78″x78″
This quilt is made from commercial batiks and hand-dyes. It is an original design, utilizing traditional feathered star blocks and whimsically designed applique. The quilting utilizes a number of creative fills including pebbling, feathering, parallel lines, curved cross-hatching, and others. It combines structured feather forms with more free-form background fillers. The quilted vine-work placed in the gray setting triangles has been outline painted with a gold acrylic paint. Some of the photos were taken prior to painting. The quilt has a piped binding that varies in color every 6-8″. I used one layer of Hobbs polydown batting with a layer of Tuscany wool on the top of that. The thread used on topside is predominantly Filtec’s Glide 40wt polyester. The bobbin is Superior Bottomline. The quilting is dense, and took approximately 125 hours. Within a month of completing, this quilt has taken two Best of Show awards. This quilt was sold in 2020.
Awards
Best of Show Jax Quiltfest 2014
Best of Show Lowell Quilt Festival, 2012
Exceptional Merit, Maine Quilt Show, 2012
Best of Judged, Maine Quilt Show, 2012
1st place large mixed Jax Quiltfest, 2014
1st place bed quilt category, AQS Lancaster, 2013
1st place Minnesota Quilt show, mixed large quilt category, 2013
1st place bed quilt division, Lowell Quilt Festival, 2012
2nd place MQX New England Custom Heirloom category 2014
2nd place MQS, 2013
2nd place mixed category, Quilt Odyssey, PA, 2013
2nd place traditional category, Mancuso PNQE 2013
2nd place color compatibility, A Quilters Gathering 2013
3rd place Mixed Techniques, Indiana Heritage Quilt Show 2014
3rd place, Custom category, Quilting with Machines Show, Ohio 2012
3rd place large wall category, Georgia Quilt Show, 2012
Honorable Mention HMQS, mixed category, 2014
HM overall craftsmanship, A Quilters Gathering 2013
HM machine quilting, A Quilters Gathering 2013
juried into Road to California, 2014
juried into Shipshewana Quilt Festival 2014