Pieced by Kim Ferris Quilted by Jessica's Quilting Studio
Pieced and quilted by Jessica Jones Quilted by Jessica's Quilting Studio
Pieced by Sheila Van der Laak
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This is Ulrike’s stunning New York Beauty quilt and she said it took her 10 years to complete this top! It is made with all batik fabrics and batik backing. The blocks and border were all paper pieced and I love the blocks put on an angle creating stars in the sashing. The whole quilt is stitched in the ditch which took the most work and then I rolled it back and added the quilting designs. I did the same feather in the outer curve in all the blocks, added pebbles to some of the arcs and loops to others. It took me a while to figure out what to quilt in the sashing but finally came up with the petal curl design the fit in the space nicely. I have lots of pictures to share! The batting is Quilters Dream Blend and the threads are So Fine. When I posted a picture of the quilt top last week I had a lot of questions about stitch in the ditch and what threads so here is what I used. So Fine #456 is the magic gray green that I used on all the blocks, it blended very well with all the colors. I matched thread with the two purples in the sashing for that design element as I wanted the thread to blend in on the sashing. I also used a light beige for SID around the outer border spikes. When I stitch in the ditch I don’t always stitch in the ditch side. Depending on the thread I’m using and the final look I’m going for I sometimes will stitch on the high side of the ditch to keep the thread in the same color fabric as the thread. I did this in the outer border in the light beige fabrics as I wanted the colour spikes to really pop! But in the blocks themselves I just stitched on the low side of the ditch as I was quilting across so many colors it didn’t matter what color of fabric I was stitching in. Here is a better look at the thread I used. There were a few spots on the blocks where I switched to the light beige thread as the blocks had a very light background. And in these blocks I stitch on the high and low side so I stayed in the light fabric like I did in the outer border. So for me there is no hard fast rule about stitching in the ditch, I do what looks right to my eye. Also in this next picture you can see where I strayed from the side I was on and stitched in the darker colour, this happens and I don’t panic about it because when you look at the quilt as a whole you never see that! There were only a few times on this quilt where I was not happy with my stitching and picked out a line or two. So don’t stress too much when your stitching in the ditch, just take your time and don’t be over critical of it.
I am absolutely in love with this amazing quilt! I really appreciate all the hard work everybody put into each and every block. It will be dropped off with my longarm quilter today.
Oh, my friends, I am so sick of this move! We are in Alabama permanently now, waiting for our house to sell in Michigan (there was an open house today...cross your fingers for me...). We have not moved in and unpacked very much of our own stuff, as I am trying to come to terms with the contents of my parents' house. What to do when you are completely overwhelmed and need a break??? ROAD TRIP!!! I drove about 90 minutes due east to attend the last day of the FANFARE 2015 QUILT SHOW & SALE put on every other year by the Heritage Quilters of Huntsville. Thank you to Barbara Black, quilt show co-chair, for letting me know about the event and trying to show me there are quilters in North Alabama! Thank you so much! It was a very nice show, and I took a few pictures before my sciatica told me to stop wandering around and raising my arms to take pictures...bummer. The one pictured above won Best of Show. When I got home, I was sorry to see that I only photographed about 28 of the 201 entries. I'm so sorry I didn't get to them all! I wandered around and if no one was loitering in front of a quilt, I took its picture...not a very thorough or professional way to go about it, but when you are in pain you do the best you can! ENJOY... Scrappy and pieced to perfection... This was so colorful and happy...another pattern that I am sure I have in my still-boxed-up quilt stash...sigh... I loved the simplicity of this 2-color quilt... I really like interesting house quilts... Yay! Best Hand Quilting awarded to this next one...of roughly 201 entries, only 7 were completely hand quilted and 6 were both hand and machine quilted...that makes me sad. Either I am a dinosaur, or hand-quilting is a cold-climate game! This was one of my favorites... I have the pattern for this next quilt...if I'm not mistaken, the size was reduced to make it a charming wall-hanging size. It was really pretty! This next quilt also seemed smaller than I've seen it before at other shows...well done and I really liked the size! If I missed your entry, I am truly sorry! And finally, this quilty moment was brought to you by...100% cotton! Look what I passed on my way home, north of Courtland, Alabama. Funny...it smelled like my quilt cave... I turned around, got off the divided highway on a dirt road, and got as close as I could get to take a picture. Thank you, property owner, for not shooting me! Most fields have been harvested, but not this one... ...yes, I now live 'way down south in the land of cotton' again! (and not just in my quilt cave!) Almost in stitches again, Teresa :o)
