Welcome to my New York Beauty Showstopper! This was the design brief I had from my lovely editor Jen when I discussed making a quilt with Jennifer Paganelli’s sumptuous new line ‘Color Brigade’ (I know, it’s an American name so it has American spelling, just grit your teeth and let it go). I have a …
The New York Beauty Quilt Tutorial teaches sewing with curves, and putting together quilt blocks made with paper piecing.
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.
A selection of pics for my last post of the year.Pretty much examples of what happens in my classes. Lots of "points" and graphic designs all go together to make stunning quilts. (My apologies to Lesley's sister - I've forgotten her name). Well done to all my students and I look forward to seeing some of you again next year. I'll be at Material Obsession for a couple of dates early next year which is really exciting for me. Ring the shop if you're interested in a class where you'll have a lot of fun attacking a technique you might have been avoiding unnecessarily. It's quite easy when it's broken down into bits and your friends will think you are so clever - even tho it's just about "sewing on the line". Merry xmas to you all and I hope santa bring lots of surprises! Lesley Kathy Lesley's sister Lesley's sister again Rosemary Judy Pam Jo Sue's quilt - Suzanne as the prop! Margaret
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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
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