Racing the Storm Home - quilt finish
 

Good afternoon!

I just wanted to share with you a quilt that I finished up this week. It all started with some amazing lightning fabric I found at our local quilt shop. I was hooked, I needed it, I had to get it, and I had no idea what I wanted to do with it.

After a little playing around I came up with a wall hanging I like to call Racing the Storm Home.

I created some half square triangles to mimic the lightning, and some log cabin blocks to represent home. I freehand drew a raven (the raven is our territorial bird and it's image and the birds themselves are EVERYWHERE!) and appliqued it in place. Once it was together I decided to hand quilt each individual lightning strike and did the pieced blocks by machine.

I took it into our local quilt shop and they liked it so much they have put it up on display for a few months. Yay!

Thanks for looking!

Stunning. Love it.

It is fabuloussssss,At first I thought the plant was part of the quilt....beautiful

It's Fabulous!

That's really nice. Sue

Beautiful art quilt

Beautiful work of art!!

that is really cool

Wow!! What talent!! You can almost hear the snap when the lightenibg strikes!!!!!

I love a good storm without any damage of course. That wall hanging came out great!

Wow that is stunning!

This is fabulous!!! You really found a very creative way to use that fabric. I would have had to buy some of that also but I don't think I would have used it as creatively as you did.

I was thinking the Eagle was racing home! I like this a lot!

nice and creative :)

Oh, WOW, so awesome! A great work of art. It certainly deserves to be on display.

Oh my goodness, that is beautiful!! really beautiful!!!

Intriguing art quilt!!

Jan in VA

WOW !!!! It is stricking . Beautiful and true to the weathermans forecast.. Hugs

nicely done

Wow I love it!

What a great imagination and so much talent to come up with this. I love it !! Thank you for sharing.

Thanks everyone, I am so glad my quilting is being enjoyed by more then just me! I always get a little stage fright when I share something I've created from scratch.

Wow! That's amazing!

Really neat. I never could have done that. Not near good enough yet.

This is truly outstanding, just beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

beautiful...you did a wonderful job with your idea. Very creative!

That is beautiful. Great job.

What an ingenius (sp) way to make lightening strikes. Just awesome. You have some great talent there. Thanks for sharing
Pat

Gorgeous. You are very talented!!

OMgoodnss, that is awesome

Love it. This would look great in my home. :D

Yep, Wow! that is really cool, great art quilt.

Absolute awesome job!

wonderful very interesting quilt

I love it, Great job, I have that fabric, just had to have it, LOL Great job.

cooooool

nan

A well deserved honor to have it hanging on display for others to see. When your LQS is finished, you can display it at my house for a few decades :)

beautiful!!! I love it!

Awesome!!!!!