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This is Ulrike’s stunning New York Beauty quilt and she said it took her 10 years to complete this top! It is made with all batik fabrics and batik backing. The blocks and border were all paper pieced and I love the blocks put on an angle creating stars in the sashing. The whole quilt is stitched in the ditch which took the most work and then I rolled it back and added the quilting designs. I did the same feather in the outer curve in all the blocks, added pebbles to some of the arcs and loops to others. It took me a while to figure out what to quilt in the sashing but finally came up with the petal curl design the fit in the space nicely. I have lots of pictures to share! The batting is Quilters Dream Blend and the threads are So Fine. When I posted a picture of the quilt top last week I had a lot of questions about stitch in the ditch and what threads so here is what I used. So Fine #456 is the magic gray green that I used on all the blocks, it blended very well with all the colors. I matched thread with the two purples in the sashing for that design element as I wanted the thread to blend in on the sashing. I also used a light beige for SID around the outer border spikes. When I stitch in the ditch I don’t always stitch in the ditch side. Depending on the thread I’m using and the final look I’m going for I sometimes will stitch on the high side of the ditch to keep the thread in the same color fabric as the thread. I did this in the outer border in the light beige fabrics as I wanted the colour spikes to really pop! But in the blocks themselves I just stitched on the low side of the ditch as I was quilting across so many colors it didn’t matter what color of fabric I was stitching in. Here is a better look at the thread I used. There were a few spots on the blocks where I switched to the light beige thread as the blocks had a very light background. And in these blocks I stitch on the high and low side so I stayed in the light fabric like I did in the outer border. So for me there is no hard fast rule about stitching in the ditch, I do what looks right to my eye. Also in this next picture you can see where I strayed from the side I was on and stitched in the darker colour, this happens and I don’t panic about it because when you look at the quilt as a whole you never see that! There were only a few times on this quilt where I was not happy with my stitching and picked out a line or two. So don’t stress too much when your stitching in the ditch, just take your time and don’t be over critical of it.
Quilt Ready to ship This listing is for a queen size New York Beauty quilt. 92”x92” The backing is white If you have anymore questions please ask
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Not my quilt. Seen on display at My Blue Bamboo in Plymouth, Minnesota (metro Minneapolis / St. Paul). There was no tagline visible for this quilt; I have no further information about its origins.
Happy Friday The berry was re-made, the leaves attached and peace was restored through the land. This is a block for the Brownstone guild's raffle quilt which I am chairing. My friends and I have made up 42 applique' block kits and 63 pieced blocks kits. I'll share more with you when I can. Here are the last of the show photos. Let me apologize in advance for the quality of some of them. When I'm at a show I carry my smaller camera, and it's just not as good. This was "metamorphosis" and I loved the way the geisha dissolved into the background. An unusual log cabin setting (blurry). This one is for Pauline :) Lovely reproduction fabrics and incredible workmanship. Love this I was intrigued by this one. It was made by someone from Japan, who obviously loves our American pop culture. Here is another view. A lovely version of this pattern. The plaid background is great. I'm off for a 2 day retreat up the Hudson with a few friends. I'm planning on working on an old project, a new project and an ongoing project. Happy sewing this weekend.
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Yippee!! I finished my NY Beauty quilt on 7/28/16... only six years after starting it. I loved making this quilt since it was a first in so many ways. I tried paper piecing for the first time... I found free blocks online (here) and printed them off onto bond paper. And, at first, it was a real struggle to wrap my head around how to paper piece since it seemed as though I was wasting a huge amount of fabric! :) But, I got over that and with practice, I came to quite like paper piecing. I also used some batiks and a lot of my own hand-dyed fabrics - something I've not done before this quilt although I have a huge stash of batiks and quite a lot of my own hand-dyed fabrics. As you can see, I quilted it using organically straight lines about 1/2 inch apart since I wanted a more modern look than these quilts are known for having. I agonized for quite some time trying to decide how to quilt it, but kept coming back to the straight, vertical lines. Even as I started it, I wasn't sure it was the right choice. But, I love the way it looks so I'm happy I went with my instincts. And, it's the 10th WIP I'm able to cross of my list for 2016... I'm on a roll! Progress shots along the way are here, here, here, and here! When I showed it to my husband he said, "Wow... that's a work of art!" That made my day! I've finally caught up posting finished projects and from now on, I hope to keep them in order! It got confusing (even to me and I knew what I was doing)! Take care,
How to make a New York Beauty Quilt Block
This is the final layout, but the colors of two blocks are not final. Border is not completed (there will be two borders - one scrappy). It's a slow process, but it gives so much joy! It looks a bit wonky on the photo, but it isn't. I just don't have patience for taking photos:) PS. I'm waiting for one fabric to finish it - I hope it arrives soon!
