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grandmaquilting 01-16-2011 04:56 PM

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Hope you enjoy seeing these as much as enjoyed making them. I love this site and can't wait each day to see all the lovely quilts everyone is making.

The sampler quilt in photo 1 was quilted with my embroidery machine (hooped many, many times). I didn't have enough of any one fabric for the outer forder, so I pieced the border out of all the colors and tried to make it look like the border pieces went behind the fabric and out the other side.

The spiral table runner in photo 2 has only 5 colors because I made one from memory after seeing one in a quilt shop. Had no pattern so did a lot of trial and error (and ripping out) to get it to look similar to what I remembered. Then the 3rd photo shows the placemats I made to match. Gave them to my sister for Christmas. She gets something quilted from me every year.

The drunkard's path on photo 2 was made by appliquing circles onto squares with the circle attachment on my sewing machine then the squares were cut into 4 pieces to make the drunkard path pieces. Then they were all resewed to together randomly so that there was not one complete circle, just half and 3/4 circles. It was quilted with circles using all the fancy stitches on my machine.

sampler quilt
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spiral table runner and drunkard's path
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spiral table runner with 4 placemats
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Jim's Gem 01-16-2011 05:00 PM

Beautiful work!! thanks for sharing!

Leann 01-16-2011 05:03 PM

I love them all - your work is stunning! Love the border on your sampler.

scjoan 01-16-2011 05:03 PM

Wow, wonderful.

stitchingmemories 01-16-2011 05:05 PM

I just love your sampler border, I just may need to copy that. haha

I really love it all. Beautiful work.

valinwa 01-16-2011 05:07 PM

oooh I love that sampler, green is my favorite color, but the blue in the drunkards path could change my mind. Beautiful, all of them!

feline fanatic 01-16-2011 05:09 PM

I too love the quiltboard. Your quilt is wonderful Was the border hard to layout like that. I really like that idea. Your spiral placemats have given me inspiration! I have the ruler but have yet to use it.

shequilts 01-16-2011 05:26 PM

Very nice work!

moonwork42029 01-16-2011 05:34 PM

so very pretty

grandmaquilting 01-16-2011 05:50 PM

Mostly it takes careful measuring.

I just began measuring in the top left corner and planned the first color down and to the right to be the same length. The actual corner is a separate piece when it comes to measuring. Then the next color down and right the same length, etc. Carefully cut the 45 degree angles to join the pieces so that they are going the right direction! (Goofed once and wasted some material.) Don't forget to allow an extra half inch on each piece for seams. When you get near (or at) the top right corner, stop, then move to the bottom right corner and work left and up. The final 2 corners (top right and bottom left) will be whatever is leftover. I managed to make the bottom left corner work out to a perfect 45 degree angle where 2 colors joined.

After I had it all laid out around the quilt, I sewed each side together and attached to the quilt.

grandmaquilting 01-16-2011 05:51 PM

Didn't mention above that I was giving directions for border on sampler quilt. Sorry.

Pat P 01-16-2011 05:52 PM

All are very nicely done--be proud!

Kmshir 01-16-2011 05:53 PM

very pretty!

Cyn 01-16-2011 06:29 PM

Beautiful! Very nice work!

sttchr 01-16-2011 06:32 PM

That quilt is outstanding, I love everything just the quilt best

okiepastor 01-16-2011 06:34 PM

GORGEOUS!

wolph33 01-16-2011 06:35 PM

great work

Snorky Lvs2Quilt 01-16-2011 08:02 PM

Wow, I love them all!! Beautiful work.

hperttula123 01-16-2011 08:35 PM

I just LOVE your drunkards path!!! :)

Jan T 01-16-2011 08:42 PM

Your sampler is gorgeous. Great thinking on the border treatment. I always like a pieced border.

MamaBear61 01-17-2011 06:10 AM

Beautiful work.

Sandi19 01-17-2011 06:27 AM

Everything is beautiful. I especially love the first quilt and the creative way you did the borders. Very appealing quilt!

sidmona 01-17-2011 06:32 AM

Beautiful work!

Justquilting 01-17-2011 06:35 AM

Beautiful!
I love the boder in the first one!

karenm36 01-17-2011 07:31 AM

Your work is so beautiful!!! I love the quilt the best. Did you work from a pattern? If so, would you share the name of it? I want to make a sampler quilt for my DDIL and this would be perfect!

paintedquilt 01-17-2011 08:27 AM

Gorgeous :!:

dunster 01-17-2011 08:28 AM

Wonderful work, I especially like the sampler.

sew_southern 01-20-2011 01:54 AM

Wow, those are very pretty! I love the spirals! :)

rootyr 01-20-2011 03:03 AM

Very pretty!

mighty 01-20-2011 08:47 AM

Beautiful work, you must be very proud! I am new at quilting and hope to be able to turn out quilts like that! I will keep working and being inspired by quilters like you.

MrsM 01-20-2011 08:49 AM

They are all great but I love the drunkards path!~

amma 01-23-2011 10:22 PM

I love them all :D:D:D

Pickles 01-23-2011 10:37 PM

Wow so Beautiful , love them all and that Quilt in the first pic
to the far left that I can see just a bet of is so pretty also :D :thumbup:


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