisite as always....love your work.

That is beautiful, I am in awe of your hand work!

You are truly amazing!!! I tell all my quilting friends about you !! Could you show us again how you mark your quilt.........how much do you mark at a time? Thank you for sharing this with all of us.
Leslie

I don't even know what to say! Breathtaking! I can't imagine doing that...

So exquisite, I hope to do something like this before I'm too old.llll :-P

JUST BEAUTIFUL

Absolutely unbelievable. You are a very talented artist.

It's so good to see more of your work again, Andrea. You're truly an inspiration!

no kidding... my fingers are protesting at the thought of it

What else can you say? It's simply exquisite!

WOW this is going to be a breath taking quilt when its done.
I can't wait to see it.
Great job.
GOD bless

Wow if there was a reward for the best HandQuilter you'd
have it !!!!!!!
You are the best I have ever seen. :thumbup: :-D

Yes, in that case I knew it. The English quilt in my book has a beautiful border pattern, a big sea shell! I have already marked the first quarter on my quilt and started quilting yesterday.
Sometimes I finish the center medaillon and I am still thinking about the patterns for the border or I change the original plans. It's not so hard to make the patterns fit. The center can be devided like a cake in 45°, 60°, 90° - pieces and the patterns have to fit there! For the borders I measure the length of my quilt and devide it into equal parts. The remaining rest is a lot of improvisation!

No, the design develops while quilting. The first thing I do after basting is to mark the exact middle of the quilt, than I mark the vertical and the horizontal lines and as well the diagonals through the middle. I baste these lines with a thread, you can still see some of them on the pictures in blue, and they are my guidelines for the center medaillon.

For this quilt I do again the needlemarking method, you can see it here:

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-89527-1.htm

Sometimes I only mark single patterns, but the markings last quite long and I can do about a quarter of the quilt at a time.

Golly ,gosh and goodness gracious me , fantasic work

beautiful work!!!!!!!!!!

gorgeous!

I'm impressed!

Very pretty!! I used to hand quilt all my stuff,but I cant do it any more :(

Oh WOW! Truly amazing! What talent you have!!! Just breathtaking!
Blessings,
MaryAnna

I love seeing your progress and how you work. I am so inspired.

that is soooo beautiful. Can you come to Arizona and teach me???? :D

WOW!!! SOOO Pretty!!! :thumbup:

My jaw's right next to yours .... WOW!

Simply stunning.

My daughter, who is taking German, says to say:

Dass ist sehr schon!

I must just say WHEW! THAT is ALOT of love, time, and WORK, and TALENT. Practice makes perfect -- and my, do you practice!!! Congratulations on such a wonderful achievement!

Andrea, Hello from Andrea from Arizona. We share a love for Wholecloth quilting by hand. Your pattern is outstnading and your quilting is beyond gorgeous :thumbup: Is your pattern one you designed or one you purchased? I love your pattern so much, I find it difficult to find wonderfully creative patterns iin the USA. A lot of the one I see here that are machine embroidered and that's a big turn off to me...Thank you for saring your beautiful hand work with us...Andie

what inspiration. Beautiful hand quilting, can't wait to see the finished quilt.

You are an artist! I am so happy you share with us.

Gorgeous

Absolutely AMAZING!

This is amazingly beautiful! I envy your patience. It takes a long time to hand quilt. :shock:

Gorgeous !!!

WOW I love your work

priceless artwork! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Hi Andie!
How wonderful to hear that we share our love for Wholecloth quilting!
I didn't purchase the patterns for this quilt. I agree with you, it is difficult or almost impossible to find beautiful patterns and that is the reason why I have started to design patterns by myself, to "redraw" them from pictures and to make my own stencils and templates. I feel very inspired by antique wholecloths and I love their patterns a lot. It Is worth to keep them alive and to use them today in our work.