I finished this quilt for my friend, Elizabeth late Thursday night... and I mean late... 11:30 p.m. I was out the door for work by 6:00 a.m. on Friday morning with this quilt in hand. I love to shoot my quilts on the dining room table to get the best light, but there was no time for this one. I ran around my school early in the morning looking for good lighting and did the best I could.
Elizabeth made this top over 12 years ago and had intended on hand quilting it, but let me have some fun with it instead. She gave me a lofty poly batting, and I used Glide thread.
These pictures do not do it justice. This quilt was done with light to medium custom quilting. I did have to use a ruler a bit which would take it from light to medium... the circles in the middle of the feathered x's and then the chris-crossing needed a ruler. I did my best straight stitching around the actual spiderwebs. The scrap strips were not all equal sizes so I couldn't use the seams as a guide. My feathers were what I call "easy feathers" as there was no backtracking. I needed to keep this as light as I could.
I can't wait to make one of these for myself now. Thanks for looking! Thanks, Elizabeth, for letting me quilt this for you.
This turned out so pretty! Love how you quilted it!
ReplyDeletevery pretty quilt-making a spider web is on my to do list too!
ReplyDeleteI love spiderweb quilts. Really need to make one!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! A spiderweb quilt is on my bucket list.
ReplyDeleteThe quilt looks beautiful! I keep meaning to try Glide thread! Thanks for sharing.
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