Designed in EQ5, paper-pieced. This portion is about 40 x 50 inches. The whole quilt is approx. 68 inches x 68 inches. All Bali batiks
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New York Beauty - Free pattern from Ula Lenz.
Inspiration was everywhere during the QA show. I wanted to show you a few more quilts. This was called Bay leaf. What a wonderful way to use your 30's fabric! I loved this quilt. Hand appliqued and hand quilted. The old fashioned way. I was thrilled to see this quilt. I sold 3 or 4 bolts of the panel used in the squares. I have seen a couple of quilts and everyone did a terrific job creating something unique. I love Mary Hickey and her quilts!! This is such a beauty. Judy Pollard gave Mary several of these urn blocks, Mary made a few more and whipped this up. I love the picket fence border. This was made with a vintage piece of fabric, from the Seattle Worlds Fair, in 1962. There are fireworks quilted in the background. A true Seattle tradition! You could almost hear the jungle sounds when you were looking at this quilt! Loved this still life! Amazing paper piecing and color selection! Way outside of my box. But, I loved it! Quilt shows get my juices flowing. So much of what I make, is done in a hurry, so I can use it in as a shop sample. It is so nice to see these works of art. One of a kind quilts. Love, love, love them! There were over 500 quilts in the show this year. The guild should be proud. They are encouraging their members to act on their passion. I have a a small quilt groups collection of quilts that I will post here in a few days. So check back. J
Wow, everyone, would you love to win this stunning quilt...This is the "Friends of Baltimore" quilt, from a pattern by Sue Garman. Rose Piper and Robyn Falloon are the amazing force behind this beautiful raffle quilt. They gathered together 20 of Victoria's most skilled quilters to help her with this huge project and the result is now finished and will be won by one incredibly lucky person. Tickets are $20.00 each and all proceeds go to the Caroline Chisholm Society, providing pregnancy counselling and family housing support in Melbourne and Country Victoria. Tickets are available from Rose Piper at [email protected] or you can buy a ticket any time you visit us at Threadbear. The raffle will be drawn on June 5th 2014....can you imagine the joy of winning this quilt and having this work of art in your own home. Would you like to spend a lovely day at Threadbear, in a class with Michelle Yeo, learning to make your very own " Ballaarat Beauties" quilt. Michelle is teaching a class with us on Saturday November 16th and there are still a few places available. Can you think of a nicer way to spend a day. Good company, a yummy shared lunch, a great teacher, and the beginnings of this stunning quilt. If you would like to join us just call us at the shop for all the details. We all have plenty of work to do but Sammy is a big distraction in the classroom today. We cant help ourselves, we have to keep stopping to pat him and tell him how handsome he is looking....Sammy has had his spring haircut and he looks adorable.
"Lady Liberty Goes to Hawaii" has arrived, and she's a beauty! Marita Wallace of Rather-Bee Quilting in San Diego made the quilt using a Karen Stone pattern. The quilt was listed for sale on Etsy, a web site devoted to selling handmade and vintage items and art supplies. I blogged about this quilt a few days ago, so today I'm just going to share some pictures. This quilt is one of the quilts I'm considering displaying in "Beauty Secrets: 150 Years of History in One Quilt Pattern" which opens August 5th at the Benton County Historical Museum in Philomath, Oregon. A full-color printed catalog will accompany the exhibit.
My favorite quilt and my best work to date, the New York Beauty Christmas quilt. The full quilt. I used wool batting (wonderful!) so there is good definition on all the quilting lines. All of the quilting was done on the Bernina. The echo quilting was done with the walking foot and it's very helpful guide. And the outline quilting on the beauty points was done free hand with the FMQ foot. The quilting, up close The back. I love the back fabric. I'm very fond of big boisterous fabrics on the back of quilts. And the quilting really shows up nice. . . . . and then there were all the many many many many! little bits of fabric trimmed away during paper piecing. There was so much! I had to use them somehow . . . I call it eXtreme scrapping. eXtreme scrapping . . . A table topper. A little tree for my sewing table. And two little stars for the tops of the table top little Christmas trees. Think about all the cute little things that get thrown into the waste basket. And yes, I have been known to waste basket dive at quilt retreats. The sewing room tree. It has a little pagoda thing going on. These scrappy pieces were made by sewing the scraps directly onto a piece of batting, with a backing . . . it is quilt as you go. I'm sorry I don't have pics of the process, this was done well before I thought about creating a blog. The scrappy bits were simply butted up to each other and then a decorative stitch anchors them to each other and to the batting and backing at the same time. Very few pieces were cut to fit and I didn't worry if there was overlapping. I just wanted to use as many of the scraps as possible and I just kept sewing until all the scrappy bits were all used up and then cut out the final shape I wanted These pieces are reversible . . . leave an opening so they can be mounted. And remember about mirror image, I had to do one of the stars twice, because I didn't remember about mirror image for the reverse side. For the tree and star pieces I made templates from freezer paper. And then cut the shapes once I had a big enough scrappy piece done. On top of one of the trees . . . with one of my little knit hat ornaments The dark fabrics were used around the edges. This topper it is just the size of the top piece of an old treadle sewing machine cabinet. By the glow of Christmas lights
Susan, a customer, brought this gorgeous New York Beauty quilt to me for edge-to-edge quilting. It is a spectacular quilt well worth a second look.
