That is beautiful.

Top and quilting are just lovely! Awesome job!!!!

I love red, white and blue quilts and this one is stunning!

Love them and your quilting is awesome.

Love the quilt. Your FMQ is wonderful.......teach me how!

Now that would give me a good excuse to come to the US on a shopping spree too! :lol:
Thank you!

Very beautiful quilt and I believe you are a very talented quilter too!

Fantastic workmanship, the pieceing as well as the quilting.

That is beautiful....I love your quilting!!!

The quilt and the quilting are beautiful! Great job :-) :-)

The quilting is stunning. Great job. This is a great quilt with these fabrics. My question is - why am I reading all these entries and not at my machine trying to recreate some of these gorgeous quilts!!!

Both of your quilts are lovely. The fabric collection is so pretty and I love the quilting and the fact that you did it with your 6600. That gives me encouragement to try with mine :-)

Beautiful fabric choice!

Very pretty. I love red/white/blue fabrics.

Simply gorgeous!

Please do have a go - I got the 6600 especially so that I could do my own quilting, and haven't been disappointed. I have mine set down in a table (the Janome one for it, but it's possible to use other tables, or to build up around the machine), and that makes a big difference. It's less than 2 years since I started doing free motion, and each one I do I find easier - lots of practice is essential - you only need small scrap sandwiches. I use a Sewslip mat too on the machine bed.
And agree about this fabric, it is lovely - the red is a really dark red, so rich with the blues.

Thank you everyone for your very kind comments - its very encouraging!

The quilting is exquisite and the top is stunning. Hard to say which is best.

Absolutely gorgeous quilt.

Very pretty.

beautiful quilting. i love the fabric

I love this quilt! Did you use a jelly roll or select individual fabrics?

A jelly roll, then one and half metres for the blue borders and red binding.

Oops..........never mind, you stated jelly roll in the beginning. I just love the quilt!! Very nice job.

Wow! what a great quilt. I admire your quilting also. Be proud of yourself. Thanks for sharing!

Now I am really going to look for that book. I know I have it here somewhere. That is beautiful.

I love this quilt it is gorgeous.

wow!!...well done!

You did a beautiful job on this. Very pretty.

awesome!!

Love it, great piecing and quilting!

Really like your FMQ, too.

WOW your quilt is gorgeous but your free hand fmq skills are outstanding. Your quilt backing shows your incrediable quilting and your quilts lays perfectly flat with no fabric puckers at all. Congrats on both of your creations.

Wow! Beautiful quilt. Beautiful quilting. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

You did an awesome job with the quilt and the quilting, I love the colors and the quilting, oh my!

Lovely!

Thank you everyone - I especially appreciate the fmq comments - makes the practicing very worthwhile!

Wow..... you did a fantastic job on this and the colors are just perfect. I love your other quilt from the other posting also!

This is beautiful... very Americana. Is it: join strips, cut triangles from them, join triangles? Just trying to figure out how it went together.

Lovely quilt! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Just noticed you are in France... I called your quilt "Americana", as we do share the colors with you! So it's Americana and French, both. Very pretty.

Yes, that's right - you join 4 strips alternating light & dark, then cut across the strips at 8ins, givin 8in squares, then across the diagonals. You can then mix how you want to give the finished 16in blocks. The pieced border is from the remainders of the strips, joined together.

And yes, the tricolour of France is blue, white and red!