littlehud

That is absolutely beautiful. I love your quilting. You are an artist.

brushandthimble

I am speachless! Just outstanding!

sharon b

Great Job on the hand quilting :mrgreen: You are talented :thumbup: Your brother will love and treasure it :lol:

feline fanatic

Thank you everyone for your kind comments. I am really quite pleased with this quilt myself.

I free handed it while he modeled for me. I then traced a couple of copies of my freehand drawing onto tracing paper so I had more then one. I transferred it with transdoodle paper and a stylus and remarked it as I went along with my Fons and Porter mechanical pencil with white ceramic lead as the transdoodle is like chalk and rubs off easy. I only got a few tears in the tracing when transferring so I will probably be able to use the same tracing for one more transfer. Oh and the size I said before, I was mistaken the dragon is 15" long and the tiger is 14". And they are placed like a yin-yang on either side of a 14" Mariners Compass. The center of the quilt has a large 32 point MC (36") and I hand quilted additional rays from the compass (so between pieced points and quilted points it is a 64 point compass) and then lines radiating out from it. I also drafted a 7 1/2" compass and hand quilted that all around in the large open areas, there are 8 of those. The center medallion and quilted compasses are then surrounded by flying geese that form a square on point all around it. The yin-yang dragon/tiger compass are in the remaining 4 corners. It is all "warm" colors of reds yellows, golds and oranges done on a very dark brown, almost black fossil fern background

Rhonda

Ok where are the pictures???? We have to have pictures of the whole quillt!! It sounds gorgeous!!

Leota

awesome quilting.

sueisallaboutquilts

OMG your bro is going to go crazy over it!!!
Gorgeous hand quilting :D

bronald

WOW!

Debo

Please send us pictures of the whole quilt. Would like to see what pattern you used.

craftybear

cool, thanks for sharing!