Walkabout Quilt
 

Just finished today. It was a quick and easy design that I now wish I'd tried sooner. The pattern was designed by Ann Lauer of Grizzly Gulch Gallery. Quilting was done on the embroidery machine with patterns from Kreative Kiwi and Embroidery Library as well as some echo quilting and some decorative stitches from the machine. This is a gift for dear friends who are having their 50th anniversary. Thanks for looking.

nicely done

I like it! Simple design yet impressive! I keep this idea for one of my future quilt. Thanks for sharing!

great gift. love the colors

I love the material and the way you showcased it. Very nice.

Great job! The happy couple will love it.

Great quilt! Love the fabric selections.

A nice gift!

Pretty quilt for the special occasion! :)

Great quilt!

Awesome quilt! Like some other people have already said that fabric is great, do you mind sharing the name of it?

This pattern made up so nicely. I copied it recently from someone else, then figured the square sizes wrong for my fabric, so haven't made it up yet. Love your colors and fabrics.

Nice finish!

Beautiful!

Very striking. They will love it. By the way, I'm having my 50th in Sept. Just saying........

lovely quilt

Such a lovely quilt for a huge milestone.

I'm sorry, but I have no idea. It was in my stash for a few years, and I think I got it in a Houston shop before we moved. It's probably discontinued by now.

Thanks for all the nice words, everyone!

Oh!!! I love that design!!!

Beautiful quilt, quilting and pattern.

Very pretty quilt.

What a grand gift you are giving the happy couple. It is lovely.

I like the name of the pattern..made me think of my son and golfing. I plan to machine embroider golf designs on blocks for him. I think this pattern is perfect as the chevron blocks can be the golf course path. :) Can you tell me the size of the blocks? Thank you for sharing.

Very lovely quilt. I made this pattern for my youngest son out of Dr. Who fabric. This is a pattern that can be adapted from a lap size to king quilt and works great with lots of different fabrics. Love how you fussy cut the roses for the big blocks, great job, they will love it.

Very pretty. Will make a lovely anniversary gift.

I just tried some embroidery machine quilting on a small mat the other day. My machine isn't big enough to do a large quilt like that unless I did QAYG which I've never tried before.

Love that rose print & the way you centered the bouquets. Beautiful quilt. Kathy

That's really nice!

A stunning quilt! Your fabric is beautiful and your piecing and quilting superb.

I like your idea because my DH is a golfer. The pattern calls for 10" finished blocks, but because of the size of the flower bouquets and the amount of fabric I had available, I made them a little smaller. It was much easier for me to cut them with a 9 1//2" square ruler, so I had to adapt the hst's to fit the 9" finished size. Sadly, I realized that about the bouquets after I'd already cut the hst's and had to cut them down to work, which was wasteful, but otherwise, there would have been more parts of other bouquets showing around the edges of my squares, and I wouldn't have been able to make the border the size I wanted.

It shouldn't be too hard to adapt them to whatever size you want. The finished size of my quilt is 58", and the original, with somewhat different size borders, was a little bigger. The pattern doesn't show fussy cut squares, but I couldn't bear to cut across those bouquets. The fabric stayed in my stash a long time because it was too pretty to cut - LOL. I had never done such big fussy cuts before and was shocked at how much fabric it used to do that for such a small quilt. I actually had to piece 3 of the 4 borders, which are only 6" wide before sewing and were cut lengthwise. I started with 3 yards of the green fabric. I have lots of leftover pieces, but nothing wider than 6". But it's for very special friends!

The pattern is available for download: http://www.connectingthreads.com/cfp...paign=PPCgpGen The printed version is probably still available from other sources as well. Google "Walkabout quilt" and there are lots of examples. It's a keeper, and I plan to use it again. It would be great for just about anyone because the feature fabric you pick will set the theme.

Super. I am sure that they will love it. BrendaK