Quilting Cafe, where something is always brewing Six months to create and loving every second. So many design, color and fabric choices, Pics Taken Outside The pure saturation of color is enhanced by the sun. The free motion quilting also shows up better outside than inside . Back of Quilt The quilt is heavily quilt, puckering it every which way. The wall hanging has a wooden lath enclosed in a hanging sleeve ready for immediate display. However, the lath can be removed and the quilt can be used as a lap quilt, table topper, baby quilt, etc., making it even more functional. Can be machine washed on delicate and air dried flat. Designed and quilted in my smoke and animal free studio. Inside Pics Pics of Quilts are better if they are lain flat and taken from above. The spiked border is also paper pieced. The corner blocks were designed to fit in with the spikes. Each square was quilted with sunburst free motion quilting.
It's raining in Portland, Oregon, and I'm happy. Found this quilt on Etsy. Had to have it. Price was reasonable, maybe a little too reasonable for such complicated piecing- but I'm not arguing. It is 60" x 70" and is coming from Mesa, Arizona. the next exhibition in Nantes, France Most of the New York Beauties in my collection are now on display at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. After the exhibition, the quilts will get some rest for at least the next year, and the next exhibition will be in Nantes, France. Now on display at San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles I always try to look at the balance of this collection with a critical eye, and one thing I'd like to see is much more depth in the "new" quilts group. There were four of them on display in San Jose, but if you compare the number of new quilts being made with the old ones that have been discovered, there are far more new examples than old. That's why I'm excited about the quilt I found on Etsy. After all these years, I'm still collecting New York Beauty Quilts.
The New York Beauty Quilt Tutorial teaches sewing with curves, and putting together quilt blocks made with paper piecing.
I have another finish to share with you today... my third for 2018! "Luna Park".... is roughly 55" square. Seventeen of these blocks came from my Gridster bee buddies.... and these are the siggy blocks on the back. Thank you, ladies! I'm so glad I went with this layout, Before quilting after stitching it together with all that horrid black sashing! I think I have ended up with a much more lively and interesting quilt! I machine quilted around each block first, to anchor all layers together. Then quilted with black and navy blue perle thread. I used a stripey black and white binding, which a friend commented that it reminded her of a barber's pole. I found this outside one of those hipster barbers shops, that are so popular in Melbourne now! This is quilt #91 I've made! (You can see most of the other 90 on a separate page of this blog) ...not sure how many more I have in me? Do you ever think about not making quilts anymore? I guess I can't imagine life without quilting! Happy sewing! SUZ
A long overdue update on the Jigsaw Mystery Quilt BOM. Month Two has already gone out and you'll see below the block for that month. Rotary cut and machine pieced - what could be easier. This is the EQ8 mock up of the block - a Broken Wheel centre block with flying geese on three sides. There are some great ones appearing on IG... @michelesheldon above @suestopfinish above And this is my version... And I thought you'd like to see a few from Month One... Francoise chose ric rac for her flower stems - great idea! @nls404 has chosen a lovely retro feature fabric - a skirt in a previous life I believe. This is @missquested's version with that fabulous text background And @louise.stuart5 has the perfect background for all those brights! If you're inspired to join the Mystery after seeing all these great blocks here's the link to all the info http://chrisquilts.blogspot.com/2018/07/jigsaw-mystery-quilt-bom.html and it's nearly time for Month Three to be up in my etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/PatchworkFun?ref=top_trail
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Ein Teil der Blöcke stammt aus einem Swap, die meisten habe ich selber genäht. Die großen Blöcke sind 8 Inch groß, die kleinen 4 Inch. Some blocks are from a swap. The bigger ones measure 8 Inch, the smaller 4 Inch.
