This client quilt is "Winter Wonderland". The centre panel is beautifully embroidered redwork, surrounded by a galaxy of stars. Lenore did amazing work putting this quilt together! She is currently working on getting the binding on and hanging sleeve as this quilt will be included in the Chatham Kent Quilters Guild "Stitches In Bloom" quilt show, June 16 & 17th (2023).
There are a few spaces in the stars border that are a perfect fit to put in "ghost" blocks to echo pieced stars.
Lots of swirly, windy, snowy background fills behind the embroidery.
The snow people are having a ton of fun!
I tried to create lots of movement with the quilting designs.
Love all the different reds in the stars!
This time I stitched between the lines of the musical staff. The snow people were simply outlined to keep them puffy.
Some of the blocks have stitched circles behind the stars. I really like to bottom one with curved matchstick quilting, and an unstitched curve, to create the circle that weaves behind the stars.
It seems counter-intuitive, but it is the shadow of the stitching you see, not the line of quilting itself, so differences in density and shape are what your eye picks up when roaming across the quilt.
The backing on this beautiful quilt is a perfect wintery design.
Quilting thread in this quilt is Hab 'n Dash Glide White, and Glide Wildflower in the reds. Hobbs bleached 80/20 batting gives lovely definition to the quilting.
My beautiful, new Innova M28 recorded just shy of 177,000 stitches.